Cal candidates, revisited
Frank's Note: For whatever reason, this blog item didn't post to my blog site when I wrote it Wednesday.
Hopefully it posts NOW (Thursday morning).
Rumors have been rampant the past week that Cal basketball coach Ben Braun's job was on the line and those rumors proved fact Wednesday when he was fired.
Look for a replacement to come from among current successful head coaches at Saint Mary's (Randy Bennett), Pittsburgh (Jamie Dixon) and Virginia Tech (former Long Beach State coach Seth Greenberg) to be all have a shot, to some degree or another, of replacing Braun.
And it wouldn't surprised some insiders if Trent Johnson of Stanford, whose team is facing Texas in a South Regional semifinal in Houston Friday night, ends up as a candidate. He has one year remaining on his contract and, by some accounts, the school's administration doesn't seem to making getting him signed up to an extension a high priority.