Nah I worded that poorly. He still has his Nets gig. Meant that the only head coaching job he has been able to find, since interviewing with us, was in Sudan. No one else is clamoring to hire him. The shine on him fell way off after that disastrous run by Brooklyn (both their failure to make use of the roster and the hilariously poorly handled dysfunction) and he is viewed as part of the problem despite managing to save his own job thanks to his connections with Durant. I really don't want to shit on an alumni but I know people involved there and I don't think there is a single power 5 college that would hire Ivey based on the feedback from unbiased personnel around the Nets organization. Him getting our gig would be lunacy.
Optics and narratives change. Two years ago we could have honestly sold the idea that we just hired an NBA assistant who was in line to potentially get NBA head coaching jobs. That would move the needle with parents and recruits. Now you have an assistant who only has a job due to his relationship with a malcontent NBA star and who has been a key figure in some of the worst coaching, just in general, in all of basketball over the last couple of seasons. I just don't see how you can spin that and it would be a soft reset for the program. You sure as fuck aren't going to clean up the portal or maintain your hold on our five star recruits by going with a guy unproven and without any shine on his name as is currently the case with Ivey.