Sharing the Wealth: Remote Chance of New Coach Inheriting All-American

An average of 50 schools annually get new bench bosses but the chances of a coach inheriting an All-American are slim and none in an era of players departing early for the NBA if they generate any success at all. Only two players in the last 25 years exemplified supreme loyalty as All-Americans for two different coaches - North Carolina's Antawn Jamison (Dean Smith and Bill Guthridge in 1997 and 1998) and Notre Dame's Troy Murphy (Matt Doherty and Mike Brey in 2000 and 2001).

Yale's Tony Lavelli is the only player in NCAA history to become a major-college All-American under three different head coaches (Red Rolfe in 1946, Ivy Williamson in 1947 and Howard Hobson in 1948 and 1949). Larry Brown, Doherty's successor at Southern Methodist, is among the coaches who have shared an All-American as UCLA's Rod Foster was also an A-A under Larry Farmer. Following is an alphabetical list of major-college players who earned All-American accolades under two different coaches:

Player	School	Coaches and All-American Years
Ernie Andres	Indiana	Everett Dean (1938) and Branch McCracken (1939)
Gene Banks	Duke	Bill Foster (1979) and Mike Krzyzewski (1981)
Butch Beard	Louisville	Peck Hickman (1967) and John Dromo (1969)
Larry Bird	Indiana State	Bob King (1977 and 1978) and Bill Hodges (1979)
Charley Brown	Seattle	John Castellani (1958) and Vince Cazzetta (1959)
Bill Cartwright	San Francisco	Bob Gaillard (1977 and 1978) and Dan Belluomini (1979)
Kresimir Cosic	Brigham Young	Stan Watts (1972) and Glenn Potter (1973)
Bob Cousy	Holy Cross	Doggie Julian (1948) and Buster Sheary (1949 and 1950)
Hook Dillon	North Carolina	Ben Carnevale (1946) and Tom Scott (1947)
Rod Foster	UCLA	Larry Farmer (1981) and Larry Brown (1983)
Artis Gilmore	Jacksonville	Joe Williams (1970) and Tom Wasdin (1971)
Jack Gray	Texas	Ed Olle (1934) and Marty Kanow (1935)
Tom Heinsohn	Holy Cross	Buster Sheary (1955) and Roy Leenig (1956)
Antawn Jamison	North Carolina	Dean Smith (1997) and Bill Guthridge (1998)
Ron Johnson	Minnesota	Ozzie Cowles (1959) and John Kundla (1960)
Leo Klier	Notre Dame	Moose Krause (1944) and Elmer Ripley (1946)
Butch Lee	Marquette	Al McGuire (1977) and Hank Raymonds (1978)
Mike Maloy	Davidson	Lefty Driesell (1968 and 1969) and Terry Holland (1970)
Dick McGuire	St. John's	Joe Lapchick (1947) and Frank McGuire (1949)
Jim McIntyre	Minnesota	Dave MacMillan (1948) and Ozzie Cowles (1949)
Calvin Murphy	Niagara	Jim Maloney (1968) and Frank Layden (1969 and 1970)
Troy Murphy	Notre Dame	Matt Doherty (2000) and Mike Brey (2001)
Eddie Phillips	Alabama	C.M. Newton (1980) and Wimp Sanderson (1982)
David Robinson	Navy	Paul Evans (1986) and Pete Herrmann (1987)
Dave Schellhase	Purdue	Ray Eddy (1965) and George King (1966)
Dave Stallworth	Wichita State	Ralph Miller (1963 and 1964) and Gary Thompson (1965)
Wes Unseld	Louisville	Peck Hickman (1966 and 1967) and John Dromo (1968)
Kenny Walker	Kentucky	Joe B. Hall (1985) and Eddie Sutton (1986)
Bryan Warrick	St. Joseph's	Jim Lynam (1981) and Jim Boyle (1982)
Richard Washington	UCLA	John Wooden (1975) and Gene Bartow (1976)