Did Tulsa strike gold or bury the golden egg when the Golden Hurricane lured coach Frank Haith away from Missouri? Haith posted only one NCAA Tournament victory - with Miami (Fla.) in 2008 - in his first 10 years as a head coach. But if things don't work out with Tulsa, at least he has enough credentials to join ESPN as an expert insofar as Fran Fraschilla, Dino Gaudio, Seth Greenberg and Dick Vitale each have a lone NCAA playoff triumph in a collective 45 years of DI head coaching.
ESPN analysts Dan Dakich and Tim Welsh never posted an NCAA Tournament win but they're nowhere close to being 0-6 like DePaul's Oliver Purnell. If Haith fails with the Golden Hurricane before abandoning ship again for another school, he can rest easy he'll never be on the following list of coaches such as new Lamar mentor Tic Price who are winless in NCAA tourney competition despite being bench boss of at least four major colleges:
| Winless Coach |
DI Years |
Four or Five Division I Schools |
NCAA Record |
| Frankie Allen |
24 |
Virginia Tech, Tennessee State, Howard, Maryland-Eastern Shore |
0-2 |
| Jim Baron |
27 |
Saint Francis (Pa.), St. Bonaventure, Rhode Island, Canisius |
0-2 |
| Jeff Bzdelik |
11 |
Maryland-Baltimore County, Air Force, Colorado, Wake Forest |
0-1 |
| Ron Greene |
22 |
Loyola LA, New Orleans, Mississippi State, Murray State, Indiana State |
DNP |
| Joe Harrington |
17 |
Hofstra, George Mason, Long Beach State, Colorado |
DNP |
| Jeff Lebo |
16 |
Tennessee Tech, Chattanooga, Auburn, East Carolina |
DNP |
| Ritchie McKay |
13 |
Portland State, Colorado State, Oregon State, New Mexico, Liberty |
0-1 |
| Chuck Noe |
15 |
Virginia Military, Virginia Tech, South Carolina, Virginia Commonwealth |
DNP |
| Buzz Peterson |
16 |
Appalachian State, Tulsa, Tennessee, Coastal Carolina, UNC Wilmington |
0-1 |
| Tic Price |
10 |
New Orleans, Memphis, McNeese State, Lamar |
0-2 |
| Oliver Purnell |
26 |
Radford, Old Dominion, Dayton, Clemson, DePaul |
0-6 |
| Bob Weltlich |
22 |
Mississippi, Texas, Florida International, South Alabama |
0-3 |
| Jim Wooldridge |
20 |
Southwest Texas State, Louisiana Tech, Kansas State, UC Riverside |
0-1 |
