Brains in the Clouds: Tall Man Bias Impacts Division I Head Coaching Gigs

If not pants on the ground, then it's brains in the clouds. In today's gimme-gimme-gimme culture, it always seems to be discrimination when something isn't handed to you. Numerous All-Americans have dabbled at coaching in the low minors or as an assistant but never been a DI bench boss. In the wake of Patrick Ewing expounding on his belief that employers are biased against tall coaches, following is a list of individuals who might think they deserve to be guiding their alma mater if they weren't so damn tall:

• Mark Aguirre, DePaul
• Lew Alcindor, UCLA
• Bill Cartwright, San Francisco
• Leon Douglas, Alabama
• Patrick Ewing, Georgetown
• Larry Johnson, UNLV
• Stacey King, Oklahoma
• Christian Laettner, Duke
• Keith Lee, Memphis
• Bob McAdoo, North Carolina
• Johnny Neumann, Mississippi
• Anthony Peeler, Missouri
• Cazzie Russell, Michigan
• Herb Williams, Ohio State