CBS Sports: Jamie Dixon is the latest to recognize it’s no good to stay one place too long

“Lon Kruger figured it out a long time ago,” one college coach told me earlier this week during a conversation about the benefits of job-jumping. And he’s absolutely right.

But Oliver Purnell is the GOAT.

Undeniably, OP is the G-O-A-T when it comes to knowing exactly when to leave one place for another, and I mean this is the most complimentary of ways. Oliver Purnell, you see, coached 27 years at the Division I level before being fired for the first time, and he did this even though he was, through his first 22 years, only 10 games above .500 in league games and in possession of zero NCAA Tournament wins. That’s zero NCAA Tournament wins! And yet Purnell was never on the hot seat, not even once, until the very end, and the reason is because he made a habit of taking bad situations, making them respectable and bouncing.

His career record in league games sits at 186-236.

He has still never won a game in the NCAA Tournament. …

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