First article about a WAC coach's tenure

To the best of our recollection -- see we already have the necessary vocabulary to work in D.C. -- this is the very first article this season about the viability of any WAC men's basketball coach.

Bob Nash has really had only one full recruiting season. In that one, he brought in a to-be All-WAC performer in Roderick Flemings. Without a contract extension, he'll be facing the proverbial employment guillotine already set about halfway down-- as the article lays out.

Without a contract continuation, it also means he will more than likely focus on junior college recruits -- theoretically instant contributors -- rather than building an actual program via prep signees.

This is the classic rock and a hard place conundrum -- for all the parties involved.

Nash could help cause with wins
Ferd Lewis
Honolulu Advertiser Columnist

Two rows behind the University of Hawai'i men's basketball team's bench athletic director Jim Donovan sits arms tightly crossed, face cemetery somber these days.

You have to wonder what is going through his mind during games like last night's dispiriting 67-51 loss to Utah State as the Rainbow Warriors' struggles deepen and the time for a decision on head coach Bob Nash's contract rapidly approaches.

Nash is in the waning stages of the second year of a three-year contract, a clause in which specifies that a "satisfactory performance evaluation" triggers an extension.

It is an extension you'd like to see him get; one the building of the program practically requires at this point...

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