As fellow FanHouser Charles Rich told you nearly ten days ago, Mike Jarvis will become the new basketball coach at Florida Atlantic. FAU is giving Jarvis a four year deal, pending approval from the school's board of trustees.

Uncle Phil Jarvis was a controversial choice after some goings on while he headed up St. John's program. That gig was his last (ending just six games into the 2003-2004 season) before taking this job. His final full season ended with St. John's winning the N.I.T. championship.

In his 18+ seasons at St. John's, George Washington and Boston University, he has taken his teams to nine NCAA Tournament appearances and four N.I.T.s. In his first season at St. John's (1998-1999), he took the Red Storm to the Elite Eight, before losing to Ohio State by three in the South Regional finals.

Jarvis is the third coach in a line of "names" to helm the Owls' hoops program. He replaces Rex Walters, a former Kansas standout, who left to become head coach at San Francisco. Walters replaced Matt Doherty in 2006. Doherty left after just one year with the school to take over the SMU head coaching job. Doherty, if you remember, was a National Coach of the Year winner during his controversial stint at North Carolina.

Brad Holland is in the Big West again, this time as a No. 1 assistant at UC Santa Barbara. (And as I said last month, watch your back Bob Williams.) This should be a real fun reunion when the former Fullerton coach comes back to Titan Gym this season. The students won't care, but the old-timers will be out in full force.

Now some Titans will likely talk about Holland's cheating and other underhandedness that occurred during his reign of error. Some will point out that Holland was only able to win with Coach Sneed's players (including a senior named Bruce Bowen), and how he failed to move the Titans program forward.

But I am above all of that. Instead, here is how I would like to remember Brad "The Devil" Holland.

The West Coast Conference could be saying good bye to ESPN's Big Monday lineup, according to the SpokesmanReview.com. The league is anxious to get back to a traditional Thursday/Saturday schedule, while leaving a troublesome late Monday night start behind.

The rational seems simple enough. The 9 p.m. start means that most East Coast viewers (who complain about the start times of their own games) have long gone to bed. Plus, Tuesday is kind of a lost day for the players, who likely will have trouble getting to bed following a high-energy game. Not to mention teams that have to travel.

So I can see the conference's point of view there. The WCC is made up of small private schools that actually value education. Besides, ESPN is still on the hook to show WCC games on Thursday. But as a fan, having a Big Monday game is a huge deal. Ask any Big West fan and they likely tell you that they miss playing games on Big Monday. No Big West fan ever complained about having to stay up late on a Monday to watch Larry Johnson and crew beat our teams. But heck, we were just state schools.

And that leads to an interesting question, who is going to fill that spot left open by the WCC? The Big West and WAC would likely be happy take that soon vacant spot. Hopefully the commissioners of those conferences are already wooing ESPN right now.