After a bit of fruitless searching, Dave Odom may be about to take the Virginia job.

edit: Or not, as the case may be.

I would be a little surprised if he did, having heard a rumor 2-3 weeks ago that he had politely expressed no interest. Odom has only been at South Carolina three years, plus he is 63 years old.

On the other hand, he has been successful at Wake and South Carolina, and is a class guy all around. We could do a lot worse. But at his age we need him to mentor a top notch assistant to take over when he retires.

So the other rumors lately have involved:

1) John Calipari. He has a less than 100% clean past, but is in Memphis where big UVa donor's John Paul Jones and Paul Tudor Jones live. A possible connection, but a real longshot in my book.

(There's also the rumor in that story that former ACC head of officiating Fred Barakat went to sell Barnes on the UVa job. That sounds more like an April fool's joke than anything else, given Barnes' conflicts with ACC officials while at Clemson.)

2) Dave Leitao. I still don't know much about this guy, except he has UCONN connections. UVa president John Casteen used to be at UCONN and may be getting some info on him.

3) Tubby Smith apparently isn't interested. Expect a more firm denial from him on Wednesday or Thursday (after news from the championship dies down a little).