At another site, I told a guy it happens once in a while... Example, Dana Altman this year. Anybody remember any others? Doesn't really matter what sport.....Thanks in advance.

there seems to be a few trapped in my memory but i am unable to pull them out of my head.thanks for f'ing up my whole day as i now will be thinking about this all day!


when i get home i better see some answers on here

Bobby Cremins did it when he was at Georgia Tech (to South Carolina). This will be on my mind for a while also. I know there's more.

Updated: December 21, 2004, 6:09 PM ET

LOS ANGELES -- Rick Majerus made it official Monday: He has quit the Southern California basketball coaching job he took just last weekend.

Offering an apology for backing out less than a week after he accepted the position, Majerus told reporters at a campus news conference he didn't feel his health was up to working the 18-hour days he believes such a job requires.

"I made a mistake," Majerus said. "I apologize to USC for any inconvenience or embarrassment."

Majerus said he decided he could not coach up to his standards because of what he called "my fitness problem." Majerus, who has had heart problems and has fought an ongoing battle with his weight, retired as Utah's coach last January after 15 seasons, citing health concerns.

He said Monday that while his health is OK, he doesn't believe it was strong enough to work 18 hours a day, as he said he has always done in his previous coaching jobs. Not making that commitment, Majerus said, wouldn't be fair to USC athletic director Mike Garrett, who had hired him.

Garrett said he was still impressed by Majerus after spending some time with him.

"There is no one way to start this off, but just let me tell you that during the time that Rick Majerus has been here, it's a tremendous loss to USC. He is just the best. I'm just glad that I had a chance to know him," Garrett said, adding, "this is the shortest-lived basketball head coaching job in the history of the NCAA."

A source also told ESPN.com that USC was expected to contact Tim Floyd on Monday if school officials hadn't already contacted him over the weekend.

Majerus' former employer, ESPN, announced over the weekend that the coach had a change of heart after accepting the job last week.

Majerus, 56, had been announced last Wednesday as the Trojans incoming coach and was to assume the post on April 1.

Until taking over, he was supposed to work on recruiting and filling the assistant coaching job vacated when Jim Saia was promoted to interim coach after Henry Bibby's firing.

After taking the job, Majerus met Wednesday with Saia to discuss the basketball program's future. But the next day he began canceling scheduled meetings with Trojan players and assistant coaches.

On Saturday, ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz said Majerus "had a change of heart" and asked to return to the sports network where he was a college basketball analyst. Krulewitz said Majerus would be returning to that role.

When he took the job, Majerus said he wasn't concerned about his health.

"My health is good or I wouldn't do this," he said last week. "Both my doctors encouraged me to do it. I wouldn't put anyone, least of all myself, in harm's way."

Majerus coached Utah to the national championship game in 1998, losing to Kentucky, one of the school's 10 NCAA Tournament appearances during his tenure. His other stints were at Ball State and Marquette and with the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks as an assistant.

Andy Katz is a senior writer at ESPN.com. Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.

A piece from another article.........

FAYETTEVILLE — When Dana Altman told Arkansas Chancellor John White on Tuesday that he was backing out and returning to Creighton after accepting the Razorbacks’ basketball coaching job a day earlier, it wasn’t the first time White found himself involved in such a bizarre circumstance.

But the last time it happened, in 1993 when White was an administrator at Georgia Tech, he was on the other side of it.

Back then, White was chairman of a search committee to find a new basketball coach for the Yellow Jackets after Bobby Cremins left Atlanta to become coach at South Carolina, his alma mater.

The next day, Cremins announced he had a made a mistake and was returning to Georgia Tech.

“I chaired the search committee at Georgia Tech that brought us an undefeated head coach from South Carolina named Bobby Cremins,” White said. “That’s the first thing that went through my mind today.”

Altman and Cremins are among the most prominent college basketball coaches to accept new jobs and then quickly change their minds, but there have been others.

Last year Gregg Marshall left Winthrop in Rock Hill, S. C., to become coach at the College of Charleston. A day later, he announced he was staying at Winthrop.

Ironically, the College of Charleston then hired Cremins, who had been out of coaching since 2000 when he resigned under pressure at Georgia Tech.

Two years ago, Rick Majerus accepted the Southern California job after he resigned at Utah, citing health issues. A few days later, Majerus backed out, citing concerns about his health.

In 2002, Dan Dakich left Bowling Green to become coach at West Virginia. Within a week, Dakich announced his decision to return to Bowling Green.

Now Altman can add his name to the list of coaches who backed out after accepting a job at another school.

Left Bowling green for West Virginia only to change his mind the next day....

Bill Belichick and the Jets

Signed with Tampa Bay (2001?), then changed his mind (4 days later). Because of that contract, the Buccaneers said they should have been asked for permission to talk to Parcells (by Dallas) and wanted compensation.

Thanks to all, much appricated. This helps with the ones I had .

Glen Mason...Jack Hartman... Roy Williams...Larry Brown...WSU baseball coach to OU.

Is there anybody else that you would rather screw up you whole day? My day just got a whole lot better with the great help from the forums fine folks. Good night all and thanks again.

I love this edit thing, I just caught myself spelling whole....hole?

Wasn't there a coach for Notre Dame that left for some reason. Can't remember if it was before or after Tyrone Willingham?

Billy Donovan breaks contract with Magic to return back to Gainesville