The regular season isn’t even over yet, and already the coaching carousel is underway: news comes out of Little Rock this morning that ne’er-do-well Arkansas State has held preliminary talks with Nolan Richardson for the former Razorback coach to come on board as coach of the Indians Red Wolves.

We understand the push from the perspective of A-State - bring in a guy with huge positive name recognition in state for fans and recruits alike. But we don’t get the motivation for Richardson. For the last three years, he’s been living the high life in retirement as the head coach of basketball-third-world national teams, first in Panama and now in Mexico.

Just because the conference says “Sun Belt” doesn’t mean that this is a lateral move back into D-I basketball, Nolan. Go get yourself another margarita, find yourself a girl, and try not to accuse anyone of racial animus along the way to the beach.

(HT: Yoco.)