Larry Brown at Stanford?

Don’t rule it out.

Stanford athletic director Bob Bowlsby has reached out to the unemployed former NBA and college head coach – and one source close to Brown said they think he’d take the job if it were offered.

Brown won a national title with Kansas in 1988 and an NBA title with Detroit in 2004. He’s coached seemingly every NBA team in the league, but his last stop came with the New York Knicks and was a disaster.

Brown, 67, attended the Final Four and it’s no secret he wants to get back into coaching – although sources maintain he’d rather be in the NBA than in college.

While Stanford won’t be able to shell out the big bucks of even, say, an Oklahoma State, the one carrot Bowlsby is able to toss in front of prospective coaches is a four-bedroom home in the Bay Area that sources maintain is worth approximately $2 million. Three-bedroom town houses for the assistants are also in play to sweeten the deal – because it would be difficult to get big-time assistants to come due to the excessive cost of living.

-- According to sources, Georgia Tech’s Paul Hewitt, Davidson’s Bob McKillop, Villanova's Jay Wright and Gonzaga’s Mark Few also spurned interest from Stanford – as did Southern Illinois’ Chris Lowery.

-- Another name that is in play at Stanford is that of Tulsa head coach Doug Wojcik, who has spent the last three years there and led the Golden Hurricanes to the championship of the inaugural CBI. Wojcik, 44, has won 56 games in his three seasons and has an impressive pedigree. He played and coached at Navy – and was an assistant at Notre Dame, North Carolina and Michigan State.

-- Old Dominion’s Blaine Taylor, a former Mike Montgomery assistant, is also in the mix. Taylor, 50, is 136-84 in seven seasons at ODU and went to the NCAA tournament in 2007.

-- The long-shots appear to be former Stanford assistant Eric Reveno and current assistant Doug Oliver. Reveno would be the ideal choice if he had a little more time to prove himself as a head coach. He played four years at Stanford, was an assistant for nine seasons at the school and just turned 41. However, he has just two years and a 19-44 record under his belt at Portland. Oliver, 56, spent a dozen years under Mike Montgomery before becoming the head coach at Idaho State for eight years. He recently returned to Stanford as an assistant under Trent Johnson.