A Power Four conference head coach as of March, Casey Alexander won’t have to worry so much now about higher-profile programs — with bigger payrolls — scooping up his best players.

Casey Alexander

Casey Alexander

That’s a scenario Alexander saw repeated too many times over the years when he coached at Belmont, where the coach improved the skills of his players only to see them snatched away by colleges from the Big 10, SEC, ACC and Big 12.