Author Archives: The DirtKing

Parker named Head Basketball Coach at RIT

RIT Executive Director of Athletics Jacqueline Nicholson announced Dominic Parker has been named Head Coach of the Men’s Basketball team. Parker brings a championship resume to Rochester following over 10 years as an assistant coach at the NCAA Division I, II, III and NJCAA levels, including a run to the NCAA Division III Tournament Quarterfinals

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Mineral Area CC announces Tony Irons as new Head Basketball Coach

Mineral Area College has hired Tony Irons as Head Men’s Basketball Coach. Coach Irons replaces former Head Coach Greg Heiar, who accepted the head men’s basketball coaching position at Trinity Valley Community College in April.  Coach Irons has been the head boys basketball coach at Vashon High School since 2015.  In his nine seasons as head coach at Vashon, Irons has won seven Missouri State

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Utah State Basketball Staff Update

Utah State head coach Jerrod Calhoun has named Eric Haut as the program’s associate head coach, and hired Eric Daniels and Mantoris Robinson as assistant coaches. Press releases on all 3 hirings are below: ERIC HAUT Utah State head men’s basketball coach Jerrod Calhoun announced the hiring of Eric Haut (How-t) as the program’s associate

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VMI hires Harrison as Assistant Basketball Coach

VMI head basketball coach Andrew Wilson announced Thursday the hiring of Paul Harrison as the team’s new assistant coach and defensive coordinator. Harrison comes to the Institute by way of Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where he had been on staff since the 2015-16 season, and he helped Bucknell raise banners in each of his first four seasons. Prior

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DAILY DIRT – 5/15/24

Story: Adam Nelson (@HD_DirtKing) A few things that I’ve heard… Hot name making the rounds right now for the vacant assistant spot at Wisconsin is D2 St. Leo head coach Lance Randall. The Wisconsin native is in his second stint at St. Leo and has also been the head coach at D3 Webster, and then

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D3 DIRT: Nichols College finalists

Story: Adam Nelson (@HD_DirtKing) I have heard from multiple sources that there are four finalists in the search to replace Brock Erickson (departed for UTRGV) at D3 Nichols College. They are: I have also heard that the decision has been made, and the candidate is moving through the HR process as we speak. An announcement

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Hood named Assistant Basketball Coach at UCF

The UCF men’s basketball team has added Adam Hood to the staff as an assistant coach, as announced by head coach Johnny Dawkins on Tuesday “Coach Hood is going to amplify our recruiting and scouting with his cutting edge understanding of analytics and player evaluations. He has a track record of being instrumental in assisting

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