Author Archives: The DirtKing

Quinnipiac Dirt…

I have heard from a great source that Quinnipiac will replace Anthony Goins (Clemson) with St. Bonaventure assistant Dwayne Lee. Lee had spent the past two seasons on Mark Schmidt’s staff, and was an assistant at Fairleigh Dickinson before that. He began his coaching career as a graduate manager at Wagner in 2012. Lee was

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OFFICIAL: Jordan named Assistant Basketball Coach at Wagner

HoopDirt.com first mentioned this move back on 6/4 (DAILY DIRT). Following up now that it’s official… Wagner College head men’s basketball coach Bashir Mason has announced the hiring of Bobby Jordan as an assistant coach with the Seahawks. Jordan arrives on Grymes Hill after serving the 2018-19 season as head coach at IMG Academy where he led the Academics to

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Austin Peay Dirt…

I have heard from great sources that Western Kentucky assistant coach Nikita Johnson has become assistant at Austin Peay. He will replace Rick Cabrera who departed for Arkansas State earlier this spring. Johnson had been at WKU for the past two seasons. The veteran assistant has also worked at Stetson, Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisiana Tech, LSU, Murray

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Blakeley promoted to Director of Scouting and Analytics at North Texas

North Texas men’s basketball head coach Grant McCasland has promoted Chris Blakeley to director of scouting and analytics.  For the last two seasons, Blakeley served as a graduate assistant under McCasland, assisting the Mean Green to back-to-back 20-win seasons and the 2018 College Basketball Invitational title. “Chris exemplifies every characteristic we want to build our

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Winthrop Dirt…

I have heard from a great source that Winthrop head coach Pat Kelsey will add DII Newberry College (SC) head coach Dave Davis to his staff. Davis has been the head coach at Newberry for the past nine seasons where he has gone 143-113. Prior to that, he spent 14 years as the head coach

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Kendrick joins Bradley Basketball Staff

An experienced coach from the Indianapolis area, Kristof Kendrick joins the Bradley basketball staff as Coordinator of Player Development and Video Operations, announced by head coach Brian Wardle on Tuesday. “We are very excited to add Kristof to our staff,” Wardle said. “He fits right into the culture of our staff at Bradley as he

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OFFICIAL: Goins named Assistant Basketball Coach at Clemson

HoopDirt.com mentioned this one back on back on June 2nd (Clemson Dirt). Here is the official presser that Clemson has just released announcing the hiring of Anthony Goins as an assistant basketball coach… Anthony Goins, previously of Quinnipiac University, has been named Clemson University men’s basketball assistant coach, announced by head coach Brad Brownell. Goins

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Daily Dirt – 6/11/19

Here are a few thing that I’ve heard while hoping that Big Papi makes a quick recovery… I can confirm that Brian Merritt has joined Kevin Broadus’ new staff at Morgan State. Merritt has most recently served as the Coordinator of Basketball Operations at LSU, and has also been an assistant at Arizona State, Texas

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OFFICIAL: Coombs named Head Basketball Coach at GSW

Following up on a story that HoopDirt.com first reported back on June 4th (DII DIRT). It’s now been made official – Aaron Coombs has been named as the head basketball coach at Georgia Southwestern University. The school released the following presser announcing the hiring: Georgia Southwestern State University has hired Aaron Coombs as its new

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Virginia Tech Basketball Support Staff Update

Virginia Tech head men’s basketball coach Mike Young announced the additions of six support staff personnel, including chief of staff Stephanie Ballein, special assistant to the head coach Kevin Giltner, special assistant for recruiting Matt Olinger, senior director of strength and conditioning David Land and director of sports medicine Hisham Ziyout, while retaining director of

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