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Rosser Removed from Southeast Missouri Coaching Staff

HoopDirt.com news sponsored by Dr. Dish Southeast Missouri announced that assistant men’s basketball coach Jamie Rosser has been terminated, effective immediately due to violation of University policies and procedures. Rosser coached the last six years at Southeast, overseeing the guards and assisting with recruiting, scouting and academic performance. “Everyone in athletics is held to a

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Matthew “Cougar” Downing, Jr. Named Head Coach at Haskell Indian Nations University

HoopDirt.com news sponsored by Dr. Dish Matthew “Cougar” Downing, Jr. has been named Men’s Head Basketball Coach at Haskell Indian Nations University.  He has coached at every level over the past 20 years and has personally trained numerous basketball players throughout the Midwest. Downing began his collegiate career at Dodge City Community College where he

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Daily Dirt: Prep School Edition II

We had such a good response from yesterday’s Daily Dirt: Prep School Edition that we have more!  Here are two additional recent prep hirings that I have heard… Suffield Academy (CT):  Chris Smith has joined Jeff Depelteau’s staff as an assistant coach.  Smith was most recently an assistant coach at the nearby Salisbury School (CT) for

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Lance Greene Named Assistant Coach at Endicott College

HoopDirt.com news sponsored by Dr. Dish Former Endicott men’s basketball standout and CCC Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year Lance Greene ’13 (Dorchester, Mass.) has joined the Gulls’ coaching staff for the 2015-16 season. “I am very excited to add Lance Greene to our coaching staff.  Lance was a great student-athlete at Endicott and is familiar

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Daily Dirt: Prep School Edition

With a lot of coaches out there recruiting the prep schools hard (especially the New England preps), I wanted to pass along a couple of things that I just heard from that level… I can confirm that Vermont Academy has hired Connor Merrill as an assistant coach.  He replaces Wade Smith who became the DBO

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JUCO DIRT: Mike Brown to Richard Daley JC (Chicago)

It sounds like St. Joseph’s College (IN) assistant coach Mike Brown has been named as the new head coach at Richard Daley College (Chicago).  Brown, a Chicago native, had been at SJC since 2014 – he has also worked at Kankakee Community College (IL) and Rock Valley College (IL).  Prior to joining the college ranks, Brown worked

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Albany Staff Update

HoopDirt.com news sponsored by Dr. Dish With the 205-16 season around the corner, University at Albany men’s basketball head coach Will Brown has promoted former director of basketball operations Jared Knotts to assistant coach. A former graduate assistant for the Danes, Simon Clement replaces Knotts to take over operations duties. Knotts enters his first season

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Paul Hafford Joins Skagit Valley College Staff

HoopDirt.com news sponsored by Dr. Dish Skagit Valley Head Coach Brock Veltri announced that former Portland State University shooting guard and Lyndon Christian standout Paul Hafford joins the Skagit Valley College staff after completing his successful professional playing career. Hafford had a non-traditional yet very successful college career, playing at three different institutions, including Whitworth

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