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McKay Names Staff at Liberty

Ten days after his return to Liberty, head men’s basketball coach Ritchie McKay has announced his coaching staff. , will serve as assistant coaches, while Matt Olinger will remain the program’s director of operations. Getter is no stranger to Liberty basketball after serving on McKay’s staff during the 2008-09 season, helping guide the Flames to a

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Daily Dirt II – 4/13/15

Busy day so far today – here’s Round II of the Dirt… I have now heard from multiple sources that Lander University (SC) head coach Jeff Burkhamer is the leader for West Florida.  He has been the head coach at Lander since 2009, and was also the head coach at Armstrong (GA).  Sounds like we

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SEMO to Name New Coach Today

Southeast Missouri State University will hold a 5:30pm (CT) press conference tonight where they are expected to introduce their new head men’s basketball coach.  The Redhawks are replacing Dickey Nutt who was fired back on March 23rd.  Nutt had been the head coach at SEMO since 2009 (80-107). You can watch the press conference live

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Dickman Steps Down at Hood, Remains as AD

For the first time in program history, Hood College’s men’s basketball program will have a new head coach as Tom Dickman has announced he will focus full-time on his duties as the Blazers director of athletics. Dickman led the program from its inception through its first 12 seasons, leading Hood to immediate success. The team

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Junior College Dirt…

In today’s Daily Dirt, I mentioned that the jobs at Indian Hills and Panola were done. According to multiple sources, here’s who I’ve heard that the choices are: Indian Hills CC (IA): Hank Plona.  Spent the past four seasons as an assistant at South Plains College (TX).  In his first season, Plona helped lead the

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Anthony Grant Rejoins Florida Staff

Former Alabama head coach Anthony Grant will return to Florida and re-join Billy Donovan’s staff.  Grant was a long-time assistant to Donovan at UF – the pair worked together from 1996-2006.  After his time on the Gators staff, Grant became the head coach at VCU where he had a ton of success, going 76-25 (.752)

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Daily Dirt – 4/13/15

A few quick hitters to start your Monday -sounds like it will be pretty active with assistants on the move this week… JC updates…from what I have heard, the searches at Panola and Indian Hills are done.  Both schools have made great hires.  Will give you the names later today when I come off of

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OFFICIAL: McCall named head coach at Chattanooga

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics David Blackburn announced Matt McCall as the new men’s basketball head coach today.  McCall recently finished his fourth season as an assistant at the University of Florida, and is the 19th head coach in the history of Chattanooga basketball. A 2005 graduate of Florida,

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HOT RUMOR: McCall the choice at Chattanooga

The Times Free Press was the first to report that Florida assistant Florida assistant Matt McCall will be named as the new head coach at Tennessee Chattanooga.  McCall was listed by HoopDirt.com as one of the candidates late last week (Tennessee-Chattanooga Dirt).  He was a manager and then DBO for Billy Donovan at Florida before joining

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BREAKING: Dan Earl named head coach at VMI

Virginia Military Institute Athletics Director Dr. Dave Diles announced Sunday that Dan Earl has accepted the position of head basketball coach. Earl comes to VMI from the United States Naval Academy where he was Associate Head Coach since the 2011-12 season. His duties included serving as recruiting director, scheduling, scouting of opponents, game preparation and

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Bowling Green Dirt…

Pretty interesting search going on at Bowling Green as AD Chris Kingston scrambles to replace recently fired head coach Chris Jans.  I’ve talked to a bunch of people surrounding this one, and keep getting the same names – all Big Ten assistants plus one internal candidate.  I have not heard of any current head coaches mentioned at

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