Head coach Mark Turgeon and the Maryland men’s basketball program has announced multiple personnel moves to the staff Wednesday to include the promotion of Dustin Clark to assistant coach, while adding Juan Dixon as special assistant to the head coach. Additionally, the program has announced the resignation of assistant coach Dalonte Hill. "Dustin is very
Competitive Greatness
Competitive Greatness By: Tim McDonald – Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach Cabrini College This is a topic that should be of interest to all coaches and athletes. Are you born with the attributes that it takes to be competitive and to have competitive greatness or are these skills and attributes that are learned during the course
Five ‘Musts’ Assistants Need From Their Head Coaches
Five ‘Musts’ Assistants Need From Their Head Coaches By Bert DeSalvo College and professional coaches are part of a crazy profession. Where else do 18-22 year old adolescents make or break the careers of the people they are associated with due to their athletic performance and everyday decision-making abilities? As a result, college coaches are
Competitive Greatness
Competitive Greatness By: Tim McDonald – Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach Cabrini College This is a topic that should be of interest to all coaches and athletes. Are you born with the attributes that it takes to be competitive and to have competitive greatness or are these skills and attributes that are learned during the course
300th win for Bridgewater State’s Farroba
Bridgewater State University Head Coach Joe Farroba logged his 300th career coaching victory as the visiting Bears downed the Engineers of MIT, 61-49, in non-conference men’s basketball action on Thursday night. Farroba has produced a career mark of 300-258 (.538) in 22 seasons as a collegiate head coach, all of them spent at Bridgewater State.
SUNY Old Westbury adds assistant
The SUNY College at Old Westbury men’s basketball head coach Bernard Tomlin announced the addition of assistant coach Frank Chester to his 2013-14 staff. Chester recently participated in the Gus Alfieri Coaching Course at the All American Basketball Camp in the summer 2013. Chester was also an assistant coach of three-time division champions Commack High
Brown Wins 500th Career Game
Wittenberg University Men’s Basketball Head Coach Bill Brown became just the 14th active NCAA Division III coach to win 500 career games after his Tigers upended visiting Capital University by a final score of 79-55. Brown, a 1973 graduate of Wittenberg, now has a career record of 500-231 in 26 seasons, including 20 at Wittenberg,
Five ‘Musts’ Assistants Need From Their Head Coaches
Five ‘Musts’ Assistants Need From Their Head Coaches By Bert DeSalvo College and professional coaches are part of a crazy profession. Where else do 18-22 year old adolescents make or break the careers of the people they are associated with due to their athletic performance and everyday decision-making abilities? As a result, college coaches are
Blackgrove named DBO at FDU
Former Fairleigh Dickinson mens’ basketball player Mike Blackgrove was named the Director of Basketball Operations, Head Coach Greg Herenda announced. "Mike will be a great addition to our basketball program, athletic department and our University," Herenda said. "Mike is a very talented young man who will bring great energy and expertise to us. As a
Connecticut College Hires Two
Connecticut College men’s basketball Head Coach Tom Satran has hired Shawn Hallahan and Mike McSloy, two new assistant coaches for 2013-14. Hallahan is a 2011 graduate of Pennsylvania State University-Altoona. He completed a Master’s Degree in Athletic Administration from Springfield College in 2013. As a graduate assistant coach at Springfield from 2011 through 2013, Hallahan
WPI Hires Assistant
WPI Men’s Basketball coach Chris Bartley recently announced that Ryan Flynn ’06 has joined his coaching staff as the top assistant. Flynn replaces Rob Southall who served on the Engineer bench for the past eight years and was named as the head coach at Elms last month. Flynn returns to WPI after serving as the
BREAKING: HoopDirt Announces Guest Blogger Series
We are happy to announce the creation of our “GUEST BLOGGER SERIES!" Our mission here at HoopDirt and WHoopDirt has always been to help coaches. In the off-season, we are able to provide rumors, news, job info to our readers – that typically quiets down once the season starts though. As coaches, we are always