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Daily Dirt – 5/15/13
A few small college head coaches about to be hired… • Former San Francisco head coach Phil Mathews will become the head coach at Riverside City College (CA). Mathews had spent the past three seasons as an assistant at UCLA and was an assistant at Nebraska before that. In addition to being the head coach
TCU Hires Assistant
TCU men’s basketball head coach Trent Johnson announced Wednesday the addition of veteran assistant coach Kwanza Johnson to his Horned Frogs staff. Johnson, who owns 16 years experience as a college coach, joins TCU following four seasons at Georgia. Johnson spent the previous seven years coaching alongside head coach Mark Fox, a former assistant for
Wilson named head coach at Emory & Henry
Emory & Henry College has hired David Willson as Head Men’s Basketball Coach, Director of Athletics Myra Sims announced Wednesday afternoon at a press conference. Willson becomes the fifth coach to lead the Wasps during the Old Dominion Athletic Conference era (since 1976-77). "I am thrilled to join this wonderful community and look forward to
Daily Dirt – 5/14/13
A few quick hitters… • I have heard that Harvard assistant Yanni Hufnagel is in the mix for a similar position at Vanderbilt. He has been at Harvard for the past four seasons and was a GA at Oklahoma before that. • It sounds like Southwestern Oklahoma State GA Keith Robinson will be hired as
Donohue joins Old Dominion staff
Old Dominion University head men’s basketball coach Jeff Jones announced today the hiring of Kieran Donohue as the special assistant to the men’s basketball coach today. "The breadth of Kieran’s experience is extensive. He will be an immediate and integral part of our program’s success. I’m excited to have Kieran join our staff." – ODU
Underwood Adds Boynton And Gentry To Staff
Stephen F. Austin men’s basketball coach Brad Underwood announced Tuesday the addition of Michael Boynton and Stephen Gentry to his coaching staff. The pair is the first two hires for Underwood as head coach at SFA. Boynton joins the staff after spending four years as an assistant coach at the University of South Carolina, including
Thompson Named New ECCC Coach
Robert Thompson is the new men’s head basketball coach at East Central Community College. Thompson, 44, comes to East Central following a 10-year career as head coach at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Ala., where his teams accumulated an a overall 142-156 mark. He led the Badgers to four winning seasons and two campaigns in
Stanford assistant headed to D-League
Stanford assistant coach Mark Madsen will be introduced as head coach of the Los Angeles D-Fenders today, as announced by team President/CEO Joey Buss and General Manager Glenn Carraro. Madsen, who will become the fifth head coach of the NBA Development League franchise, served as an assistant coach with the Cardinal for the 2012-13 campaign.
BREAKING: Wade hired at Tennessee Chattanooga
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics David Blackburn announced Will Wade as the new men’s basketball head coach today. Wade just finished his fourth season as an assistant coach at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., and is the 18th head coach in the history of Chattanooga basketball. A native
URI rumor
I have now heard from three separate sources that URI head coach Dan Hurley will hire Towson’s Luke Murray as an assistant. Murray would replace Hurley’s brother Bobby who became the head coach at Buffalo earlier this spring. Murray has been at Towson for the past two seasons and brings some very strong NYC and
North Dakota State rumor
I have heard that Concordia (MN) assistant Freddy Coleman is in the mix to become an assistant at North Dakota State. Coleman is a NDSU alum (2011) who has been on the Concordia staff since graduation. NSDU head coach Saul Phillips is looking to replace Jason Kemp who departed last week for a similar position