First-year Duquesne University head men’s basketball coach Jim Ferry announced today Brian Nash (associate head coach), Rich Glesmann (assistant coach), and Danny Lawson (DBO) have joined his staff. Nash was the head coach at Saint Francis, N.Y. from 2005-06 through 2009-10. He spent last season as an assistant at Fairfield University. Glesmann just completed his
OFFICIAL: Eustachy to CSU
Finally! Here’s the release: http://www.csurams.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/041212aai.ht… Stay with HoopDirt for the latest college basketball coaching news and rumors.
Daily Dirt – 4/12/12
So Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion…… I’m just throwing this out there now – I’m willing to listen to anyone who wants to buy HoopDirt for $1 billion. Let the bidding begin… It has been a crazy 24 hours in the “dirt” world. Here are a bunch of things that I’ve heard. • Multiple
Florida Hires Assistant
Rashon Burno has been named an assistant coach at Florida. Burno spent last season at Manhattan College. Stay with HoopDirt for the latest college basketball coaching news and rumors.
Tulsa Staff Update
New Tulsa head coach Danny Manning announced Thursday that he has hired Brett Ballard and Steve Woodberry to be assistants on his coaching staff. Ballard spent the last two seasons as the head coach at Baker University and was previously on the Kansas staff with Manning. Woodberry was an assistant at Missouri State for the
Winthrop Hires Assistants
Winthrop men’s basketball head coach Pat Kelsey has announced that Mark Prosser and Brian Thornton will join his staff as assistant coaches. We had this last week (http://hoopdirt.com/blog/7dc1b51f/daily-dirt-ii-4-4-12/…). Thanks for the tip. Stay with HoopDirt for the latest college basketball coaching news and rumors.
Northern Arizona Hires Coach
Northern Arizona has named Memphis assistant Jack Murphy as its new head men’s basketball coach. Murphy takes over for Dave Brown, who was the interim coach last season after Mike Adras left the program in early December. Stay with HoopDirt for the latest college basketball coaching news and rumors.
Daily Dirt II – 4/12/12
Another busy day here at the HD World HQ! Here’s the second Daily Dirt of the day….. • Colorado State has scheduled a 4:00 press conference for this afternoon where they are expected to announce their next head coach. The choice will be Craig Neal, I mean Ernie Kent, no wait, now it’s Larry Eustachy,
Daily Dirt – 4/11/12
Some mid-week “dirt”…. The search at Brown will finally begin to heat up. Late last week, Brown finally hired an AD – they brought in Jack Hayes, who had been the AD at Hofstra. Eventhough he won’t officially start at Brown until July 1st, he said that he will address the basketball situation quickly and
LSU update
I mentioned yesterday that I felt that North Texas head coach Johnny Jones was at the top of the list at LSU (http://hoopdirt.com/blog/5a068d1b/early-lsu-rumors/…). Looks like there is some merit to that – Jones has officially interviewed with AD Joe Alleva according to multiple sources. The interview most likely took place late yesterday. I’ve also heard
OFFICIAL: Arnold hired at Odessa
We first reported this as a rumor yesterday, but it has now been confirmed – Blinn College head coach Tra Arnold is the new head coach at Odessa College. Arnold beat out five other finalists for the gig – they were: Campbell University assistant coach Brain Burg; Tuskegee University assistant coach John D. Douglas; Odessa
Colorado State Update
Has Colorado State finally found their man? I can’t believe that I’m now reporting that Southern Mississippi head coach Larry Eustachy is the choice. If you’ve been following this one, last night, we reported that New Mexico assistant Craig Neal was going to be hired (he even came out and said that he thought he