What a wild first weekend of the college basketball season! There were a bunch of high major upsets… Sacramento State spoils Bobby Hurley’s debut at Arizona State with a 66-63 win. Another tough one on deck tonight for the Sun Devils (keep reading…) UCLA dropped their season opener to Monmouth in overtime 84-81 on Friday.
Daily Dirt – 11/12/15
Some interesting things that I’ve come across as the college basketball season finally gets under way… Great article by the Wisconsin State Journal on the 22-years that Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan and his associate head coach Greg Gard have worked together. With Ryan expected to retire following this season, UW athletic director Barry Alvarez
HOT: CVCC Reinstates Garmroth
Back on October 29th, we reported that Catawaba Valley head coach Bryan Garmroth had been relieved of his duties (JUCO DIRT: Garmroth Out at CVCC). I can now confirm that he has been reinstated as the head coach. No reason has been given for the termination or the reinstatement. Ron Carson, who served as the
Idaho Dirt…
There has been some movement on the Idaho staff following the resignation of assistant coach Joe Ford back in October. I have heard that administrative staffer Zac Claus has been promoted to assistant coach, and Tim Marrion has been hired as the new Director of Player Development. Claus, who joined the Vandals staff this past
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
SMALL COLLEGE DIRT: College of Marin Head Coach Resigns
I can confirm that College of Marin (CA) head coach Dave Granucci has resigned. This was first reported by the Marin Independent Journal late last night. Apparently there is an internal investigation underway by the college – they are looking into unspecified team operations. Granucci had been the head coach at the school for the past
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
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
JUCO DIRT: Garmroth Out at CVCC
I have now heard from multiple sources that Bryan Garmroth has been removed as the head coach at Catawba Valley CC (NC) just days before the season is scheduled to start. I have also heard that he will be replaced by Ron Carson on an interim basis. Carson was not an assistant at CVCC, but
Daily Dirt – 10/28/15
A couple things that I’ve heard… NC State’s Dereck Whittenburg has left his post as the Senior Assistant to the Head Coach/Director of Player Development for the Wolfpack, and accepted a position in development within the athletic department. He has spent the past two seasons on Mark Gottfried’s staff, and was the head coach at
HOT: Andre McGee Resigns at UMKC
Missouri Kansas City assistant Andre McGee, who is at the middle of the current Louisville sex scandal, has resigned. Fox4KC.com obtained a letter that McGee wrote to UMKC AD Carla Wilson which read in part: “The university deserves a full-time assistant coach and I am not able to provide that to the basketball team while
Miami (OH) Dirt…
Miami (OH) has been searching for a Director of Basketball Operations since Sean Mock departed last month to become an assistant at DII Northwood (MI). It now sounds like his replacement will be Vermont Academy assistant coach Wade Smith. A former graduate assistant at Georgetown, Smith was hired at Vermont Academy back in August. Before