New UNCG men’s basketball coach Wes Miller has made his first hires, bringing in former Rice University assistant Mike Roberts as his associate head coach and former North Carolina teammate and assistant strength and conditioning coach Jackie Manuel as an assistant coach. Roberts comes to UNCG after four years as an assistant coach at Rice
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OFFICIAL: Boone to Delta State
We reported this as a rumor yesterday – it’s now been made official. Jim Boone is the new head coach at Delta State. Boone will be introduced formally to the University and Cleveland community at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 17. Here’s the link to the official announcement. Stay with HoopDirt for the latest college
Lamar State-Port Arthur candidates
There are 136 applicants for the vacant Lamar State College – Port Arthur job, and some pretty interesting names on the list. Among the candidates are former DI head coach Scott Edgar (Murray St., Duquesne, SE MO), former Texas Tech assistant Chris Beard, and former Tennessee State head coach Nolan Richardson III. It sounds like
BREAKING: LSU hires Johnny Jones
Johnny Jones, a member of two LSU NCAA Final Four teams as a player and assistant coach, was named on Friday as the 21st men’s head basketball coach at LSU by LSU Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics Joe Alleva. Jones, 51, has served the last 11 seasons as the head men’s basketball coach at
OFFICIAL: Williams promoted at TSU
Thanks to some great sources for getting us out in front of this one! Here is the official statement from Tennessee State announcing the promotion of Travis Williams. He replaces John Cooper who departed for Miami (OH) earlier this month. http://www.tsutigers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=92743&SP…… Stay with HoopDirt for the latest college basketball coaching news and rumors.
Daily Dirt II – 4/13/12
Two more quick things that I just heard…. It sounds like Virginia Tech head coach Seth Greenburg is losing another assistant. Word on the street is that James Johnson is headed to Clemson to replace Rick Ray (newly hired head coach at Mississippi State). Greenburg lost assistant Robert Ehsan and DBO Jeff Wilbrun to UAB
HOT RUMOR: Boone to Delta State
It sounds like Delta State will hire West Virginia Wesleyan head coach Jim Boone. According to my source, the announcement will take place this afternoon. Boone, who was a DI head coach at Eastern Michigan and Robert Morris, went 22-9 this past season (his first at WVWC). He is 430-328 in 26 seasons as a
Ferry names staff at Duquesne
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