The entire DirtStaff is getting together tonight to celebrate the recent launch of WHoopDirt, and the continued success of HoopDirt. We’ve come a long way since we hatched this idea over a late night poker game almost four years ago! Tonight’s party is taking place at CasaDirt (the DirtQueen has been cooking for two straight
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Lamar State-Port Arthur finalists
There are six finalists in the running to replace Matt Cross at Lamar State-Port Arthur. Interviews begin today (4/27) and will run through next week. The committee is hopeful to have an announcement by May 8th. The six finalists are (day of interview in parenthesis): • Steve Tucker –Former Head Coach Southeast Texas Mavericks (ABA)
Jankovich named associate HC @ SMU
Tim Jankovich has been named Associate Head Coach for SMU men’s basketball, Head Coach Larry Brown announced. Jankovich spent the past five seasons (2007-2012) as the head coach at Illinois State, where his teams went 105-64, and made four NIT appearances (2008, 2009, 2010, 2012). He also won at least 20 games and finished in
Daily Dirt – 4/27/12
Here’s the Friday “dirt”… Not a well kept secret here, but multiple sources have reported that new SMU coach Larry Brown has hired Houston assistant Ulric Maligi. This is a no brainer hire, and something that has been floating around for the last week. Maligi has big time Texas connections – he is the former
Dooley named HC at Baker
Sean Dooley, an assistant coach at perennial NAIA basketball powerhouse Columbia (Mo.) College, has been named the 26th head coach in Baker University men’s basketball history, Baker University Director of Athletics Theresa Yetmar announced on Friday. At Columbia, Dooley is coming off four consecutive 25-plus win seasons and four trips to the NAIA National Tournament,
Ryan extended at Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. (AP) Wisconsin has approved a five-year contract extension for Bo Ryan, who has taken the Badgers to the round of 16 the past two seasons. The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board approved the deal Friday. Ryan’s contract will now run through 2017. Terms were not disclosed. Wisconsin went 26-10 last season and was
SMU adds Howard
Jerrance Howard has been named an assistant men’s basketball coach at SMU, Head Coach Larry Brown announced today. Howard spent the past five seasons as an assistant coach at Illinois, his alma mater. There, he quickly earned a reputation as one of the top young assistant coaches in the country and one of the nation’s
HOT RUMOR: Tyndall the choice at Southern Mississippi
According to great sources, Morehead State head coach Donnie Tyndall has been offered the Southern Mississippi job. We were led to believe earlier that Steve Barnes and Greg Heiar were the final two, when in fact it came down to Tyndall and MVSU head coach Sean Woods. According to our source, Tyndall is still mulling
Daily Dirt II – 4/27/12
Round two… It sounds like Southern Mississippi interim AD Jeff Hammond has narrowed the search down to two candidates and has begun negotiations to hire Larry Eustachy’s replacement. Originally we expected the announcement to take place today – now it sounds like it will drag out until at least Monday. We still believe that the
Seltzer completes staff at Samford
Samford head men’s basketball coach Bennie Seltzer officially announced his full complement of assistant coaches and program administrators. Joining Seltzer on the Samford basketball staff this season will be assistant coaches Scott Padgett, Yasir Rosemond and Jake Headrick. Seltzer also announced Anthony Saccoccia as the Bulldogs’ Director of Basketball Operations, while Charles Newton was named
UPDATE: Burgess hired at Brevard
Just following up on this morning’s HOT RUMOR. Our sources nailed it again – Lee Burgess was named head coach at Brevard College about an hour ago. Here is the official statement announcing the former Samford assistant as the Tornado’s new coach: http://bctornados.com/article.asp?articleID=2141…
HOT RUMOR: Brevard College set to hire
I mentioned yesterday in my blog that Brevard College had scheduled a press conference for today to announce their new coach. According to two separate sources, HoopDirt has learned that the choice will be former Samford assistant Lee Burgess. Burgess is a Samford alum who had spent 9-seasons on the staff there. We’ll bring you