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.
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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
HOT RUMOR: Kent to Colorado State?
Getting conflicting reports on this one. Yesterday, we were hearing that New Mexico assistant Craig Neal was the choice at Colorado State. Not sure what’s happening, but now we are hearing that former Oregon head coach Ernie Kent is going to be the choice. It sounds like the announcement will be made by mid-morning. We’ll
Daily Dirt II – 4/11/12
Fairly busy day today – here’s a second installment of the “Daily Dirt”….. I mentioned in my earlier “Daily Dirt” that Rick Majerus was a hot name at SMU. It looks like he’s gotten even hotter since this morning! I can now confirm that he has been given permission be St. Louis to interview at
Craziness at Colorado State continues….
The search at Colorado State has been a wild one. Late last night I blogged that I heard New Mexico’s Craig Neal was the choice. I got up this morning, and my inbox was full of emails saying that Ernie Kent was a done deal there. Now, I am hearing that Kent won’t be the
2 assistants hired at SUU
First-year Southern Utah University men’s basketball Head Coach Nick Robinson has taken the first steps in putting his mark on the Thunderbird program as he has named Jared Barrett and Todd Okeson as assistant coaches. Barrett is currently the coordinator of basketball operations at Washington State, while Okeson serves in a similar capacity at the
OFFICIAL: Culver to UCCS
Just wanted to pass along this press release – we first reported this as a done deal two weeks ago! Jeff Culver is now officially the head coach at UC-Colorado Springs. Thanks to a couple of great sources for keeping us way out in front of this one! Here’s the official statement: http://pressreleases.uccs.edu/?p=877… Stay with