Eastern Michigan men’s basketball coach Charles Ramsey has been fired after six seasons. Ramsey compiled a 68-118 record with the Eagles, including a 37-62 mark in the Mid-American Conference. Eastern was 9-22 overall and 5-11 in the MAC in 2010-11.
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Lewis and Clark State Rumors
We are hearing a few names for the LCSC job George Pfeifer- former Montana State University Billings coach, also was the head coach at LCSC Jared Phay- Has been the head coach at Northern Idaho for the past 7 seasons Jim Roffler- has spent the last 20 years as the head coach at Lower Columbia
Kent State Removes Interim Tag
As excepted (http://www.hoopdirt.com/blog/b4dcc214/kent-state-update/…) Rob Senderoff has been named head coach at Kent State. Senderoff was placed with the interim tag after former coach Geno Ford left to take the Bradley job. Senderoff has been the associate head coach for all three years under Ford, and also had a previous three-year stint as a Kent State
UNLV Finalists
There are four finalists for the vacant UNLV job. They are: Ernie Kent – Former head coach Oregon Mike Dunlap – Associate head coach St. John’s Dave Rice – Associate head coach BYU Reggie Theus – Assistant coach Minnesota Timberwolves UNLV director of athletics Jim Livengood will have final interviews with these four, and have
DINNER DIRT
Busy day today; a lot of assistants have been hired so check out the news section for the updates. Here is some other dirt that is going on. Some early names for Eastern Michigan are: Tony Harvey – Texas Southern Todd Lickliter – Former Butler and Iowa coach Tony Jones – Former Tennessee asst coach
Manhattan Rumor
We have heard that Long Island head coach Jim Ferry has been offered the job at Manhattan. We had Ferry as a candidate a few weeks back (http://www.hoopdirt.com/blog/3261a8cc/manhattan-update/…). Ferry also was a finalist for the Fairfield job. We will keep you posted if this becomes official.
Daily Dirt – 4/5
Finally back at the HoopDirt headquarters! After a long trip to Houston here are some thoughts…. Houston – nice city to spend a few days, but wouldn’t want to live there! Way bigger than I thought it would be. Also, very spread out. Kind of makes you wish for Indianapolis again. The lobby of the
BREAKING: Gottfried to NC State
Multiple sources are reporting that former Alabama head coach Mark Gottfried will be the next coach at NC State. Gottfried’s career record is 278–155 overall. He was 210–132 at Alabama. It sounds like the announcement will be made tonight at 5:00pm.
Atlantic Sun update
There are two jobs still open in the A-Sun – Stetson and Kennesaw State. A third, Florida Gulf Coast, was filled this week when they hired Florida State assistant Andy Enfield. We have had a bunch of people asking about the two remaining openings, so I did some digging today. Here is what I found
Towson Hires Pitt Assistant Pat Skerry
Towson has hired Pittsburgh assistant Pat Skerry as its new men’s basketball coach. A press conference will be held Tuesday afternoon. Skerry just finished his first season at Pittsburgh, he has spent time has an assistant at Providence (2008-10), Rhode Island (2005-08), College of Charleston (2003-05), William & Mary (2000-03) and Northeastern University (1998-2000).
Miami’s Haith to Missouri
Wait, what?? I woke up this morning and saw this…. http://www.stltoday.com/sports/college/mizzou/article_23dbec… Haith was 129-101 with one NCAA Tournament appearance in seven seasons and a 43-69 record in Atlantic Coast Conference play — including just 10-22 the last two seasons. I guess he’s not on the "hot seat" at Miami anymore.
Fairfield Hires Johnson
Fairfield has hired Sydney Johnson as its new head coach. Johnson led Princeton to its first NCAA tournament since 2004.