The University of Oregon has scheduled a press conference with men’s basketball coach Ernie Kent and athletic director Mike Bellotti for 3:30 p.m. (PDT). The press conference is expected to officially announce the end of Kent’s tenure at Oregon – something that we’ve been saying since 3/7 (http://www.hoopdirt.com/blog/aba531bc/coaching-changes-made-…). Also, this is from my blog a
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Report: Lickliter out at Iowa
Multiple sources are reporting that Todd Lickliter has been fired at Iowa. Apparently he had a 9:00am meeting this morning with Athletic Director Gary Barta which lasted less than 10 minutes. After the meeting, Barta scheduled a 2:30 news conference today to discuss the situation.
Lutz fired at Charlotte
Bobby Lutz was fired at UNC-Charlotte this morning. Lutz, who is the program’s all-time winningest coach, guided the 49ers to eight post-season trips in his 12-year career (218-158), he is also an alum of the school. The entire staff was released as well. There will be a 4:00pm news conference today.
Central Florida fires Speraw
Kirk Speraw was not retained at Central Florida. Speraw was hired in 1993 and was 279-233 during his tenure at UCF. This season, UCF finished 15-17 and 6-10 in C-USA. Associate Head Coach Mike Jaskulski will serve as interim coach until a successor is named.
The DirtKing’s daily buzz……
Here’s what I have so far today. Still waiting to hear more on Central Arkansas, but here’s some slag to chew on….. Some of the candidates to replace Pat Douglass at Cal-Irvine are: Ken Ammann – Concordia College Head Coach. His team is currently 30-3. Concordia is located in Irvine. Phil Matthews – Assistant Coach
Central Arkansas schedules 2:00pm news conference
Central Arkansas will name its new basketball coach today at a 2:00pm press conference. The top two candidates – Russ Pennell and James Dickey (both alums of the university) have withdrawn from consideration. That leaves Matt Zimmerman, an assistant coach at Missouri who is a native of the area, Steve Forbes, an assistant coach at
Friday night firings….
It’s Friday night, Mrs. Dirt is on the town, and I am watching the Little DirtBags. Before they burn down the house, I wanted to pass a few items along…… Auburn fired Jeff Lebo. I’ve been saying this would happen for months. Struggling program + new arena usually = change (see Oregon). I’ll get some
Williamson the choice at Central Arkansas
HoopDirt has learned that Central Arkansas will name Corliss Williamson as their next head coach. Williamson won the 1994 National Championship as a player at Arkansas, and had a 10-year NBA career. He spent last season as the Head Coach at Arkansas Baptist. The official announcement will be made soon.
Daily muck from the DirtKing
When talking about rumors, I always call it "dirt." I got a little tired of that today – so I’m going with the daily "muck" for the title of this blog. I went to thesaurus.com to look up synonyms for dirt – muck seemed pretty descriptive. I thought about using boondoggle or feculence, but though
BREAKING: Calhoun agrees to extension
Jim Calhoun has agreed to a 4-year contract extension according to his agent Jeff Schwartz. The details are still being hammered out, but the big stuff has apparently been worked out. This ends months of speculation about Calhoun’s future at UConn. The 68 year-old Calhoun will have the new deal in place before his current
Cross resigns at Toledo
It’s official – Gene Cross is out after two years as the head coach at Toledo. Cross was 11-53 in his two seasons, including 4-28 this year. Also, Cross had three years of a five-year contract remaining that called for him to be paid an annual base salary of $280,000 per season – he will
4:30 press conference at Toledo
Toledo is scheduled to hold a 4:30 press conference today to announce the dismissal of head coach Gene Cross. The Rockets were just 4-28 this past season – Cross’s second at at the school. I’ll keep you updated as it becomes official.