For those who have been following the saga at West Florida, the long and strange search is finally coming to an end. I’ve heard from multiple sources that UWF alum Bob Stinnett will be introduced at a press conference on Monday. The search started with the publishing of all 144 candidates – which caused a
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Two quick rumors to wrap-up the day….
Wisconsin-Superior Head Coach Dave Buchanan will be named as the new Head Coach at Carroll University tomorrow at a 2:00pm press conference. Buchanan was 30-47 in three seasons at UW-Superior. Also, Happy Osborne has pulled his name out of the running for the West Florida job and plans to remain the Head Coach at Georgetown
Basketball coaching news and rumors from The DirtKing
Kind of a long silly title for this blog, but it helps with Google (or at least our IT guy tells us so!) Here are a bunch of things that I picked up during the end of the first July recruiting period…. From what I am hearing, UW-Superior Head Coach Dave Buchanan has been offered
A few rumors from the Midwest…..
Some things that I picked up while traveling over the past few days….. Carroll University (WI) is conducting interviews today and tomorrow and is apparently down to the final two for its vacant men’s basketball job. Dave Buchanan, Head Coach at UW-Superior, and John Baines, Assistant Coach at Elmhurst are meeting with school officials with
Todays rumors and news from The DirtKing….
The DirtKing is back in the office for a few hours after being out on the road since Monday. I’ve added a bunch of info to the news and jobs sections. Here are a few things that I’ve heard since over the past few days…… I heard that Wyoming Director of Ops Scott Willard is
West Florida down to 4
The University of West Florida has narrowed their list of finalists for their vacant men’s basketball position to four. This has been one of the more unusual searches in recent memory……. If you’ve been following the saga, UWF released the names of all 144 applicants, which upset a lot of people (http://www.hoopdirt.com/blog/a925a3d9/west-florida-applicant… ). They narrowed
Today’s rumors and news…….
I hope everyone had a good fourth and is rested up for the start of the recruiting period. This will be an interesting time for us at HoopDirt – we will be on the road recruiting, and trying our best to maintain the site at the same time. Usually, we post stuff through out the
Holy Cross wrap-up
We had it right! Thanks to our network of tipsters, we posted that Sean Kearney was going to be hired yesterday morning before anyone else had the story! We knew about it around 8:00am, but double checked our sources to make sure that they were correct (they were!) Check it out for yourself – we
The Next Holy Cross Coach is…….
We have just learned that Sean Kearney will be named the next coach at Holy Cross. An announcement will be made at noon today (not 100% on the time). We will keep you updated when it becomes official.
Holy Cross to announce new coach today
Holy Cross will announce their new head coach today and introduce him at a press conference tomorrow. The finalists are Pitt’s Tom Herrion and Notre Dame’s Sean Kearney. We reported earlier that there was a mysterious third candidate looming, and it looks like we were right! Holy Cross alum Rod Baker is the mystery man.
DII Felician College
We heard that Felician College Head Coach Del Harrison has resigned from his post after four seasons. Last year he led his team to a 16-13 record. In four years he compiled a overall record of 51-61. The job has not been officially posted yet but we have heard that the interview process has started.
D3 rumors……
A couple quick rumors that I heard today…. Todd McGuinness, an assistant at Case Western has been named head coach at Hartwick College. He was previously an assistant at Hartwick and has also worked at Vassar. McGuinness is a 2002 graduate of Bethany College (WVa). Dickinson College (PA) is going to name Al Seretti of