The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), along with 43 current and former college basketball coaches, has submitted an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court on August 13, 2012. The amicus brief, or “friend of the court” brief, was submitted on the Fisher vs. University of Texas at Austin, et al. lawsuit. This
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Daily Dirt – 8/17/12
A busy end of the week – here we go… • According to Albany head coach Will Brown’s Twitter, his GA Josh Pelletier has been named as the DBO at Long Island University. Pelletier had been on Brown’s staff for the past two season, and was a player at St. Rose before that. I have
Rhodes College staff update
Rhodes College Head Men’s Basketball Coach, Mike DeGeorge, announced today that assistant coach Ron DuBois has been named the head coach at University of California at Santa Cruz. Assistant Coach Kyle Bossier has accepted a position on the UC Santa Cruz staff. Coach DeGeorge also announced the hiring of Josh Dinkins. Josh is coming to
Columbia’s Altman to NBA
Columbia assistant coach Koby Altman recently accepted a position with the Cleveland Cavaliers as the Manager of Pro Player Personnel. Altman was the head coach of Columbia’s developmental basketball team, a lead recruiter and assisted with practice plans while working under head coach Kyle Smith at Columbia. With the Cavaliers, Altman will be working under
Daily Dirt – 8/16/12
Today’s Daily Dirt… • I have heard from a great source that Dustin Pfeifer has resigned as the head coach at Colby CC (KS). Assistant coach Rusty Grafel will be named as his replacement. Grafel has been on the CCC staff for the past three seasons. • It sounds like Virginia has hired Marlon Stewart
Two-year extension for Rod Barnes
CSU Bakersfield Athletic Director Jeff Konya has announced men’s basketball coach Rod Barnes has signed a two-year contract extension to remain at the helm of the Roadrunners. With the two additional years Barnes’ contract now runs through the 2017-18 season. There are not any financial changes in the contract extension meaning Barnes’ salary will be
HOT: Murphy to remain at EMU
Eastern Michigan head coach Rob Murphy will remain at the school, and not take a job with the Orlando Magic. Murphy was all set to accept a job in the Magic’s scouting department – that is until he was informed that he would owe a $210,000 buyout to the school if he left. Here is
Daily Dirt – 8/15/12
Busy day today here at the HD World Headquarters…. • From a great source…It sounds like William & Mary will hire Kevin Hogan as the director of basketball operations. He spent last season as an assistant at Tallahassee CC, and has also been an assistant at Florida A&M. He is the son of Coastal Carolina
Illinois State promtes Ford
Illinois State men’s basketball head coach Dan Muller announced Tuesday that assistant coach Dana Ford has been named associate head coach for the Redbirds. Ford was hired on May 21, after he previously served as an assistant coach at Wichita State, Tennessee State and Chipola Junior College. He is a 2006 graduate of Illinois State
OFFICIAL: Pfeiffer staff moves announced
Pfeiffer University has officially hired Matt Adams and Steve Enright as assistant coaches. We first blogged about this more than two weeks ago. Here’s the link to the official press release: http://gofalconsports.com/article.asp?articleID=2959… Stay with HoopDirt for the latest college basketball coaching news and rumors.
Georgian Court update
It appears as thought the search for a basketball coach at Georgian Court University (NJ) is finally over. This has been a job that we have been talking about for a while – it has been a very long, strange search. After at least four coaches turned down the job, it appears that GCU has
Gabriel named AC @ Shepherd U.
Shepherd University head men’s basketball coach Justin Namolik announced today that Eric Gabriel has been named assistant men’s basketball coach. Gabriel replaces Casey Weitzel, who resigned to accept a similar position with Azuza Pacific. Gabriel comes to Shepherd after serving as an assistant at Mount Olive College for the past three seasons. He helped lead