Charles Newton has been hired as the director of basketball operations at Tennessee Tech. Newton played for two seasons ad TTU and as named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Honors Court for his strong academics, and received the team’s John P. Hendrix Leadership Award. Newton comes from a rich family background in
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Brown adds assistant
Former Vermont and Marist College standout Ryan Schneider has been named an assistant men’s basketball coach at Brown University in an announcement made by Bears’ head coach Jesse Agel. Schneider will be reunited with Agel, who recruited and coached him at the University of Vermont. Scnheider played professionally in Portugal from 2009-2011. He competed for
Campbell named assistant at Clayton State
Tony Campbell has been hired as an assistant coach at Clayton State. Campbell comes to Clayton State following a three-year stint as a men’s assistant coach at NAIA Reinhardt in Waleska, Ga. He replaces Andy Harre, who left the Laker program last month to become the top men’s assistant at Division I Grambling State. Prior
UPDATE: Prosser to Brevard OFFICIAL
Just wanted to update today’s HOT RUMOR. Brevard College has made the hiring of Mark Prosser official. Here’s a link to the statement that was just released: http://www.bctornados.com/article.asp?articleID=1746…
Smith to Keystone
Posted this as a rumor a few weeks ago….it’s now official. Nevada Smith has been named as the head coach at Keystone College. Smith had spent the past five seasons as an assistant at Ithaca. He replaces Jason Leone who became the head coach at Oswego State last month. Here’s the official release: http://www.gokcgiants.com/news/2011/9/7/MSOC_0907114002.aspx… Stay
Daily Dirt – 9/12/11
Busy weekend – here are some of the things that I’ve heard…. According to a great source, Nima Omidvar has been hired as the video coordinator at NC State. Omidvar spent last season as an assistant at Bowie State. Before that, he was a GA on Bobby Lutz’ staff at UNC-Charlotte (Lutz is now an
Norfolk State hires assistant
Wilson Washington will join the Norfolk State coaching staff on a part-time basis this season. A Norfolk native, Washington was a three-time All-American in the 1970s while playing for Old Dominion. Washington was a third-team Division II All-American and NCAA Tournament MVP in 1975, when he helped the Monarchs win the Division II national title.
HS vet joins VWC staff
Ben Moore has joined the staff at Virginia Wesleyan College as an assistant. Moore spent 24 seasons as the head coach at Newport News’ Warwick High School for 24 years (261-263). He resigned from that position earlier this year to accept a teaching promotion as the lead teach in the health and physical education department.
Daily Dirt – 9/9/11
Here some things that I’ve heard over the past few days…. From multiple sources….former Seton Hall assistant Dermon Player has been offered the Union County College job. Player has a ton of connections in the NY/NJ area. He has also worked on the staff at St. John’s and spent time with some big-time AAU programs
Yale promotes assistant
Jamie Snyder-Fair, who has spent the last two seasons as a volunteer assistant coach at Yale, has been promoted to full-time assistant coach. Snyder-Fair came to Yale from Washington & Lee where he helped the team make its first appearance in the ODAC championship game in 20 years. In his one season at W&L, the
John Jay officially hires Fenn
I blogged about this last week. Just wanted to pass along the official release about the hiring of Otis Fenn at John Jay College (NY): http://www.johnjayathletics.com/news/2011/9/9/MBB_0909115214… Stay with HoopDirt for the latest college basketball coaching news and rumors.
Brayden Carr Foundation Coaches Clinic
I originally posted this last month. Since it is a such an important event, I thought that I should get it up again (especially now that it is less than a month away)…… I wanted to pass along the info for the Brayden Carr Foundation’s Coaches Clinic on September 30th at Rutgers. For those of