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Cleveland State Basketball Staff Update

Cleveland State University head men’s basketball coach Dennis Gates announced his coaching staff this afternoon with the additions of Rob Summers, Dru Joyce III and Ryan Sharbaugh as assistant coaches, Chase Goldstein as the director of operations, Dickey Nutt as the special assistant to the head coach for student-athlete development and Sean Sims as the

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Daily Dirt – 8/1/19

Some things to kick off August… Elon has hired Allen Payne as an assistant coach to replace Vince Walden (Texas A&M). Payne has spent the past three seasons on the staff at Indiana University Pennsylvania, and was a graduate assistant at Xavier before that. An official announcement is expected in the next few days. Word

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Dennis Gates named Head Basketball Coach at Cleveland State

Cleveland State University Director of Athletics Scott Garrett is excited to name Florida State University men’s basketball assistant coach Dennis Gates as the Vikings’ head men’s basketball coach. Gates, one of the most highly regarded young assistants in college basketball, brings to CSU a track-record of highly accomplished recruiting and student-athlete development success. Gates, along

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Cleveland State Search Update

The search to replace Dennis Felton at Cleveland State is coming to an end, and could be wrapped up by the end of the week. It sounds like AD Scott Garrett (with the assistance of Ventura Partners), has this one narrowed down to 4-5 finalists. I have heard from multiple sources that three of the

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OFFICIAL: Cleveland State fires Dennis Felton

Earlier today, I mentioned the situation at Cleveland State – it’s now been made official that Dennis Felton and his staff have been dismissed. Here’s the official statement from the university: Following an evaluation of the men’s basketball program, Scott Garrett, CSU’s director of athletics, has announced that head coach Dennis Felton and his staff

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Cleveland State Dirt…

Following up on my TWEET from earlier this morning… Last night, I heard from multiple sources that Cleveland State head coach Dennis Felton had been yanked from the road, and told that he would be meeting with new AD Scott Garrett today. It is unclear if Felton will remain as the coach after the meeting,

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Daily Dirt – 6/14/19

Today’s DIRT… Youngstown State assistant coach Brady Trenkle has resigned. He spent the 2018-19 season on the YSU staff, and was the head coach at Garden City CC (KS) for five seasons before that. Trenkle, who also spent four years as the head coach at Dodge City CC, will become a high school coach in

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REPORT: Cleveland State to hire Dennis Felton

Cleveland State AD Mike Thomas has confirmed to the Cleveland Plain Dealer that he will hire Dennis Felton to replace Gary Waters as the head basketball coach at CSU. The current assistant head coach at Tulsa, Felton has also been the head coach at Georgia and Western Kentucky. In 11-seasons as a DI head coach,

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