Vernon Hamilton has joined the LSU basketball staff for the 2020-21 season in the Assistant to the Head Coach position. Hamilton will assist Coach Wade and the coaching staff in planning and projects during the course of the 2020-21 season in an off-floor role. Prior to coming to LSU, Hamilton served the last two years
Lucas Joins Kentucky Basketball Staff in Administrative Role
A former McDonald’s High School All American and now a highly-respected coach, Jai Lucas has joined the Kentucky men’s basketball staff as the special assistant to the head coach and recruiting coordinator. “For our team to add a young but established and accomplished coach to our staff was an opportunity we were thrilled to have,” UK
REPORT: LSU’s Wade involved with ‘impermissible payments’ to players
According to an ESPN report, LSU head coach Will Wade “arranged for, offered and/or provided impermissible payments, including cash payments, to at least 11 men’s basketball prospective student-athletes, their family members, individuals associated with the prospects and/or nonscholastic coaches in exchange for the prospects’ enrollment at LSU.” Wade is already under investigation by the NCAA
OFFICIAL: Flint joins Kentucky Basketball Staff
The Kentucky men’s basketball program has added James “Bruiser” Flint – a former John Calipari assistant with more than 30 years of coaching experience – to the staff as an assistant coach. Flint will fill an opening created earlier this month when associate head coach Kenny Payne accepted an offer to join the New York
REPORT: Bruiser to reunite with Calipari; Will join UK staff
With the departure of Kenny Payne to the Knicks, it seems that John Calipari has worked quickly to find his replacement. According to a Tweet by Jon Rothstein, Cal will hire Indiana assistant Bruiser Flint. Flint worked for Calipari at UMass from 1989-96, and took over after Calipari departed for the NBA. He spent five
Kentucky associate head coach Kenny Payne headed to the Knicks
Kentucky men’s basketball associate head coach Kenny Payne, regarded as one of the top assistants in the country, is leaving the college basketball ranks to join the NBA. Payne has accepted an assistant coaching position with the New York Knicks, the organization announced Tuesday. Payne’s departure ends a memorable 10-year run that included 295 wins, the
Patrick resigns as head coach at UC Riverside; Joins Arkansas staff
David Patrick, a finalist for two National Coach of the Year Awards this past season as head coach at UC Riverside, has been named associate head coach for men’s basketball at the University of Arkansas, Razorback head coach Eric Musselman announced. “I have known Coach Patrick both professionally and personally for many years,” Musselman said.
Martin adds Bailey to Gamecocks Basketball Staff
University of South Carolina head men’s basketball coach Frank Martin announced on Wednesday the hiring of Will Bailey as an assistant coach for the Gamecocks. Bailey arrives in Columbia after spending the past four seasons in the same position at Saint Louis. “I’m excited to add Will Bailey to our staff; he is a perfect fit,”
South Carolina assistant Perry Clark retires
University of South Carolina assistant men’s basketball coach Perry Clark has announced today that he will retire. Clark, a former head coach at Tulane, Miami (Fla.) and at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, spent seven seasons as an assistant at Carolina, including during the historic 2016-17 season when the Gamecocks advanced to the Final Four. “Physically I am
OFFICIAL: Arkansas assistant Crutchfield named Head Coach at D2 ECU
Following up on something that I mentioned in Today’s Daily Dirt, and a follow-up tweet confirming it….it’s now been made official that Chris Crutchfield has been named as the head coach at D2 East Central University. Here is the release from the school: After spending over 20 years in collegiate coaching, mostly at NCAA Division
Hendrix promoted to Assistant Coach at Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt head men’s basketball coach Jerry Stackhouse has named Damany Hendrix as an assistant coach for the Commodores after Hendrix spent the 2019-20 season as the team’s director of player development and quality control. “Damany is a talented coach who has strong familiarity with our system,” said Stackhouse. “We believe his passion, knowledge, and teaching
SEC DIRT: Change made on Vanderbilt Basketball Staff
I can confirm through multiple sources that David Grace has moved on from his role as the associate head coach on Jerry Stackhouse’s staff at Vanderbilt. Grace, widely recognized as one of the best recruiters in college basketball, had spent just one season at Vandy. Before his time in Nashville, Grace had a long tenure