Coaching Changes

Bronx kid & non favorite on this site goes West.

Buffalo Director of Player Development Julius Hodge has taken an assistant coaching job at Santa Clara, according to @UBBullRun.



Hodge played for Sendek at North Carolina State. Nice to see a coach hire one of his former players.Hopefully Julius can give them a connection to New York.
 
‏@ByRyanLazo 40m40 minutes ago
There are reports #ColumbiaMBB coach Kyle Smith will be hired as San Francisco's HC Thursday. Has a 100-82 record W/ Lions (58-38 last 3yrs)
 
‏@ByRyanLazo 40m40 minutes ago
There are reports #ColumbiaMBB coach Kyle Smith will be hired as San Francisco's HC Thursday. Has a 100-82 record W/ Lions (58-38 last 3yrs)


Let's see...... Smith or Lavin?
If those are the choices, sign Smith before he changes his mind
 
Hodge played for Sendek at North Carolina State. Nice to see a coach hire one of his former players. Hopefully Julius can give them a connection to New York.

They may have to be roommates for a few years. Living on the Peninsula is expensive. :lol:
 
Per Goodman;

Sounding like it will come down to UAB assistant Robert Ehsan or Chuck Person for the UAB gig.
 
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UCONN assistant Karl Hobbs will be named the Associate Head coach of Rutgers University per source.
 
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UCONN assistant Karl Hobbs will be named the Associate Head coach of Rutgers University per source.

Pretty strong staff for RU there actually, with Pikiell and now Hobbs. Maybe they do have a chance to improve things there?
 
Bronx kid & non favorite on this site goes West.

Buffalo Director of Player Development Julius Hodge has taken an assistant coaching job at Santa Clara, according to @UBBullRun.

Julius Hodges........only Steve Lavin is a more inflammatory name.

I think Jarvis ranks the highest when it comes to inflammatory. Lavin's just seems that way because its fresher. I actually think he rates below Jarvis and Harrington when it comes to inflammatory on this Board.
 
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UCONN assistant Karl Hobbs will be named the Associate Head coach of Rutgers University per source.

Pretty strong staff for RU there actually, with Pikiell and now Hobbs. Maybe they do have a chance to improve things there?

Karl Hobbs is leaving UConn to become the associate head coach at Rutgers, working for new coach Steve Pikiell, multiple sources have confirmed.

It's a natural move that has been in the works since Pikiell, from Bristol and a former UConn captain, moved from Stony Brook to Rutgers two weeks ago. Pikiell was an assistant on Hobbs' staff at George Washington.

Hobbs, who played at UConn, was an assistant on Jim Calhoun's staff from 1993-2001, then went to GW for 10 seasons. He returned to UConn, first as director of operations in 2011, then as an assistant coach under Kevin Ollie the following season. He has been a part of three of the Huskies' four national championship teams.

Hobbs' hiring at Rutgers was first reported by HoopDreamsMag.com. The move from assistant at UConn to associate head coach at Rutgers will mean a significant raise in salary for Hobbs.


For the past few seasons, UConn's entire staff has been made up of former Huskies — Ollie, Glen Miller, Hobbs and Ricky Moore, with Kevin Freeman as director of operations. Hobbs' departure could open the door for Freeman to become an assistant coach. Or the Huskies could look outside for a coach with front-court experience. Ollie, Hobbs, Miller and Moore were all guards.

Hobbs, 54, was a high school teammate of Patrick Ewing at Cambridge (Mass.) Rindge and Latin before coming to UConn to play for Dom Perno from 1980-84. He began coaching at Boston University before returning to UConn in '93, after making a name for himself at BU as a strong recruiter. He helped land players such as Emeka Okafor, Rip Hamilton and Khalid El-Amin.

Former Huskies forward Donyell Marshall was one of the names first mentioned as a possibility to join Pikiell's staff, but Marshall, an assistant at Buffalo, is in the running for the head coaching position at Central Connecticut, as is Jay Young, who was Pikiell's assistant at Stony Brook.

Hobbs did not return a call seeking comment.
 
Bronx kid & non favorite on this site goes West.

Buffalo Director of Player Development Julius Hodge has taken an assistant coaching job at Santa Clara, according to @UBBullRun.

Julius Hodges........only Steve Lavin is a more inflammatory name.

I think Jarvis ranks the highest when it comes to inflammatory. Lavin's just seems that way because its fresher. I actually think he rates below Jarvis and Harrington when it comes to inflammatory on this Board.

Could be. I did not like Jarvis at all, nor Harrington. But, personally, Lavin really gets my goat.
 
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UCONN assistant Karl Hobbs will be named the Associate Head coach of Rutgers University per source.

Pretty strong staff for RU there actually, with Pikiell and now Hobbs. Maybe they do have a chance to improve things there?

They desperately need to upgrade their facilities
For example, the RAC is not air conditioned - supposed to be installed this summer
 
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UCONN assistant Karl Hobbs will be named the Associate Head coach of Rutgers University per source.

Pretty strong staff for RU there actually, with Pikiell and now Hobbs. Maybe they do have a chance to improve things there?

They desperately need to upgrade their facilities
For example, the RAC is not air conditioned - supposed to be installed this summer

As a New Jersey resident, I can say, we are sick of paying for Rutgers athletics. They do some of the most outrageous things.

1) Stringer got 90% of the football coaches salary
2) Stringer spent $1M on off renovations
3) Ed Jordan was set to get 5k every time he beat SHU (thankfully it didn't happen in his tenure).
4) They keep moving and spending on their athletic offices moving to and from the RAC 3 times in the last 5 years.
 
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UCONN assistant Karl Hobbs will be named the Associate Head coach of Rutgers University per source.

Pretty strong staff for RU there actually, with Pikiell and now Hobbs. Maybe they do have a chance to improve things there?

No they won't. They are Rutgers afterall.

The state university of NJ, with a bottomless pit of tax payer dollars at its disposal, could not compete with the majority of smaller private universities of the Big East.

How are they now expected to compete against a majority of other state schools with just as much resources -- if not more since Rutgers is cutting its sports budget due to the NJ economic situation.

Of course part of me is saying this because I really dislike that university. ;)
 
Good hire by Columbia.

@JonRothstein 49s49 seconds ago
BREAKING: Columbia has hired NJIT's Jim Engles as its next head basketball coach, sources told @CBSSports.
 
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UCONN assistant Karl Hobbs will be named the Associate Head coach of Rutgers University per source.

Pretty strong staff for RU there actually, with Pikiell and now Hobbs. Maybe they do have a chance to improve things there?

No they won't. They are Rutgers afterall.

The state university of NJ, with a bottomless pit of tax payer dollars at its disposal, could not compete with the majority of smaller private universities of the Big East.

How are they now expected to compete against a majority of other state schools with just as much resources -- if not more since Rutgers is cutting its sports budget due to the NJ economic situation.

Of course part of me is saying this because I really dislike that university. ;)

I thought it was just me that had a supreme dislike of that particular institution.
 
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