Mooney’s Coaching Tree (including former players)

[Section9_RowD]

Will be interesting to see which of Geriot, Chu, or Hovde leads their team to the NCAA Tournament first and positions themselves for a bigger mid-major opportunity. Geriot may have the best short-term shot with Iona, but Hovde has the greater national name recognition after the Florida run.

1. Rob Jones – 1st year at Cedarville (D2) – went 13–16 last season. Curtis Blair will play for him.
2. Dan Geriot – 1st year as head coach at Iona.
3. Zach Chu – 1st year as head coach at Radford.
4. Kevin Hovde – 1st year at Columbia after helping lead Florida to the NCAAs last year alongside Todd Golden.
5. Kevin Smith - Furman Assistant after a number of years at Charlotte.

Anyone else we should be tracking that I've missed?

 

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Chu making moves:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1948380536067465698

 

[Spiderguy]

Chu making moves:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1948380536067465698

Would be curious what the bottom line difference will be Radford vs Clemson for this player. Seems there would be other non $ considerations, but maybe not. A new age.

 

[RichmondNative]

Would be curious what the bottom line difference will be Radford vs Clemson for this player. Seems there would be other non $ considerations, but maybe not. A new age.

It’s $ and playing time. Good pickup for Radford, but this guy was going to be a bench player at Clemson. He chose to likely start and get extra $.

 

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Another post about Chu and the player he landed

https://twitter.com/x/status/1953937481038008805

 

[RichmondNative]

Chu is definitely taking advantage of the new era of basketball. Will be interesting to see how Radford fares this season.