People hire people they know and trust. I credit him with hiring someone who is older and has more experience. Many folks here have suggested CM would benefit from this himself.I find it interesting former Richmond Assistant Marcus Jenkins who was at Richmond when Zach Chu was a Sr. , is the Associate Head Coach under Zach Chu at Radford.
does Coach Geriot run his version of Coach Mooney's Princeton offense? this result in tournament play seems familiar...Iona loses by 11 as a 3.5 point favorite in the conference tournament.
I’m curious how selective the process is for this. Columbia is 16-11, 5-8 in the Ivy. It’s fine but not setting the world on fire.
Per Gemini there are 62 new coaches this year, so top 26%!Well, 16 made the list of finalists. Chu is on there as well.
I think that number is coaches in their first year at a given school, so it includes some guys who were previously D-I head coaches elsewhere.Per Gemini there are 62 new coaches this year, so top 26%!
Looks like a 2 man race between Perry and Lucas.Okay, I found the energy to look through the list. I've got a maximum of 35 on my list, with a few of them maybe getting asterisks.
Clint Allard: UCSD
John Andrzejek: Campbell
Gus Argenal: UC Riverside
Bill Armstrong: McNeese
Kory Barnett: Oral Roberts
Tim Bergstraser: Denver
Mike Bibby: Sacramento State
Matt Brauer: Stephen F. Austin
Andy Bronkema: Central Michigan
Kevin Carroll: Lipscomb
Zach Chu: Radford
Flynn Clayman: High Point (served as interim coach for 3 games at Southern Utah in 2023)
Doug Davenport: Bellarmine
Ali Farokhmanesh: Colorado State
Dan Geriot: Iona
Kevin Giltner: Wofford
Kevin Hovde: Columbia
Ben Howlett: IU Indy
Alex Jensen: Utah
Bobby Kennen: North Florida (officially interim but has been in the role since March 2025)
Luke Loucks: Florida State
Jai Lucas: Miami
Luke McConnell: Saint Francis
Ryan Miller: Murray State
Jake Morton: Alcorn State
Ryan Pannone: Arkansas State
Steven Pearl: Auburn (served as acting head coach for one game in 2021 while Bruce Pearl was suspended)
Jon Perry: Navy
Bryan Petersen: South Dakota State
Mike Scott: Cal State Bakersfield (officially acting head coach since Rod Barnes resigned six weeks before the season started)
Nolan Smith: Tennessee State
Rob Summers: Cleveland State
Ronnie Thomas: Longwood
Charlie Ward: Florida A&M
Quannas White: Louisiana
Ok, so participation trophies to everyone!I think that number is coaches in their first year at a given school, so it includes some guys who were previously D-I head coaches elsewhere.
In fact, both Gemini and ChatGPT claim the number of guys in their first year coaching at the D-I level is 18 lol. I do not have the energy to manually check that.