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Hopefully, he has a place for Rob and Aaron.
(03-28-2020 06:14 AM)MAN4UAB Wrote: [ -> ]Hopefully, he has a place for Rob and Aaron.

Not yet but some names to keep an eye on are:

Ryan Cross, Associate HC at ULM
Phillip Pearson, Director of Recruiting at Clemson
Travis Wallace, Strength & Conditioning Coach at FGCU (Former Personal Trainer of Kyle Lowry)
Unknown JUCO HC
Rob Williams
Unknown JuCo HC

Butch Pierre?
Hope so, cuz I’m selfish
Would be a pretty darn good staff i think.

Add Squeaky and AJ to be potential HCs
Ryan Cross now has UAB listed in his twitter bio.
AK had one of his best interviews believe or not on the new Jay Barker show. He then stated that he hoped to have two of his staff committed by
yesterday(Friday). AK hopes to announce them by next week but was not sure how long to comply with the University's hiring rules
Yes, I heard him say so on the Jay Barker Show and whatever interview he had with wimp.
At this rate Kennedy will be hiring Mark Gottfried and David Hobbs as assistants.
Rob Williams is now listed as Director of Player Relations. That's the only add to the staff listed so far.
(04-04-2020 02:36 PM)UAB Band Dad Wrote: [ -> ]Rob Williams is now listed as Director of Player Relations. That's the only add to the staff listed so far.

Excellent!
(04-04-2020 02:14 PM)the_blazerman Wrote: [ -> ]At this rate Kennedy will be hiring Mark Gottfried and David Hobbs as assistants.

That would be a solid staff
Butch Pierre is the only Juco coach that had been linked to the staff, he’s dealing with real personal issues that he’s shared on twitter. Now wouldn’t be the right time to announce his hiring if he was being added.

Seen no changes for Philip Pearson, except that Coach Kennedy and Cross now follow him.

Cross is following Pierre
How about Barry Bearden who is now at Huffman HS after a stint at Altamont.
Kennedy does seem quite interested in hiring UAB fellars as assistants.

He has been SEC-ized.
(04-05-2020 08:29 AM)the_blazerman Wrote: [ -> ]Kennedy does seem quite interested in hiring UAB fellars as assistants.

He has been SEC-ized.

He will hire whomever he thinks is best to lead this program to where we all want it to go. The quickest way to hamstring a program is to fall into an alumni-nepotism state of thinking.
I don’t care if their previous coaching job was as an assistant to Lucifer in hell, if they are honest, can recruit and can coach ‘em up, I want them.
(04-05-2020 08:29 AM)the_blazerman Wrote: [ -> ]Kennedy does seem quite interested in hiring UAB fellars as assistants.

He has been SEC-ized.

Do you think about the stuff you say before you post is? The SEC is littered with alumni hires.

Also ULM has a posting for an assistant basketball coach so I guess that's just one more confirmation on Ryan Cross.
Sorry for the double post but has anyone seen this on Cross?

"Cross, 33, the men's basketball coach at Barton until 2002,
pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud for his part in a scheme
to defraud the University of Cincinnati of the services of
basketball player Kareem Johnson, who lacked the necessary college
credits to transfer to the university.

In his plea agreement, Cross admitted that while he was coach at
Chipola Junior College in Marianna, Fla., he made arrangements for
one of his assistant coaches to pose as Johnson and take an online
course from Barton County Community College in the summer of 2002
so Johnson could get the necessary credit.

Cross told the judge he never intended to harm Johnson and
realizes now that he should have found a different way to help him.
"I should have made him study more. … Instead, I took a
shortcut," Cross said."

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/news...id=2611020

Is it a different guy somehow? On his ULM profile it says Cross was only at Barton until 1999 and the article says 2002.
Seems like the perfect assistant coach.
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