Former Mississippi State Athletics Director Larry Templeton named as a consultant to the Southeastern Conference to focus on television and digital rights and various other issues. Templeton has continued to represent the SEC on the NCAA Baseball Issues Committee since retiring at Mississippi State last year. “During our television and digital rights discussion, Larry has been an invaluable resource to the conference office,” said Commissioner Mike Slive. “He will continue to be active in that role as well as taking on other assignments that may come up in the future.”

Other transactions

Assistant athletics director – Brian Jamros, assistant athletics director for development at Concordia-St. Paul, named coordinator of special events at Minnesota.

Coaches

Men’s basketball – Kevin O’Neill named at Southern California after serving last season as an assistant with the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association. He is a former head coach at Marquette, Tennessee and Northwestern and interim head coach at Arizona.

Men’s basketball assistant – Ahmad R. Moore joined the coaching staff at Lincoln (Pennsylvania), where he has been intramural sports coordinator and will retain those duties.

Women’s basketball – Paul Stadelberger hired as head coach at Philadelphia Sciences. He has been an assistant at Philadelphia U. for the past 20 seasons.