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The NCAA RecordJanuary 13, 1997
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LSU's Brown announces his retirementDale Brown, head men's basketball coach at LSU since 1972, announced his retirement, effective at the end of the 1996-97 season. Brown has been a basketball coach for 37 years, beginning as a high-school coach, when his duties also included coaching wrestling, football and track. His first NCAA Division I coaching position was as an assistant at Utah State in 1966. For the 1971-72 season, Brown moved to Washington State, then was selected as head coach at LSU. Brown took over a struggling program and built it into a national power. He has taken the Tigers to 13 NCAA Division I men's tournaments, including 10 straight from 1984 to 1993 -- a Southeastern Conference record. LSU has won four SEC championships under Brown. No LSU coach has coached more consecutive games (719). Brown has compiled a 445-287 record at LSU. Brown lettered in football, basketball and track at Minot State.
GENERALDIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS Holly Gera, Montclair State's associate director of athletics for the past two years, promoted to acting athletics director. Gera will take over while the university conducts a nationwide search to replace Greg Lockard, who resigned to pursue a career in private business. Gera first joined the Montclair State staff as director of campus recreation in 1989. ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS Marshall appointed Joyce Howse as assistant athletics director responsible for compliance. Howse joins Marshall from Wisconsin, where she was assistant to the athletics compliance director for the past year. COACHES Men's basketball--Jacksonville head coach George Scholz has been reassigned temporarily within the athletics department pending a university review of the school's basketball program. Associate head coach Buster Harvey was named interim head coach. Harvey joined the Jacksonville staff in 1994 after serving as head coach at Florida Community College at Jacksonville for 12 seasons. Football--Bill Bleil promoted to head coach at Western Carolina. Bleil was the school's offensive coordinator and offensive line coach last season, and joined the Western Carolina staff after Pacific (California) dropped its football program. He wa s offensive line coach at Pacific in 1992 and became offensive coordinator there the following year. This is Bleil's first head-coaching assignment after working as an assistant since 1983 ... New Mexico State named Tony Samuel as head coach. Samue l has been an assistant coach at Nebraska for the past 11 seasons, coaching linebackers and rush ends ... Houston Nutt, head coach at Murray State for four years, hired as head coach at Boise State. Nutt compiled a 31-16 record in four seasons at M urray State, including two Ohio Valley Conference championships. Football assistants--Wisconsin defensive backs coach Mike Cassity appointed defensive coach at Baylor. Cassity, in his second season at Wisconsin, previously was defensive coordinator at Cincinnati, Georgia Tech, East Carolina, Northeast Louisiana and Western Kentucky ... Herb Williams, a four-year letterwinner at Youngstown State, and Bob Tucker, former head football coach at Wooster, hired at Youngstown State. Williams, who will serve as receivers coach, was a graduate assistant at Otterbein last season. Tucker, who will coach inside linebackers, was head coach at Wooster from 1985 to 1995. Youngstown State also promoted Mark Snyder to defensive coordinator. Snyder, a member of the staff since 1991, was defensive line coach a nd special teams coordinator last season ... Ron West hired as offensive line coach at Tulane. He has been an assistant coach at Baylor. Yale announced the appointment of five assistant coaches: Rich Flanders, secondary coach at Pennsylvania for the past five years, as defensive coordinator; Keith Clark, offensive line coach and running game coordinator at Columbia, as offens ive coordinator; Duane Brooks, coordinator of football operations at Pennsylvania, as defensive line coach; Joel Lamb, quarterbacks coach at Amherst, as quarterbacks coach; and Shawn Halloran, offensive coordinator at Georgetown, as d efensive assistant ... Clarence Holley and Gene Williams hired at West Texas A&M. Holley, defensive coordinator and defensive line coach at Missouri Western for the past two years, will be defensive coordinator. Williams was defensive l ine coach at Missouri Western last season. Men's soccer--Lock Haven graduate Bob Eaton named head men's soccer coach at his alma mater. Eaton graduated in 1988 after a four-year career with the Bald Eagles. He takes over for his former coach, Lenny Long, who retired at the end of the 1996 season. Eaton was head coach at Methodist last season and before that was at Lycoming for six seasons. Women's soccer--Mike Tucker appointed head women's soccer coach at Dayton. Women's volleyball--Laura Phillips Alford named head coach at Cincinnati. She was assistant coach at Arkansas for two seasons. CONFERENCES Trent Whitney hired as business manager at Conference USA. Whitney has been a marketing analyst for Boise Cascade Office Products, financial analyst with Intelogic Trace and a marketing and public relations specialist for the St. Louis Cardinals. Sue Arakas promoted to assistant commissioner for internal affairs at the Southern Conference. Arakas is in her third year with the conference, having served as administrative assistant since June 1994. NCAA NATIONAL OFFICE Kimberly A. Dickson hired as an assistant on the public information staff. Dickson most recently worked in the marketing department for the Greensboro (North Carolina) Coliseum Complex and was a public relations intern for the New Jersey Nets.
NOTABLES
1996 coaches of the year have been announced by Schutt Sports, a manufacturer of football helmets and athletics protective equipment, and American Football Quarterly. Named were Bruce Snyder, Arizona State, Division I-A; Darren Barbier, Nich
olls State, Division Ara Parseghian selected as the 1997 recipient of the Amos Alonzo Stagg Award presented by the American Football Coaches Association. In 24 seasons as a head coach, Parseghian compiled a record of 170-58-6, including three bowl victories, two consen sus national championships and a share of two others while at Notre Dame. He also coached at Miami (Ohio) and Northwestern.
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