Coaching Staff - South Alabama

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HEAD COACH RONNIE ARROW
Southwest Texas State ’69
In his second go-around at the
school where he began his Division I
coaching career in 1987, head coach
Ronnie Arrow has not skipped a
beat. In his fifth season since his return to South Alabama in 2007, Arrow has already posted two 20-win
campaigns and earned a trip to the
NCAA Tournament.
Now entering his 14th overall season at USA, Arrow holds a 206-156
record with three NCAA Tournament
appearances and three Sun Belt
Conference crowns. He first guided
the Jaguars from 1987-94, posting a 114-93 (55.1%) record in the eight-year stint.
An accomplished coach at both the Division I and junior college level for 30 years, Arrow has accumulated a
combined 642-290 mark at South Alabama, Texas A&MCorpus Christi and San Jacinto Junior College. Included
in that total are three junior college national championships and four trips to the NCAA Tournament.
A three-time Sun Belt Coach of the Year, Arrow
ranks second all-time among Sun Belt coaches in
league wins and has just three losing seasons in
league play in his long career.
340-247 overall / 206-156 at South Alabama
Three players earned all-Sun Belt
honors: Brandon Davis, DeAndré
Coleman and Domonic Tilford, and
the Jaguars led the conference in
four categories.
The 2009-10 season was a monumental one as Arrow eclipsed
three major career milestones. He
became the school’s all time wins
leader on Jan. 16, surpassing Cliff
Ellis’s record of 171 victories. Arrow’s 300th win as a Division I
coach came in grand style Nov.
29 at Arkansas, the first of two
triumphs against SEC opponents, and his 600th win at
all college levels was an 83-67 home victory over Alcorn
State.
He passed another milestone the next season by becoming the third coach in league history to record 100 conference wins. Already South Alabama’s career leader in
SBC wins with 110, Arrow needs one league victory to
become the Sun Belt’s all-time leader.
14th Season
A major bright spot for the 2010-11 season was the
development of Augustine Rubit, who enjoyed one of
the best freshman campaigns in school history. Rubit
became South Alabama’s second-ever Sun Belt Freshman of the Year after ranking sixth in Division I and first
among freshmen in rebounding (11.0). Rubit was named
to two freshman All-America teams in addition to being
the first USA frosh to earn all-Sun Belt honors.
Arrow returned the Jaguars to their winning ways in the
2011-12 season, guiding the team to a 17-12 mark and
a second-place finish in the Sun Belt East Division. Rubit
became the program’s first player to earn First Team AllSun Belt honors since 2008 and helped the Jaguars rank
eighth in the nation in rebounding margin.
Another milestone was passed on Jan. 29, 2012, when
Arrow picked up his 200th win at South Alabama with a
68-66 victory over Troy.
Prior to his return to USA, Arrow compiled a 134-91
(59.6%) mark at TAMU-CC including three straight 20win seasons in his last three years with the program. In
addition to guiding the Islanders to the NCAA Tournament in 2007, he led them to a school-record 26-7 finish
and the Southland Conference title their first year
in the league, earning coach-of-the-year honors
for his work.
After leading Texas A&M-Corpus Christi to its
first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance in 2007,
Arrow returned to South Alabama and promptly
guided the Jaguars to a school-record 26 victories, the Sun Belt Conference East Division title
and a berth in the NCAA postseason. For his efforts, he was selected the Sun Belt Conference
Coach of the Year for the third time in his career.
Long before the Islanders threatened No. 2 seed
Wisconsin in the national tournament, they
made a name for themselves defeating the likes
of South Florida out of the Big East Conference
and Texas Christian of the Mountain West for
the second straight season in 2005-06. Despite
a one-point loss to Big 12 Conference member
Missouri on its home court, Arrow brought the
Islanders from the ground up to become a contender with schools from the power conferences.
Arrow wasn’t the only individual recognized
in the program, though, as he helped Demetric Bennett (First Team), Daon Merritt (Second
Team), Brandon Davis and Domonic Tilford (both
Third Team) earn All-Sun Belt accolades after the
Jags finished 16-2 in league action. In addition,
he and Bennett were honored by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) — Arrow
was the organization’s District 6 Coach of the Year
while Bennett was a First Team All-District choice.
In 2004, Arrow put TAMU-CC on the national map
as it defeated Florida State 70-67 in Tallahassee
and followed with an upset win over Old Dominion, handing the Monarchs one of their five
losses that season. In addition to those victories,
Arrow’s Islanders defeated Texas Tech, Texas A&M
and 2004 NCAA Tournament qualifier Murray
State.
Arrow and the Jaguars followed that up with a
20-13 campaign in 2008-09 and advanced to the
SBC Tournament championship game. The team
finished strong, winning eight of its last 10 and
knocking off the No. 3 and No. 2 seeds before falling to top-seeded Western Kentucky.
Arrow took over the Islanders in 1998 when the
school moved to Division I, finishing with six seasons with a .500 or better record while guiding
the school to a regular-season and tournament
championship in their only season in the Southland Conference.
Before moving to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Ar2012-13 SOUTH ALABAMA MEN’S BASKETBALL • 24
row knew all about rising from the
ashes. At the end of the 1990-91
season at USA, he was named the
Sun Belt Coach of the Year for the
second time after engineering
the most dramatic turnaround in
league history. That year, his Jaguars became the first SBC squad
ever to leap from last to first place
in a single season. Picked to finish fifth in the conference, South
Alabama went on to capture the
league crown with an 11-3 mark.
The Arrow Family: Nelda and Ronnie
The Jags, who finished the season
with a 22-9 record, swept through
the conference tournament and
advanced to the NCAA Tournament before falling to Utah in a
first-round tilt.
In 1987, Arrow took over at South Alabama for Mike Hanks as the school’s fifth head coach. During his time in Mobile,
he led the Jags to two NCAA Tournaments, including a thrilling 86-84 win over Alabama in the first round of the 1989
NCAA Tournament — still the school’s only victory in the event — in just his second season at the helm. South Alabama lost to eventual national champion Michigan in the second round and finished the season with a 23-9 record.
Arrow was named Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year after winning conference regular-season and tournament
titles.
Over the years, Arrow has developed a reputation in the collegiate basketball circles for up-tempo, high-scoring teams.
His squads led the SBC in scoring four of his first seven seasons at USA. His 1988-89 squad set a school and league
record with a 91 points-per-game average, and five of his seven teams tallied at least 80 points per outing.
Prior to South Alabama, Arrow served as head coach at San Jacinto Junior College from 1977-87. He tallied an impressive 302-43 (87.5%) record and guided the Ravens to 10 TJCAC titles, as well as NJCAA championships in 1983, ’84 and
’86. He was tabbed the NJCAA Region XIV Coach of the Year in 1983, ’84, ’86, ’87, and the National Coach of the Year in
1983 and 1986. His 1985-86 squad led the nation in scoring, averaging 101 points per game.
In junior college, Arrow coached several players who went on to enjoy careers in the National Basketball Association: Walter Berry, Alton Lister, Ladell Eackles
and Larry Spriggs. Additionally, he led the
1989 United States Junior World Cup Team to
the gold medal in Uruguay with future NBA
stars Grant Hill, Calbert Cheaney and Allan
Houston.
Arrow was a two-year all-Lone Star Conference honoree and a three-year letterman
at Southwest Texas State. After graduating
from STS (now Texas State) with a bachelor’s
degree in health and physical education in
1969, he began his coaching career by serving as a graduate assistant at Sam Houston
State.
He moved on to coach Pasadena High School
during the 1972-73 season, capturing District 23-4A Coach-of-the-Year honors.
Arrow and his wife, Nelda, have one adult
daughter, Ailey, and one granddaughter, Ansley, born May 20, 2010.
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THE ARROW FILE
COLLEGE EXPERIENCE
South Alabama (13 years)
1987-94, 2007- ......................................206-156 (.569)
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (eight years)
1999-07 ...................................................134-91 (.596)
CAREER TOTAL (21 years) .............................340-247 (.579)
JUNIOR COLLEGE EXPERIENCE
San Jacinto Junior College (10 years)
1977-87 ...................................................302-43 (.875)
CAREER TOTAL (31 years) .............................642-290 (.689)
ASSISTANT COACHING EXPERIENCE
San Jacinto Junior College (two years)
1975-77
Sam Houston State (two years)
1970-72
HIGH SCHOOL EXPERIENCE
Pasadena (Texas) High School (three years)
1972-75
PLAYING EXPERIENCE
Southwest Texas State (three years)
1966-69 (guard)
EDUCATION
Southwest Texas State
B.S., Health & Physical Education, 1969
Sam Houston State
M.S., Education, 1972
HONORS
NABC District 6 Coach of the Year
2008
Conference Coach of the Year
Sun Belt — 1989, 1991, 2008
Southland — 2007
NJCAA National Coach of the Year
1983, 1986
NJCAA Region XIV Coach of the Year
1983, 1984, 1986, 1987
National Independent Coach of the Year
2000, 2005
NATIONAL TITLES
1983 NJCAA
1984 NJCAA
1986 NJCAA
CONFERENCE TITLES
2008 Sun Belt (East Division)
2007 Southland
1991 Sun Belt
1989 Sun Belt
PLAYER HONORS
Two honorable mention All-Americans
Three Independent Players of the Year
Two all-region selections
Four all-district selections
Two conference Players of the Year
One conference Freshman of the Year
One conference Defensive Player of the Year
21 all-conference selections
PERSONAL
Married to the former Nelda Myers
One adult daughter, Ailey
One granddaughter, Ansley
THE ARROW FILE
Career Highlights
• Led USA to NCAA Tournament in second season and a first-round win over Alabama in 1989
• Started basketball program at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and guided the Islanders to three
straight 20-win seasons and an NCAA Tournament appearance
• South Alabama’s 26 victories in 2007-08 are the most in school history
• Won three NJCAA national titles at San Jacinto College
• Named Coach of the Year of the Sun Belt Conference three times and the Southland Conference once
• Took USA from worst to first in the SBC and the NCAA Tournament in 1991, earning coachof-the-year honors
• Jaguars averaged school- and league-record 91 points in 1988-89
Sun Belt Coaching Wins — career
1. Gene Bartow (UAB, 1979-91) .........................................................................................111
2. Ronnie Arrow (USA, 1987-95, 2007- ).......................................................... 110
3. Dickey Nutt (ASU, 1996-08) ...........................................................................................103
4. Jessie Evans (ULL, 1998-04) .............................................................................................77
5. Marty Fletcher (ULL 1991-97; DU 2000-01) .....................................................................66
South Alabama Coaching Wins — career
1 Ronnie Arrow (1987-95, 2007-) .................................................................. 206
2. Cliff Ellis (1975-84) ........................................................................................................171
3. Bob Weltlich (1997-02) ....................................................................................................81
4. John Pelphrey (2002-07)..................................................................................................80
5. Jimmy Taylor (1970-75) ...................................................................................................76
Milestone Division I Wins for Head Coach Ronnie Arrow
1...........................................................................................101-90 vs. Alabama State (12/8/87)
38...................................................................86-84 vs. Alabama (3/17/89) – NCAA Tournament
50...........................................................................................90-75 vs. Jackson State (11/27/90)
100............................................................................... 87-78 vs. Louisiana at Lafayette (3/6/93)
115..............................................71-67 vs. Eastern Washington (11/22/00) –1st win at TAMUCC
150........................................................................................ 77-62 at Savannah State (2/13/02)
200........................................................................................ 96-53 vs. Central Baptist (2/17/05)
248.....................................81-78 vs. Northwestern State (3/11/07) – Southland Championship
250.............................................................................................76-56 vs. Grambling (11/17/07)
300.................................................................................................74-61 at Arkansas (11/29/09)
306.............................................................. 69-67 vs. Troy (1/16/10) – USA all-time wins record
321.................................................... 80-76 at Western Kentucky (2/3/11) – 100th Sun Belt win
334........................................................68-66 vs. Troy (1/29/12) – 200th win at South Alabama
JAGUARS HONORED BY THE SUN BELT UNDER RONNIE ARROW
All-Sun Belt Conference
1988 ...................................................................................................................Jeff Hodge, 1st
................................................................................................................ Junie Lewis, 2nd
1989 ...................................................................................................................Jeff Hodge, 1st
................................................................................................................ Junie Lewis, 2nd
1991 ........................................................................................................ Kevin McDaniels, 2nd
1992 .....................................................................................................................Samuel Hines
1993 .................................................................................................................... Cedric Yelding
1994 .................................................................................................................. Anthony Foster
2008 ........................................................................................................Demetric Bennett, 1st
..............................................................................................................Daon Merritt, 2nd
............................................................................................................ Brandon Davis, 3rd
.......................................................................................................... Domonic Tilford, 3rd
2009 ............................................................................................................Brandon Davis, 2nd
......................................................................................................... Domonic Tilford, 2nd
.......................................................................................................DeAndré Coleman, 3rd
2010 ..............................................................................................................Tim Williams, 2nd
2011 ..........................................................................................................Augustine Rubit, 3rd
2012 .......................................................................................................... Augustine Rubit, 1st
Tournament Most Valuable Player
1989 ........................................................................................................................... Jeff Hodge
All-Freshman Team (1985-91)
1988....................................................................................................................Michael Hurring
1989......................................................................................................................... Derek Turner
Freshman of the Year (1979-present)
2011....................................................................................................................Augustine Rubit
Sophomore of the Year (1979-91)
1991....................................................................................................................... Cedric Yelding
Senior of the Year (1979-91)
1989............................................................................................................................ Jeff Hodge
Player of the Year (1977-present)
1989............................................................................................................................ Jeff Hodge
All-Tournament Team
1988 ........................................................................................................................Junie Lewis
1989 .......................................................................................................................Gabe Estaba
......................................................................................................................... Jeff Hodge
........................................................................................................................Junie Lewis
1991 .................................................................................................................... Boobie James
.................................................................................................................Kevin McDonald
..................................................................................................................... Cesar Portillo
2008 .............................................................................................................. Demetric Bennett
2009 ..............................................................................................................DeAndré Coleman
................................................................................................................. Domonic Tilford
The Arrow Ledger
Year
1987-88
1988-89
1989-90
1990-91
1991-92
1992-93
1993-94
1994-95
1999-00
2000-01
2001-02
2002-03
2003-04
2004-05
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
2008-09
2009-10
2010-11
2011-12
School
South Alabama
South Alabama
South Alabama
South Alabama
South Alabama
South Alabama
South Alabama
South Alabama
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
South Alabama
South Alabama
South Alabama
South Alabama
South Alabama
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (8)
South Alabama (13)
Career Totals (21 yrs)
Overall
15-14
23-9
11-17
22-9
14-14
15-13
13-14
1-3
13-13
14-14
12-15
14-15
15-11
20-8
20-8
26-7
26-7
20-13
17-15
12-16
17-12
Conference
8-6
11-3
5-9
11-3
9-7
9-9
9-9
0-0
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
14-2
16-2
10-8
8-10
6-10
8-8
Finish
4th
1st
T-6th
1st
T-5th
T-6th
T-6th
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
1st West
T-1st East
T-3rd East
5th East
T-4th East
2nd East
Postseason
134-91
206-156
340-247
14-2
110-84
124-86
1 Southland Championship
3 Sun Belt Championships
—
—
NCAA Tournament
NCAA Tournament
NCAA Tournament
NCAA Tournament
ARROW’S RECORD VS. OPPONENTS
Team
Air Force
Alabama
UAB
Alabama A&M
Alabama State
Albany State
Albany
Alcorn State
American
Arkansas
Arkansas at Little Rock
Arkansas State
Auburn
Baylor
Belmont
Bethune Cookman
Binghamton
Birmingham Southern
BYU
BYU-Hawaii
Brown
Butler
Cal Poly
UC Davis
Centenary
Central Arkansas
Central Baptist
Central Florida
Central Michigan
Charlotte
Chattanooga
Chicago State
Cincinnati
Cleveland State
Coastal Carolina
Concordia
Creighton
Denver
Detroit
Drake
Eastern Wash
Evansville
Fairfield
Florida
Florida A&M
Florida Atlantic
Florida International
Florida State
Fullerton State
Gardner-Webb
Georgia Southern
Georgia State
Grambling
Hawai’i
Hawai’i-Loa
Hofstra
Houston
W
0
1
7
1
3
1
0
7
1
1
7
6
1
3
2
1
2
1
0
1
1
0
2
2
7
1
3
3
1
4
1
1
0
0
1
1
0
4
1
1
2
0
1
1
1
8
7
1
1
1
2
1
1
0
1
1
0
L First Meet Last Meet
2
12/9/03
1/21/04
2
3/17/89
12/1/10
8
1/21/88 11/30/11
0
12/3/11
12/3/11
0
12/8/87 12/20/89
0
1/15/01
1/15/01
1
1/17/00
1/17/00
0 11/25/03 12/11/11
0 12/29/93 12/29/93
5
1/1/89 11/29/09
6
1/16/92
1/26/12
6
2/1/92
2/9/12
1 11/27/87 12/21/91
1
1/4/92
12/4/04
2
1/22/00
2/12/01
1
2/3/00
2/22/01
0
3/1/03
1/4/04
0 12/28/00 12/28/00
1
1/6/01
1/6/01
0 12/16/87 12/16/87
0 12/30/06 12/30/06
1
3/21/08
3/21/08
0 11/26/00
1/8/01
0 12/17/05 11/29/08
1
1/29/00
2/22/03
0
1/13/07
1/13/07
0
2/6/03
2/17/05
0
1/11/88
2/24/92
0 11/20/10 11/20/10
5
1/9/88
1/13/91
1 12/30/93 11/25/07
1
1/19/04
1/1/05
2
2/22/92
1/2/93
2 12/29/00
2/5/01
1
12/3/88
1/24/90
0 11/19/05 11/19/05
1 12/17/90 12/17/90
5 12/21/01
3/4/12
0 11/25/06 11/25/06
1 12/29/03
1/10/05
0 11/22/99
12/4/99
2 12/19/87 12/14/94
0 11/25/88 11/25/88
0 12/22/09 12/22/09
0 11/22/08 11/22/08
3
1/2/08
2/23/12
3
1/16/08
2/25/12
4 12/14/88 11/20/11
0 11/22/02 11/22/02
1
1/17/02
2/2/02
1 12/30/03 12/19/11
0 11/26/09 11/26/09
0 11/17/07 11/17/07
1 11/24/02 11/24/02
0
12/5/90
12/5/90
0 11/20/93 11/20/93
2
1/7/06
2/7/06
Team
Houston Baptist
Howard
Howard Payne
Huston-Tillotson
Illinois
Indiana
IPFW
Iowa State
Jackson State
Jacksonville
James Madison
Kansas State
Kent State
Lamar
Lipscomb
Longwood
Louisiana Tech
Louisiana at Lafayette
Louisiana at Monroe
Louisville
Loyola-Chicago
LSU
Maine
Marshall
Maryland
McNeese State
Miami (OH)
Michigan
Middle Tennessee
Mississippi
Mississippi State
Missouri
Missouri State
Missouri-Kansas City
Mobile
Monmouth
Montana State
Morehead State
Morgan State
Murray State
UNLV
New Hampshire
New Orleans
Nicholls State
Norfolk State
North Texas
Northern Colorado
Northern Illinois
Northwestern State
Northwestern
Northwestern State
Oakland
Oklahoma State
Old Dominion
Oregon State
Portland
Portland State
W
4
1
1
3
0
0
4
0
2
13
2
0
1
2
1
2
3
6
4
0
0
0
1
1
0
4
0
0
4
0
1
0
0
1
3
1
1
0
1
1
0
0
10
2
1
3
4
0
1
0
1
1
0
7
0
0
1
L First Meet Last Meet
0
12/2/07 12/12/10
0 12/29/06 12/29/06
0 12/17/02 12/17/02
0
2/23/05
12/9/06
1
12/1/01
12/1/01
1
12/8/89
12/8/89
2
2/3/03
2/15/06
1 12/22/99 12/22/99
0 11/27/90 11/30/91
4
2/11/88 12/29/07
2
1/6/90 12/30/05
1 12/20/03 12/20/03
1 11/24/04
1/2/07
6
1/9/92
2/22/07
1
1/30/02
2/18/02
0
2/12/05
2/4/06
3
12/5/87
2/19/94
9
1/25/88
1/12/12
2
2/2/08
2/11/12
4
1/4/88
12/4/10
2 11/29/01
12/3/02
3 12/14/02 11/23/11
0 11/28/08 11/28/08
1 11/30/88 12/29/89
1
1/4/06
1/4/06
0 12/14/87
3/9/07
1 11/22/07 11/22/07
1
3/19/89
3/19/89
8 12/20/91
1/21/12
2 11/13/07 11/18/08
3
12/2/06 11/12/11
1 12/10/05 12/10/05
1
12/3/05
12/3/05
2
3/2/88
1/14/02
0
12/9/09 11/16/11
0 11/20/06 11/20/06
1
12/6/99 12/18/99
2
12/7/02
12/6/03
0 12/27/02 12/27/02
2 12/28/90
2/23/04
1 12/17/06 12/17/06
1
12/9/89
12/9/89
7 12/10/88
2/4/10
0
3/1/89
2/8/07
0 12/19/06 12/19/06
5 12/17/91
1/5/12
0
2/7/04
1/28/06
1 12/29/04 12/29/04
0
1/11/07
1/11/07
1
2/14/05
2/14/05
1
12/9/94
3/11/07
1 12/28/02
1/27/03
4
1/8/03 11/29/06
3
1/14/88 11/28/04
1
1/4/00
1/4/00
2
1/6/00 11/22/00
1
1/2/00 12/23/00
Team
W L First Meet Last Meet
Prairie View A&M
8 1
2/27/91
1/9/06
Presbyterian
1 0
2/25/08
2/25/08
Providence
0 1 11/26/88 11/26/88
Purdue
0 1 12/22/06 12/22/06
Rice
0 1 11/14/09 11/14/09
Sacramento State
1 2
1/3/02 11/15/09
Saint Louis
1 1
12/7/91
12/5/92
Saint Mary’s (Calif.)
0 1 12/18/05 12/18/05
Sam Houston State
2 3
12/1/00
3/1/07
Samford
1 0 12/21/99 12/21/99
San Diego
3 0
12/3/89 12/22/11
San Diego State
0 2
1/4/01
1/8/02
San Francisco
1 1 12/17/01
1/5/02
San Francisco State
1 0 12/30/87 12/30/87
San Jose State
1 0 11/24/89 11/24/89
Savannah State
8 0 12/13/02 12/29/05
Schreiner
2 0
2/15/00
2/2/04
South Florida
9 3
2/1/88 12/18/06
Southeastern Louisiana 2 0
2/10/07
3/8/07
Southern Illinois
1 1
12/8/90
12/9/91
Southern Miss
5 7
1/19/88
12/7/11
Southern Utah
0 1 12/10/94 12/10/94
Spring Hill
3 0 12/28/08 11/12/10
Stephen F. Austin
3 1
12/2/87
2/28/07
Stony Brook
1 1
1/15/00
2/23/00
Sul Ross State
2 0 11/17/00 11/16/01
Texas
0 2 12/16/00
12/5/01
Texas A&M
2 2 12/29/90 12/13/03
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 1 0 12/15/11 12/15/11
Texas A&M-International 3 0 11/22/03 11/21/05
TCU
2 0 11/27/04 12/22/05
Texas College
2 0 12/10/01 11/16/06
Texas Southern
2 0
1/12/04 12/17/04
Texas State
2 2 11/28/00
2/15/07
Texas Tech
1 1 11/24/99 12/18/00
Texas-Arlington
2 0
1/20/07
2/19/07
Texas-Dallas
1 0
1/11/00
1/11/00
UTEP
1 1 12/8/012
2/18/03
Texas-Pan American
14 6
1/11/92
2/27/06
Texas-San Antonio
5 1 11/28/99
2/24/07
Trinity
2 0 11/27/02
12/6/05
Troy
9 5 12/14/93
3/3/12
Tulsa
0 2 11/26/05 11/21/09
Utah
0 1
3/15/91
3/15/91
Utah Valley State
2 2
1/20/05
2/11/06
Valparaiso
0 2 12/12/99
12/7/00
Vanderbilt
0 1 11/29/07 11/29/07
VCU
5 4
1/2/88
3/3/91
Wayland Baptist
1 0 12/28/01 12/28/01
West Florida
1 0 11/10/07 11/10/07
West Virginia
1 1
12/7/92
12/9/93
Western Kentucky
14 13
1/16/88
2/18/12
Wiley College
1 0
2/9/05
2/9/05
Winthrop
1 0
1/22/01
1/22/01
Wisconsin
0 1
3/16/07
3/16/07
Wright State
0 1
12/2/89
12/2/89
ASSISTANT COACHES
ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH JEFF PRICE
Pikeville (Ky.) ’81
A familiar face will be on the
bench for the University of South
Alabama men’s basketball program
as former assistant coach Jeff Price
joined the staff as the associate
head coach in August 2011.
Price, who was an assistant at
South Alabama from 1989-93 under
current head coach Ronnie Arrow,
spent the previous season as head
coach at West Virginia Wesleyan
where he led the Bobcats to a 19-11
record and a trip to the NCAA Division II National Tournament.
Prior to his one-year stint at
the Buckhannon, W.Va. school, Price was a scout for the
Los Angeles Clippers organization.
An accomplished collegiate head coach, Price has
a 318-188 overall record in 17 seasons, which includes
eight 20-win campaigns, eight trips to the postseason
and two coach-of-the-year honors.
Five of those 20-win seasons came in a six-year
stretch at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., where he
led the Fighting Knights to a .764 win percentage—the
highest in the state of Florida over that span—and six
national postseason appearances. In 1997 he was named
NCAA Division II National Coach of the Year after Lynn
rolled to a 28-3 mark, becoming the first school in NCAA
history to reach the national semifinals in their first season of NCAA competition.
He moved to Georgia Southern and was named the
Southern Conference’s Coach of the Year his first season
in charge. In his 10 years in Statesboro, Price totaled 165
wins, third-most in school history, and a .553 winning
percentage, which ranked fifth-best in the school’s record books. He won 20 or more three times in his final six
seasons at the helm and guided the program to the 2006
National Invitation Tournament.
In his one season at West Virginia Wesleyan, Price
Second Season
led the program to its second-ever
trip to the NCAA Tournament and
the second-largest turnaround in
the nation. The Bobcats were 8-21
the year before and 38-105 in the
previous five.
Price orchestrated another
revival at Georgia Southern. The Eagles were in the midst of six straight
non-winning seasons and a combined 29-61 (.322) record in league
play before his arrival. It took one
year to transform Georgia Southern
into a winning team as Price and the
Eagles went 16-12 overall and 10-6
in the Southern Conference in 1999-2000. The secondplace division finish was enough to earn Price the Southern Conference Coach of the Year Award.
In 2007-08, Georgia Southern posted a 20-12 overall record and a 13-7 mark in league play. The 13 SoCon
wins were the third-most conference victories in school
history and the highest total since GSU joined the conference in 1992. Price earned the Whack Hyder Coach of the
Year honor, given to the top college coach in the state
of Georgia.
Ten different players earned All-Southern Conference distinction under Price’s watch, including 2006
Player of the Year and All-American Elton Nesbitt.
Price’s appointment at Georgia Southern ended a
six-year stay as head basketball coach at Lynn, where he
led the Fighting Knights to an overall record of 136-42
and six consecutive—three NAIA and three NCAA Division II—national postseason tournament appearances.
After accepting an offer to start the Lynn program
from scratch in March 1993, Price successfully built one
of the top collegiate programs in the nation.
Price averaged nearly 23 wins per season while
at the helm of the Lynn program, guiding his teams to
23-7 (1993-94), 20-10 (1994-95), 16-11 (1995-96), 28-3
(1996-97), 22-7 (1997-98) and 25-6 (1998-99) records.
During the 1996-97 season, Lynn put together a
20-game winning streak, the longest in the nation, and
had the best overall record in Division II.
As an assistant and recruiting coordinator under
Arrow at South Alabama from 1989-93, the Jaguars
claimed the 1991 Sun Belt Conference championship and
earned a trip to the NCAA Tournament.
He also served as assistant coach at his alma mater, Pikeville (Ky.) College (1981-82), Georgia Southern
(1982-83, 1986-87), Union (Ky.) College (1983-85) and
Washington (1985-86, 1987-89).
Price earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Pikeville College in 1981.
THE PRICE FILE
COLLEGE EXPERIENCE
South Alabama
Associate Head Coach _________
West Virginia Wesleyan
Head Coach _______________
Georgia Southern
Head Coach _______________
Lynn (Fla.)
Head Coach _______________
South Alabama
Assistant Coach ____________
Washington
Georgia Southern
Washington
Union (Ky.) College
Georgia Southern
Pikeville (Ky.)
2011-PR
2010-11
1999-09
1993-99
1989-93
1987-89
1986-87
1985-86
1983-85
1982-83
1981-82
PLAYING EXPERIENCE
Pikeville (Ky.) College (two years)
1979-81 (guard)
St. Petersburg (Fla.) Junior College (two years)
1977-79 (forward)
EDUCATION
Pikeville College
B.B.A., Business Administration, 1981
The Price Family: Jaxson, Jeff, Jody and Abby
PERSONAL
Married to the former Jody Wadsworth
Has a son, Jaxson (14), and a daughter Abby (5)
ASSISTANT COACHES
ASSISTANT COACH MICHAEL FLOYD
Murray State ’99
as an assistant at Troy for the 200405 season. While at UA, he helped
the Tide to a two-year record of
37-25 and two berths in the NCAA
Tournament which included a trip
to the 2004 Elite Eight after they
picked up victories over Southern
Illinois, Stanford and defending
NCAA champion Syracuse. The
Crimson Tide’s run Floyd’s second
year would come to an end with a
loss to eventual tournament winner Connecticut.
Former Jaguar and Mobile native
Michael Floyd enters his fifth season
as an assistant coach on the USA
staff.
In his first year back with the program, he helped the Jags earn an atlarge berth to the NCAA Tournament
after compiling a 26-7 overall record
— the win total was the highest in
school history — and a 16-2 mark
in the Sun Belt Conference. His efforts also helped USA claim the
league’s East Division championship
during the regular season.
Floyd spent the 2006-07 season as an assistant coach
with Ronnie Arrow at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. There,
the Islanders went 26-7 and 14-2 in its first year in the
Southland Conference. TAMU-CC earned the conference’s
automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament where it took
second-seeded Wisconsin to the limits in the first round.
Prior to going to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Floyd was the
head coach at Alabama Southern Community College
for one season. In his only year guiding the Eagles, they
compiled an 18-12 mark and recorded a second-place
finish in their division.
Floyd started his coaching career as an assistant at Spring
Hill from 2000-02 before gaining additional experience
at Alabama. He spent two years as a graduate assistant
with the Crimson Tide before returning to full-time status
Sixth Season
Floyd played for Arrow at South
Alabama from 1994-96, averaging 7.7 points as a freshman. He transferred to Murray State after his sophomore
year, helping the Racers to the NCAA Tournament both
seasons he was there. MSU went 29-4 his junior campaign, as he scored 10 points in its NCAA Tourney contest
against Rhode Island, before posting a 27-6 mark in his
final season of collegiate eligibility.
THE FLOYD FILE
COLLEGE EXPERIENCE
South Alabama
Texas A&M Corpus-Christi
Alabama Southern CC
Head Coach _______________
Troy
Alabama
Graduate Assistant Coach_______
Spring Hill
2007-PR
2006-07
2005-06
2004-05
2002-04
2000-02
PLAYING EXPERIENCE
Murray State (two years)
1996-99 (forward)
South Alabama (two years)
1994-96 (forward)
In high school at McGill-Toolen, he averaged 21 points,
five rebounds, three assists and three steals as a junior to
help lead the team to Class 6A state tournament. He was
an all-state and all-county player for the Yellowjackets.
EDUCATION
Murray State University
B.S., Sociology, 1999
Floyd graduated from Murray State in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology. He is married to the former
Poppy Hogsed and has three daughters, Peyton (13), Micah (6) and Matalie (2), and a son Preston (1).
PERSONAL
Married to the former Poppy Hogsed
Has three daughters, Peyton (13), Micah (6) and
Matalie (2), a son Preston (1) and a stepdaughter,
Emily (12)
The Floyd Family: Peyton, Matalie, Michael, Poppy, Micah and Emily
ASSISTANT COACHES
ASSISTANT COACH DOMINIQUE TAYLOR
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi ’07
Head coach Ronnie Arrow reached
out to a familiar face when he needed to fill a spot on his coaching staff
in June 2011.
Arrow turned to one of his former
players, Dominique Taylor.
Taylor, who previously served as
assistant coach at Neosho County
Community College, played three
seasons for Arrow and assistant
coach Michael Floyd at Texas A&MCorpus Christi from 2004-07. With
the Jaguars, he will work primarily
with the guards and provide scouting reports for opponents during the season.
The Grand Rapids, Mich., native has spent the previous
two seasons at Neosho County where he helped lead the
Panthers to a 20-win season in 2009-10 and coached six
players that went on to NCAA Division I schools, including
former Jaguar Antione Lundy and current USA guard Trey
Anderson. Lundy was a 2009-10 National Junior College
Athletic Association All-American and Anderson was a
first-team all-region selection.
Second Season
2005-08, after redshirting his
freshman campaign, and was a
part of three 20-win teams. As a
sophomore he was a member of a
squad that posted a school-record
26 victories, won the Southland
Conference regular season and
tournament titles in its first year of
membership and earned a bid to
the 2007 NCAA Tournament.
Active in community service, Taylor has participated in programs
that encourage young people to
read and was a volunteer for the
Conquer the Coast bicycle race. In 2004 he was awarded
the St. Thomas Aquinas Leadership Scholarship from
Aquinas (Mich.) College and was a member of the Grand
Rapids Junior Rotary Club.
THE TAYLOR FILE
COLLEGE EXPERIENCE
South Alabama
Assistant Coach ____________ 2011-PR
Neosho County Community College
Assistant Coach ____________ 2009-11
PLAYING EXPERIENCE
Texas A&M-Commerce (one year)
2008-09 (guard)
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (four years)
2004-08 (guard)
EDUCATION
Texas A&M-Commerce
M.S., Sports Studies, 2009
B.S., Exercise Science, 2007
The 2009-10 Panthers were the top rebounding team
in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference,
including Lundy’s league-leading 13.7 average, and finished tied for third in the KJCCC Eastern Division with a
12-6 mark.
Taylor served as recruiting coordinator and assisted
with all aspects of the program, including on-the-court
coaching, practice planning, academic progress, travel
planning and scheduling. He also was involved with
team public relations, fundraising and promotional activities.
In addition to his coaching duties at NCCC, Taylor was an
adjunct faculty member where he taught undergraduate
courses in personal training and coaching basketball.
As a student at Texas A&M-Commerce he served as an
assistant in the Department of Health and Human Performance where he aided in exercise testing research in
the fields of biomechanics, motor learning and controls.
Taylor proctored and instructed students in the exercise
physiology lab, reviewed and assisted student assignments and provided help with lab experiments.
Taylor earned three varsity letters at TAMU-CC from
Dominique Taylor
ASSISTANT COACHES
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS CHRIS COKER
North Alabama ’94
year stay, he served as head coach
of the junior varsity and junior
high teams while assisting with
the varsity team. He also served as
head coach of the varsity softball
team.
Chris Coker is in his sixth season on
the South Alabama basketball staff.
In his role of director of basketball
operations, he is responsible for
most of the off-court activities of
the players and coaches, including
overseeing film exchange, travel,
summer camps, recruiting and public relations functions.
Prior to coming to USA, Coker spent
six seasons as an assistant coach at
West Alabama, and he also coached
two years as an assistant at Texas
A&M-Kingsville. From 2004 until his
departure from UWA, he served on the NABC's Division
II Assistant Coaches Committee, providing insight to college basketball from that perspective.
Sixth Season
Coker gained his first collegiate
experience in 1997 as a graduate
assistant at West Alabama while
he earned a master’s degree in
continuing education.
Coker is married to the former
Christal Compton of Clarksdale,
Miss. The couple has three children – Jacob (14), Ava (6)
and Ana (5).
A 1994 graduate of North Alabama with a bachelor's
degree in education, Coker began his coaching career at
Baldwyn High School in Baldwyn, Miss. During his three-
THE COKER FILE
COLLEGE EXPERIENCE
South Alabama
Director of Basketball Operations __
West Alabama
Texas A&M-Kingsville
West Alabama
Graduate Assistant Coach_______
2007-PR
2001-07
1999-01
1997-99
HIGH SCHOOL EXPERIENCE
Baldwyn (Miss.) High School
Varsity Boys’ Assistant Coach _____ 1994-97
Junior Varsity and Junior High Head Coach
EDUCATION
University of North Alabama
B.S., Education, 1994
University of West Alabama
M.S., Education, 1998
PERSONAL
Married to the former Christal Compton
Has one son Jacob (14), and two daughters Ava (6)
and Ana (5)
The Coker Family: Christal, Chris, Ana, Ava and Jacob
SUPPORT STAFF
ASSISTANT STRENGTH AND
CONDITIONING COACH
ASSISTANT ATHLETIC TRAINER
Matthew Brown
Indiana State ’06
Fourth season
Joey Choron
South Alabama ’02
Third season
Former University of South Alabama
baseball standout Joey Choron is in his
third season overseeing the strength and
conditioning program for the men’s basketball team.
Choron, in his fifth season overall
at USA, also heads up the strength and
conditioning program for volleyball and
women’s golf, and assists with football.
His role includes overseeing all workouts and writing in-season and off-season
programs for each team. Choron consults with players to ensure they maintain proper
nutrition and body weight.
He also manages the intern schedule and assignments.
Prior to the return to his alma mater, Choron worked at Sportplex of Mobile as
an assistant manager. There he managed the membership sales team and the weight
room staff, in addition to serving as a personal trainer for young athletes. His role also
extended into the sales realm with a focus on increasing memberships.
An accomplished player on the field, Choron set records at both the junior and
senior college levels. While at Gulf Coast Community College he tied the school’s home
run record as a sophomore and was named to the Florida Junior College All-State Second Team.
He continued his prolific career at South Alabama where he tied the school’s
single-season home run record with 21 in 1997 en route to second team all-conference
honors. His power numbers carried over into the Sun Belt Tournament, setting new
marks for home runs (5) and RBI (12) in a single tournament. He was named Sun Belt
Tournament Most Valuable Player and to the 1997 NCAA All-South Region Team in Baton Rouge, where he led the Jaguars to within one game of the College World Series.
Choron parlayed his success into professional contracts with the Chillicothe Paints
(1999-00) and the London Werewolves (2001) of the independent Frontier League.
After his playing career concluded, he was hired as an assistant varsity baseball
coach at Theodore High School in Theodore, Ala. He served as the Bobcats’ hitting coach
and infield instructor.
Choron earned a B.A. in business management from South Alabama in June
2002.
Matthew Brown was promoted from
graduate assistant to a full-time position
on USA’s athletic training staff during the
summer of 2008 and is currently in his
seventh year at South Alabama. He is
responsible for working with the school’s
men’s basketball and men’s golf programs.
Brown came to the University of
South Alabama from Indiana State University. For two seasons, Brown served as the
athletic trainer for the baseball team at USA before working with the men’s basketball
team. During his time at ISU he worked with all sports but spent his last year working
exclusively with the men’s basketball team and assisting with the baseball team.
Brown earned his Bachelor of Science degree in athletic training from Indiana
State in May 2006. He earned his master’s degree in exercise science at South Alabama.
In addition to his work at Indiana State, Brown spent two summers as a medical provider for summer camp athletic training services at the University of WisconsinWhitewater.
He is a certified member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, the Southeast Athletic Trainers’ Association, and the Alabama Athletic Trainers’ Association.
Originally from Logansport, Ind., he and his wife Shirley reside in Mobile.
MEN’S BASKETBALL MANAGERS
Casey Dyess
Koedy Williams
Josh Wrenn

Coaching Staff - South Alabama

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