Coaches of the SEC Era

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1 Coaches of the SEC Era P Harry Rabenhorst ; Seasons Record: Dale Morey Seasons Record: Jess Fatherree Season Record: 11-7 A.L. Swanson Season Record: 4-2 Jay McCreary Seasons Record: Frank Truitt Season Record: 6-20 Press Maravich Seasons Record: Dale Brown Seasons Record: John Brady 1997-present 10 seasons Record: L S U B A S K E T B A L L M E D I A G U I D E 77

2 All-Time Coaching Records P By Wins COACH SEASONS GAMES W-L PCT. Dale Brown Harry Rabenhorst John Brady Dr. C. C. Stroud Jay McCreary Press Maravich Dale Morey Frank Tad Gormley Branch Bocock J. W. Mayhew Jessee Fatherree H. E. Gob Wilson Moon Ducote F. M. Long Frank Truitt E. R. Wingard A. L. Swanson R. E. Edmonds John Brady Chronological YEARS COACH (ALMA MATER) SEASONS GAMES W-L PCT E. R. Wingard (Susquehanna) J. W. Mayhew (Brown) F. M. Long (Oklahoma) ; Dr. C. C. Stroud (Tufts) R. E. Edmonds () Branch Bocock (Georgetown) Frank Tad Gormley (Loyola) Moon Ducote (Auburn) H. E. Gob Wilson (Michigan) ; Harry Rabenhorst (Wake Forest) Dale Morey () Jessee Fatherree () *A. L. Swanson () Jay McCreary (Indiana) Frank Truitt (Otterbein) Press Maravich (Davis-Elkins) Dale Brown (Minot St.) John Brady (Belhaven) coaches *Fatherree left to join the U. S. Army with five games plus the tournament remaining in the season. Swanson replaced him for the balance of the year L S U B A S K E T B A L L M E D I A G U I D E

3 The Coach John Brady arrived at in March of 1997 knowing he had a big job in front of him. But he knew that it had been done before at and he was confident he was the man to make it happen again. The basketball program had seen All-Americans come to play, won championships and been to the pinnacle of college basketball, the NCAA Final Four. As he enters his 11th season as the head basketball coach at, more All-Americans have played for, more conference championships have been won and has again reached the NCAA Final Four.

4 P HEAD COACH John Brady The Brady File Year at : 11th season ( record) Birth Date: Sept. 17, 1954 Age: 53 Hometown: McComb, Miss. Wife: Misty Children: Brittany (17), Brooke (13) High School: McComb High School, McComb, Miss. College: BS, Belhaven College, 1976; M. Ed., Mississippi State University, 1977 Coach Brady's tenure has been a plan with a purpose that has been accomplished. When Coach Brady first put a team on the floor of the Pete Maravich Assembly Center as the head coach of the Tigers, he knew his squad was undermanned, undersized and underdogs. But teams hated to play the Tigers then because Brady coached his team hard and his team responded with several strong performances against the league s top teams. But the little things would stop the team from getting many wins. Now as Brady begins his second decade as the head coach of the Tigers, teams still don't enjoy playing the Tigers because is now an established winning program that every year can contend for divisional and conference honors in the Southeastern Conference and into postseason play as well. Brady's 11th year as head coach is something only two other men's basketball coaches at the school have achieved in the first 100 years of officially sanctioned college basketball. In fact, Brady is just the 25th coach in the history of the league to have coached into an 11th season at one school. He's done it as only Brady knows how -- with heart and passion to go with knowledge of the game that makes him one of the best at in-game decisions. Brady has built the program to national respect with a plan that he will use to continue 's success in the years to come. In his first 10 years, Brady has won two Southeastern Conference championships (2000, 2006), three SEC Western Division titles (2000, 2005, 2006) and has taken his team to the NCAA Final Four (2006). Along the way, has had seven winning seasons (including six straight) and six postseason appearances. 's six consecutive winning seasons marks the fourth longest streak of consecutive years with a positive overall record in the program's long history. In the last eight seasons, Brady and the Tigers have won 158 games, an average of 19.7 a year. Brady's 184 wins in 10 seasons are the third most wins by an basketball coach and he opens the season in the top 25 on the all-time wins list for coaches in the Southeastern Conference. In 2000, the Tigers advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16 as part of a 28-win season, the second most wins in school history. In 2005, captured the Western Division title and came back the next year for a special season Tiger fans will always remember. won 14-of-16 conference games in 2006 to capture the school's first outright league title in 21 years. The Tigers would have success in the NCAA Tournament, defeating No. 1 Duke and No. 9 Texas to win the regional title and advance to the first NCAA Final Four appearance in 20 years. A major part of the success of the program has been player development. In the last eight seasons, John Brady has coached the SEC Player of the Year three times (Stromile Swift in 2000, Brandon Bass in 2005 and Glen Davis in 2006) L S U B A S K E T B A L L M E D I A G U I D E

5 Brady now has athletes. There is no question about that. But they are also very well coached... Basketball athletes tend to be extraordinary on the offensive end with the occasional highlight play on defense. Consistent defenses like 's are the product of coaching. -GLENN GUILBEAU, GANNETT LOUISIANA P Playing Experience McComb High School McComb, Miss. Belhaven College (Jackson, Miss.) -- Three-year starter, scored over 1,000 career points during his career Coach Charlie Rugg Two-time All-Southern States Conference Inducted Fall 1997 into school athletic hall of fame. Coaching Experience Graduate, Mississippi State University , Crowley High School, Crowley, La (.725) record in five seasons 1981 Louisiana Sports Writers Association Class AAA "Coach of the Year." , Mississippi State University. First four years under coach Bob Boyd -- Last four years as a chief recruiter for coach Richard Williams , Samford University, record in six years... Left Samford as winningest coach in Samford history... Team won TAAC West Division in 1996 and March 25, Named the 18th head basketball coach at wins SEC West; SEC overall championship NCAA Sweet 16 Consensus SEC Coach of the Year; LSWA Coach of the Year NABC/USBWA District Coach of the Year Runner-up, National Coach of the Year Team wins nine of the last 11 games, advances to the second round of the NIT wins nine of the last 13, including seven straight to earn a second NCAA Tournament appearance under John Brady Named LSWA Coach of the Year; Louisiana Association of Basketball Coaches Coach of the Year advances to the National Invitation Tournament. In that same time span, the Tigers have had the SEC Freshman of the Year on their roster four times (Torris Bright in 2000, Brandon Bass in 2004, Glen Davis in 2005, Tyrus Thomas in 2006). John Brady has built a program at with a record of success that is hard to argue with. He has given the program the direction to grow and the chance to shine again. He has shown the ability to build a program based on responsibility and accountability. When Brady took over the program there were dreams of building a program where the players would take responsibility for their actions and make people proud of what they were trying to accomplish, both on and off the floor. Some players even 10 years later have shown that taking that responsibility has been posts a 12-4 record in winning the SEC Western Division Tigers go 8-0 in league play at home, the first undefeated conference home record since 1981 Team advanced to the NCAA Tournament, the fourth straight post season berth and fifth in the last six years posts a 14-2 record in winning the SEC title, the school s first title since 2000 and the first outright title in 21 years... Tigers go 8-0 in league play at home for the second straight year... Team advances to the NCAA Tournament and defeats Iona, Texas A&M, No. 1 Duke and Texas to advance to the NCAA Final Four for the first time in 20 years... Named SEC Coach of the Year, LSWA Coach of the Year and finalist for the Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year award posts sixth straight winning overall record L S U B A S K E T B A L L M E D I A G U I D E 81

6 P a difficult thing for them to accept. Brady has in each case given the players enough latitude to make the choice, right or wrong, to fight through it or leave the program. Those that have stayed the course have shown what time in the Brady system is worth. For every player that has transferred or left the program there are examples of Brady's players who have shown improvement from the day they stepped on the campus until the time they left, either to go on to play professional basketball or to walk down the aisle with an degree. That means Brady's plan isn't just taking place on a hardwood floor in the Maravich Center. He has worked hard to show the public that athletic and academic pursuits of the players should be challenged to the fullest. That's part of the reason that basketball is not only a success on the court, but in the classroom as well. Hours are passed and posted toward graduation on a regular basis by scholarship players. Brandon Bass in 2005 was not only named the SEC Player of the Year, but also the SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year. A total of 18 players under John Brady have graduated from and more are on pace to wear the cap and gown as well. Brady may not have realized at the time that the journey would stutter a couple of times while the right combination of ideas meshed together. He does know that after 10 years, his knowledge of the game and his belief in discipline and responsibility for actions on and off the floor have made the program strong again, one that fans are proud of because they feel a part of the program. They've shown that by raising the average paid attendance number for Tiger basketball each of the last six years. Brady has shown his passion for basketball, an interest in building a quality program and a quality student-athlete. In simple, honest terms, John Brady is a basketball coach who wants his players to succeed both in and out of the arena L S U B A S K E T B A L L M E D I A G U I D E

7 There's never been a doubt in basketball coach John Brady's mind that his teams play quality defense. Now the rest of the college basketball world knows. -Jim Kleinpeter, New Orleans Times Picayune Prior to Brady came to after six successful seasons at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala., one of several programs he has helped build to new heights in his career. But his love of basketball and his success in the sport was molded form a journey that had roots in Mississippi. The McComb, Miss., native played his college ball at Belhaven College in Jackson, Miss., from , twice earning All-Southern States Conference honors as a guard. Brady was a three-year starter at Belhaven and scored over 1,000 points. He would later be inducted into his alma mater's Hall of Fame. Charlie Rugg coached Brady at Belhaven and Brady would bring Coach Rugg and his wife to the NCAA Final Four as his guests to be a part of the Final Four experience. The event became even more special as Coach Brady and CBS sportscaster Jim Nantz recognized him at the NCAA Salute event in Indianapolis. Brady began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Mississippi Sate while earning his Masters in education. From there, Brady moved to the prep ranks, making the first stop of his career in Louisiana. This stop was as the head coach at Crowley High School from There he compiled a record of (.752). During the 1981 campaign, Brady came to the Assembly Center for the first time as a head coach as Crowley advanced all the way to the Class AAA finals in the Top 28 Tournament. Brady was named the Louisiana Sports Writers Association Coach of the Year for the classification that season. In all, three of his Crowley teams advanced at least to the quarterfinals in the playoffs. He returned to college coaching at Mississippi State for the season, serving eight years. In his last four years he served as chief recruiter and certainly honed his ability to find top-notch talent that eventually led the Bulldogs from last place in the SEC to the cochampionship with in 1991, one year after Brady's departure. Following his tenure in Starkville, Brady returned to Louisiana for the second time, this time to serve on the staff of Tim Floyd at the University of New Orleans. Again, Brady was part of an NCAA Tournament team with the Privateers. It came time for John Brady to take the next big step to a Division I college head coaching position. In his six-year tenure at Samford ( ), he turned the then-trans-american Athletic Conference Brady s ing Record Samford --OVERALL-- -CONFERENCE- YEAR W L PCT. W L PCT. FINISH tie-3rd tie-2nd th nd st-West st-West --OVERALL-- -CONFERENCE- YEAR W L PCT. W L PCT. FINISH th-West th-West st-West; 1st-SEC; NCAA Sweet th-West th-West; 2nd round NIT nd-West NCAA nd-West, NIT tie-1st-west NCAA st-West; 1st-SEC; NCAA Final Four th-West TOTALS Samford P L S U B A S K E T B A L L M E D I A G U I D E 83

8 P Coach John Brady holds the 2006 NCAA Atlanta Regional Championship trophy and is joined by former All-American Bob Pettit in the Georgia Dome locker room. team into a consistent winner, posting a record of He posted double figure victory totals each of his six seasons, something the school did not enjoy in any of the five years prior to Brady's arrival. In his final three seasons at Samford, he was (1995, 1996) and 19-9 (1997) giving the school three-straight winning seasons for the first time since He was the first Samford coach to have four winning seasons in his career and he left as the school's winningest coach. The Bulldogs won two TAAC Western Division Championships, sharing the crown in 1996 and winning it outright in 1997, the first basketball championship of any kind at the time of Samford. In Brady's six years at Samford, the team had three first-team and five second-team All-TAAC selections. In his time at the Birmingham school, he had 14 members named to the All-TAAC Academic team. Now, through his first 10 years at, the numbers are continuing to work for Brady both on and off the floor, with 16 players earning All-SEC honors and 33 earning All-SEC academic honors. The 53-year-old Brady is the father of two daughters, Brittany, 17, and Brooke, 13, and is married to the former Misty Champagne. In 10 seasons, John Brady has taken a long way both on and off the court, earning basketball championships, taking his team to the pinnacle of college basketball and overseeing his student-athletes ever-improving efforts in the classroom. The Tiger program is sound both athletically and academically. The top players in the country are seriously putting at the top of their lists and Brady is earning the respect of his peers throughout the nation. John Brady has reestablished as a national factor in college basketball and he continues to work to keep the Tigers in that position for years to come L S U B A S K E T B A L L M E D I A G U I D E

9 P Brady vs. All Opponents Air Force 1-0 Alabama 8-12 Alabama State 1-1 Alcorn State 1-0 Arizona 2-2 Arkansas Ark.-Monticello 1-0 Arkansas State 0-1 Auburn 12-9 Austin Peay 2-2 Ball State 0-1 Baptist Christian 1-0 Baylor 0-1 Belhaven 3-0 Belmont 1-0 Berry College 1-0 Bethel 1-0 Brewton-Parker 1-0 UCLA 0-1 Cal State-Northridge 1-0 Campbell 4-1 Centenary 14-3 Chattanooga 0-1 Cincinnati 0-1 The Citadel 1-1 College of Charleston 0-6 Connecticut 1-1 Dartmouth 0-1 Davidson 0-2 Delaware State 1-0 Drake 1-1 Duke 1-0 Eastern Kentucky 1-0 Evansville 0-1 Florida 5-8 Florida Atlantic 2-0 Florida International 4-7 Florida State 1-0 Fresno State 1-1 Furman 0-2 Georgia 6-5 Georgia State 8-7 Gonzaga 0-1 Grambling State 1-0 Hawaii-Hilo 1-0 Houston 4-4 Howard 2-0 Iona 1-0 Iowa 1-0 Iowa State 0-1 Jacksonville State 2-0 Kentucky 2-9 Lamar 0-1 Louisiana-Lafayette 3-1 Louisiana-Monroe Shreveport (Exh) 1-0 Louisiana Tech 1-0 Loyola-NO 1-0 Mercer 9-4 McNeese State 8-0 Miami (Fla.) 0-1 Mississippi Mississippi State 9-14 Mississippi Valley State 1-0 New Orleans 5-1 Nicholls State 8-0 North Carolina A&T 1-0 North Carolina Asheville 1-1 North Carolina Greensboro 2-0 Northeastern Illinois 2-0 Northern Iowa 0-1 North Georgia 1-0 North Texas 1-0 Northwestern State 2-1 Oakland 1-0 Ohio State 1-1 Oklahoma 0-1 Oklahoma State 1-0 Oregon State 2-0 Portland 0-1 Prairie View A&M 2-0 Purdue 0-1 Robert Morris 1-0 Rice 0-1 Saint Louis 0-1 Samford 1-0 Sam Houston State 1-0 Shorter 1-0 South Alabama 1-0 South Carolina 6-5 Southeastern Louisiana 8-5 Southeast Missouri State 3-0 Southern-Baton Rouge 4-0 Southern Miss 1-1 Southern-New Orleans 1-0 Stetson 6-7 Tennessee 4-8 Tennessee-Martin 2-1 Tennessee-Temple 1-0 Texas 3-2 Texas A&M 2-1 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 1-0 Texas-Pan American 1-2 Texas Southern 1-1 Texas State 0-1 Towson 1-0 Troy 2-0 Tulane 5-0 UAB 1-1 UCF 6-1 Utah 1-1 Vanderbilt 6-7 Wake Forest 0-1 Washington 0-1 Weber State 0-1 West Virginia 1-1 Wichita State 0-1 William & Mary 0-1 Winthrop 1-1 Wisconsin 0-1 Wright State 1-0 Wyoming 2-0 Xavier (Ohio) L S U B A S K E T B A L L M E D I A G U I D E 85

10 Associate P Butch Pierre Associate The Pierre File Year at : 11th season Birth Date: Oct. 4, 1962 Age: 45 Hometown: Darrow, La. Wife: Clemmie Children: Langley (16), Joseph III (15), Josh (15) College: BS, Education, Miss. State, 1984 M. Ed., Miss. State, 1986 College Coaching Experience: Graduate Assistant Mississippi State Kentucky State Louisiana-Lafayette Associate Louisiana-Lafayette Charlotte Associate It's not hard to know where the best college players are over the last decade. Just look hard and you will see Associate Butch Pierre hot on the recruiting trail for Coach John Brady. One of the elite assistant coaches and recruiters in college basketball, Pierre, who was promoted to associate head coach following the 2002 campaign, enters his 11th season at as a member of the Brady staff. During his first decade with, the Tigers have won two SEC championships (2000, 2006), three SEC Western Division Championships (2000, 2005, 2006), advanced to the school's first NCAA Final Four in 20 years (2006), made six postseason appearances and, over the last eight years, won an average of 19.7 games per season. Pierre has been called "one of the top assistants in the nation" and certainly every year he has been at, he has added to that reputation. Noted ESPN commentator Dick Vitale listed Pierre as one of his "Top Six" head coaching prospects among college assistant coaches. Pierre was the man Brady wanted on his staff to help build a program at and he continues to make sure the success continues both on and off the floor. Pierre has recruited and played a key role in player development of such talents as Tyrus Thomas, the fourth overall pick in the 2006 NBA Draft. Others include Stromile Swift, the number two pick in 2000, along with NBA players Ronald Dupree, Brandon Bass and Glen Davis, and former NBA player Jabari Smith. Swift, Bass and Davis all earned SEC Player of the Year honors. He is recognized by his peers in the industry as a relentless, innovative and extremely successful recruiter. His work ethic and attention to detail is what people have seen wherever he has worked. At, it has helped land four McDonald's and nine Parade prep All-Americans, seven junior college All-Americans and two who earned national junior college player of the year honors. Also, he works with the student-athletes to build their abilities in the classroom and those efforts have led to 18 players graduating during the Brady-Pierre tenure. Pierre also is instrumental in practice planning and on-court practice drills with the team and spends countless hours in his office not only working on recruiting, but studying videos of practice and games looking for things that can be improved upon. His superior technical basketball knowledge is used in practices and Coach Brady relies on Pierre to assist with the implementation of the Tigers defensive schemes and philosophy. Pierre has made a mark in coaching everywhere he has set up shop. He also had built and established a reputation throughout the country of turning losing into winning at each institution he has worked at throughout his career. Following a two-year stint at Western Kentucky ( ) where the school posted its first winning season in seven years, Pierre came back to the state at Louisiana-Lafayette, joining the Cajuns prior to the season. In his eight-year career there, his team won two Sun Belt championships and played in two NCAA Tournaments. More than a dozen of his players went on to play professionally and he was elevated to the top assistants' position in his second season on the Cajun staff. Pierre left South Louisiana to go to Charlotte for the where he served for one year, putting together a top 10 recruiting class before coming to. Pierre received his undergraduate degree in 1984 and his Master's degree in 1986 from Mississippi State University. It has been Coach Pierre's passion and mission to insure that every student-athlete he has recruited works diligently to complete his degree prior to his departure from the University. While successful in recruiting All-American athletes, he has seen these athletes have extraordinary athletic success and most of them have matriculated at their various institutions, graduating with honors. A native of Darrow, La., Pierre was a prep and SEC standout in his playing days. At St. Amant High School, he was a prep All-American and the school retired his jersey in Pierre started four seasons as a point guard for Mississippi State. Butch and his wife, Clemmie, are parents of a daughter, Langley (16), and 15-year-old twin sons, Joseph III and Josh L S U B A S K E T B A L L M E D I A G U I D E

11 Chad Dollar P Coach John Brady knew what he was looking for when his search for a new assistant coach began and he found what he was looking for in Chad Dollar, who joined the basketball staff in May Dollar brings exactly what Brady was searching for - a wealth of college experience in both coaching and recruiting. Plus, as a native of Atlanta with strong ties in the south, he has allowed to expand on the success they have had in the past. The 35-year-old Dollar brings 12 years of college coaching experience in an extensive background in recruiting to. Dollar coached last season at Murray State, which he helped the program continue their winning tradition by clinching their 20th straight winning season and a second place finish in the Ohio Valley regular season conference standings. Before that, Dollar coached four seasons at Georgia Southern in which he assisted the Eagles to two Southern Conference South Division titles and helped earn the school's first postseason bid in 14 years. He was also an Associate at Eastern Kentucky, where he helped then head coach Travis Ford, lay down the foundation for success by landing one of the top recruiting classes in the Ohio Valley Conference. This recruiting class was able to capture Eastern Kentucky's first NCAA tournament appearance in more than twenty-five years when the class became seniors. In addition, Dollar served two seasons at Western Carolina, a year at Southern Mississippi, and two years at Gardner-Webb. Dollar also spent two summers as an assistant coach with Athletes in Action where he took a team to the Ivory Coast in Africa and gained international coaching experience. Dollar comes from a basketball family, having been coached in high school in Atlanta at Douglass High School by his father Donald, one of the all-time winningest high school coaches in the state's history. Dollar was a part of a Douglass High School team that advanced to the Georgia prep state semifinals and he was one of the seven players to sign with an NCAA Division I school after his junior season. Dollar played his first three seasons at South Florida on NCAA and NIT tournament teams before transferring to Milligan for his final season where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology. Dollar's younger brother, Cameron, is also a NCAA coach, entering his fifth year at the University of Washington. Cameron was a member of UCLA's 1995 NCAA Championship team. Dollar has proven his ability to recruit and develop players. He coached seven All Conference picks in his four year tenure at Georgia Southern. Dollar also recruited and coached nine players who are currently playing professional basketball, most noticeably guard Elton Nesbitt, the Southern Conference player of the year and Honorable Mention All American pick in Finally, he recruited Southern Conference Freshman of the year, Jarvis Hayes while at Western Carolina. Hayes is currently playing for the Detroit Pistons. Dollar and his wife, Kyla have three children - Aliyah (12), Darian (10), and Chloe (7 months). The Dollar File Year at : First season Birth Date: Jan. 17, 1972 Age: 35 Hometown: Atlanta, Ga. Wife: Kyla Children: Aliyah (12), Darian (10), and Chloe (7 months) College: Milligan, 1996 College Coaching Experience: Gardner-Webb University Assistant to the Coach Southern Mississippi Western Carolina Associate Eastern Kentucky Georgia Southern Murray State May L S U B A S K E T B A L L M E D I A G U I D E 87

12 John Treloar P John Treloar The Treloar File Year at : Fourth season Birth Date: Oct. 25, 1956 Age: 51 Hometown: Clinton, Miss. Wife: Debra Children: Taylor (8), Trey (4) College: BA, Business Administration, Belhaven College, '78; MA, Area of Behavioral Studies, University of Alabama, '82 College Coaching Experience: Graduate Assistant University of Alabama Olympic Sports Club, Bremerhaven, Germany 1987 Steiner Optik Club, Bayreuth, Germany General Manager Mississippi Jets, CBA General Manager Wichita Falls Texans, CBA , Wichita Falls Texans, CBA Chicago Rockers, CBA Connecticut Pride, CBA Indiana University Associate Indiana University John Treloar enters his fourth year on the men's basketball staff where he has proven to be an able tactician in developing scouting reports on upcoming opponents and developing talent through specialized drills learned through years as a professional and college coach. Treloar's stellar career includes stints as a club team coach in Germany, a winning general manager and coach in the Continental Basketball Association and a top college assistant. Treloar came to from Indiana University, where he served on the staff for seven years. While at Indiana, he was on teams that went to six NCAA Tournaments working under coaches Bob Knight and Mike Davis, including the 2002 Hoosier team which advanced to the NCAA Final Four and finished as the national runner-up. He was part of six-straight 20-win seasons and part of teams that defeated 28 ranked opponents including 12 teams among the nation's top 10 at the time of the game. In his three years at, the Tigers have won two SEC Western Division titles, an SEC Championship, gone to two NCAA Tournaments and in 2006 advanced to the NCAA Final Four, 's first appearance in the Final Four in 20 years. The Tigers during his tenure, have a win over No. 1-ranked Duke and, in the last three seasons, has won four games against Top 10 teams. In his last 10 years as a college assistant coach, eight of the teams he worked with advanced to the NCAA Tournament at the conclusion of the year. A veteran head coach and general manager in the CBA, his teams advanced to the playoffs seven of eight years. In the CBA, Treloar competed against such recent NBA head coaches as George Karl, Terry Stotts, Eric Musselman and Flip Saunders. While in the CBA, Treloar earned a reputation for making championship runs late in the season, as evidenced by his playoff winning percentage of over 50 percent. His 22 playoff wins rank among the top 10 in CBA history. He was just the second in league history at the time to win a CBA Championships in his first season as head coach (1991- Wichita Falls Texans). Prior to his CBA career, Treloar was the head coach of the Olympic Sports Club in Bremerhaven, Germany, from The following year, he served as the head coach of the Steiner Optik Club in Bayreuth, Germany. Treloar's international experience also includes a stint with a professional team in Venezuela in He joined the team at midseason and went on to guide the club to the league championship finals. Treloar's coaching career began at the University of Alabama where he served as academic counselor and graduate assistant for two seasons ( ). Ironically, Treloar and head coach John Brady were teammates at Belhaven College in Mississippi. A native of Clinton, Miss., Treloar earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from Belhaven College in 1978 and a master's degree in the area of behavioral studies from the University of Alabama. John and wife, Debra, have two children, Taylor and Trey L S U B A S K E T B A L L M E D I A G U I D E

13 Operations/Support Staff/Managers Jeff Clapacs Director of Basketball Operations P Jeff Clapacs is the newest member of the men's basketball program, having been named Director of Basketball Operations for the team in August Clapacs takes over the position held by Scott Soprych who left last summer to take an assistant coaching position at Chicago State University. Clapacs, a native of Euclid, Ohio, graduated from The College of Wooster (Ohio) in May While at Wooster, he played basketball for the school, was a student assistant his last two years at the college and also served as assistant to the operations manager in the athletics department. He played two years for the College of Wooster basketball team before becoming a student assistant coach for one of the top Division III programs in this decade. Since 2000, Wooster has a winning percentage of 86.8% with a record of As a student assistant, he helped coach the junior varsity team, he was involved in video taping practices, assisting coaches with drills and overseeing the setup of the gymnasium for practice. In his job with the Wooster athletics department, Clapacs was responsible for game management set-up for home games of nine different varsity programs and also served as a game official for football and volleyball and clock operator for soccer matches. He has also served as a counselor at several well-known summer basketball camps, including here at under Brady, Florida (Billy Donovan) and Duke (Mike Krzyzewski), along with camps conducted by the Cleveland Cavaliers. Clapacs majored in communication studies at Wooster and wrote his senior independent study on the subject of "Got Game? The Recruitment Rhetoric of Division III Head Basketball Coaches." The Clapacs File Year at : First season Birth Date: June 24, 1985 Age: 22 Hometown: Euclid, Ohio College: BA, Communication Studies, College of Wooster, '07 Support Staff Pam LeBlanc Secretary Stephen Melancon Student Trainer Joshua Howard Student Office Assistant Managers Sitting (LEFT to RIGHT): Donald Reyes, Adlai Stevenson, Jeremiah Frigo. Standing from (LEFT to RIGHT): Jason Reed, Zach Kendrick, John Daniel, Chris Heine L S U B A S K E T B A L L M E D I A G U I D E 89

14 Strength & Conditioning/Training Staff Shawn Eddy Head Basketball Trainer P The Eddy File Year at : 12th season Birth Date: Nov. 23, 1971 College: West Virginia University, 94 Post-Graduate Education: Vanderbilt University (Masters), 96 Shawn Eddy enters his third year as the head trainer for the men s basketball program. Prior to joining the basketball program, he served nine years as the head baseball trainer at Alex Box Stadium for the Baseball Tigers. This is Eddy s 12th season at, arriving in July of 1996 from Vanderbilt University, where he worked as a graduate assistant trainer for two years. He was promoted to senior associate athletic trainer in 2005 in the athletic department and also oversees training activities for the soccer and women s golf programs. He also is the supervisor for the daily training activities in the Dr. Martin J. Broussard training center, s state-ofthe-art training facility attached to Tiger Stadium. Eddy earned a bachelor s degree in exercise physiology in 1994 from the University of West Virginia. He also earned a master s degree from Vanderbilt in health promotion and education. The 36-year-old Eddy was born on Nov. 23, Gayle Hatch Basketball Strength and Conditioning Coach The Hatch File Year at : First season College: Northwestern State, 62 The veteran international authority in weightlifting and strength training joined the staff in 2007 to work with Coach John Brady and the men's basketball program. For his work of over 30 years, Hatch is a member of the USA Weightlifting Hall of Fame and the USA Strength and Conditioning Coaches Hall of Fame. He was the head weightlifting coach at the 2004 Olympics in Athens. His club, the Gayle Hatch Weightlifting Team has won more than 50 junior, senior and masters national championships. He has been designated as Senior U.S. International Coach, USA Weightlifting's highest level of certification and is the director of USA Weightlifting's Southern Regional Training Center. Hatch was a pioneer in the use of Olympic style weightlifting as a strength development program for performance training. His program has become the prototype for successful programs throughout the country and is responsible for a host of championships in a wide range of sports. Hatch has installed his year-round strength programs for such NFL teams as San Diego, Dallas, Oakland and Kansas City. Many college teams have incorporated many of his philosophies, including here at. Hatch, a Baton Rouge native, played basketball at Northwestern State and went on to a brief stint in the ABA. His high school, Catholic High in Baton Rouge, named its new weight room the "Gayle Hatch Strength Training Center." Jeff Earls Student/Volunteer Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach Earls in his first year as a volunteer assistant strength and conditioning coach for the men's basketball program under Gayle Hatch. Earls has helped Hatch in implementing and designing the strength training, speed and conditioning needs for basketball as well as monitoring the nutrition of the athletes. Earls has been with Hatch since 2004 as an assistant coach for the Hatch Weightlifting Team at the U.S. Weightlifting Federation Southern Regional Training Center. He has also served as a student assistant strength and conditioning coach under the supervision of Tommy Moffitt, 's head strength and conditioning coach. Earls has also served as a strength and conditioning coach and consultant for several high schools in and out of the Baton Rouge area. He is expected to graduate with a degree in Kinesiology in December L S U B A S K E T B A L L M E D I A G U I D E

15 Sixth Man Club P Sixth Man Club THE LS U MEN S BASKETBALL BOOSTER GROUP It was 10 years ago when Coach John Brady instituted his Tiger Basketball 6th Man Club with the idea to allow the dedicated fans of basketball a chance to be a closer part of the program. basketball fans responded positively to the chance to gather for a meal prior to the game and here from the coaches about their basketball team. The Tiger Basketball 6th Man Club is the chance for every Tiger fan to become a closer part of the program and the support of the fans makes it possible for the men s basketball program to continue doing the right things for the program s success in the future. Monies derived from the club go directly to the Tiger Athletic Foundation s basketball account. Member Benefits For $275 in yearly dues, members of the Sixth Man Club will receive the following benefits: 1) Pregame buffet in the L-Club Room of the Maravich Center located adjacent to the Basketball locker room. 2) An autographed poster complete with the signatures of the coaching staff and entire basketball team. 3) Each month, all club members will receive a copy of The Tiger Tribune, the official Sixth Man Club Newsletter with player profiles, and other inside information on basketball. 4) Club members will also receive a copy of the official Tiger media guide. 5) Each member of the Sixth Man Club will receive a ticket for two to the Basketball Preseason Tip- Off Party attended by club members, coaching staff, their wives and the players. 6) You can bring an additional guest for the Pregame buffet for only $10. Applications and other information is available at the: Men s Basketball Office Please make checks playable to TAF-Basketball 6th Man Club and mail to: Men s Basketball Office P. O. Box Baton Rouge, La L S U B A S K E T B A L L M E D I A G U I D E 91