ECU Hires Joe Dooley from FGCU

[Madmannsucks]

FWIW, ECU has a decent recruiting class coming in, and I think their best player won Freshman of the week like 5 times.

 

[AntG168]

 

[tcf15]

Nothing's done until they consummate.

 

[UConnStats]

Nothing's done until they consummate.

Seems like just yesterday when Hurley and Susan consummated.

 

[Chief00]

Chief trying to confirm a URI rumor.

 

[Madmannsucks]

Chief trying to confirm a URI rumor.

Do tell...let me guess..."It's big".

 

[Madmannsucks]

https://deadspin.com/rhode-island-denies-ever-being-interested-in-hiring-ric-1824288567

 

[Wordbomar]

Chief trying to confirm a URI rumor.

#InsideInfo

 

[intlzncster]

For those who are unaware, Dooley was an assistant at ECU from 1991 - 1995, then head coach from 1996 - 1999. He went 57-52 in 4 seasons, got fired, then made stops at New Mexico, Wyoming and Kansas before becoming head coach at FGCU. And now, 20 years after being fired from East Carolina, he's back.

Has any coach ever been fired by a school only to be hired by them again 20 years later?

That's a hell of a career path.

 

[auggie22]

I had presumed when it was announced as a verbal agreement that this could be Dooley using ECU as leverage against URI.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

I do hope it pans out for ECU. There would be something very satisfying about watching that nothing fanbase, who bloviated about how the URI job was essentially on par with UConn, realize that the job isn't even on par with ECU.

 

[TRest]

I do hope it pans out for ECU. There would be something very satisfying about watching that nothing fanbase, who bloviated about how the URI job was essentially on par with UConn, realize that the job isn't even on par with ECU.

Lord knows that board doesn't seem to have anyone close to an insider. Not even a chief.

 

[CT Rhody]

I do hope it pans out for ECU. There would be something very satisfying about watching that nothing fanbase, who bloviated about how the URI job was essentially on par with UConn, realize that the job isn't even on par with ECU.

If URI wanted Dooley he would be their head coach. He held out as long as he could for URI to make a decision but knew he was second on URI’s list next to Cox. Simmer down now.

 

[Pudge]

If URI wanted Dooley he would be their head coach. He held out as long as he could for URI to make a decision but knew he was second on URI’s list next to Cox. Simmer down now.

Since when ... how did Kingston RI ever become a desirable seat? Dooley - probably indifferent between the two & now it’s just money + Terms.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Do this is what @Dooley has been up to.

 

[CT Rhody]

Since when ... how did Kingston RI ever become a desirable seat? Dooley - probably indifferent between the two & now it’s just money + Terms.

Since always during the process. It was common knowledge for those paying attention. Cox will be hired tomorrow as expected and Dooley expected.

 

[tcf15]

 

[StunningSteve]

 

[HooperScooper]

Here's a breakdown of his salary. Basically 1/3 of what UConn is paying Hurley. And there's your difference between UConn and the bottom teams in the AAC, despite all the complaints on here that UConn can't be big time any more.

The details behind Joe Dooley's new ECU contract

 

[Huskyforlife]

Not sure how I’d feel about hiring a coach we fired years ago. It’s not like they’re hiring him away from an established program. The experience he got at Kansas was probably big for recruiting though.

 

[Matrim55]

Not sure how I’d feel about hiring a coach we fired years ago. It’s not like they’re hiring him away from an established program. The experience he got at Kansas was probably big for recruiting though.

I mean, he really did put in his time. 15 years as an assistant – including 10 with Kansas (won a title) – and then five years as a head coach where he never won fewer than 21 games and made five straight postseason tournaments.

Honestly I thought he could've done better than ECU. If we'd missed on Hurley then Dooley would've been high on my list.

 

[tcf15]

 

[Drew]

Kentrell Barkley, Jeremy Sheppard no longer with ECU

 

[rip7774]

Pretty sure Sheppard is going to our juco in Florida. He visited about a week ago.

 

[Drew]

Older and wiser, Joe Dooley is back for a second act at East...

Joe Dooley is getting a mulligan. His return to East Carolina 23 years after the school made him the nation’s youngest head coach in the country is in some ways a chance to rewrite his own history, a chance to take the knowledge he has since gained back to correct the mistakes and naivety of a first-time coach.

Dooley was an assistant at Kansas when the Jayhawks won the national title in 2008. He spent the past five years as the coach at Florida Gulf Coast, where he won 114 games and never fewer than 21 in a season while making two NCAA Tournament appearances. Now 52, he believes he’s both smarter and wiser. But East Carolina?

The Pirates haven’t made the NCAA Tournament since 1993, and over the past 21 years they have had just two winning seasons. The NCAA drought is the longest of the 17 North Carolina schools that compete in Division I. Even N.C. Central, which didn’t become a full-fledged Division I member until 2012, has earned a bid to three of the past five tournaments. (Elon, High Point, Gardner-Webb and Campbell have never made an appearance, but they only began playing in D-I between 1999 and 2002.)

“I like challenges,” Dooley says. “I think there’s a ton of potential. Now it’s our time to fulfill the potential.”

Coaches come and go at ECU, but not in a stepping-stone sort of way. The job has mostly offered up a long plank for coaches whose careers are winding down. Its location in the basketball-friendly state of North Carolina hasn’t helped. East Carolina is one of the toughest jobs in all of Division I, a job that only got tougher when the school moved to the American Athletic Conference in 2014.