2023 Coaching Carousel

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Florida Atlantic’s run to the Final Four has elevated Dusty May to a whole new level. The fact that he has built this program from scratch with limited resources and CUSA level competition says worlds about his ability to do the same thing elsewhere. With his Indiana roots, he would have been perfect for Notre Dame. I think that they are going to rue the day that they overlooked him. We’ll see what Shrewsberry does there and compare that with what May dies wherever he lands.

Not too many jobs open now so May may actually stick at FAU next year heading to the AAC.

[Omaha1]

Saw this on Twitter. Is this a big loss for Butler:

Sources: Butler assistant Kevin Kuwik has agreed to a five-year deal to become the new head coach at Army. He served 10 years in the Army via ROTC program.

[xusandy]

So Kim English challenged a PU player to a 1 on 1 match to keep him from entering the portal. English won - not a bad start for a new coach, maybe a first ever! Go Kim.

[billyjack]

Holy Cross just hired Dave Paulsen, who served as an assistant at Fordham last season.

Paulsen had been at George Mason for 6 years (was replaced by Kim English)... before that he had 7 great years at Bucknell (2 NCAA bids, 4 first-place finishes in the Patriot)... and before that had 8 excellent years with the D-3 Williams College Ephs, where he won a National Championship in 2003 and was Runner-Up in 2004.

Holy Cross had been coached by Brett Nelson, a former assistant of Wojo at Marquette. Nelson's departure may have just closed the book on the Wojo coaching tree, which always held so much promise (haha).

Anyway, Paulsen seems like a fun guy, good witty dude, and should be able to turn around the Cross.

Williams College is a top academic school, like a small Ivy school, part of the top old group of classic 1700's-era New England schools in the NESCAC. The campus is in the upper northwest corner of Mass, on a beautiful campus and in a beautiful town. How old is Williams? Well, it was named after a guy who donated land in his will for a new college after having died in the French and Indian War. Wow.

Also, their mascot is a purple cow. And their nickname is the Ephs, named after yhat Ephraim Williams benefactor. Their traditional rival in Amherst, the "Lord Jeffs". To be funny i guess, the Williams vs Amherst football game is televised up here each year.

Anyway... Dave Paulsen to Holy Cross*.

* when my kids we younger, and if we had been cooped up in the house a few days due to a snowfall or a long period of freezing weather, and if PC, URI, and Brown were idle, we occasionally would drive up to the Hart Center in Worcester to watch the Crusaders (during the Bill Carmody and Milan Brown era), pretty close to us up Route 146 from Providence. Fun program when they're good.

[Husky_U]

Holy Cross just hired Dave Paulsen, who served as an assistant at Fordham last season.

Paulsen had been at George Mason for 6 years (was replaced by Kim English)... before that he had 7 great years at Bucknell (2 NCAA bids, 4 first-place finishes in the Patriot)... and before that had 8 excellent years with the D-3 Williams College Ephs, where he won a National Championship in 2003 and was Runner-Up in 2004.

Holy Cross had been coached by Brett Nelson, a former assistant of Wojo at Marquette. Nelson's departure may have just closed the book on the Wojo coaching tree, which always held so much promise (haha).

Anyway, Paulsen seems like a fun guy, good witty dude, and should be able to turn around the Cross.

Williams College is a top academic school, like a small Ivy school, part of the top old group of classic 1700's-era New England schools in the NESCAC. The campus is in the upper northwest corner of Mass, on a beautiful campus and in a beautiful town. How old is Williams? Well, it was named after a guy who donated land in his will for a new college after having died in the French and Indian War. Wow.

Also, their mascot is a purple cow. And their nickname is the Ephs, named after yhat Ephraim Williams benefactor. Their traditional rival in Amherst, the "Lord Jeffs". To be funny i guess, the Williams vs Amherst football game is televised up here each year.

Anyway... Dave Paulsen to Holy Cross*.

* when my kids we younger, and if we had been cooped up in the house a few days due to a snowfall or a long period of freezing weather, and if PC, URI, and Brown were idle, we occasionally would drive up to the Hart Center in Worcester to watch the Crusaders (during the Bill Carmody and Milan Brown era), pretty close to us up Route 146 from Providence. Fun program when they're good.

That's a low-key great hire.

[Jasper67]

Holy Cross just hired Dave Paulsen, who served as an assistant at Fordham last season.

Paulsen had been at George Mason for 6 years (was replaced by Kim English)... before that he had 7 great years at Bucknell (2 NCAA bids, 4 first-place finishes in the Patriot)... and before that had 8 excellent years with the D-3 Williams College Ephs, where he won a National Championship in 2003 and was Runner-Up in 2004.

Holy Cross had been coached by Brett Nelson, a former assistant of Wojo at Marquette. Nelson's departure may have just closed the book on the Wojo coaching tree, which always held so much promise (haha).

Anyway, Paulsen seems like a fun guy, good witty dude, and should be able to turn around the Cross.

Williams College is a top academic school, like a small Ivy school, part of the top old group of classic 1700's-era New England schools in the NESCAC. The campus is in the upper northwest corner of Mass, on a beautiful campus and in a beautiful town. How old is Williams? Well, it was named after a guy who donated land in his will for a new college after having died in the French and Indian War. Wow.

Also, their mascot is a purple cow. And their nickname is the Ephs, named after yhat Ephraim Williams benefactor. Their traditional rival in Amherst, the "Lord Jeffs". To be funny i guess, the Williams vs Amherst football game is televised up here each year.

Anyway... Dave Paulsen to Holy Cross*.

* when my kids we younger, and if we had been cooped up in the house a few days due to a snowfall or a long period of freezing weather, and if PC, URI, and Brown were idle, we occasionally would drive up to the Hart Center in Worcester to watch the Crusaders (during the Bill Carmody and Milan Brown era), pretty close to us up Route 146 from Providence. Fun program when they're good.

Thanks so much for the post! This is the kind of story that makes college basketball worth following. Interesting that Paulsen is not only a graduate of Williams, but he was an honors student while he was there. Looks to be a great hire for The Cross.

Holy Cross has a great legacy, including both NCAA and NIT championships back at a time when each meant a share of the national title. Interesting footnote is that Holy Cross was on the original list of members proposed for the Bug East back in 1979. They declined and were replaced by BC. Within half a dozen years or so, HC dropped athletic scholarships. Different time. Imagine if they had accepted an invitation to the Big East and were trying to compete today with an enrollment of 3200 and their level of academics. For one thing, PC would not be the smallest school in the league. Haha.