UNCW women's hoops coaching search

As UNCW tries to replace Cynthia Cooper-Dyke, it seems players' choice won't get the job.

  1. When Cynthia Cooper-Dyke returned to Houston to coach Texas Southern, longtime assistant Jimmy Garrity was named interim coach and a leading candidate to take over the team.
  2. Interim coach Jimmy Garrity interviewed for the UNCW women's basketball coaching position today. Players want him to get the job
  3. However, the university also interviewed Adell Harris, a coach at Division II Tusculum College in Tennessee.
  4. UNCW coach search near completion, finalists: Interim coach Jimmy Garrity, Tusculum coach Adell Harris (WECT) j.mp/Ipr5qE #ncaaw
  5. On Tuesday afternoon, tweets said that Harris, not Garrity, got the job. No one at the university would confirm the tweets, however.
  6. When Adell Harris leaves Tusculum College for UNCW that opens a good D2 job.School is located in Greeneville TN & in the South Atlantic Conf
  7. UNCW: Adell Harris to UNCW. Players found out this afternoon. Congrats!
  8. And that decision left players frustrated.
  9. All the player tweets seem to suggest Adell Harris from Div. 2 Tusculum will be the next #UNCW womens basketball coach. Nothing official yet
  10. If Harris is the coach, she inherits a team that would have returned virtually all of its returning points, rebounds, assists and steals from a group that went to a second consecutive Women's NIT. However, if the players are that disgruntled, who knows who stays or goes?

  11. Not sure what's the best decision right now
  12. You certainly hope #UNCW isn't making a mistake with this choice. Players wanted Garrity, and that was no secret.
  13. UNCW put out a press release saying that its board of trustees executive committee would address an agenda item Wednesday in closed session in order to “establish or instruct the staff or agent concerning the negotiation of the amount of compensation or other terms of an employment contract". And after that, everyone could find out a little more about Adell Harris.
  14. @MPowell34 she was 61-30 in 3 years at tusculum. Took them to 3 straight ncaa tournaments. Not sure about the hire yet. We shall see

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