MGB: Mitchell finalizes staff with associate head coach

[Brett Vito]

MGB:

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2015/04/mitchell-finalizes-staff-with-bobby-brasel.html/

[Harry]

http://m.ualrtrojans.com/mobile/ViewArticle.dbml?atclid=208111760&DB_OEM_ID=7400&

Bobby Brasel was named assistant coach for the UALR womens basketball team before the 2013-14 season and will be entering his second year with the team in 2014-15. Brasel came to UALR after spending the previous seven seasons as a member of the womens basketball coaching staff at South Alabama.

While at South Alabama, Brasel was responsible for scheduling and oversaw junior college recruiting. During Brasels tenure in Mobile, the Jaguars ranked in the top two in the Sun Belt in scoring defense four times. USA allowed just 52.8 points per game during the 2011-12 season, a program record, which ranked 11th in the country. South Alabama also led the SBC in field-goal percentage defense three times (2007-08, 2008-09, 2011-12) and three-point defense twice (2007-08, 2010-11).

Brasel coached six South Alabama players who earned a total of eight All-Sun Belt Conference honors.

Prior to his time at South Alabama, Brasel spent seven seasons as head coach at Garden City (Kan.) Community College.

While at Garden City, he resurrected a Lady Broncbuster basketball program that had a lifetime winning percentage of just 38 percent prior to his arrival. He led the program to its first winning season in six years in 2001. In all, the Lady Busters made six postseason appearances in Brasels tenure, highlighted by Jayhawk Conference and Region 6 titles in 2003, as well as a trip to the NJCAA Final Four.

Brasels teams combined for a 111-108 record in seven seasons at Garden City good enough to make him the winningest coach in program history. His Lady Buster teams were regularly ranked in the top 25 nationally, and set or tied over 35 school records under Brasels leadership.

Additionally, Brasel coached and recruited two NJCAA All-Americans, eight Academic All-Americans and sent at least one player to the Division I level in each of his years at GCCC. His efforts earned him Coach of the Year honors from the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association, the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference and the NJCAA District E in 2003.

Over his career at GCCC, Brasels players compiled a 98 percent graduation rate.

Prior to making the move to womens basketball, Brasel served as an assistant on the mens basketball programs at Garden City, New Mexico State and Howard Junior College.

A native of Big Spring, Texas, he earned his bachelors degree in mass communication from the University of Texas of the Permian Basin in Odessa, Texas, in 1993.

[Harry]

I like this staff!

[Andrew]

Unit athletics is looking good heading into the fall.

[KRAM1]

Good get for Jalie and the Mean Green. This staff, on paper, is shaping up very nicely. Welcome to the Mean Green Coach Brasels.

[greenjoe]

Associate Head Coach is a silly term. It reminds me of the participation trophy that all the kids on my boy's 2nd grade soccer team got.

[greenminer]

Associate Head Coach is a silly term. It reminds me of the participation trophy that all the kids on my boy's 2nd grade soccer team got.

Well, trophy plus a pretty nice salary. I am drooling about all the SNES I would have bought.

[Mean Green 93-98]

Associate Head Coach is a silly term. It reminds me of the participation trophy that all the kids on my boy's 2nd grade soccer team got.

In most cases, I'd agree with you. But for a young head coach with limited coaching experience, an "Associate Head Coach" is just what the doctor ordered.