Geno Ford may be back in coaching

[Da Coach]

I have heard that Geno Ford has been hired as an assistant to Jeff Boals, the new coach at Stony Brook University. Boals played basketball at Ohio University from 1991-1995 and was a teammate there of Geno Ford (Geno played at Ohio U. from 1993-1997).

Stony Brook is Boals' first head coaching job after several assistant coaching jobs, most recently at Ohio State University. He has already hired Lamar Chapman and Bryan Weber as assistant coaches.

[Da Coach]

I have heard that Geno Ford has been hired as an assistant to Jeff Boals, the new coach at Stony Brook University. Boals played basketball at Ohio University from 1991-1995 and was a teammate there of Geno Ford (Geno played at Ohio U. from 1993-1997).

Stony Brook is Boals' first head coaching job after several assistant coaching jobs, most recently at Ohio State University. He has already hired Lamar Chapman and Bryan Weber as assistant coaches.

As noted in another thread, this news that we had over 2 weeks ago has been confirmed- Geno is now hired as an assistant coach at Stony Brook.

[tornado]

Geno's son Darin is an assistant at a Florida junior college and I have heard that Geno's DBO Cole Pittis might also be getting a spot on staff at a Florida juco

[Da Coach]

Dave Reynolds has this article about Geno Ford being named an assistant coach at Stony Brook-
Ex-Bradley coach Geno Ford named an assistant at Stony Brook

http://www.pjstar.com/sports/20160603/ex-bradley-coach-geno-ford-named-assistant-at-stony-brook

However, I take issue with one thing that Dave said in that article.

Dave reported:
"Under Ford, the Braves posted seven straight semesters of a 3.0 GPA, including a program-best 3.16. Prior to Ford's arrival, the men's basketball program had never had a cumulative GPA of 3.0."

This is not true, according to Bradley's own website, as we have pointed out here before. It appears to be either an oversight, or a myth started by the previous Athletic Department administration for some reason, maybe to make themselves look better during those miserable 4 years.

Here is a Bradley basketball press release from May 25, 2010 (a year before Geno Ford was hired) reporting the following about the 2009-2010 men's basketball team (then under Head Coach Jim Les):

http://www.bradleybraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=204950712

"The Bradley men's basketball team had a program-best nine players on the 2010 Spring AD Honor Roll, leading to a program-record 3.10 team GPA during the most-recent grading period. The academic performance marks the third time in the last four semesters the Braves have set the program record for team grade point average since the school began tracking the academic numbers in the mid-1980's."


So the Bradley men's basketball team clearly did have multiple record-setting academic semesters under the previous head coach, and at least one, and possibly more semesters with cumulative GPA's above 3.0 prior to Geno arriving at Bradley.
I know Dave occasionally reads this board, so I hope he will correct his mistake and give those players from that era, and the former coach their due credit.

[battlebasset]

I never thought he was a bad person, just not the best coach. I wish him the best in his new job.

[Chico]

I never thought he was a bad person, just not the best coach. I wish him the best in his new job.

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[ACBL]

The 1st two seasons that they bragged about GPA were all the leftover players.
Genos players ditched classes and some struggled with grades. It's what led to a lot of those suspensions.

[pfcmsh]

Hard To Understand

I never thought Coach Ford was a bad person. Stony Brook must have low expectations. If you set the coaching standard low, that is exactly what you will get. Hard to believe.

[Da Coach]

Actually, Stony Brook's new head coach, Jeff Boals, is very promising. He served the last 7 years under one of the best head coaches in the country, Thad Matta at Ohio State University. Boals was a key recruiter for Matta, too. Boals was considered one of the top up-and-coming young coaches in the country, so I think Stony Brook got a good guy. I hope it works out there for Geno, though at Bradley, he did not like to recruit and his assistants did nearly all the recruiting. I hope he finds his niche there.

[lefty]

I'm happy for Geno and glad he's back coaching

[tornado]

Geno is still young and this could be a way of getting back to head coaching...
Not sure Geno's financial status given that lawsuit..but a big hunk of his buyout prob gotten eaten up by Kent State.
He will have to develop new recruiting connections out east... he's an hour's drive from a population base of 10 million people so the players are there....