Scott Edgar -- Head Men's Basketball Coach, Southeast Missouri State University Redhawks
(as of basketball season
2008-09) Scott Edgar was named head
coach at SEMO on April 13, 2006. He had spent the previous season
at the Univeristy of Tennessee, after three seasons as an assistant
coach at UAB.
His reputation began as a standout athlete at the University of
Pittsburgh-Johnstown. He played baseball and basketball while
attending college and was one of the premier athletes during his
time there. His play garnered him honors into the Penn Hills High
School Athletic Hall of Fame.
After earning his Bachelor of Science degree in sociology from
Pittsburgh-Johnstown in 1978, Edgar took his first coaching job
at the New Mexico Military Institute as an assistant coach to
his college coach, Dave Campbell.
After a three-year stint Edgar was introduced to the Division
I level when he joined Nolan Richardson at the University of Tulsa
from 1980 to 1985. During that five-year span, Edgar was an important
piece of the puzzle which resulted in three NCAA tournament appearances
and an NIT Championship.
Edgar then followed Richardson to the University of Arkansas
in 1986. During his six seasons with the Razorbacks, Edgar was
again an instrumental part of building a successful program and
a consistent winner, including a 1990 appearance in the NCAA Final
Four.
Edgar's first head coaching opportunity came following the 1991
season when he was named the head coach at Murray State University.
During his tenure, Edgar led the Racers to the postseason in each
of his four years, including two NCAA Tournaments and an NIT appearance.
He compiled an overall win-loss record of 79-40.
The Penn Hills, Pa. native returned to his roots when he accepted
the head coach position at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh,
Pa. The program had fallen on hard times; however, under Edgar's
guidance, the Dukes returned to competitiveness in just three
seasons.
From there, Edgar joined the staff of Conference USA member TCU
where he was the head of basketball operations. He was with the
Horned Frogs from 1999 to 2001.
Dick Ellis -- Assistant Men's Golf Coach, Rice University Owls
(as of golf season 2006-07) Dr. Dick Ellis
is now in his second year as assistant golf coach after spending
the past two seasons as the head coach for men's golf and the
past nine years at Rice as special assistant to former athletic
director Bobby May and former head football coach Ken Hatfield.
A 1968 Air Force Academy graduate, Ellis played golf as a cadet,
lettered in football and track, and was selected to the intercollegiate
All-American pistol team his senior year. He has an extensive
coaching career in both golf and football.
After coaching college football for three years, he was head junior
varsity and the varsity assistant golf coach at the Air Force
Academy in 1973-76.
Ellis returned to football coaching in 1977 when he was selected
as the head coach at the Air Force Academy Preparatory School.
A year later, he joined Bill Parcells's Air Force staff. When
Parcells left for the NFL, he became a member of Ken Hatfield's
first Academy coaching staff. Later, he also worked five years
under head coach Fisher DeBerry before moving into administration
as the Academy's associate director of athletics.
Prior to his long tour of duty at the Academy, he served as a
combat pilot in Vietnam. Ellis wore both Air Force pilot wings
and Army Airborne parachute wings.
Col. Ellis retired from the Air Force after 21 years of service
and rejoined Hatfield at the University
of Arkansas in 1989 as the Razorbacks'
recruiting coordinator and director of football operations. That
year, the Hogs won the Southwest Conference championship with
a 10-1 record. He then followed Hatfield to Clemson University
where the Tigers won the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship
in 1991.
With a chance to return to his native state of Texas, Ellis moved
to Waco in 1992. He was Baylor University's deputy athletic director
under Grant Teaff, who at the time was both head football coach
and AD. A year later when Teaff retired, he was promoted to director
of athletics. Following a change in Baylor presidents, Ellis left
Waco and came to Rice in 1997.
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