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Alan Major (Charlotte Head Coach)

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OSU men's basketball: Assistant yearns for dream job

Friday, August 1, 2008 3:11 AM
By Bob Baptist


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

http://wwwphp.dispatch.com/promotio...ive/contests/predictpoints2007/winnerbook.php

When he saw the young teenager dribbling a basketball as he ran by the window of the restaurant on a Mexican beachfront last August, Alan Major's instinct was to get up from his table and find out where the game was. But not to play.
An assistant coach for the Ohio State men's team, Major has known from the time he was a 13-year-old in Indianapolis that he wanted to coach basketball. The neighborhood children came by his driveway hoop during the summer, and while they played, Major made sure everyone was in the right spots to catch his passes.
"Then, when the kid knocked the shot in by doing what you told him to," Major said, "that was kind of fun."
He tried out for the Purdue team as a walk-on intent on soaking up every drop of wisdom that coach Gene Keady imparted. When Major didn't make the team as a freshman, he became a manager. That led to a graduate assistant's job at California Lutheran and, later, to full-time jobs at Pacific, Southern Illinois and Xavier.
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Major a candidate at Charlotte

Ohio State assistant coach Alan Major interviewed in Indianapolis during the Final Four for the vacant head coaching job at Charlotte. He will visit the Charlotte campus on Thursday, the Charlotte Observer reported tonight.

He is believed to be among three finalists for the job. The others are Xavier assistant Pat Kelsey and Kansas assistant Joe Dooley.

Kelsey may have another option, however, after Wake Forest fired coach Dino Gaudio today. Kelsey is a former Wake assistant and could be a candidate for that job.

Major has been an assistant to Thad Matta for nine years, the past six at Ohio State and for three years before that at Xavier.
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Major a candidate at Charlotte (Hoops & Scoops: an OSU basketball blog)
 
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While I am happy for him and all of the other assistants that have gotten good HC jobs, it does not give a Orlando stability to the staff. I am not share but I believe that Majors coached the big men or was that Boals who I would absolutely hate to see leave). I wonder who Thad has on his mind to fulfill Majors position. It will be very interesting.

This sort of comes at a bad time since coaches are allowed to make off-campus visits for a little bit right now.
 
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DZ83CK;1688444; said:
Yes, thanks Coach Major.

I think maybe this is why Boals was brought in last year - Matta may have expected Major to leave for another job soon & needed someone to coach the frontcourt players.
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Well yes, but Boals is one hell of a recruiter in addition to being able to coach the frontcourt players.
 
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49ers' Major learning his new territory
Men's basketball coach sets team, community priorities, establishes relationships.
By Jim Utter
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Posted: Saturday, May. 15, 2010

It's been just over a month since Alan Major was introduced as men's basketball coach for the Charlotte 49ers.

Pardon him if he takes a moment to catch his breath.

At the time of his hire, the former Ohio State assistant coach had about two weeks left to work on the court with 49ers players, less than a week's worth of face-to-face visits with potential recruits.

Oh, and he needed to assemble his staff and introduce himself to the campus and Charlotte community.

He seems to have succeeded.
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Read more: 49ers' Major learning his new territory - CharlotteObserver.com
 
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