Lamar won’t retain males’s basketball coach Alvin Brooks after 5 seasons, the varsity introduced Tuesday.
The Cardinals’ season ended Monday with their eighth loss in a row to complete 7-15 within the Southland Convention, lacking the eight-team convention match by one sport.
“I wish to personally thank Coach Brooks and his employees for his or her onerous work and dedication to our males’s basketball program,” Lamar athletic director Jeff O’Malley stated in an announcement “Alvin is a embellished member of the Cardinal Corridor of Honor and we want him, and his household, all the perfect transferring ahead.”
Brooks, 66, accomplished his taking part in profession on the Beaumont, Texas college in 1981 and spent the following 5 years there as an assistant coach earlier than becoming a member of Houston. He was promoted from assistant coach to go coach of the Cougars in 1993 and spent 5 seasons in cost.
A Houston native, Brooks has spent his complete teaching profession in Texas, with assistant roles at Texas Tech, North Texas, UTEP, Texas A&M and one other decade-plus at Houston earlier than going again to Lamar.
Brooks went 62-95 at Lamar and 54-84 as the top coach at Houston, for a 116-179 total document. He didn’t attain an NCAA Match.
Lamar stated its nationwide seek for a successor had begun.
–Subject Degree Media
