Lengthy Seaside Environment goes dancing, with a head lecturer who simply were given fired.
The 49ers received possibly probably the most curious NCAA event berth within the nation on Saturday with a 74-70 win over UC Davis in the Big West championship game. The win comes handiest 5 days later the firing of head lecturer Dan Monson.
Crucially, the Lengthy Seaside Environment brass choose to have Monson lecturer the workforce for the rest of the season, which figured to be handiest the Heavy West event later an 18-14 common season and five-game skid coming into this age. Monson even said the desire for a alternative in the statement announcing the “mutual separation”:
“I am proud of what we have accomplished on and off the court, but it is time for a new voice for the program. I wish nothing but the best for a special university and a tremendous group of student athletes. I am also personally excited for what lies ahead for the Monson family and myself.”
Rather, the 49ers defeated UC Riverside, UC Irvine and UC Davis in consecutive days to earn this system’s first March Insanity since 2012, as a result of school basketball doesn’t at all times want to build sense.
Lassina Traore and Marcus Tsohonis each posted 25 issues in opposition to the Aggies, year Aboubacar Traore had seven issues, 13 rebounds and 6 assists.
Monson, who has additionally served as head lecturer for Gonzaga and Minnesota, is in his seventeenth season as head lecturer in Lengthy Seaside. He holds a 275-272 file with this system, with just one NCAA event look earlier than this season.
His profession started with luck at Gonzaga, achieving the NCAA event in 1999, and he thinks he nonetheless has extra training in entrance of him, as he told ESPN:
“I got the ’99 run at Gonzaga, but, as Mark Few texted me “Why don’t we have now a run within the first hour and a run within the endmost?” But I don’t think this is my last. I love coaching. I love teams. I need a new challenge. It’s life, it’s onto the next chapter.”
It kind of feels not going Lengthy Seaside Environment will opposite direction even with an NCAA event berth, however Monson doesn’t appear concerned about a status this is rising concurrently extra awkward and extra a laugh:
“God has blessed me with a great career and these kids have been awesome to coach. When Jim Harbaugh says who’s got it better than him, somebody needs to tell him Dan Monson.”
