Four finalist for DWU Job...

[RabbitNation]

The four men up for the coaching, include some top notch guys including for SDSU asst. coach Matt Wilber!

http://stuviews.tumblr.com/

[Nidaros]

Re: Four finalist for DWU Job...

The four men up for the coaching, include some top notch guys including for SDSU asst. coach Matt Wilber!

http://stuviews.tumblr.com/

TIBBS Basketball Academy director Matt Wilber. I did not find his name on the HPER employee directory, but he might be an alum. Stu mentions that Josh Mueller is also a candidate. Good for Josh.

[MontanaRabbit]

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TIBBS Basketball Academy director Matt Wilber. I did not find his name on the HPER employee directory, but he might be an alum. Stu mentions that Josh Mueller is also a candidate. Good for Josh.

Pretty sure Matt was an assistant coach for a season or two. May have even been a graduate assistant position.

[Nidaros]

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Pretty sure Matt was an assistant coach for a season or two. May have even been a graduate assistant position.

Yes I am sure you are right, at least a grad assistant. So many have come and gone.

[Nidaros]

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Here is the Bio on Matt, he did earn a masters at SDSU and my apologies to Rabbit Nation, I guess I was thinking current staff and had forgotten past GA's.

http://www.tibbsbasketball.com/html/matt_wilber.html

[2002jack]

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Here is the Bio on Matt, he did earn a masters at SDSU and my apologies to Rabbit Nation, I guess I was thinking current staff and had forgotten past GA's.

http://www.tibbsbasketball.com/html/matt_wilber.html

Wilber was a PG for Augustana from 1998-2002. This was during my undergrad days, and our student section used to give him a lot of guff. He took it and played along with it. Also, he was a great amateur baseball pitcher, he had a lot of success with the Dell Rapids Mudcats. Anyway, that has little to do with SDSU, but good luck to Matt.

[SDSUAlum08]

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Wilber is an awesome dude. I hope he gets it if he's truly interested.

[Nidaros]

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Wilber is an awesome dude. I hope he gets it if he's truly interested.

He was awesome enough to land the job:

http://www.argusleader.com/article/2...akota-Wesleyan

Congratulations to Matt Wilber.

[da_coach]

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Just an aside: What happened with Shane Murphy? Did he just resign and get out of the business again.

He was an assistant under Boots, and had a pretty good run at USF before he "got out of coaching".

Then he got "pulled back in" to the DWU job.

Just wondering.

[Nidaros]

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Just an aside: What happened with Shane Murphy? Did he just resign and get out of the business again.

He was an assistant under Boots, and had a pretty good run at USF before he "got out of coaching".

Then he got "pulled back in" to the DWU job.

Just wondering.

I don't have a clue, but Shane Murphy was one of two or three transfers from D1 which made USD a force to contend with in the late 1980's. I thinking he played with Ryun Williams. If its about wins and losses, it looks like Shane was judged on that and he is now gone. Also going from USF to DWU was a step down, and seems like Shane did real well at USF. Not an easy one to figure nor will there be anything public for a long time.

[Nidaros]

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I guess I should have googled but KDLT says he is returning to private business. Also he came to USD from Drake. I trying to think of the other guy who was a post who also came from Drake.

http://www.kdlt.com/index.php?option...7051&Itemid=58

Also played early 90's graduated in 1994.

[MikeHenriksen]

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Shane Murphy can coach, and he can sell. He has decided to do the latter for a significant increase in pay over the former.

No big story here. Best of luck to Matt. Good dude and great chance for success!

[Nidaros]

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Shane Murphy can coach, and he can sell. He has decided to do the latter for a significant increase in pay over the former.

No big story here. Best of luck to Matt. Good dude and great chance for success!

I was not implying there was any kind of a story. da coach was curious about his departure. I stated I did not have a clue and I did not until I came across the KDLT release and I would agree Shane can sell, and the private sector look greener. THAT IS THE STORY. His two last seasons were less than remarkable in wins and a good reason to leave coaching for as you suggested FOR a significant pay increase. Why hang around something that is no longer fun to do?