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Gregory adamant he's staying at UD
Fifth-year coach says he isn't going anywhere and that he hasn't been in touch with Marquette or anyone else.
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Saturday, April 05, 2008
DAYTON — Brian Gregory says he is staying put.
Although he's been linked to the Marquette opening by ESPN and others, the fifth-year University of Dayton coach says he is happy with the job he has and intends to stick around for the long haul.
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"I'm at Dayton, I'm committed to Dayton, I'm not going anywhere," he said.
Gregory is attending the Final Four in San Antonio, and said Friday night, April 4, that he hasn't been contacted by Marquette or anyone else.
"I'm committed to Dayton, and they're committed to me and what we're doing," he said. "That (commitment) is the most important thing to me. That's all I've ever wanted because that's the foundation of building a successful program."
Gregory has a 98-60 record at UD with two postseason appearances. He's also scoring some triumphs on the recruiting front, keeping top local talent at home.
Dayton Athletic Director Ted Kissell, who arrived at the Final Four on Friday, always keeps a list of potential coaching candidates, knowing how quickly things can change, but he doesn't believe Gregory is eyeing other jobs.
"Do I think he's committed to the University of Dayton and the task at hand? I absolutely do," Kissell said.
Marquette has been looking for a coach since Tom Crean accepted the Indiana job Tuesday. Wright State coach Brad Brownell also has been mentioned in some circles as a potential candidate, but he's refusing comment on the matter, and WSU Athletic Director Mike Cusack said he hasn't had any contact with Marquette about Brownell.
Xavier coach Sean Miller and Washington State coach Tony Bennett are thought to be at the top of Marquette's wish list, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Crean's top assistant, Buzz Williams, also has interviewed for the job, the newspaper reported.
Another name popping up is former UD player Anthony Grant, the coach at Virginia Commonwealth. Grant is considered a candidate for the LSU opening, too.
"He's just very, very good," said Don Donoher, his former coach at UD. "I think he'd be terrific wherever he went."
Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2125 or dharris@DaytonDailyNews.com. Staff writers Chick Ludwig and Sean McClelland contributed to this report
Comments
By raiderron
April 7, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this
Finally someone is calling out Chick Ludwig. What a clown. I will never subscribe to this rag again. Thank you for making the choice easy.
By Sean
April 7, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this
DEAR CHICK LUDWIG’S EDITOR: You must be as lazy as your reporters. Why did you allow the Dayton Daily News to report “RED HOT RUMOR GREGORY TO MU?” The Dayton Daily news is now nothing but a rumor-mill blog-site. Are you all in your jammies “Blogging” from home? I will never read your “paper” or your “reporting” again. I wonder what Ritter Collett would think of Chick Ludwig’s “reporting.” Disgusting.
By Dan
April 7, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this
Peter, thank you…We don’t hate WSU.
In fact, we don’t care about WSU. Oh no, we don’t play them anymore…all that means is a fake, forced rivalry was taken off the schedule. I can truly say I have never rooted against WSU. When UD played them I rooted for UD, and after the game WSU faded from my thoughts.
You would think between Chick and the paranoid WSU fans that post on these boards (on articles about UD, not WSU) that Insecurity and Inferiority are majors at WSU, not complexes.
By bobby
April 7, 2008 12:01 AM | Link to this
Hooray Gregory is staying - more easy wins for the top programs in the A-10!
By Warriors Fan
April 6, 2008 6:46 PM | Link to this
Sean Miller is not interested in the Marquette job.
Is it possible that the Dayton Daily News is the last to know?
By Brian Stevens
April 5, 2008 11:45 PM | Link to this
UD basketball is nothing more than a social event…..put on a good show and the people are happy. If I were Gregory I’d stay too, where else would people be so happy with mediocrity?
By Ryan
April 5, 2008 7:48 PM | Link to this
Gregory will not go anywhere. No top program, such as Marquette, will want him. Gregory needs to take his team to the NCAA in consecutive years before I would start wondering if he will take another job…he has the best job he could find right now.
By emmy
April 5, 2008 2:15 PM | Link to this
Chick criticizing a coach for not doing their job well is like Charles Manson criticizing someone for not respecting the law
By Peter
April 5, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this
Due to several great writers, DDN is my favorite resource to read about the Flyers. However Chick and a few other writers seem to have an obvious bias against UD. This year there has been multiple articles written with no purpose other than to put down the program. From reading his stuff this year, I feel Chick misunderstands the average Flyer fan in several areas: - We don’t hate WSU and respect their recent success. - We do not want to fire BG. - We are realistic about our team’s abilities.
By Andrew
April 5, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this
Gregory is staying???? But I could have swore the greatest investigative reporter Chuck Ludwig said he was as good as gone yesterday. You know in that blog he wrote, what happened to that? Why does Ludwig even write on Dayton? The National news and local stories are bad enough but now the sports is getting to be unreadable. It’s a shame all we have to choose from for local news is this paper.