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TUSCALOOSA — While the roster might still need work, Avery Johnson’s first bench staff at Alabama is all but complete following last week’s hiring of longtime Texas AAU coach Scott Pospichal.
Pospichal joins longtime assistant and former Tide player Antoine Pettway, who was retained from the former staff under Anthony Grant, and veteran Providence assistant Bob Simon, who was named the Alabama’s associate head coach.
Still, while his staff appears complete, the process of filling the positions along his bench proved "difficult" for the NBA veteran.
“Trying to put together a coaching staff in college is much more difficult than it is in the NBA,” Johnson said. “You get 10 times as many phone calls because you’re bringing in college coaches, NBA coaches that want to get into college, high school coaches, AAU coaches.”
The hiring process was long and drawn out, with Pospichal joining the staff more than two months from the day of Johnson’s own hiring, and seven weeks after Simon’s hiring was formally announced April 19.
“But I think we’ve put together a nice staff, a nice mixture of personalities and strengths, so I think I’m pretty satisfied where we are right now,” Johnson said. “We have one more position that we need to fill, which is the special assistant to the coach/assistant opps (operations) guy, and we’ll get that position filled soon.”
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Pospichal joins longtime assistant and former Tide player Antoine Pettway, who was retained from the former staff under Anthony Grant, and veteran Providence assistant Bob Simon, who was named the Alabama’s associate head coach.
Still, while his staff appears complete, the process of filling the positions along his bench proved "difficult" for the NBA veteran.
“Trying to put together a coaching staff in college is much more difficult than it is in the NBA,” Johnson said. “You get 10 times as many phone calls because you’re bringing in college coaches, NBA coaches that want to get into college, high school coaches, AAU coaches.”
The hiring process was long and drawn out, with Pospichal joining the staff more than two months from the day of Johnson’s own hiring, and seven weeks after Simon’s hiring was formally announced April 19.
“But I think we’ve put together a nice staff, a nice mixture of personalities and strengths, so I think I’m pretty satisfied where we are right now,” Johnson said. “We have one more position that we need to fill, which is the special assistant to the coach/assistant opps (operations) guy, and we’ll get that position filled soon.”
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