Florida Atlantic is using the services of Baylor affiliate head mentor John Jakus as its mentor, a transfer that arrives four times after Dusty May capped his six-yr run with the Owls and took in excess of at Michigan.
Jakus and the school have agreed on a five-year agreement. Economic conditions have been not straight away released and the school was scheduling to maintain an introductory news meeting on Friday.
“This application has been in these kinds of great fingers, and I have a incredible total of respect for what Dusty May perhaps, his personnel, and the players have achieved,” Jakus claimed. “FAU has been one of the finest groups in the nation the very last two a long time and I am so privileged to have on that tradition.”
Jakus was at Baylor underneath Scott Drew for 7 seasons — including the team’s countrywide championship period in 2021 — and spent time at Gonzaga as director of functions less than Mark Several ahead of that. In the course of that a few-yr stretch the Bulldogs went to an Elite 8 just one yr, a Sweet 16 the next and then nationwide title sport.
“He checks so a lot of bins in what we’re searching for to enrich and build on the momentum in our system,” FAU athletic director Brian White said. “His pedigree, understanding from two of the finest coaches in the activity today, is unmatched. John is a tireless employee who cares deeply for his gamers and has an innate knowing of the existing landscape in higher education athletics. He is a winner and is passionate about carrying out it the correct way.”
In Jakus’ 12 seasons on Division I staffs, the groups have posted a combined 316-99 file.
He’s been a head mentor in Europe at clubs in Macedonia and Bulgaria from 2007 via 2011. Jakus also has encounter performing with Athletes in Action, amassing far more global practical experience about about a 10 years.
The Owls lost in the to start with round of this year’s NCAA Event to Northwestern. May perhaps left for Michigan a day later, signing a 5-year deal really worth virtually $19 million — in essence tripling his annual wage of $1.25 million additionally incentives at FAU for this time.
FAU has won 60 online games around the past two seasons, 35 of them all through very last season’s run to the Ultimate Four. Only Houston (65), defending countrywide champion UConn (64) and Purdue (60) have as several wins as the Owls given that the start of previous period.
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