BRASWELL ON OSU LIST?Byline: Jon Wilner Cal State Northridge coach Bobby Braswell Bobby Braswell, an American basketball coach, is currently the head coach for Cal State Northridge. Braswell was named the fourth head coach in Northridge history on April 30, 1996, succeeding the retired Pete Cassidy. has been contacted by Oregon State about its vacant head coaching position, according to a source close to Braswell. The job opened Sunday night when the Beavers fired Eddie Payne after five consecutive losing seasons. Oregon State athletic director Mitch Barnhart received permission from CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge on Monday to speak to Braswell, the source said. Reached at his home late Monday night, Braswell declined to comment. He and Barnhart have a connection: Barnhart was the assistant athletic director at Tennessee when the Volunteers hired Oregon coach Jerry Green in 1997. Braswell was an assistant on Green's staff at Oregon. UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX assistant Michael Holton is another possible candidate, according to a report in The Oregonian. Holton played for the Portland Trail Blazers The Portland Trail Blazers are a professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon. They play in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The franchise, based in Portland throughout its existence, entered the league in 1970 and has won the NBA Championship once, in 1977. and was an OSU (Open Source UNIX) Refers to the Unix variants that are maintained as open source, which were primarily BSD Unix and Linux until Sun made its Solaris operating system open source in 2005. assistant under Payne in 1996. As of Monday afternoon, he had not been contacted. The report also named Colorado State coach Ritchie McKay and former Arizona State interim coach Don Newman as possible candidates. |
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