Top 25 talk

[WUPHF]

Is it just me or is Logie one of a few former D-I players to be head coach in D3? Maybe I'm just ignorant and there are a lot more than I think.

I can name three and my knowledge of the national scene is limited so it makes me think you may be surprised...

[me]

Is it just me or is Logie one of a few former D-I players to be head coach in D3? Maybe I'm just ignorant and there are a lot more than I think.

I can name three and my knowledge of the national scene is limited so it makes me think you may be surprised...

Could be. Who do you know?

[WUPHF]

In Men's Basketball...

Zimmerman at Emory
Mitchell at Westminster
Thornhill at Fontbonne

Zimmerman is one of the best players every to wear a Davidson uniform.

It may be a fluke of course that I can name three.

I believe the is a UW Green Bay alum who is actively coaching in Division III  but I an drawing a blank.

[warriorcat]

Kosmalski at Swarthmore

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

Bettencourt at Endicott was on the Bucknell team that beat Kansas in the first round a while back.

Marc Brown at NJCU was an all-american at Siena.

There's quite a few.

[Fifth and Putnam]

K.C. Hunt at Wilmington College (OAC) was an outstanding player at Wichita State (Top 10 All-Time in both steals and assists)

[dunkin3117]

The IIAC has 2 former D1 players as coaches.  Seiverding (UNI) at Dubuque, Peth (Iowa) at Wartburg

[Ralph Turner]

Stan Bonewitz Concordia-Texas

Bonewitz was a decorated collegiate student-athlete at Texas Tech. He garnered All-Southwest Conference Freshmen Team honors in 1995-96 and earned honorable-mention All-Big 12 honors two years later. As a point guard, Bonewitz led the Red Raiders to a 30-2 ledger, SWC title and a NCAA Sweet Sixteen appearance in 1995-96. He graduated as the all-time assist leader for Texas Tech with 435 helpers and held the record until it was broken by John Roberson during the 2009-10 season.

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

Guy Neal - Bluffton

Following high school, Neal played his freshman season at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte before transferring to Bowling Green State University for the final three seasons of his collegiate career.

As a player at BGSU, Neal was a member of the 1980-81 squad that won the Mid-American Conference championship. Two seasons later in 1982-83 as a graduate assistant, Neal helped lead the Falcons to another MAC title. Neal has made two trips to the National Invitational Tournament during his career as a player in 1980 and as a graduate assistant in 1983.

[Greek Tragedy]

In Men's Basketball...

Zimmerman at Emory
Mitchell at Westminster
Thornhill at Fontbonne

Zimmerman is one of the best players every to wear a Davidson uniform.

It may be a fluke of course that I can name three.

I believe the is a UW Green Bay alum who is actively coaching in Division III  but I an drawing a blank.

Gary Grzesk played at UWGB and now coaches St. Norbert in nearby DePere.

http://www.snc.edu/athletics/profiles/gary.grzesk.html

He's probably best known for guarding Jason Kidd in the Phoenix's shocking upset NCAA tournament win over California.

[nescac1]

Swarthmore's tremendous coach is another Davidson alum. 

In NESCAC, Coach App played for Cornell and Coach Brown for UVM.  6/11, however, are NESCAC alums.   

[Gregory Sager]

Swarthmore's tremendous coach is another Davidson alum. 

Already mentioned by warriorcat, in case someone's tallying these up.

[smedindy]

Not there now, but long time Wabash coach Mac Petty played at Tennessee.

Bill Fenlon at DePauw is a Northwestern grad.

Steve Alford started his career as a head coach at Manchester.

I bet if you go into assistants, there are quite a few former D-1 players. You gotta start your careers where you can get a job and then you make your bones as a head coach if that's what you want.
D-1 assistants drop down to D-2 and D-3 with some regularity to run a program.

Here's a path - Eric Bridgeland at Whitman graduated at the U of Manitoba, and his coaching career has taken him to UC Santa Cruz, Cal, SF Austin, Colorado Mines, Pepperdine (as an interim head coach to boot), Puget Sound and now Whitman.

[augie77]

Augustana's Grey Giovanine played at D-2 Central Missouri State and later was Head Coach at D-1 Lamar.  Lamar was making progress as a program when Coach G chose to move up to D-3 and Augustana.   

[me]

Wow OK point proven, I'm a moron!

I'm glad though (not that I look like a moron, but...well...). Kosmalski I knew but forgot about. A lot of other ones I didn't. I'm glad it's not a one-way train and some D1 guys find the D3 ranks to their liking.