{"id":26398,"date":"2024-04-01T15:56:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T19:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=26398"},"modified":"2024-04-01T16:54:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T20:54:09","slug":"marshall-university-officially-approves-hiring-of-new-head-mens-basketball-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2024\/04\/marshall-university-officially-approves-hiring-of-new-head-mens-basketball-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall University officially approves hiring of new head men&#8217;s basketball coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif\">The Marshall University Board of Governors unanimously approved a resolution today during a special session authorizing President Brad D. Smith to officially hire Cornelius \u201cCorny\u201d Jackson to serve as the next Marshall University Men\u2019s Basketball Coach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif\">The Oak Hill, West Virginia, native becomes the team\u2019s 30th coach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif\">President Brad D. Smith said, when reviewing long-term plans for the team with Coach Dan D\u2019Antoni, the coach personally recommended Jackson to fill the position when the time came for a leadership change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif\">\u201cLet me begin by expressing our heartfelt gratitude to Danny D\u2019Antoni, a beloved figure and true ambassador for Marshall University,\u201d Smith said. \u201cDanny\u2019s longstanding history with our institution&#8211;first\u00a0 as a student athlete, followed by successful careers coaching at the high school and professional levels, then returning to coach his alma mater&#8217;s team for ten years speaks for itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif\">\u201cThe decision to not renew his contract was very difficult, but this decision was made somewhat easier thanks to Coach working with Christian (Spears) and me last year to name Corny Jackson as a coach in waiting.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif\">Smith said that great coaches do more than build a team. They build a program like what D\u2019Antoni did. Smith went on to say that the internal succession architecture is the reason that a national search did not need to be conducted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif\">Jackson spent the last seven seasons as an assistant for the Thundering Herd under D\u2019Antoni and was promoted in June 2023 to Associate Head Coach \u2013 a position in which he served during the 2023-24 season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif\">Marshall University will introduce Jackson at a press conference at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 3, in the Cam Henderson Center.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, sans-serif\">The athletics contract was the only item before the board today.\u00a0 Members will meet on April 10 for their regularly scheduled meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marshall University Board of Governors unanimously approved a resolution today during a special session authorizing President Brad D. Smith to officially hire Cornelius \u201cCorny\u201d Jackson to serve as the next Marshall University Men\u2019s Basketball Coach. The Oak Hill, West Virginia, native becomes the team\u2019s 30th coach. President Brad D. Smith said, when reviewing long-term [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26401,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26398\/revisions\/26401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}