MORGANTOWN -- Wren Baker is a man in dire need of a vacation, the result of a career’s worth of turmoil in the WVU athletic department all wrapped up in his first six months on the job as WVU’s athletic director. Baker just smiles at the thought before getting right down to the essence ...
WVU’s decision to hire assistant basketball coach Josh Eilert as interim head coach, replacing Bob Huggins, is not an elegant solution, but it is a practical one. Huggins’ untimely departure following his DUI arrest put Director of Athletics Wren Baker in a difficult position for the ...
MORGANTOWN -- For 16 years Josh Eilert watched, listened, learned and stayed put. In college basketball years, that would normally account for two or three different addresses for someone working their way up the ranks. Not Eilert. “It’s unheard of, especially in this business,” ...
MORGANTOWN -- There was no pause, no hesitation as Josh Eilert spoke from the heart and with kind words about his predecessor Monday. Enter Eilert as the interim WVU men’s basketball coach. No career wins. He follows Hall-of-Famer Bob Huggins, who resigned on June 17 with 935 career ...
** Josh Eilert’s contract is for 10 months, worth $1.5 million. He made $180,000, plus incentives, as an assistant last season. ** WVU men’s basketball staff members who are about to have their contracts run out on June 30, will have their deals extended for a period of time, until ...
MORGANTOWN -- There were two trains of thought in the search for the next West Virginia men’s basketball coach, and WVU athletic director Wren Baker was quick to go down both. “We really started two parallel tracks,” Baker said on Monday, in introducing Josh Eilert as the interim ...