Lamar Cardinal assistant Price leaves to coach Grambling State

JOSEPH PRICE
 MEN'S HEAD BASKETBALL COACH
GRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY
(PHOTO COURTESY: LAMAR UNIVERSITY
ATHLETICS)

BEAUMONT, Texas -- If Pat Knight has his way, Lamar will lose other assistant coaches after future seasons. That's a sure sign of success, he figures.

Joe Price, an assistant to Knight in his only season at Lamar, has left the school to be the head coach at Grambling. The Louisiana-based school announced the hiring Tuesday.

"When I took this job, I said I wanted assistants to move on to bigger assistants jobs or to be head coaches," Knight said. To replace Price, Lamar will move Kermit Holmes from director of basketball operations, a position that will be ...

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