BALTIMORE, Maryland -- More than a month after announcing that the contract of longtime men’s basketball coach Fang Mitchell would not be renewed, Coppin State athletic director Derrick Ramsey said Monday he will introduce Stillman College coach Michael Grant as Mitchell’s successor at a campus news conference Tuesday.
Terms of the contract were not disclosed.
“I’m impressed with his work,” Ramsey said in an interview with The Baltimore Sun. “There are two things I’m looking for: the graduation rate, that’s critical to me, and he’s graduated over 80 percent of his kids. He’s won. Everywhere he’s gone he’s built programs.”
Despite Ramsey’s initial assertion that he wanted to hire a coach with a connection to Baltimore, Grant has no ties to the city where he will be employed. But what separated Grant from the other four finalists was a successful track record as a head coach and familiarity with the type of situation he is inheriting.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Now we’re going to have to work our butts off to recruit Baltimore. We’re not getting on a damn plane to recruit. We want Baltimore kids on our team. We are going to start here in Baltimore.” ... Derrick Ramsey
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