USD Men's Basketball 2004-2005

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ASSISTANT COACHES

NICK EARNEST 2nd year Nick Earnest begins his second season with the USD Toreros coaching staff, and his first as a full-time assistant. Last season he was the program 's Head Team Manager. Besides assisting with

the day-to-day operations of the office,he also picks up additional responsibilites with scout– ing, recruiting and practice preparation. Prior to USD Nick was at the Univer– sity of Wyoming (2002-03) in the position of AdministrativeAssistant Basketball Coach for the Cowboys program. Hehelped prepare and organize home visit booklets and itineraries for the official campus visits; he created a recruit– ing database with information on over 1,000 prospective student-athletes; he developed scout tapes for more than 15 games; and he composed and distributed letters to prospective student-athletes. Before his one year at Wyoming Nick

earned additional experience with stops at Stephen F. Austin (2001-02) as the admin– istrative assistant for the men's basketball program, and at Texas Christian University (1999-2001) where he was a student assistant coach. During his time at Stephen F. Austin he was an instructor for the university where he taught basketball, tennis, softball, jogging and weight training courses. He also substituted for numerous other kinesiology courses at the university. He earned his B.S. degree from Texas Christian in Health and Human Services in May, 2001 where his major was Sports and Recreational Leadership. He went on to earn his Master of Science degree in May, 2003 from Wyoming where hi s major was Kinesiology and Health. T.J. BROWN

2nd year . Head Team Manager

T.J. Brown begins his second season with the USD Toreros coaching staff, and his first as the Head Team Manager. Last year he assisted Nick Earnest with this position. From Olathe, Kansas, he prepped at Olathe High School where he graduated in 1997. During his senior year he earned All-State, All-City and All-Conference honors with the team going 22-3 and winning the state championship. During his junior campaign, T.J. earned All-City and All-Conference honors as the team went 23-1 and finished as state runner-up. As a prep he was rated top ten among point guards in the country by Jerry Mullens review and won Most Valuable Player honors at the profile camp. He attended Texas A&M between 1997-00. As a freshman he played in 10 games before tearing his ACL. The following season he played in 8 games with 2 starts before fracturing his knee cap and sitting out the following year as a medical redshirt. He transferred to Emporia State in 2000 and finished his collegiate career there. He started every game as a junior and senior, and averaged 11.0 ppg and 5.0 apg during his final campaign. He graduated from Emporia State in 2002 with a degree in Business Administration. He was a

volunteer undergraduate assistant there while he finished up his degree. This past season he was on USD's staff as a volunteer, and this season was promoted to Head Team Manager.

2004-05 Torero Student Managers

(l-r) Gerry Conedy & Dan Strickland

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