Former Griz Player in Running for EWU Coaching Job

[Grizbacker1]

Travis Decuire, who played at UM, is from the Seattle area, and is currently an assistant to Blaine Taylor at Old Dominion, is one of the leading candidates to replace Mike Burns as Hoops Coach at EWU.

"I'm very interested," he said. "With me being from the Northwest and playing in the Big Sky, it would be stupid of me not to be interested. It's a good job. The Big Sky is an interesting league. You need to have an understanding of it and being able to recruit the Northwest is very important. But I'm in a good situation now."

 

[Born2BaGriz]

Travis Decuire, who played at UM, is from the Seattle area, and is currently an assistant to Blaine Taylor at Old Dominion, is one of the leading candidates to replace Mike Burns as Hoops Coach at EWU.

"I'm very interested," he said. "With me being from the Northwest and playing in the Big Sky, it would be stupid of me not to be interested. It's a good job. The Big Sky is an interesting league. You need to have an understanding of it and being able to recruit the Northwest is very important. But I'm in a good situation now."

Travis "Travel For Sure", hmmm interesting

 

[Grizbacker1]

Hironaka a finalist at EWU

Jeff Hironaka, head coach at Seattle Pacific, will interview Monday for the head men's basketball position at Eastern Washington.

"It sounds like I'm the underdog," he said Saturday morning. "I hope I show well and make them make a decision."

Jim Shaw, an assistant at Washington, is the other know finalist. EWU interim athletic director said there were four finalists and two would interview Monday and two on Tuesday.

It appears Old Dominion assistant and Seattle native Travis DeCuire and Central Valley grad, Eastern Oregon head coach Ryan Looney are not finalists.
Hironaka is a native of Weiser, Idaho, who has compiled a 94-49 record in five seasons since replacing Ken Bone at SPU. He was Bone's top assistant for 11 years, during which the Falcons went 312-126 and made the Division II Final Four in 2000.

Prior to that he was an assistant coach at Idaho State for three seasons and an assistant at The Master's College in California.

"My goal (in the interview) is to do the best I can and let the chips fall where they may," he said.

 

[WyomingGrizFan]

I guess there's two other candidates for the HC of EWU men's Basketball, a Kirk Earlywine & a Rod Jensen, after Brad Holland withdrew his application:

http://www.spokesmanreview.com/blogs/ewu/archive.asp?mon=Jun2007