Spartans Nab NBA Assistant: Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo announced the hiring of former NBA assistant coach Jim Boylen as an assistant on his Spartan coaching staff. Boylen, a Grand Rapids, Michigan, native and MSU assistant from 1987-1992, brings 13 years of NBA experience to the Breslin Center. He served 11 years as an assistant to Rudy Tomjanovich at Houston, and one-year stints at Golden State, and Milwaukee last season. His hiring fills the vacancy left by the departure of Doug Wojcik, who left for the head coaching job at Tulsa. [5/30/05]
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Tuesday, December 24, 2024
The Seven C’s of Leadership
Former college basketball coach Mike Jarvis is back with a new book, The Seven C's of Leadership.
"Every one of us has leadership within us and this book offers fascinating principals that work in any setting—from the locker room to the executive board room. In The Seven C's of Leadership, Coach Jarvis lays out the essential ingredients of leadership."
-Jay Wright, NCAA Championship Men’s Basketball Coach, Villanova University
"At a time in America when we are witnessing an epidemic of opioid addictions and deaths, along with suicides, we need Coach Jarvis' Seven C's of Leadership – grounded in the power of Christ alone where we should all make our stand.”
-Lietenant Colonel Allen B. West (U.S. Army, Retired), Bronze Star recipient, and Member 112th U.S. Congress
"The Seven C's of Leadership is a slam dunk! Coach Jarvis has always been an outstanding leader because he has the ability to decipher what true leadership really means.”
-Dale Brown, Head Men’s Basketball Coach, LSU, 1972-1997, Member of the College Basketball Hall of Fame, and Shaquille O’Neal’s college coach