USD Men's Basketball 2006-2007

T.J. BROWN Assistant Coach 4th year

T.J. Brown begins his fourth season with the USO Toreros coaching staff, and his first as a full-time assistant coach. The past two years he served as the Head Team Manager. This season he w ill assist wi th recruiting and on-court coaching duties. From O lathe, Kansas, he prepped at Olathe High School where he gradu– ated in 1997. During hi s senior year he earned All-State, All-City and A ll-Conference honors w ith the team going 22-3 and winning the state championship. During his junior campai gn, 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 Rev iew and won Most Valuable Pl ayer honors at the profil e He attended Texas A&M between 1997-00. As a freshman he pl ayed in I0 games before tearing hi s ACL. The following season he played in 8 games w ith 2 starts before fracturing his knee cap and sitting out the following year as a med ica l redshirt. He transferred to Emporia State in 2000 and fini shed hi s collegiate career there. He started every game as a junior and sen ior, and averaged 11.0 ppg and 5.0 apg during hi s fin al campaign. He graduated from Emporia State in 2002 with a degree in Business Admin istration. He was a volunteer undergraduate assistant there whil e he finished up hi s degree. Three seasons ago he was on US D's staff as a volunteer, and two seasons ago was promoted to Head Team Manager. NICK EARNEST Dir. ofBasketball Operations 4th year Nick Earnest begins hi s fou11h season with the US O Toreros staff, and first in the role of Director of Basketball Operations. He will be in charge of overseeing team travel, equipment purchases and budget. Prior to USO Nick was at the University of Wyoming (2002-03 ) in the posi– tion ofAdmini strati ve Assistant Basketball Coach for the Cowboys program. He helped prepare and organize home visit book.lets and itineraries for the offi cial campus visits; he created a recruiting database with information on over 1,000 prospective student-athl etes; he developed scout tapes for more than 15 games; and he composed and di stributed letters to prospecti ve student-athl etes. Before hi s one year at Wyoming, Nick earned additi onal experience w ith stops at Stephen F. Austin (200 1-02) as the administrati ve assistant for the men's basketball program, and at Texas Christian Uni versity ( 1999-200 I) where he was a student assistant coach. During his time at Stephen F. Austin he was an in structor for the uni versity where he taught basketball , tenni s, softball , jogging and weight training courses. He also substituted for numerous other kines iology courses at the uni versity. He earned his B.S. degree from Texas Chri stian in Hea lth and Human Services in May, 200 I where his maj or was Sports and Recreational Leadership. He went on to earn his Master of Science degree in May, 2003 from Wyoming where his major was Kinesiology and Health.