PRESS & DAKOTAN ■ MONDAY, MAY 13, 2013 PAGE 9 Will We See A New Men’s Hoops Coach At Mount Marty This Week? Press&Dakotan BY JEREMY HOECK ready had interested candidates. The next question will be: Does Mount Marty offer the job to one of those in-
[email protected] house names or does it extend the search outside of the school? DAILY DOSE That’s not a question for me to answer, but I would bet good money a new coach is announced by the end By the end of this week, will we be talking about a new head men’s basketball coach at Mount Marty College? of this week. As Iverson pointed out, the quicker you move in a search like this, the better — from both a con- It sure looks that way. sistency standpoint (a long delay would not bode well) and a recruiting standpoint. Daily opinions from the P&D The athletic department and college administration have been moving rather fast in their search to replace Whether ‘quicker’ necessarily means you find the best candidate is not for me to say, but it would appear Sports Staff on local and na- long-time coach Jim Thorson, who retired last Monday. He had been coaching the Lancers for 18 seasons, a that Mount Marty has qualified candidates already in Yankton. That could mean current assistants or other faces from other sports in the department, but whomever takes over will have some big shoes to fill. tional high school, college tenure that dates back to 1995.