Other than Dick Bennet, has he ever made a basketball hire?
Posted on: October 24, 2016 at 16:59:01 CT
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I think he inherited Steve Fisher at San Diego and just left him in place.
When Sterk became Washington State’s AD he inherited Paul Graham as a basketball coach. He allowed him to coach 3 seasons under him before eventually firing him following the 2002-03 season. Graham went 31-79 overall, and 9-63 in PAC10 conference games during his tenure. Only once did he top 10 wins in a season and finished with back to back 20 loss campaigns. In his final season they avged 2,310 in attendance, a slight bump from the program worst of 2,292 in attendance they had avged the year before. Graham was let go with 1 year remaining on his contract, with Washington State agreeing to buy out the remainder.