GT’s Stoudamire employs ex-GW head coach Hobbs

ATLANTA– New Georgia Tech males’s basketball coach Damon Stoudamire announced his personnel on Friday, which includes former George Washington coach Karl Hobbs as his top assistant.The 61-year-old Hobbs assembled a record of 166-129 over a decade-long tenure at George Washington that included three NCAA competition appearances. He was fired in 2011. Hobbs spent the previous seven seasons as Rutgers’associate head coach. He will take the very same role at Georgia Tech under Stoudamire, who was hired by the Yellow Jackets after the school discarded Josh Pastner.Editor’s Picks 1 Associated Stoudamire also announced the hiring of Terry Parker, Jr. and Pershin Williams as assistant coaches.Parker, a local of rural Decatur

, joins Georgia Tech after spending 3 years as an assistant at UAB. Williams is a previous Yellow Jackets graduate assistant who comes from another Atlanta-area school, Kennesaw State, which reached the NCAA competition for the first time this previous season.”Coach Hobbs is a no-brainer to have here, however I’m really excited for Pershin and Terry to have this chance at such a terrific institution,” Stoudamire stated in a declaration.”These are men who are hungry to be successful. They’ll roll up their sleeves and work to get this program back, brick by brick.” Georgia Tech has only one NCAA tournament look in the previous 13 seasons.