Olinger Gets New Job Title

Olinger Gets New Job Title#489761

By olldflame - September 1st, 2015, 8:50 am

- September 1st, 2015, 8:50 am #489761

Matt Olinger has been named Assistant to the Head Coach for MBB.

http://www.liberty.edu/flames/index.cfm ... 14&TeamID=

Not sure if there will be much change in responsibilities for him, but I predict we will hire a new Director of Basketball Operations, thus expanding our staff. If you look at UVA, they have a slew of basketball jobs. The only restriction the NCAA places is a limit of 3 assistant coaches.

Re: Olinger Gets New Job Title#489769

By Sly Fox - September 1st, 2015, 9:06 am

- September 1st, 2015, 9:06 am #489769

Sweet!

Re: Olinger Gets New Job Title#489983

By bballfan84 - September 2nd, 2015, 10:56 am

- September 2nd, 2015, 10:56 am #489983

one of the good guys..congrats to Olinger

Fear the Turge
Hail to the Redskins!!

Re: Olinger Gets New Job Title#490117

By TIMSCAR20 - September 3rd, 2015, 8:27 am

- September 3rd, 2015, 8:27 am #490117

That is great news! Congrats to Coach O!

Re: Olinger Gets New Job Title#490165

By R i - September 3rd, 2015, 1:19 pm

- September 3rd, 2015, 1:19 pm #490165

Way to go Matt.

Fan the Flames!

Re: Olinger Gets New Job Title#490608

By sweetnahmah1 - September 6th, 2015, 11:33 pm

- September 6th, 2015, 11:33 pm #490608

assistant TO the head coach, a job title inspired by Dwight Schrute.

anyway. I love having long tenured assistants on the coaching staff.

TDDance234 wrote:Liberty Athletics: Great for 2/3 of the season. Suck at the end.

Re: Olinger Gets New Job Title#490613

By olldflame - September 7th, 2015, 7:58 am

- September 7th, 2015, 7:58 am #490613

sweetnahmah1 wrote:assistant TO the head coach, a job title inspired by Dwight Schrute.

anyway. I love having long tenured assistants on the coaching staff.

I have a feeling any similarities between Matt and Dwight are limited to their job title. Nonetheless, you are correct. This is not Assistant Head Coach, or the more frequently used Associate Head Coach, which are the titles usually given to an assistant coach the HC deems worthy of a promotion. Matt has spent almost all of his time on our MBB staff as Director of Basketball Operations (where by all reports he does an amazing job) with one year as an interum assistant when we had an assistant leave just prior to the season and put us in a bind. This is no doubt primarily an administrative job, but one where he would work very closely with RMK, and certainly a position where you would want to have someone you trust. I´ll be interested to see whether they hire a replacement as DBO or go in a different direction. It´s also possible that this is strictly a promotion and a reward for Matt´s great work, but with the way well funded programs are expanding staffs beyond the traditional 3 assistants, DBO and S&C positions, I expect to see us add someone.

Re: Olinger Gets New Job Title#490676

By Schfourteenteen - September 7th, 2015, 7:05 pm

- September 7th, 2015, 7:05 pm #490676

sweetnahmah1 wrote:assistant TO the head coach, a job title inspired by Dwight Schrute.

anyway. I love having long tenured assistants on the coaching staff.

Hey.

Welcome back, man!