BYU Basketball Coaching Staff 2020

Get to know the Coaching Staff of the Brigham Young University men’s basketball team for the 2020 season.

BYU Basketball

The BYU Basketball Coaching Staff is led by Head Coach Mark Pope. He is assisted by Michael Smith, Chris Burgess and Tim LaComb.

Clarence Miller is the team’s director of operations.

Coaching Staff

The BYU Basketball coaching staff currently consists of head coach Mark Pope and assistants Eric Mika, Tim LaComb, and Terry Nashif.

2020 Staff

Mark Pope – Head Coach

Assistant Coaches
Jeff Judkins
Mike Lee
Nick Robinson
Roger Reid
Frank Bedolla Jr.

New Additions

The BYU Men’s Basketball team has made some additions to their Coaching Staff for the 2020 season. In addition to new Head coach Mark Pope, the team has added assistants Steve Alford and Mike Schrage.

Alford comes to BYU with over 30 years of coaching experience, most recently as the head coach at UCLA. He has also been an assistant at Iowa, New Mexico, and Kansas.

Schrage comes to BYU from Northwestern University where he was the head coach for the past three seasons. Prior to that, he was an assistant at Harvard and Ohio State

Departures

BYU Basketball has seen a lot of changes in the coaching staff in 2020.
-Trent Whittemore: Assistant Coach left to take a job as an assistant coach at Weber State University
-Ryan Loudenback: assistant coach left to become the head coach of Westminster College.
-Andy Hill: Associate head coach left for personal reasons.
-Mark Phelps: head coach was not retained after his contract expired.

Positional Breakdown

In this article, we’ll take a look at the BYU basketball Coaching Staff for the 2020 season. Head Coach Mark Pope will be joined by assistant coaches Tim LaComb, Terry Nashif, and Ryan Boyce.

Pope is a familiar name to BYU fans, having served as the head coach of UVU before taking over at BYU. He’s known for his aggressive, up-tempo style of play. LaComb comes to BYU after spending time as an assistant at Utah State and Weber State Nashif comes to BYU after a long career as a head coach at various levels, most recently at Snow College. Boyce rounds out the staff after serving as an assistant at Dixie State

With Pope and LaComb working together for the first time, it’ll be interesting to see how they mesh and what kind of style of play BYU will have this season.

Player Development

Dave Rose is responsible for coaching the team and developing the players. He has been with the program since 2005 and has a wealth of experience in both college and Professional Basketball He is joined by Assistant coaches Andy Ground, Matt Haarms, and Nick Emery. These coaches are responsible for player development scouting, and game planning.

Game Planning

The BYU basketball coaching staff typically spends a lot of time game planning before each season. This is essential in order to compete at a high level and give their team the best chance to win.

Some of the things that they take into account are the style of play of their opponents, recent game results, and historical data. They also analyze individual players on both sides to see what they are good at and what they tend to struggle with.

All of this information is used to put together a game plan that will hopefully lead to a victory on the court. The coaches have to be very careful though, because if they make too many changes or try to do too much, it can backfire and lead to a loss.

Staff Changes

Comparing the 2019-2020 coaching staff to the 2020-2021 coaching staff, there have been several changes. The biggest change is the departure of Associate head coach Mike Crotty, who has been with the team for six seasons. Also gone are Assistant Coaches Andy Hill and Mark Pope. New to the staff are Assistant Coaches Tim LaComb and Ryan Boyce.

Off-Season

The 2020 BYU Basketball coaching staff consists of head coach Mark Pope, Assistant Coaches Tim LaComb, Ryan Clifford, and Clay just. With the season over, the staff will focus on recruiting during the off-season.
Expectations are high for the 2020-2021 Season as BYU returns all five starters from last year’s team. The staff will continue to build on the success of last season as they look to make another run at the NCAA tournament