
| Posted: Wednesday June 28, 2006 10:22AM; Updated: Wednesday June 28, 2006 10:22AM
Winthrop's Gregg Marshall has accepted the job as men's basketball coach at the College of Charleston, ending the most successful coaching run in Big South Conference history. The NCAA will reconsider a rule, passed quietly in April and then criticized by football coaches, allowing players to transfer without penalty for graduate school. Since the rule was enacted, quarterback Richard Kovalcheck, who graduated from Arizona with athletic eligibility remaining, transferred to Vanderbilt. He will be eligible this season. It was deemed to be an athlete welfare issue, meaning players should be able to choose a graduate school without the NCAA standing in the way. LSU athletic director Skip Bertman will introduce Notre Dame coach Paul Mainieri today as the man to restore the fervor at Alex Box Stadium and bridge the move into a new, pricey ballpark in 2008. The only interviews reported as taking place at LSU were with Vanderbilt's Tim Corbin, Charleston's John Pawlowski and Mainieri. Bertman said he also met with Alabama coach Jim Wells in Omaha, Neb., during the College World Series. Tyler Melton has lived close to half the ACC's schools, none of them Georgia Tech, but he plans to catch passes for the Yellow Jackets. The 6-foot-1, 185-pound wide receiver, who caught 70 passes for 970 yards and 15 touchdowns as a junior last season for Houston's Langham Creek High, made a verbal commitment to coach Chan Gailey and the Jackets. He said Tuesday he is in summer school so he can graduate early and enroll next winter at Tech. Eagle's View Academy baseball shortstop Josh Adams has committed to the University of Florida. Adams batted .516 as a junior with 10 doubles and six home runs, all team-highs. A delegation from Houston hoping to keep a college football bowl in the city left Southern California without a decision but optimistic a game will be held this December. This week, Conference USA commissioner Britton Banowsky told the Chronicle the Houston Bowl likely would operate under a new name if the NCAA approves the proposal presented Tuesday. Pitt basketball guard Ronald Ramon was in the Pirates' clubhouse before the game. It was not a social visit. Ramon is working as an intern this summer for Fox Sports Net Pittsburgh. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||