I'm only posting this for informational purposes and because I find it an odd journey to the top of the coaching profession. Typically, a D1 player from a highly successful program (UCONN in this case) who wanted to get into the college coaching profession would start with a pretty good job and then go from there. Pikiel did this as he took a job as one of UCONN's assistants right after his graduation. He stayed there for only one year. He then took an assistants job with the New Haven Skyhawks of the USBL for one year. From there he went to Yale as an assistant for two years, and then to D3 Wesleyan as the interim head coach for one year where he was 5-18. Then he went as an assistant to Central Connecticut State for four years, and finally to GW where he was an assistant for four years before moving on to Stonybrook. I'm only saying this, and maybe it means nothing, but you wouldn't expect a guy who played for a national championship team to be an assistant there for one year before bouncing around 12 of the next 13 years as an assistant for mostly lesser programs. Maybe he didn't want to be a head coach and was comfortable as an assistant, I don't know. It just seems like a guy with his pedigree would get better jobs than he did in the 13 years after he left UCONN.