Donnie Tyndall
 Tyndall in 2013 as Southern Miss coach. | |
| Raptors 905 | |
|---|---|
| Position | Assistant coach |
| League | NBA Development League |
| Personal information | |
| Born |
June 14, 1970 Ravenna, Michigan |
| Nationality | American |
| Career information | |
| High school | Academy of the Holy Angels |
| College |
|
| Coaching career | 1994–present |
| Career history | |
| As coach: | |
| 1994–1996 | Iowa Central CC (assistant) |
| 1996–1997 | St. Catharine JC |
| 1997–2001 | LSU (assistant) |
| 2001–2002 | Idaho (associate HC) |
| 2002–2006 | Middle Tennessee (associate HC) |
| 2006–2012 | Morehead State |
| 2012–2014 | Southern Miss |
| 2014–2015 | Tennessee |
| 2016–present | Raptors 905 (assistant) |
| Career highlights and awards | |
| |
Donald Joseph "Donnie" Tyndall (born June 14, 1970) is an American basketball coach currently working as an assistant coach for Raptors 905 of the NBA Development League after being placed on a 10 year show-cause penalty relating to activity during his time as head coach at Southern Miss on April 8, 2016.[1]
His teams are known for pressing and playing an unconventional match-up zone, a highly successful variation of the defensive system employed by coach Rick Pitino at Louisville.[2]
Coaching career
As an assistant / Junior College head coach
After graduating from Morehead State University in 1993, Tyndall began coaching at the junior college level. From 1994 to 1996, he was assistant coach at Iowa Central Community College. Tyndall had his first head coaching position in the 1996–97 season at St. Catharine College in Springfield, Kentucky. Tyndall led St. Catharine to a 30–5 record and the school's first-ever NJCAA tournament appearance. In 1997, Tyndall earned NJCAA Region 7 National Coach of the Year and Kentucky Junior College Coach of the Year honors.[3]
After his season at St. Catharine, Tyndall got his first NCAA Division I coaching position as an assistant at LSU under John Brady, a position he would hold from 1997 to 2001.[3] Tyndall helped LSU finish first in the SEC West Division in the 1999–00 season and make the Sweet 16 round of the 2000 NCAA Tournament.[4] This LSU team also featured Stromile Swift, the #2 pick in the 2000 NBA draft.
In the 2001–02 season, Tyndall served as associate head coach at Idaho under Leonard Perry.
From 2002 to 2006, Tyndall was associate head coach at Middle Tennessee under Kermit Davis. Middle Tennessee had winning seasons all four of those seasons.[3]
Morehead State (2006-2012)
In his first Division I head coaching job, Tyndall served as head coach at his alma mater Morehead State from 2006 to 2012. Morehead State under Tyndall won the Ohio Valley Conference tournaments of 2009 and 2011 and earned automatic NCAA Tournament bids those years. Morehead State also made the 2010 College Basketball Invitational.
In August 2010, the NCAA placed Morehead State on two years' probation for violations by boosters.[5] As a #13 seed, Morehead State upset #4 seed Louisville 62-61 in the first round of the 2011 NCAA Tournament.[6]
Southern Miss (2012-2014)
Tyndall was the head coach at the Southern Miss from 2012 to 2014. Southern Miss made the National Invitation Tournament in 2013 and 2014 and finished first in Conference USA standings for the 2013–14 season.
Tennessee (2014-2015)
On April 22, 2014, Tyndall was hired as head basketball coach at the University of Tennessee, after spending the previous two seasons as the head basketball coach at Southern Miss.[3]
On March 27, 2015, Tennessee fired Tyndall after the NCAA notified Tennessee officials of possible NCAA violations at Southern Miss. The violations centered around improper financial aid for two players, as well as academic problems with junior college transfers.[5] According to a copy of Tyndall's termination letter, Tyndall had lied to Tennessee officials about the extent of the violations on several occasions, and had also deleted several emails from an old email account even though he was aware he would have been questioned about activity on that account by the NCAA.[7] At a press conference announcing Tyndall's firing, athletics director Dave Hart said that he would have never hired Tyndall had the true extent of the violations at Southern Miss been known.[5]
On April 8, 2016; the NCAA imposed a 10-year show-cause penalty on Tyndall, tied for the longest ever imposed on a head coach. This means that any NCAA member school that wants to hire him during this period will have to "show cause" for why it shouldn't be sanctioned for doing so, and could incur severe penalties if he commits another violation during this time. Since most schools will not even consider hiring a coach with a show-cause on his record, it will likely have the effect of blackballing Tyndall from the collegiate ranks until the end of the 2025-2026 season. According to the NCAA, Tyndall told his assistants to complete papers for players, and also arranged payments to players and tried to cover them up. If Tyndall is ever hired again by any NCAA member school while the penalty is in effect, that school must suspend him from coaching duties. In an unusual move, the NCAA decreed that if Tyndall ever coaches again at an NCAA member school after the show-cause runs out, he will have to sit out the first half of the first season after his return.[8]
On November 4, 2016, Tyndall was hired by Raptors 905 to be an assistant coach.[9]
Head coaching record
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Catharine College (Mid-South) (1996–1997) | |||||||||
| 1996–97 | St. Catharine College | 30–5 | National Junior College Tournament | ||||||
| St. Catharine College: | 30–5 (.857) | ||||||||
| Morehead State (Ohio Valley Conference) (2006–2012) | |||||||||
| 2006–07 | Morehead State | 12–18 | 8–12 | T–7th | |||||
| 2007–08 | Morehead State | 15–15 | 12–8 | 3rd | |||||
| 2008–09 | Morehead State | 20–16 | 12–6 | 4th | NCAA First Round | ||||
| 2009–10 | Morehead State | 24–11 | 15–3 | 2nd | CBI Quarterfinals | ||||
| 2010–11 | Morehead State | 25–10 | 13–5 | 2nd | NCAA Third Round | ||||
| 2011–12 | Morehead State | 18–14 | 10–6 | 3rd | |||||
| Morehead State: | 114–84 (.576) | 70–40 (.636) | |||||||
| Southern Mississippi (Conference USA) (2012–2014) | |||||||||
| 2012–13 | Southern Miss | 27–10 | 12–4 | 2nd | NIT Quarterfinals | ||||
| 2013–14 | Southern Miss | 29–7 | 13–3 | 1st | NIT Quarterfinals | ||||
| Southern Mississippi: | 56–17 (.767) | 25–7 (.781) | |||||||
| Tennessee Volunteers (Southeastern Conference) (2014–2015) | |||||||||
| 2014–15 | Tennessee | 16–16 | 7–11 | 10th | |||||
| Tennessee: | 16–16 (.500) | 7–11 (.389) | |||||||
| Total: | 216–122 (.639) | ||||||||
|
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
| |||||||||
References
- ↑ "NCAA hammer comes down hard on Southern Miss former coach". CBSSports.com. Retrieved 2016-04-09.
- ↑ Dortch, Chris. "Advanced statistics provide preview of new Tennessee coach Donnie Tyndall's system". Chris Dortch.
- 1 2 3 4 "Donnie Tyndall". Tennessee Volunteers. Archived from the original on August 6, 2014. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/louisiana-state/2000-schedule.html
- 1 2 3 Volunteers fire Donnie Tyndall. ESPN, 2015-03-27.
- ↑ "Donnie Tyndall". Morehead State Eagles. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
- ↑ Termination letter at Tennessee
- ↑ NCAA announcement of show-cause on Tyndall
- ↑ Raptors 905 Announce Coaching Staff