| Rollie Massimino | ||
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| Sport | Basketball | |
| Born | November 13, 1934 | |
| Place of birth | Hillside, New Jersey | |
| Career highlights | ||
| Overall | 515-391 (. Basketball is a team Sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a 10 feet (3 m Events 1002 - English king Ethelred orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Hillside is a township in Union County, New Jersey, United States. 568) | |
| Championships | ||
| NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship (1985) | ||
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||
| 1969-1971 1973-1992 1992-1994 1996-2003 |
Stony Brook Villanova UNLV Cleveland State |
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High School
Massimino began his coaching career in 1962 at Hillside High School in New Jersey where he laid the foundation for his future college coaching successes. With the support of high school All-American Bill Shutsky (who later captained the West Point basketball team) and others such as Paul Freider and John Madalena, he led the Comets to the state Group IV finals in 1963 and 1964 against Central High School of Newark in both seasons. Unfortunately, the Comets lost in both years to a team composed of taller players, despite pushing the thrilling 1963 championship game into double-overtime.
Massimino began his coaching career in 1956 after graduating from the UVM where he played varsity basketball for three years. His first three seasons he served as an assistant coach at Cranford High School in Cranford, New Jersey before securing his first head coaching job at Hillside High School, his prep alma mater, in 1959. Cranford High School is a four-year Public high school located in Cranford, New Jersey, USA, as part of the Cranford Township Public Schools Cranford is a township in Union County, New Jersey, United States. Hillside High School is a comprehensive community four-year Public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Hillside, in Union County
From there he moved to Lexington High School, Mass. Lexington High School is a public High school located in Lexington Massachusetts. , in 1965, where he led one squad to a state championship and another to a 20-1 record, along the way laying the foundation for an elite scholastic program which has dominated the Middlesex League, winning state titles in 1971, 1972, and 1978 along with league championships in sixteen of the past thirty years.
In ten seasons as a high school coach, Massimino compiled a 160-61 record.
College
He debuted at the collegiate coaching level in 1969 as the head coach of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. State University of New York at Stony Brook, commonly known as Stony Brook University, is a public research university located in Stony Brook, New York His first team went 19-6, won the conference championship, and earned a berth in the NCAA small college tournament. Massimino’s next step was an assistant’s position at the University of Pennsylvania under Chuck Daly, most recently of the NBA's Orlando Magic. Charles Jerome "Chuck" Daly (born July 20 1930 in St Marys Pennsylvania) is a former American Basketball Head coach. The Orlando Magic is a professional Basketball team based in Orlando Florida. In March 1973, Massimino left Penn to succeed John Kraft as the head coach at Villanova. John J "Jack" Kraft coached Villanova for 12 years from 1961 through 1973 Massimino has a master's degree equivalent in health and physical education from Rutgers University (1959) and a bachelor’s degree from Vt (1956) in education. Massimino and his wife Mary Jane have five children--Tom, Lee Ann, Michele, Roland (R. C. ), and Andrew--as well as 17 grandchildren--Roland, Stephen, Tommy, Michael, Kayla, John, Kristen, Leo, Matthew, Grace, Megan, Nicholas, Jessica, Nicole, Roland Michael, Melissa and Rocco.
His grandchildren have also had moderate success. Roland (18) is a top Division I college football prospect who currently plays football at Hofstra. Hofstra University is a private Nonsectarian, Coeducational institution of higher learning located in the Village of Hempstead and the hamlet of Uniondale Stephen (17) is a professional wrestler out of Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
In 1992, he resigned from Villanova to take the head coaching job at UNLV. Initially, the hope was that he would restore the success and credibility of UNLV after its 1991-92 probation and forced resignation of Jerry Tarkanian. Jerry Tarkanian (born August 8 1930) also known as "Tark the Shark" is an American former college basketball coach known for colorful behavior Two years later, he was forced out when it was revealed he and UNLV president Robert Maxson had cut a side deal to lift Massimino's salary above the figure reported to the state, which the Nevada Ethics Commission decided violated state ethics laws as well as UNLV rules.
In 1996, he ended up coaching at Cleveland State University, where his seven-year record was 90-113 and was bought out of his contract following a series of off-court issues. Cleveland State University ( abbr CSU) is a Public university located in Cleveland Ohio. Noted for his "Family Style" coaching, he is also a member of the Italian American Hall of Fame.
He returned to Villanova, and was embraced by the school once again, having travelled with the Villanova basketball team during the 2005-2006 season as part of Villanova's official traveling party.
He currently is the head coach for the men's basketball team at Northwood University Florida campus, a private school in West Palm Beach, FL. Northwood University (formerly known as Northwood Institute) is a private university with locations in several U West Palm Beach, also known as West Palm, is the most populous city in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA. The 2006-2007 year was the first basketball team the Northwood Florida campus has ever had competing in the Florida Sun Conference. The Seahawks' first game was against one of Coach Massimino's old teams, which he won a championship with in 1985, the Villanova Wildcats, where the old defeated the new 97-60. In his first two seasons with the Seahawks, Massimino has led Northwood to a pair of FSC regular season titles, two appearances in the NAIA National tournament, where the Seahawks reached the Elite Eight in 2008.
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