Todd Lickliter : Iowa City – Director of Athletics Gary Barta announced during a news conference Monday afternoon that Todd Lickliter will not be retained beyond the three-season loss to the Hawks bench.
“When I looked at four years and looks forward to see if we are in a position to compete, and I felt the pieces were not present, and we need to make a change and said,”Barta.
Lickliter a three-year tenure is the shortest way to get to Iowa since coach George Raveling coached the Hawks from 1983 to 1986.
Iowa hired a few days after his appointment by the National Association of Basketball Coaches as Division I coach of the year in 2007, Lickliter has failed to match the success of that while building a 131-61 record in six years in the possession of Butler.
The mandate of Iowa 13-19, 15-17, 10-22 in Lickliter three seasons on the bench for the Hawks, including a 15-39 mark in the big ten games. Group of 22 this season, 19 losses and losses in the 2007-08 season is more than the Hawks basketball teams in one season.
In addition to the conflicts on the court, his tenure in Iowa marked by problems outside the court.
Including the release of guard Anthony Tucker from his scholarship last month, seven scholarship players have left the program sincethe Hawks Lickliter was hired, including four after the 2008-09 season.
These exits left Iowa with a list full of new and second-year university students, a group that won consecutive games only twice during the season recently completed.
Barta said Lickliter will be paid the remainder of his contract – $ 2.4 million – in three batches over the next three years. He said he broke the news for Lickliter during a brief meeting Monday, and Lickliter, who did not attend the press conference last Monday, took the news the way he expected he would do so.
“We acted professionally, as he did in every contact we have here in his time,”Barta said,” This was not the decision we took lightly «.
Barta said the search for a new coach will begin immediately and will be followed esstnetially the same process with the same criteria used when he hired Lickliter in 2007.
Iowa City – Iowa is in the market for a new coach for basketball.
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