CollegeSportsInfo.com News: Winston-Salem State Hires New Basketball Coach

Sunday, September 10, 2006

Winston-Salem State Hires New Basketball Coach

Winston-Salem State has hired Bobby Collins, a former coach at Hampton, to lead the team into its first Division I season.

Collins replaces Philip Stitt, who resigned after five seasons with a 91-54 record to take over at Florida Community College in Jacksonville, Fla., his hometown.

Collins, 40, will sign a four-year contract worth just more than $90,000 a year. He is the sixth coach hired at WSSU since the late Big House Gaines retired after the 1992-93 season.

Collins spent the past four seasons at Hampton, where he compiled a 65-57 record. He resigned after the Pirates won the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference title last season to earn a spot in the NCAA Tournament. He had been hired as an assistant at St. Augustine's.

"I'm kind of speechless because I was out of (coaching) for a couple of months," Collins said Tuesday. "Now I'm having this opportunity at Winston-Salem State in my home state, and it is very exciting."

Winston-Salem State will play in the MEAC this season.

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