Frank Haith

Frank Haith
Sport(s)	Basketball
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Missouri
Record	30–4 (.882)
Biographical details
Born	November 3, 1965 (1965-11-03) Queens, New York
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1985–1989 1989–1990 1990–1992 1992–1995 1995–1996 1996–1997 1997–2001 2001–2004 2004–2011 2011-present	Elon (asst.) Wake Forest (asst.) UNC-Wilmington (asst.) Texas A&M (asst.) Penn State (asst.) Texas A&M (asst.) Wake Forest (asst.) Texas (asst.) Miami (FL) Missouri
Head coaching record
Overall	159–105 (.602)
Accomplishments and honors
Awards 2012 AP Big 12 Coach of the Year

Frank Haith (born November 3, 1965 in Queens, New York) is currently the men's basketball head coach at the University of Missouri.

Career

Early career

Prior to his job at Miami, Haith had been an assistant coach for 15 years at such programs as Texas, Texas A&M, UNC-Wilmington, Penn State, Wake Forest, and Elon University. As an assistant coach he recruited six McDonald's All-Americans, Rodney Rodgers in 1990 to Wake Forest, Jerald Brown in 1995 to Texas A&M, Brad Buckman in 2002 to Texas, and LaMarcus Aldridge, Daniel Gibson, and Michael Williams in 2004 to Texas.

Miami

Haith was hired on April 11, 2004 and tasked with leading the Hurricanes into the Atlantic Coast Conference. In his first season, Haith took a team that was coming off two straight losing seasons and picked to finish last in the ACC and guided it to the postseason for the first time since 2002. As a result, Haith was a finalist for the Naismith National Coach of the Year Award.

Haith again took Miami to the NIT in 2005, and the Hurricanes won their first two games before bowing out in a heartbreaking loss to Michigan Wolverines. It was just the second time in Miami's basketball history that the Hurricanes had won back-to-back postseason games.

Haith reached just one NCAA Tournament as the head coach at Miami, leading the Hurricanes to a second-round appearance in 2008. The next season, Haith's team returned four starters, including sharpshooter Jack McClinton. Miami began the season ranked 16th in the USA Today/ESPN pre-season poll, and the media picked it to finish fourth in the ACC. However, Miami finished below .500 in conference play and missed the NCAA Tournament, instead participating in the NIT. The following season, Haith's team finished in last place in the ACC.

Haith has also led the Hurricanes to success off-the-court. Under Haith's tenure, all 8 Miami senior basketball players who have completed their eligibility have earned their degrees. Miami also placed three players on the ACC All-Academic basketball team for the 2004-2005 season, more than any school in the conference.

Missouri

On April 4, 2011, Haith accepted the head coaching job at the University of Missouri. The Missouri Tigers needed a coach after Mike Anderson left the Tigers to go back to Arkansas where he had been an assistant for 17 years. The job was originally offered to Matt Painter who turned Missouri down. Haith's first team will have six seniors and will have been to the NCAA tournament each of the last three seasons.

In August 2011 Haith was named in the Nevin Shapiro recruiting scandal at Miami in which Haith was purported to have "acknowledged" that Miami assistant basketball coach Jake Morton received $10,000 from Shapiro to recruit DeQuan Jones. Haith and Miami president Donna Shalala were photographed with Shapiro in a 2008 basketball fundraiser receiving a $50,000 check from Shapiro (which Shapiro said came from his Ponzi scheme). The move prompted Sports Illustrated columnist Luke Winn to urge that Haith be put on administrative leave before the season even begins (Winn had earlier been critical of Missouri's decision to hire Haith who had a 43-69 conference record at Miami). Haith said he would cooperate with the investigation and that the allegations "are not an accurate portrayal of my character."

First year (2011-2012 Season)

In his his first year at Missouri Haith inherited a team that a year before went 23-11 (8-8) and lost in the first round of the NCAA tournament. From that team only nine players were returning for Frank Haith's first year and the previous coaching staff had not gotten any recruits to commit so Haith in a short amount of time was able to sign some talented transfers from Auburn, Pepperdine, and Oregon. Unfortunately they would have to sit out his first year do to transfer rules which left him with a short bench. The bench got even shorter when Sr. Laurence Bowers went down with a torn ACL before the season began and after the first semester when So. Kadeem Green transfered. Bowers was the teams second best returning scorer and best returning rebounder. The loss of both Bowers and Green left Haith with only two post players and just seven total scholarship players for his first season at Mizzou. To make up for that Haith and his staff put into place a four guard system and made opposing teams try to adjust. What the Tigers lacked in size they made up for with speed, passing, and outside shooting. The season went so well that going into post season play the Tigers set a record for the most regular season wins ever with 27. The Tigers went 13-0 in the non-conference and 14-4 in Big 12 play. Mizzou was able to go 3-0 and win the Big 12 Tournament. Haith's first Missouri team at 30-4 was awarded a 2 seed in the West bracket of the 2012 NCAA Tournament.

Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Miami Hurricanes (Atlantic Coast Conference) (2004–2010)
2004–2005	Miami	16–13	7–9	T–6th	NIT 1st Round
2005–2006	Miami	18–16	7–9	T–7th	NIT Quarterfinals
2006–2007	Miami	12–20	4–12	12th
2007–2008	Miami	23–11	8–8	T–5th	NCAA 2nd Round
2008–2009	Miami	19–13	7–9	T–7th	NIT 2nd Round
2009–2010	Miami	20–13	4–12	12th
2010–2011	Miami	21–15	6–10	9th	NIT Quarterfinals
Miami:		129–101 (.561)	43–69
Missouri Tigers (Big 12 Conference) (2011–present)
2011–2012	Missouri	30–4	14–4	2nd	NCAA
Missouri:		30–4 (.882)	14–4
Total:		159–105 (.602)
National champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference tournament champion       Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference division champion

Personal

Haith is a 1988 graduate of Elon College. He and his wife, Pam, have two children; one son, Corey, and one daughter, Brianna. Haith's nephew, Sean Bell, was slain by New York City police in a controversial November 25, 2006 shooting incident.

External links

• Frank Haith's biography