Dan Engelstad and Brendan Straughn have new homes and won't be part of Gerry McNamara's staff.
On Sunday morning, we got word that new Syracuse basketball coach Gerry McNamara has hired a third member of his first staff with the Orange.
On Sunday afternoon, we got word that two former members of the Syracuse coaching staff have found new homes: Dan Engelstad and Brendan Straughn. The entire staff was cleaned out when former head coach Adrian Autry was fired in the middle of March.
About Engelstad
Per Pete Thamel of ESPN:
Sources: Former Syracuse assistant Dan Engelstad has accepted a job as Pepperdine’s associate head coach. He’s the former head coach at Mount St. Mary’s, which he led to the NCAA tournament in 2021. He went 104-34 as the head coach at DIII Southern Vermont.
He was also an assistant at Holy Cross (2010-13) before becoming a head coach.
As for Straughn
According to Justin Girshon of the Daily Orange, Straughn is going to join the staff at Boston College, where the Eagles have hired current Connecticut assistant Luke Murphy as their head coach.
Boston College also interviewed McNamara for the position before he took the head coaching job at Syracuse.
And Autry has a new job too
Earlier this week, Autry accepted a job as an assistant coach on Ryan Odom's staff at Virginia. The two previously worked together at Virginia Tech.
A four-player (1990-93) who started 116 games, Autry averaged 12.7 ppg for Syracuse, including 16.7 his final season. A two-time All-Big East selection, he also was a member of the 1993-94 All-Region team and of the All-Freshman team in 1990-91. He went to the NCAA Tournament three times, just missing out on the Final Four run in 1995-96.
If you enjoyed watching Syracuse basketball in the 1990s and early 2000s, Autry is one of the guys who helped carry the program to those places.
He spent more than a decade on Jim Boeheim's coaching staff before ascending to the head coaching position before the 2023-24 season.
In three seasons at the helm, he went 49-48, never making the NCAA Tournament. Syracuse went 15-17 this season, finishing under .500 for the second consecutive year.
Also on campus
--The Syracuse football team has added a new transfer, bringing in an offensive lineman from Houston.
--The No. 3 Syracuse men's lacrosse team suffered a tough 14-9 loss on Saturday afternoon at No. 2 North Carolina. The Orange will be home again on Saturday against Virginia. That will be part of a big day on campus, as the football spring game is also Saturday.
--The No. 4 Syracuse women's lacrosse team extended its winning streak to 11 on Saturday with a 10-9 win over No. 17 Duke on the road in Durham, N.C.
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