Thursday, August 14, 2008

Clyde Vaughan to Las Cruces?

Clyde Vaughan was riding high as an assistant to Jim Calhoun at Connecticut until a legal issue -- solicitation -- arose, forcing his resignation in 2004. Vaughan, who also assisted at South Florida and Long Beach State prior to coming to The Constitution State, enjoyed a fine career at Pitt and was the leading scorer in the Big East in 1982-1983.

Word is that Vaughan is going to be hired at New Mexico State by Marvin Menzies. ESPN's Andy Katz in a subscription-required section of the site, had this:

"...New Mexico State coach Marvin Menzies is expected to hire former Connecticut and South Florida assistant Clyde Vaughan. NMSU administrators were meeting to approve the hire this week. Vaughan's coaching career at UConn crashed and burned when he was arrested on a solicitation charge in Hartford in August of 2004. Vaughan spent the past few years working out high school and college players..."

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