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Amaker, who declined to comment, met with members of the team at around 8 a.m. Friday in the Murr Center. Later, he met with Nichols Family Director of Athletics Bob Scalise and the rest of the committee created to find a new men's basketball coach to replace Frank Sullivan, whose 16-year tenure at the helm ended when he was let go on March 5. The search committee also consists of a non-basketball member of the athletic coaching staff and two senior athletic administrators, according to Director of Athletic Communications Chuck Sullivan...
Players declined to comment on their meeting with Amaker or the ongoing search for a coach, stating that they have been forbidden to speak to the press by Scalise until the process has come to its completion...
Amaker was a point guard at Duke University under coach Mike Krzyzewski, playing on the team that lost in the NCAA championship game in 1986, the same season Amaker won the national Defensive Player of the Year award. He was an assistant coach under Kryzewski at Duke from 1988-97 before getting his first head coaching job at Seton Hall University. In four years in New Jersey he never failed to make the postseason, as the Pirates advanced to the National Invitational Tournament three times and reaching the NCAA Tournament Sweet...
Amaker, who is black, would also bring a measure of diversity to Harvard athletics. A recent Boston Globe article revealed that none of Harvard's 32 head coaches are black, and the Globe has reported that because of this fact, the institution is "scrambling" to hire a black basketball coach. Jarvis, who coached at Boston University, George Washington University, and St. John's University, is also black...
Amaker appears to be the less controversial of the two prominent candidates, as Jarvis carries the baggage of being the first Big East Conference coach to ever be fired in the midst of a season. He was let go six games into the 2003 season in the wake of the arrests of two players, and it was later disclosed that a violation of NCAA financial regulations occurred under his watch at St. John...