Stan Heath Hired as New Men's Basketball Coach at South Florida

Stan Heath is a wealthy and happy man. After just one week after being let go by the University of Arkansas Heath was hired by the University of South Florida to try and resurrect a dormant program which has lacked a winning record since they were coached by Seth Greenberg (now at Virginia Tech) and led on the floor by B.B. Waldon. It can be said that Heath is a wealthy man because he just accepted a buyout agreement from the Razorback Administration for $900,000 per year over the next three years. This is on top of the 4.25 million dollars he could potentially earn with South Florida over the next five years. Heath takes over for Bob McCullum who despite his valiant efforts just couldn't quite anything going within the Big East and went 40-76 over his four years at the school so athletic director John Gerdes knew there had to be a change.

Heath was known as a dynamite recruiter having landed several McDonald's All Americans at Arkansas in his somewhat brief tenure there. He always seemed to be one player away from leading Arkansas deep into the NCAA Tournament, but given the fact that Al Jefferson decided to go to the NBA straight out of high school to go to the Boston Celtics eventually instead of heading to Fayetteville was a real blow for Heath and his program.