Next up in our award-winning series of profiles on head coaching candidates is a familiar face: current Providence Friars head coach Ed Cooley. It would be an interesting move to acquire a coach from within the Big East, as he would be more familiar than most other candidates with the Hoyas recent scheme and struggles. Cooley’s teams are unfailingly competitive and, as was the case this year, meet or outperform preseason expectations.
After a four-year playing career at Stonehill College in Massachusetts, Cooley began his New England coaching journey with one-year assistant stops at UMass-Dartmouth, Stonehill and the University of Rhode Island before settling in for a 9 year stint at Boston College.