Former Kansas basketball guard Nick Bradford remembers consulting two of his college mentors — former Jayhawks head coach Roy Williams and assistant Neil Dougherty — about his future career path.
“I told them I was going to be an agent,” Bradford, who played at KU from 1997 to 2000, said Tuesday. “They said, ‘No, you are going to be a coach.’ ”
Turns out “they” were right.
Bradford on Tuesday was announced as girls head basketball coach at Olathe North High School.
Since playing professionally in Iceland, France, Romania and Finland from 2001 to 2011, he has worked as a men’s assistant coach at Labette County Community College and Missouri Southern and was boys head coach at Mexico (Mo.