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Now with his coaching staff complete, Texas Tech basketball coach Pat Knight has all hands on deck with recruiting and offseason activities continuing through the summer.
Pat Knight promoted video coordinator Brooks "Bubba" Jennings to assistant coach Tuesday, completing his coaching staff for the 2008-09 season.
Jennings has strong ties to Lubbock and the Red Raider basketball program, as he was a player in the 1980s under Gerald Myers, current Tech athletics director. After graduating in 1985 with a degree in physical therapy, he worked as a graduate assistant under Myers. He also was a high school coach in the Lubbock area.
"Bubba has really earned this opportunity," Pat Knight said in a press release. "He did an outstanding job for us as video coordinator and I'm looking forward to having him coaching, working with players on the court, and recruiting for Texas Tech. He had a great playing career as a Red Raider and had the opportunity to play for and learn from coach Myers. He's a wealth of Texas Tech basketball history and success."
Jennings' coaching career includes many accomplishments at the high school level with two state championships as a head coach at Artesia High School in Artesia, N.M. He also was a head coach at Coronado High School in Lubbock, claiming a district and bi-district championship. Those efforts at Coronado earned him City Coach of the Year and District 3-5A Coach of the Year Awards.
As a player, Jennings finished his career with 1,727 points scored. As a senior in the 1984-85 season, he scored 19.5 points per game while playing 31 games. He is the all-time leader in free throw percentage at .849.
Myers said Jennings' attributes as a player should transfer to his attributes as a coach in the upcoming season.
"He was a very talented, dedicated, focused player," he said. "Very hard-working player. Those same characteristics that made him a great player will make him a very good coach."
During the 2008-09 season in February, Jennings was on the bench coaching players.
Jennings said he learned all he could from former Tech coach Bob Knight to prepare him the assistant coaching job.
"He's got so much knowledge and he knows so much about the game," he said. "He can really pick out the little things that make a big difference in a game. You get to be beside him everyday for seven years. Every single day you pick up stuff."
The Red Raider coaching staff is on the road recruiting this month. As a part of the coaching staff, Jennings will head on the road to help recruit Saturday.
Jennings said his chance to coach the players last season also will help his transition during the 2008-09 season. He said he looks forward to the maturation of some of the core players on last year's team such as John Roberson, Mike Singletary, Trevor Cook and D'Walyn Roberts.
Jennings will enter his eighth with the program.
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