Texas A&M Basketball
Ulric Maligi to join Texas A&M Basketball coaching staff
Ulric Maligi will be named the newest assistant on Billy Kennedy's Texas A&M basketball staff.
On March 28, Maligi visited College Station and met with Kennedy to discuss the assistant coaching position after Rick Stansbury took the job as head coach at Western Kentucky University.
Each year, coaching positions open and close quickly as the basketball season comes to an end, which is why Kennedy didn't waste any time identifying who he wanted as his next assistant and making the hire.
Maligi previously held a position as national scouting director for John Lucas Enterprises (2015-2016), where he was responsible for finding and evaluating talent, among other duties.
Before his time working with John Lucas Enterprises, Maligi was an assistant under legendary coach Larry Brown at SMU for three years (2012-2015). While at Southern Methodist, he recruited McDonald's All-American Keith Frazier and NJCAA All-American Yanick Moreira.
The two years prior, Maligi was an assistant coach at the University of Houston, where he recruited and signed TaShawn Thomas (2011), an ESPN top-100 prospect that was named to the C-USA All-Freshman team in 2011-12 and All-C-USA first team in 2012-13. Maligi was also the lead recruiter in signing Danuel House and "Chicken" Knowles to the Cougars' 2012 recruiting class.
Maligi was an assistant coach from 2007-2010 at Stephen F. Austin, where he helped lead the Lumberjacks to their first NCAA Tournament appearance in 2009. Prior to SFA, he was an assistant coach at UT-Arlington from 2006-2007.
His coaching career started in Dallas in 2003, where he was the coach of the Dallas Mustangs AAU program. During his three years with the Mustangs, Maligi helped more than 50 of its players receive D1 scholarships — including high school All-Americans Byron Eaton (Oklahoma State), Anthony Randolph (LSU), Wesley Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers (Syracuse), and Donald Sloan of the Brooklyn Nets (Texas A&M).
All of the above screams 'recruiting in the state of Texas.' To have a coach on staff who was at the helm of the Dallas Mustangs AAU program and who recently coached and recruited well in Dallas forges deep ties to the Metroplex area. On top of that, ties with John Lucas and the Houston recruiting scene can only be viewed as a positive.
Ulric has been successful at enhancing the roster of each school he's coached at in the past. There's no reason why one would think he couldn't do the same in Aggieland.
On March 28, Maligi visited College Station and met with Kennedy to discuss the assistant coaching position after Rick Stansbury took the job as head coach at Western Kentucky University.
Each year, coaching positions open and close quickly as the basketball season comes to an end, which is why Kennedy didn't waste any time identifying who he wanted as his next assistant and making the hire.
Maligi previously held a position as national scouting director for John Lucas Enterprises (2015-2016), where he was responsible for finding and evaluating talent, among other duties.
Before his time working with John Lucas Enterprises, Maligi was an assistant under legendary coach Larry Brown at SMU for three years (2012-2015). While at Southern Methodist, he recruited McDonald's All-American Keith Frazier and NJCAA All-American Yanick Moreira.
The two years prior, Maligi was an assistant coach at the University of Houston, where he recruited and signed TaShawn Thomas (2011), an ESPN top-100 prospect that was named to the C-USA All-Freshman team in 2011-12 and All-C-USA first team in 2012-13. Maligi was also the lead recruiter in signing Danuel House and "Chicken" Knowles to the Cougars' 2012 recruiting class.
Maligi was an assistant coach from 2007-2010 at Stephen F. Austin, where he helped lead the Lumberjacks to their first NCAA Tournament appearance in 2009. Prior to SFA, he was an assistant coach at UT-Arlington from 2006-2007.
His coaching career started in Dallas in 2003, where he was the coach of the Dallas Mustangs AAU program. During his three years with the Mustangs, Maligi helped more than 50 of its players receive D1 scholarships — including high school All-Americans Byron Eaton (Oklahoma State), Anthony Randolph (LSU), Wesley Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers (Syracuse), and Donald Sloan of the Brooklyn Nets (Texas A&M).
All of the above screams 'recruiting in the state of Texas.' To have a coach on staff who was at the helm of the Dallas Mustangs AAU program and who recently coached and recruited well in Dallas forges deep ties to the Metroplex area. On top of that, ties with John Lucas and the Houston recruiting scene can only be viewed as a positive.
Ulric has been successful at enhancing the roster of each school he's coached at in the past. There's no reason why one would think he couldn't do the same in Aggieland.
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