Greg Foster jumps into the college coaching ranks

From the El Paso Times UTEP hoops beat reporter comes word of former Skyline High star Greg Foster both earning his B.A. degree and being formally hired as a Miner assistant coach:

UTEP basketball coaching staff move
Joe Muench
El Paso Times
June 3, 2011

This is a no-brainer UTEP basketball move that took a bit of reshuffling, that's all. Some raise eyebrows when this sort of thing happens, but it does happen.

Greg Foster, college degree newly in hand, can now be hired as a full-time college basketball coach.Great for UTEP and El Paso...

...Foster played at UTEP with [Tim] Hardaway and Antonio Davis  (our note: out of McClymonds High) in the late 1980s. He had a long NBA career. And he has good ties to the community (by marriage) He is an excellent fit in Utepia. He'll be a great ambassador for UTEP basketball, and certainly has good ties in the overall basketball world.

Here is a companion piece.