Tommies hire Mac coach
Glenn Caruso went 6-12 in two seasons at Macalester after inheriting a 2-25 team. |
St. Thomas' new coach won't have to change his commute much. The
Tommies hired Macalester coach Glenn Caruso, who was introduced
Thursday afternoon as the program's 29th head coach.
He replaces Don Roney, who resigned after compiling a 54-44 record
in 10 seasons. St. Thomas and Macalester are separated by a little
over a mile of Grand Avenue in St. Paul.
Caruso, who inherited a Macalester program with two dozen
players, led the Scots to a 4-5 record this past season. He had
inherited a program that had lost its past 14 games and 25 of its
past 27. St. Thomas finished an uncharacteristic 2-8 this past
season.
"My feelings for this job are very real. It this a place I could be
for the rest of my career? Yeah," said the 33-year-old coach at
Thursday's news conference. Caruso, an Ithaca graduate, was an
assistant at South Dakota before taking the Macalester job.
"I was looking for a guy who could take this campus by storm," said
athletic director Steve Fritz. Other finalists included an NAIA
national coach of the year, UW-Whitewater offensive coordinator Jim
Zebrowski and a 30-year Division I and II assistant coach.