Oklahoma University officially has tapped former KU assistant Jerry Green director of basketball operations. Green, 61, former head coach at Oregon and Tennessee, begins work on coach Kelvin Sampson’s staff today. He worked for Roy Williams at KU from 1989 to ’92.
“I really had not had a great desire to get back in,” Green told the Daily Oklahoman. He last coached in 2001 at Tennessee. “At 57, we decided we’ll just sit back and relax. But after a while, boating, golfing and fishing isn’t as exciting as it used to be.
“Roy said he knew the exact person I needed to talk to. Then when I talked to Kelvin, I could see they wanted to upgrade this position from a young-person deal where a guy gets an offer from somewhere like Western Kentucky and they take it. I’m not going to do that. I’m committed to being here.”
