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NCAA Basketball: Retrospective look at 2011 offseason coaching hires

By Joey Loose

COLLEGE PARK, MD - JANUARY 11: (L to R) Head coachs Mark Turgeon of the Maryland Terrapins and Archie Miller of the Indiana Hoosiers shake hands before a college basketball game at the XFinity Center on January 11, 2019 in College Park, Maryland. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)
COLLEGE PARK, MD - JANUARY 11: (L to R) Head coachs Mark Turgeon of the Maryland Terrapins and Archie Miller of the Indiana Hoosiers shake hands before a college basketball game at the XFinity Center on January 11, 2019 in College Park, Maryland. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images) /
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NCAA Basketball Andy Enfield Florida Gulf Coast Eagles (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images)
NCAA Basketball Andy Enfield Florida Gulf Coast Eagles (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images) /

5. Andy Enfield (Florida Gulf Coast)

Brand new to not just D1 but to having collegiate athletics at all, Florida Gulf Coast was still coming into their own. Their first few seasons were nothing too impressive; there was nowhere to go but up for this Eagles program. In 2011, Florida Gulf Coast was set to hire just their second head coach, but this was the one to get things going for the program.

The man to jumpstart Florida Gulf Coast was Andy Enfield, a relatively young assistant coach who already had an intriguing background. He starred collegiately at Johns Hopkins as a sharpshooter and became a shooting coach for both the Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Celtics. Enfield spent the last five seasons on Leonard Hamilton’s staff at Florida State, but it was finally time for him to run his own program.

Suffice to say, the success was beyond anything most people imagined. In his first season, the Eagles took a step forward just by finishing 15-17, but 2013 was an astounding season. Enfield led Florida Gulf Coast to the NCAA Tournament by winning the ASun Tournament, then became the story of the Tournament by becoming the first 15-seed to make the Sweet Sixteen. Soon after, Enfield departed for USC, having done outstanding work to lead this young program to such heights.

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