Louisville, Kenny Payne hire Pac-12 support staffer as assistant coach

After bringing on Nolan Smith and Danny Manning as his first two assistant coaches, new Louisville head coach Kenny Payne has tabbed his third assistant with the hiring of Josh Jamieson on Wednesday afternoon.

Jamieson comes to Louisville as an assistant coach after spending the past 15 seasons at Oregon. While he served as the Ducks’ executive director last season, Jamieson spent the previous 14 years as the program’s director of basketball operations.

“I’m so happy and excited that Josh is joining our staff,” Payne said in a statement. “His experience in helping run a program and his basketball knowledge will be invaluable to me and our entire staff. Josh’s work ethic and passion for the job and young people will be essential to building a championship culture here at UofL. He truly is of the secret gems of college basketball who now gets to come out of the shadows.”

Prior to Jamieson’s time at Oregon, he spent the 2005-2007 seasons as an assistant coach at South Medford (Ore.) High School. He was an assistant coach at the University of Portland before that.

“I am both extremely excited and deeply honored to be joining Coach Payne’s staff at Louisville,” Jamieson said in a statement. “I have been blessed to work with Coach Payne and I share his unbreakable commitment to developing young men in a way that allows them to reach their true potential. The opportunity to join the Louisville family is very special to me and my family.”

Louisville officially announces hiring of Danny Manning to coaching staff

New Louisville head men’s basketball coach Kenny Payne has made a home run hire, bringing on veteran college basketball coach Danny Manning as his associate head coach.

Manning, 55, most recently served as an assistant and then interim head coach at Maryland and was the head coach at Wake Forest from 2014-2020. Prior to his time at Wake Forest, Manning served as the head coach at Tulsa from 2012-2014 and was an assistant at Kansas from 2006-2012.

A Hattiesburg, Mississippi native, Manning played at Kansas from 1984-1988 and was the top overall pick in the 1988 NBA Draft by the Los Angeles Clippers. He played in the NBA until 2003, which included stints with the Clippers, Atlanta Hawks, Phoenix Suns, Milwaukee Bucks, Utah Jazz, Dallas Mavericks and Detroit Pistons. Manning was a two-time NBA All-Star in 1993 and 1994.