Notre Dame makes first two hires to Micah Shrewsberry's staff
Micah Shrewsberry has reportedly made his first two staff hires at Notre Dame. They’re two coaches with ties to him.
Shrewsberry has hired Virginia assistant Kyle Getter to be the Irish’s associate head coach and former Penn State assistant Mike Farrelly to the same position, according to a report from Stadium’s Jeff Goodman. The Irish are also expected to hire Brian Snow, Penn State’s director of recruiting the last two years, to a similar role, BlueandGold.com has confirmed.
Farrelly was on Shrewsberry’s Penn State staff from 2021-23. He was a longtime mid-major assistant and was named the acting head coach at Hofstra in 2020-21 before Shrewsberry hired him. Getter, who worked at Virginia from 2018-23, is a Hanover College alum who graduated from there two years after Shrewsberry. He brings five years of ACC experience to Notre Dame.
Virginia hired Getter as its director of recruiting/player development in 2018 and elevated him to assistant coach in 2021. He has spent most of his career coaching in Virginia. Before going to the Cavaliers, he was as an assistant at Liberty from 2015-18 and an assistant at Radford from 2011-15. He was the director of basketball operations at VCU from 2009-11 and had a prior one-year stint as a Liberty assistant from 2008-09.
Getter was on Virginia’s staff when the Cavaliers won the national title. He was part of VCU’s 2011 Final Four run as a No. 11 seed.
The last time Getter coached outside Virginia was 2007-08, when he was an assistant at Division II Walsh University in Ohio. He was the director of basketball operations at Marshall from 2005-07, replacing Shrewsberry in that role. He was a student assistant and an assistant at Hanover from 1999-2002. Shrewsberry’s final year as a Hanover player was 1999.
Farrelly went 13-10 as Hofstra’s acting head coach. He was an assistant for the Pride from 2013-20, working under head coach Joe Mihalich. He was on Mihalich’s staff at Niagara from 2011-13 and followed him to Hofstra. His first Division I assistant job was at Mount Saint Mary’s in 2010-11.
Farrelly’s hire means at least one of Penn State’s three assistants under Shrewsberry is coming to Notre Dame. Nittany Lions associate head coach Adam Fisher was hired as Temple’s head coach March 29. Aki Collins, Shrewsberry’s third Penn State assistant, has not yet latched on with a new staff since Shrewsberry took the Notre Dame job. He is, though, one of Shrewsberry’s oldest friends in the coaching profession. The two worked together at Marshall from 2003-05.
