Newsstand: How NBA is influencing Notre Dame head coach Micah Shrewsberry’s staff construction
Micah Shrewsberry’s Notre Dame staff will have some of the same people who worked for him at Penn State. It will also resemble his Nittany Lions coaching roster in another area: volume.
The inspiration for the latter is his time as a Boston Celtics assistant from 2013-19. He designs a staff with the NBA model in mind.
“One of the things I tried to do coming from the NBA back to college was I tried to adjust my staff to give our guys the same feel that you’d get at the NBA level,” Shrewsberry said on Tuesday’s Notre Dame Day live stream. “We have more coaches than a normal college basketball staff.”
Penn State had double-digit coaching staff members working for Shrewsberry the last two years. He is aiming for something similar with the Irish.
“Everybody is in a specific role, everybody knows what that role is, what they do,” Shrewsberry said. “It also allows us to give our guys individual time. That’s the biggest thing. For them to grow as players, they need that individual time. What we did with the Boston Celtics, we do here on a smaller scale.”
Penn State had the customary three assistant coaches. It also had a chief of staff, director of player development, director of recruiting, assistant to the head coach, a video coordinator, a trainer, assistant director of athletic performance and multiple graduate assistants.
Notre Dame has announced two hires to Shrewsberry’s staff: Associate head coach Kyle Getter and assistant Mike Farrelly. Getter spent the last two years as an assistant at Virginia. Farrelly held the same position at Penn State under Shrewsberry.
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