Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, April 2, 1991 TAG: 9104020118
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-5 EDITION: STATE
SOURCE: RAY COX SPORTSWRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Wake Forest assistant Jerry Wainwright said Monday that he has not been contacted by Radford University officials.
"I think they're going to go a different way this time," he said. "They've had enough time to contact the people they're interested in."
Wainwright, 43, said he would not seek the job a second time unless Radford showed an interest in him.
Wainwright is in his sixth year at Wake Forest. He is well familiar with Radford because of his long-standing association with the Five-Star camp that summers there. Wainwright, a Chicago native, was viewed as the runner-up when Purnell got the job.
Purnell left Radford after his third year there to take over the program at Old Dominion, his alma mater.
In other developments with the Radford search, an interesting name apparently was making the rumor-mill rounds at the Final Four: former Virginia Tech and Tennessee boss Don DeVoe.
"I know very little about the situation at Radford," DeVoe said. "Usually, in these kinds of situations, the officials at the school know who they have in mind and they pursue him. I have not spoken to anybody from Radford, so from the standpoint, any comment I would have would be premature."
Another potential candidate, North Carolina-Wilmington assistant Jeff Reynolds, said he had heard nothing from Radford, but he would be interested nevertheless.
"I think that's the premier job in the Big South Conference," he said.
Reynolds, 34, has basis for that opinion. He was an assistant at league member Winthrop for four years before going to Wilmington.
Reynolds has held a variety of positions in coaching. Included in his resume is a 22-6 1985-86 season at Division III North Carolina Wesleyan, where he was the head coach, and stints as an assistant at Randolph-Macon and James Madison. He was head coach at Carroll County High for a year in the early 1980's.
As for names that have surfaced in connection with the Radford vacancy, Highlanders assistant Ron Bradley has to be considered the front-runner based on his record as a head coach at NAIA Eastern Nazarene, a Massachusetts school at which Bradley was 96-51 over five years, and his tour at Maryland from 1983-89. Bradley, who spent the 1989-90 season as an assistant to the athletic director at Maryland, came to Radford before this past season.
Bradley has been endorsed by Purnell, Highlanders leading scorer Doug Day and top recruit Jamie Warren.
Other names that have surfaced in connection with vacancy include Virginia assistant Tom Perrin, Virginia Tech assistant Jim Baker, Davidson assistants Matt Doherty and Don Hogan, Winthrop assistant Bobby Stevens, Wichita State assistant Tom McCorry, Temple women's assistant Jim Casciano and James Madison assistant Bart Bellairs.
by CNB