Tag: Jack Perri

Ferry goes to Duquesne, Perri takes over at LIU

It’s official. Jim Ferry is going to become the next head coach at Duquesne. LIU Brooklyn wasted absolutely no time in bringing in his successor. Jack Perri, who had been the associate head coach for the past five seasons, is taking over as the head coach.

“Over the past seven years, I have grown to love the LIU community,” Perri said in a statement. “I cannot put into words just how strongly I feel about this university and how proud I am to lead this team of talented student-athletes. The tradition of LIU Brooklyn basketball speaks for itself and I will work tirelessly to ensure that our program is of the highest caliber on the court, in the classroom and in the community.”

Perri is 36 years old and has been at LIU for the past seven seasons. While he was at Division II Bentley University Perri was very involved in the schools’ recruiting efforts. Most of his coaching experience and background comes from the Northeastern part of the country as Perri coached at Bentley and then was the head coach at Division III Rhode Island College, where he went 20-9 and won a Coach of the Year award in his only season.

I’ll have much more on Perri and Ferry’s move in the future.

Manhattan’s hiring of Ferry continues upwardly mobile MAAC

The MAAC continued to show that it’s going to be an upwardly mobile league in terms of coaching candidates with the hiring of former Long Island head coach Jim Ferry. Ferry was 98-134 with the Blackbirds before this season, but a 27-6 record and his second Jim Phelan Coach of the Year award made him a hot commodity in coaching circles. Ferry’s LIU teams played an exciting version of basketball and finished third in adjusted tempo in the NCAA and made the NCAA Tournament. The draws for Manhattan are pretty obvious.

Unlike the situation we looked at yesterday, this isn’t a lateral move in terms of competition either. The Northeastern Conference finished 25th amongst the 31 conferences that receive automatic bids to the NCAA Tournament in Ken Pomeroy, whereas the MAAC was 16th. It will definitely be a challenge for Ferry. What’s really interesting about the move is that it doesn’t appear to come with any more financial resources, but, considering the effort Fairfield put into getting Sydney Johnson and Manhattan snatching up Ferry, maybe that’s about to change.

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