-Played baseball in college at Rio Grande for first two years of college. Got to know basketball coach and had passion to coach

-Transferred to Urbana and helped out as a student assistant

-Kept on full-time after he finished at Urbana and stayed around for two more seasons

-Became a GA for two seasons at Ashland and coached under Keith Dambrot in second season

-Worked camps and connected with Steve Moore (second in D3 all-time wins) giving him an opportunity to spend six seasons with him as an assistant at The College of Wooster

-Could have been happy being an assistant coach there for 30 years but thought (main duties were coaching and recruiting)

-Thought maybe it was time to get a head coaching job and move on

-Interviewed at a few places and was offered the job at Illinois College

-Took on many different duties including coaching multiple sports at Illinois College

-Vastly different situation from College of Wooster to Illinois College

-Went away from motion and started running more sets to get better shots

-Recruiting improved and team qualified for conference tournament in third season (first time in school history)

-Won Midwest Conference Tournament in 2002-03 and qualified for the NCAA Tournament by beating Grinnell at old Darby.

-What was it like to play Grinnell?

-Travel in the Midwest Conference and Friday/Saturday back to back games

-Prepped with Saturday scouting report on previous Monday, then Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday for Friday night game

-How it ended during the 2017-18 season

-Only had $3,500 for assistant coach in his last season

-In his 22 years, his assistants made around $60,000 combined

-Had multiple coaches under him go on to lead their own programs

-Took an early retirement buyout that the college was offering

-Former assistant coach under him, Steve Thompson (College of Wooster grad), was an AD at Eureka and then took the Bethany AD job

-In the summer of 2018, Steve asked Mike if he wanted to come work for him

-Currently Associate Athletic Director and does “whatever needs to be done”

-Will be an assistant for basketball this season, teaches classes and may help with tennis as well

-“Any other duties assigned.”

-Averaged 22 to 30 guys on the roster per year to help the college with enrollment and played JV schedule

-“Once you get to a certain point, if you don’t make a move you’re almost bound to stay and hope it works out.”

-Misses the coaching part

-“You miss having a team.”

-Misses being miserable

-Still stays connected to former Illinois College and College of Wooster players

-30 or 31 players or student coaches/managers met their spouse at Illinois College

-Had the opportunity to coach Lamont Paris at Wooster who is now the head coach at Tennessee Chattanooga

-Also coached Ryan Pedon at College of Wooster who is currently an assistant coach at Ohio State

-The advice to his son on coaching at Ashland as a GA currently

-What it was like coaching Jacob Tucker

-Following him down to Houston at the Slam Dunk contest and the stories with him winning it

-“If you want to do the college game, you have to do it when you are young.”

-Enjoys talking with other coaches at Bethany because he has been through some things

-“Have your resume ready.”

-Enjoyed coaching in the competitive Midwest Conference