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Ed Cooley Hires Jeff Battle as Assistant Coach

Ed Cooley called upon a close friend to replace former associate head coach Bob Simon by reaching out to Jeff Battle. Simon took the associate head coach position at Alabama under newly hired head coach Avery Johnson on April 19th. Battle was out of coaching this past year after being at Wake Forest for 13 years as the associate head coach for 3 different head coaches. Battle joins associate head coach Andre LaFleur and assistant coach Brian Blaney to make up Cooley’s 3 recruiting assistant coaches. The terms of Battle’s contract with Providence were not released.

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Ed Cooley Media Blitz from Yesterday 3/17/14 #pcbb

WFAN – Mike’s On – Mike Francesa Show

ESPNU “Katz Korner”

CBS Sports “Bracket Breakdown”

Coach was also on the Tim Brando Show yesterday in the morning for a few minutes but I don’t have audio of that. The gist of the interview, which was short because Cooley was a few minutes late calling in, was how great it was to win the Big East championship and they discussed the weight loss and then Jim Boeheim was the next guest and Brando had him come on the air and congratulate Cooley which was nice.