Cincinnati Bearcats Basketball Reportedly Adding Successful DIII Coach to Jerrod Calhoun's Staff

Fuline has been the head coach at the Division III school since 2011-12 and also just held the associate athletic director role. Fuline should be a nice boon to Calhoun's staff with over a decade of administration experience under his belt.

Fuline landed the Mount Union gig early last decade after Fuline came to Mount Union following eight years as a head coach at Massillon Jackson (2005-11) and Rootstown (2003-05) high schools.

The Bearcats are up to 10 players on their current roster, all coming from the transfer ranks as Calhoun wipes the slate clean from the Wes Miller era right away.

Cincinnati's bench staff is filled up, so Fuline will help in more of an off-the-court role when it comes to game action during the season.

“Yeah. I mean, I think a lot of coaches make a lot of mistakes, right? So what you do the next two weeks is going to affect an entire fan base, an entire university, affect our team, right?” Calhoun said to WCPO recently. “So we never want to skip those steps. We want to have a very thorough process. We're not going to sacrifice talent over character. Have never done that, and we'll stick to the processes that we always do. We have a formula for every position, and then, you know, you have to do a really, really good job when you're communicating with the families. And we really identify guys that talk about winning, right at the end of the day, we're all in this to win, right? There's a certainty, a price point, a role point, but to me, it's all about winning.”

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