Three weeks after being let go by Wyoming, former Kentucky player Allen Edwards has joined Stan Johnson’s coaching staff at Loyola Marymount as an assistant.
Here are details:
Three weeks after being let go as the basketball head coach at Wyoming, Allen Edwards was among the assistant coaches add to the Loyola-Marymount staff of new head coach Stan Johnson, according to Jeff Goodman of watchstadium.com.
Edwards spent the last nine years at Wyoming, the first five as an assistant to Larry Shyatt, and was promoted to the head coach job after Shyatt stepped down after the 2015-2016 season. Let go with a year remaining on his contract, which runs through the end of April, Edwards will receive $256,676 — $36,668 for the final two months on his contract for 2019-2020, and $220,008 for the final year of his contract, 2020-2021.
Edwards had an impressive beginning to his tenure as the head coach at Wyoming. The Cowboys won 23 games and the CBI championship to cap off the 2016-17 season, and followed that up with a 20-13 effort in 2017-18.
