Davis Expected To Discuss Ewu Job With Drummond

Kermit Davis will speak Monday with the president of Eastern Washington University in a phone conversation that will likely determine whether Davis becomes the school’s next men’s basketball coach, a source indicated Saturday.

EWU president Dr. Mark Drummond is in Seattle this weekend. Davis, an assistant at Utah State, coached at Idaho from 1988-90.

Davis could not be reached at his home in Logan, Utah. The other candidates are Seattle Pacific coach Ken Bone and Kansas State assistant Steve Aggers.

Bone, who left Saturday for a weekend vacation, said Friday he had not been contacted by EWU.

The Spokesman-Review reported Saturday that Davis, 35, has been offered the EWU job and will decide over the weekend whether to accept.

Aggers said Saturday he was unaware Davis was offered the job.

“I talked to one of the assistant athletic directors (Ron Raver) on Friday,” Aggers said. “He swore up and down that the job has not been offered to anybody. Because when I was there (for an interview Wednesday), I said, ‘Now, is (hiring Davis) something that the president wants?’

“He kind of indicated maybe I’m wrong that the selection committee and the A.D. kind of wanted me and the president wants Kermit because he’s proven he can win in that league.”

Drummond, Raver and athletic director John Johnson could not be reached Saturday.