Aggers Awaits Decision Over Coaching Position At Lmu

Eastern Washington University men’s basketball coach Steve Aggers expects to find out in the next few days whether he will be offered a similar position at Loyola Marymount.

Aggers, who was named the Big Sky Conference coach of the year for the second time in two seasons after guiding the Eagles to a share of their first regular-season league title, talked with Loyola officials last week.

He left this morning to attend the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament in Indianapolis, where he will be honored as the National Association of Basketball Coaches District 13 coach of the year.

“They’ve contacted me and shown some interest in me,” Aggers said of LMU officials Wednesday morning. “I think we’ll know more about that situation in the next two or three days, maybe four.”

The Los Angeles Times reported Aggers was the No. 2 candidate behind former LMU player Mike Dunlap, who recently led Denver’s Metro State to a NCAA Division II national championship. Dunlap visited the Loyola campus on Tuesday, but there is speculation among the coaching ranks that Dunlap, George Raveling’s former assistant at USC, might opt pursue the coaching vacancy at Colorado State.

Aggers reiterated that he is happy at Eastern. “I am very happy living here, as opposed, maybe, to living in Los Angeles,” he said. “I love the quality of life here, but in this business you have to at least listen when opportunities present themselves, and that’s all I’m doing right now.”

Aggers has also been contacted by Cal State Fullerton about its coaching vacancy, but he said he is less interested in that position than Loyola Marymount’s.