American Idle: Schilling Returns to Head-Coaching Status After 21 Seasons

Forget Easter-important three days. It was significantly more than three years for their head-coaching resurrections. Ed Schilling was in NCAA Division I head-coaching mothballs 21 seasons until hired by Pepperdine. In the "Star Wars" of college hoopdom, he was almost frozen in carbonite like Han Solo as long as Alvin Brooks, who returned as Lamar's bench boss in 2021-22 after 23 seasons sans such designation. Brooks and Schilling join Kevin Johnson and Rob Lanier as the four active head coaches serving in non-college head coaching capacities at least 14 seasons before returning to the DI level as a head pilot: