Chippewas Choose Bruin Assistant: Central Michigan filled one of the few remaining head coaching jobs by hiring UCLA assistant coach Ernie Zeigler. He comes to the Chippewas after working for Ben Howland for the past five seasons at UCLA and Pittsburgh. Zeigler hails from the Detroit area and coached at a city high school for six years in the early 1990s. Zeigler replaces Jay Smith, who resigned after nine seasons as the Chippewas’ coach. The Central Michigan job is Zeigler’s first crack at a head coaching gig. In addition to working for Howland, he has been an assistant at Kansas State and Bowling Green. [7/06/06]
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The Seven C’s of Leadership
Former college basketball coach Mike Jarvis is back with a new book, The Seven C's of Leadership.
"Every one of us has leadership within us and this book offers fascinating principals that work in any setting—from the locker room to the executive board room. In The Seven C's of Leadership, Coach Jarvis lays out the essential ingredients of leadership."
-Jay Wright, NCAA Championship Men’s Basketball Coach, Villanova University
"At a time in America when we are witnessing an epidemic of opioid addictions and deaths, along with suicides, we need Coach Jarvis' Seven C's of Leadership – grounded in the power of Christ alone where we should all make our stand.”
-Lietenant Colonel Allen B. West (U.S. Army, Retired), Bronze Star recipient, and Member 112th U.S. Congress
"The Seven C's of Leadership is a slam dunk! Coach Jarvis has always been an outstanding leader because he has the ability to decipher what true leadership really means.”
-Dale Brown, Head Men’s Basketball Coach, LSU, 1972-1997, Member of the College Basketball Hall of Fame, and Shaquille O’Neal’s college coach