JOHNSON CITY — East Tennessee State University has named a former Tennessee assistant as its next men’s basketball coach.
The school promoted assistant coach Jason Shay to head coach Wednesday.
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— ETSU Athletics (@ETSUAthletics) May 7, 2020
Shay replaces Steve Forbes, another former UT assistant, who led the Buccaneers to the Southern Conference regular-season championship and tournament title en route to being named conference coach of the year in 2020.
Forbes was named head coach at Wake Forest recently and was hired there by former Tennessee athletics director John Currie.
Shay and Forbes were both assistant coaches for the Volunteers under Bruce Pearl.
Shay, who was named interim head coach at ETSU upon Forbes’ departure, was an assistant for the Bucs over the past five seasons. He was an assistant on Rocky Top for six seasons and worked for Pearl for more than a decade.
Forbes, who guided ETSU to a 30-4 record last season, coached in Knoxville between 2006-11.