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USC basketball assistant Eric Mobley leaves the program

Eric Mobley is expected to join Andy Enfield at SMU.

USC basketball’s coaching staff continues to turn over. With Eric Musselman coming in and Andy Enfield leaving for SMU, spots on both coaching staffs are changing. We have already seen longtime Enfield assistant Chris Capko move to SMU to join the Mustangs. Another similar change might be about to happen. Eric Mobley has not yet signed with SMU, but he has announced that he is indeed leaving USC. It does set the stage for a move to SMU with Enfield.

Eric Mobley is responsible for bringing Evan Mobley and Isaiah Mobley to USC. We often see head coaches hire the fathers of recruits onto their coaching staffs in order to secure recruitments and also guard against transfer portal departures. Enfield hired Eric Mobley to ensure that Evan and Isaiah would become Trojans. The move was a shrewd one, and it paid off in a big way for USC basketball. Evan Mobley led USC to the Elite Eight in 2021, making the most of his one year of college basketball. Isaiah Mobley helped USC return to the NCAA Tournament in 2022, producing a very strong season for the Trojans.

The partnership between Enfield and Eric Mobley was productive. It might now continue in suburban Dallas with the Mustangs in the ACC.

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USC basketball assistant Eric Mobley has witnessed many traumatic events

Before he saw Vince Iwuchukwu and Bronny James suffer cardiac arrest, USC’s Eric Mobley saw Hank Gathers collapse in 1990.

Are sudden cardiac traumas a modern-day problem in college basketball? USC basketball assistant Eric Mobley would tell you otherwise, for the simple reason that he was right on the court when a memorably and painfully traumatic incident occurred over 30 years ago.

Yes, Eric Mobley was on the court when Loyola Marymount star Hank Gathers collapsed in 1990.

(h/t Ryan Kartje of The Los Angeles Times)

“(USC assistant Eric) Mobley had witnessed an unsettlingly similar incident decades before as a senior captain at Portland. He was matched up against Hank Gathers in March 1990 when the Loyola Marymount star suffered cardiac arrest during a West Coast Conference tournament game. Gathers was rushed to the hospital but didn’t survive. An autopsy later revealed he suffered from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. As Mobley laid Iwuchukwu down on the Galen Center sideline more than 30 years later, he couldn’t help but think of that moment and of Gathers.

“‘Things were happening so fast,’ Mobley said. ‘I was just yelling at him and shaking him and slapping him in the face, like, ‘Stay with the light!’ You could tell he was fighting. You could tell he could hear me, but it was like he couldn’t do anything.’”

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