Marquette University Athletics
Brad Autry Named to Men's Basketball Staff
5/13/2008 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
May 13, 2008
Milwaukee - Marquette University men's basketball coach Buzz Williams has announced the hiring of Brad Autry as Coordinator of Student-Athlete Development, Men's Basketball.
In his role, Autry will focus his efforts on coordinating and monitoring the daily schedules of the players currently in the program. His administrative duties will include managing class schedules and study hall attendance, scheduling individual and team community service projects and mentoring programs and coordinating student-athlete documentation as it relates to NCAA compliance.
"As we continue to build our staff, it is imperative to me that each position brings impeccable character, and whose best talent, is taking care of our players," Williams said. "I have known Brad since I was in college, and we are extremely grateful to have him here. His relationship with our players will be second to none, and our players will always know that he is doing everything he can possibly do to make sure that their tenure here is successful.
"Because of his experience, and the places he has been, his wisdom will be beneficial to all he comes in contact with," Williams added.
Autry brings nearly 20 years of experience at the collegiate level to Marquette, having made successful stops at programs including Baylor, Tulsa and Arkansas-Little Rock.
Autry arrives in Milwaukee after spending one year at Dekaney High School in Houston, Texas. He served as the fledgling program's head coach, directing four teams on the basketball court. DHS opened in the Fall of 2007 and featured only freshmen and sophomores last season as it continued its development. Autry did help guide the freshman squad to the district title in his lone campaign with the school.
Prior to Dekaney, Autry spent four seasons as an assistant coach at UALR. He was the final hire of Steve Shields' original staff and played an integral role in the early success of the Shields era at UALR. The program claimed back-to-back divisional titles (2003-04 & 2004-05) in the Sun Belt Conference for the first time in school history and the roster during Autry's tenure featured several all-conference performers, including the league's freshman of the year.
Autry was an assistant coach at Tulsa under Bill Self when the Golden Hurricane won the Western Athletic Conference championship in 2000 with a school-record 32 wins and a No. 9 national ranking while advancing to the NCAA Elite Eight.
Before his time at Tulsa, Autry was an assistant coach for five seasons at Baylor in Waco, Texas. While at Baylor, Autry coached 1998 NBA first-round pick Brian Skinner for four years and helped the Bears to a school-record 11 consecutive wins. Baylor finished 18-11 that season, its first in the Big 12 Conference.
Baylor's 1996 recruiting class was ranked as high as sixth in the nation, and the 1997-98 team recorded the school's best conference record and the highest conference finish (fifth) since Baylor joined the Big 12.
As a prep player, Autry was an Oklahoma all-state performer in football, basketball and track before continuing his playing career at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, where he graduated with his bachelor's degree in 1991.
While at NWOSU, Autry was a four-year basketball letterwinner, as well as an all-conference and all-district performer and the Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 1990. Autry began his collegiate coaching career as a graduate assistant at University of Central Oklahoma, where he earned his master's degree in education, and was a part of a Lone Star Conference championship and the NCAA Division II national tournament in 1993.
