Pending approval of the FAU Board of Trustees, Mike Jarvis will officially become the seventh head coach in the 19-year history of FAU men’s basketball.
Jarvis, 63, comes to FAU with respectable coaching resume that includes 100 or more wins with three previous NCAA Division I teams. Jarvis also coached NBA great Patrick Ewing at Rindge and Latin High School in Cambridge, Mass.
In stops at Boston University, George Washington and St. John’s Jarvis compiled a 363-202 record that was supplemented with nine NCAA Tournament appearances.
The blip on his otherwise stellar career path was his firing from St. Johns in 2003 amid allegations of NCAA violations.
Jarvis was introduced at a press conference inside the Tom Oxley Athletic Center on the Boca Raton campus on Tues. May, 27. According to reports, the four-year contract Jarvis agreed to that is being subjected to BOT approval is worth about $175,000 per year and features a buyout clause that would compensate FAU if Jarvis breaches his contract and leaves the school.
In his press conference, Jarvis spoke of FAU’s basketball future and the hope for leading the program to its second appearance in the NCAA Tournament. His chances for such an accomplishment will be buoyed by the return of a strong senior class that includes leading scorer Carlos Monroe, flashy guard Paul Graham and steady point guard Carderro Nwoji. For Monroe and Graham, Jarvis is their third coach in four years at FAU.