LIU-Brooklyn Parts Ways With Jack Perri, Early Candidate List Emerges

LIU-Brooklyn has parted ways with head coach Jack Perri after five seasons, sources told ZAGSBLOG.

The news was first reported by Jon Rothstein and others.

Perri went 20-12 this season, 13-5 in the Northeast Conference and produce conference Player of the Year Jerome Frink, a former St. Anthony’s standout.

Perri went 77-79 in five seasons.

Early candidates include former Fordham coach Tommy Pecora, Iona associate head coach Jared Grasso, former Duquesne coach Jim Ferry, former Drexel coach Bruiser Flint and St. Thomas Aquinas coach Tobin Anderson.

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