Ron Jirsa

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Name = Ron Jirsa
Sport = Basketball


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College = Minnesota
Title = Assistant Coach
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OverallRecord = 78-104
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CoachYears = 1981-1983
1983-1984
1984-1985
1985-1988
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2007-present
CoachTeams = Connecticut College (asst.)
Delaware (asst.)
VCU (asst.)
Tulsa (asst.)
Belmont Abbey (asst.)
Gardner-Webb (asst.)
Tulsa (asst.)
Tulsa (assoc. head coach)
Georgia (assoc. head coach)
Georgia
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Marshall
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Ron Jirsa is a men's basketball coach. He has previously been the head coach at the University of Georgia and Marshall University.

Jirsa graduated from Gettysburg College in 1981. He bounced around as an assistant coach, but had two significant stints at the University of Tulsa, first under J. D. Barnett and second under Tubby Smith. Smith promoted Jirsa to associate head coach in 1994, and Jirsa followed Smith to the University of Georgia. When Smith departed for the University of Kentucky in 1997, Jirsa remained at Georgia and became head coach. He did not have much success in his two years at Georgia and was fired in 1999 after going 35-30. Jirsa moved to Dayton and was an assistant for four seasons there before getting another head coaching job at Marshall. Jirsa was fired after four seasons at Marshall, going 43-74. [Associated Press. "Jirsa out at Marshall after 13-19 season." "ESPN", Mar. 12, 2007. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2795391] He has currently returned to coaching under Tubby Smith as an assistant at the University of Minnesota.

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* [http://herdzone.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/jirsa_ron00.html Marshall Biography]