Florida State will have to bring on a new assistant late in the cycle this year
Florida State Basketball assistant coach Steve Smith will be leaving for a similar role with Boston College, per Pete Thamel of ESPN. Smith spent the last five seasons in Tallahassee after a long stint at Clemson, where he worked with Earl Grant, who is now Boston College's head coach.
Sources: Boston College men's basketball is hiring Florida State assistant coach Steve Smith as an assistant coach. Smith is leaving Florida State after five seasons there and has 12 years of ACC experience as an assistant.This is a fairly late move in the cycle, though at least it's happening after the close of the transfer portal. Smith was Florida State's lead recruiter for a lot of their top targets.
With Coach Hamilton's long-term future in doubt, this seems like a move made with future job security in mind for Smith. Hamilton's contract expires at the end of the 2024-25 season and will be 76 years old by the time this upcoming season starts. Florida State has been just 43-53 over their last three seasons, bottoming out with a 9-23 2022-23 campaign.
Florida State has undergone a lot of assistant coach turnover in the last five years after stability throughout the 2010s. Dennis Gates left to become the head coach at Cleveland State in the 2019 offseason, Charlton Young joined Gates at Missouri once he took that job in 2022, RJay Barsh was brought on to replace Young but left to be an assistant at Gonzaga after just one season, and now Smith will be leaving for Boston College.
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