Acker grew up in the L.A. area and played in youth tournaments in Beach's arena
When Long Beach State began speaking to San Diego State assistant Chris Acker about its head coaching vacancy, no one had to show him where the arena is. Acker grew up in the area, played AAU tournaments at the Walter Pyramid, worked out there by Beach alum Craig Hodges, watched Kobe Bryant play NBA summer league games there. “My dream job,” Acker said. The dream officially became reality Tuesday, when Long Beach State announced Acker as its replacement for Dan Monson.
finished its season Thursday at the Sweet 16 in Boston, and Acker quickly finalized the deal. It makes sense. They worked closely when Smitheran was an associate AD at . Acker was asked to describe the last three weeks. “Extremely emotional,” he said. “It was my dream job and a place I can see myself at and a great fit for my family, so it was emotional because I wanted it so bad. But it was also emotional because I’m looking at a team I was coaching and a program I had been at for five years, thinking that I’m not going to be coaching these guys I had envisioned going to war with the following year. So it was emotional on both sides.
. “When Dutch hired me, one of the things we talked about is he didn’t want to hire guys who didn’t want to be head coaches,” he said. “That’s always been an ambition of mine since I started coaching college basketball. But I also respected that seat enough that I needed to learn every lesson possible along the way.” Which is? “The one lesson I learned from a culture standpoint is how you recruit and who you recruit,” Acker said.
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