Ronnie played for a state championship high school team in Texas, won three National Junior College championships as the head coach for San Jacinto College and compiled an overall winning record in seven years as an NCAA Division I head coach at the University of South Alabama, making two appearances in the NCAA tournament. Arrow said he is eager to get to work building a basketball program at the Island University. And we're ready to begin. This program has been dormant long enough. It's time to rise up from the ashes.
Arrow knows about rising from the ashes.
In 1991, he was named Sun Belt Coach of the Year after engineering the most dramatic turnaround in league history. That year, his University of South Alabama Jaguars became the first Sun Belt team ever to leap from last to first place in a single season. His teams led the Sun Belt Conference in scoring during four of his seven seasons at South Alabama. His second Jaguar club, in 1989, scored a league and school record 91 points per game and five of his seven teams scored more than 80 points per game. In 1986, his San Jacinto Junior College team averaged a national best of 101 points per game.