Question: The 1992–93 San Antonio Spurs struggled early in their season and as result fired their head coach who spent the majority of his career coaching what college team?

Context articles: Jerry Tarkanian
1991–92 San Antonio Spurs season
1992–93 San Antonio Spurs season
1996–97 San Antonio Spurs season
San Antonio Rampage
1973–74 Virginia Squires season
List of San Antonio Spurs head coaches
List of San Antonio Spurs seasons
Barry Trotz
2014–15 San Antonio Spurs season

Jerry Tarkanian (August 8, 1930 – February 11, 2015) was an American basketball coach.
 He coached college basketball for 31 seasons over five decades at three schools.
 He spent the majority of his career coaching with the UNLV Runnin' Rebels, leading them four times to the Final Four of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, winning the national championship in 1990.
 Tarkanian revolutionized the college game at UNLV, utilizing a pressing defense to fuel its fast-paced offense.
 Overall, he won over 700 games in his career, and only twice failed to win 20 games in a season.
 Tarkanian was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013.
The 1991–92 NBA season was the Spurs' 16th season in the National Basketball Association, and 25th season as a franchise.
 During the offseason, the Spurs acquired Antoine Carr from the Sacramento Kings, then in December signed free agent Vinnie Johnson.
 After a 10–3 start to the season, the Spurs struggled with mediocrity holding a 21–17 record in late January, as head coach Larry Brown suddenly stepped down and took a coaching job with the Los Angeles Clippers.
 Under replacement Bob Bass, the Spurs would play slightly stronger finishing second in the Midwest Division with a 47–35 record.
 David Robinson was selected for the 1992 NBA All-Star Game, made the All-NBA First Team and was named Defensive Player of The Year.
 In the first round of the playoffs, the Spurs were swept by the Phoenix Suns in three straight games.
 Following the season, Rod Strickland signed as a free agent with the Portland Trail Blazers, Bass was fired as coach and Johnson retired.
The 1992–93 NBA season was the Spurs' 17th season in the National Basketball Association, and 26th season as a franchise.
 During the offseason, Terry Cummings suffered a serious knee injury and only played in the final eight games of the season.
 He would no longer be the same after the injury.
 With the acquisition of Dale Ellis from the Milwaukee Bucks and signing free agent Vinny Del Negro, plus re-signing Avery Johnson after a brief stint with the Houston Rockets, the Spurs struggled with a 9–11 start to the season as new head coach Jerry Tarkanian was fired.
The 1996–97 NBA season was the Spurs' 21st season in the National Basketball Association, and 30th season as a franchise.
 During the offseason, the Spurs signed free agent and former All-Star Dominique Wilkins, who played in Greece last season, while re-signing free agent Vernon Maxwell.
 However, without All-Star center David Robinson, who played just six games due to back and foot injuries, and Chuck Person, who was out for the entire season with an offseason back injury, the Spurs struggled losing 13 of their first 15 games in November.
 After 18 games, head coach Bob Hill was fired and replaced with General Manager Gregg Popovich.
 Wilkins appeared in 63 games and led the team with 18.2 points per game.
 However, it would not be nearly enough as the Spurs finished sixth in the Midwest Division with an awful 20–62 record.
The San Antonio Rampage are an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League based in San Antonio, Texas.
 They are currently the top affiliate of the Colorado Avalanche of the NHL after signing a 5-year affiliation deal prior to the 2015–16 season.
 The Rampage are owned by the San Antonio Spurs of the NBA, who purchased a dormant AHL franchise with the NHL's Florida Panthers and moved it to San Antonio.
 The Rampage play in the AT&T Center in San Antonio, the same arena as the Spurs.
The 1973–74 Virginia Squires season was the 4th season of the Squires in the American Basketball Association.
 The team finished 6th in points scored at 106.3 points per game and 9th in points allowed at 111.3 points per game.
 The team was 15–27 midway through the season, but they went 13–29 in the second half of the season.
 Their biggest losing streak was 6 games, with their highest winning streak being 3 games, done twice.
 Despite this, they clinched the fourth and final playoff spot by 7 games.
 The Squires lost to Dr. J and the New York Nets in the Semifinals in 5 games.
 The money troubles that had troubled the franchise meant that the Squires were forced to trade away pivotal players of the franchise in order to provide short term stability.
 Julius Erving (along with Willie Sojourner) was traded to the New York Nets for George Carter and cash before the season started.
 Swen Nater was traded on November 21, 1973 to the San Antonio Spurs.
 The night of the All-Star Game, it was announced that the Squires sold George Gervin to the San Antonio Spurs for $225,000.
 Gervin's last game with the team was on February 1, but a court battle delayed his play with the Spurs, though it was all settled in favor of the Spurs by March 3.
 This was the last season the Squires made the playoffs as they went into a tailspin for the next two season, losing over 60 games each season.
The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas.
 They are a member of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 The franchise was founded as the Dallas Chaparrals of the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967.
 The team suffered from poor attendance and general disinterest by fans in Dallas, and the name "Dallas" was dropped in favor of "Texas" during the 1970–71 season in an attempt to make the team regional.
 This also proved to be a failure, and the team returned full-time to use "Dallas" for the 1971–72 season.
 The team was put up for sale after missing the playoffs in the 1972–73 season.
 The team was acquired by a group of 36 San Antonio businessmen, led by Angelo Drossos and Red McCombs, who relocated the team to San Antonio, Texas and renamed it to Spurs.
 In 1976, the ABA folded, threatening the future of San Antonio's sole professional sports franchise.
 The NBA, however, decided to admit four ABA teams into the league, including the Spurs, along with the Denver Nuggets, the Indiana Pacers and the New York Nets.
The San Antonio Spurs are a professional basketball team based in San Antonio that competes in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 They were founded in Dallas, Texas as the Dallas Chaparrals, one of the eleven charter franchises of the American Basketball Association (ABA), in 1967.
 During the 1970–71 season, in an attempt to make the team a regional one, the name "Dallas" was dropped in favor of "Texas" and some home games were played in Fort Worth and Lubbock, but low attendance figures prompted the team to return full-time to Dallas the following season.
 In 1973 the franchise relocated to San Antonio and was renamed the San Antonio Spurs.
 Three years later the Spurs were one of four ABA franchises who joined the NBA as a result of the ABA–NBA merger.
Barry Trotz (born July 15, 1962) is a Canadian ice hockey coach.
 He is the head coach of the National Hockey League's Washington Capitals and the former head coach of the NHL's Nashville Predators.
 He was previously the coach of the American Hockey League's Baltimore Skipjacks and Portland Pirates, with whom he won an AHL championship in 1994.
 That same year, he won the Louis A.R. Pieri Memorial Award, which is awarded to the outstanding coach in the AHL as voted upon by the AHL Broadcasters and Writers.
 On February 20, 2013 Lindy Ruff was fired by the Buffalo Sabres, making Trotz the longest-tenured head coach in the NHL.
 He was also the second-longest tenured coach in the four major North American professional leagues, behind only Gregg Popovich of the NBA's San Antonio Spurs.
 On April 14, 2014, the Nashville Predators announced that Trotz would not return for his 16th season as head coach.
 On May 26, 2014, Trotz was announced as the new head coach of the Washington Capitals.
The 2014–15 San Antonio Spurs season was the 48th season of the franchise, 39th in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and 42nd in the San Antonio area.
 The Spurs were the defending NBA Champions, having defeated the Miami Heat in the 2014 NBA Finals 4 games to 1.
 On April 3, 2015 after their victory over the Denver Nuggets they clinched a 50+ win season for the 16th consecutive season.
 The Spurs started the season slow and exceeded their previous season of 20 losses, but managed an eleven-game winning streak within the last 12 games and finished 55-27, finishing third in the Southwest on a tie breaker to the Memphis Grizzlies.
 The Spurs' season ended with a Game 7 first round loss to the Los Angeles Clippers, after a layup by Chris Paul with 1 second on the clock.
 The team hired former WNBA point guard Becky Hammon as an assistant head coach, making her the first full-time female assistant coach in the NBA .