player_team coach_years current_team championships birth_place player_positions player_years coach_team awards current_title sport birth_date current_conference article_title name alma_mater
phillips county cc mississippi state 1983 1988 -- 1990 1990 -- 1991 1991 -- 1993 1993 -- -- 1994 1994 -- 1996 1996 -- 1997 1997 -- 1984 2002 2002 -- present 1984 -- 1986 1986 -- 1988 middle tennessee big sky regular season -lrb- 1989 , 1990 -rrb- sky tournament -lrb- 1989 , 1990 -rrb- big leakesville , mississippi guard 1978 -- 1980 1980 -- 1982 mississippi -lrb- asst. -rrb- idaho texas a & m chipola jc state -lrb- asst. -rrb- chipola jc utah state -lrb- asst. -rrb- -lrb- idaho lsu -lrb- asst. -rrb- middle tennessee asst. -rrb- southwest mississippi cc idaho sun big sky coach of the year -lrb- 1989 -rrb- belt coach of the year -lrb- 2003 -rrb- head coach basketball 14 december 1959 conference usa kermit davis
 kermit davis , jr. . mississippi state university
kermit davis

kermit `` froggy '' davis , jr. -lrb- born december 14 , 1959 -rrb- is an american college basketball coach , the men 's head coach at middle tennessee state university since 2002 .
davis was previously the associate head coach at lsu for five seasons .
his head coaching experience included brief stops at idaho -lrb- twice -rrb- and texas a&m .
when promoted from assistant to head coach at idaho in 1988 at age 28 , davis was the youngest head coach in ncaa division i .
he had been an assistant for two seasons with the vandals under new and first-time head coach tim floyd , who left for new orleans .
floyd had rejuvenated the program and under davis , idaho had consecutive 25 -- 6 -lrb- -rrb- seasons in 1989 and 1990 , winning the big sky regular season and tournament titles to make the ncaa tournament both years .
he left the palouse for texas a&m of the southwest conference in march 1990 , but resigned a year later after an 8 -- 21 -lrb- -rrb- first season .
after three years at a junior college in florida and two seasons as an assistant at utah state , davis returned to idaho as head coach in march 1996 , then left a year later to become associate head coach under john brady at lsu .
