Glenn Wilkes

Glenn Wilkes (born November 28, 1928) is a former collegiate basketball coach who was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.^[1] He attended Mercer College.^[2] He is known as the Godfather of Florida basketball.^[3] He had over 550 wins along with 27 winning seasons.^[4] He coached from 1957 to 1993.^[1] He was the coach of the Stetson Hatters and helped in their transition from the NAIA to NCAA Division I.^[5] He wrote a book called basketball.^[6] His son, Glenn Wilkes Jr. is a basketball coach at Rollins College.^[7]

References

1 2 Sentinel, Orlando. "Longtime Stetson coach Glenn Wilkes takes well-deserved victory tour to Hall of Fame".
↑ "Glenn Wilkes Coaching Record - College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com".
↑ "The Real "Godfather": Legendary coach Glenn Wilkes talks Stetson, Michael Jordan and Gambling and Lebron James". 20 February 2013.
↑ "A-Sun Hall of Fame Spotlight: Stetson's Glenn Wilkes, Sr. - ASUN Conference".
↑ "College Basketball Hall to Receive Wilkes Sunday - The Official Athletics Web site of Stetson University".
↑ Wilkes, Glenn (1 May 1997). "Basketball". McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages – via Amazon.
↑ "Glenn Wilkes, Jr.".

Stetson Hatters men's basketball head coaches

Unknown (1900–1901)
No team (1901–1903)
Unknown (1903–1904)
No team (1904–1907)
Unknown (1907–1908)
No team (1908–1909)
Unknown (1909–1910)
No team (1910–1911)
Neil Jones (1911–1912)
No team (1912–1913)
Steve Jordan (1913–1914)
S. B. Jennings (1914–1915)
Dutch Hollander (1915–1917)
No team (1917–1919)
Pug Allen (1919–1924)
Herbert McQuillan (1924–1935)
Chet Freeman (1935–1938)
Brady Cowell # (1938–1939)
Ben Clemons (1939–1941)
Brady Cowell (1941–1942)
No team (1942–1945)
Brady Cowell (1945–1946)
Ben Clemons (1946–1949)
Bob Trocolor (1949–1950)
Loren Ellis (1950–1951)
Jay Pattee (1951–1952)
Dick Morland (1952–1957)
Glenn Wilkes (1957–1993)
Dan Hipsher (1993–1995)
Randy Brown (1995–1997)
Murray Arnold (1997–2001)
Derek Waugh (2001–2011)
Casey Alexander (2011–2013)
Corey Williams (2013– )

Pound sign (#) denotes interim head coach.

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