Terry Rooney Leaving UCF For Alabama Assistant Job

Terry Rooney is leaving Central Florida, the school announced late Tuesday, and reportedly going to Alabama as associate head coach for newly hired Greg Goff.

Goff three weeks ago left Louisiana Tech after two seasons to coach the Crimson Tide.

Rooney coached at UCF for eight seasons, going 261-209 and reaching regionals in 2012-13. Rooney in effect will replace Sean Allen, who initially left Tulane to join Goff at Alabama before deciding to go to Texas and join David Pierce, who left the Green Wave for the Longhorns.

“We wish Terry and his family the best of luck,” UCF vice president and director of athletics Danny White said. “During his tenure at UCF, Coach Rooney showed a great deal of passion for his players and the program. We thank him for his efforts over the past eight years. Terry and his teams have laid a great foundation to continue building on in the future.”

Ryan Klosterman was named interim head coach and UCF said it would begin the search for a new coach immediately.

2016 COACHING CHANGES
School	Departures	Arrivals
Alabama	Mitch Gaspard	Greg Goff
Alabama State	Mervyl Melendez
Appalachian State	Billy Jones
Army	Matt Reid	Jim Foster
Butler	Steve Farley	Dave Schrage
Central Florida	Terry Rooney
Florida International	Turtle Thomas	Mervyl Melendez
Furman	Ron Smith
Jacksonville	Tim Montez	Chris Hayes
Kentucky	Gary Henderson	Nick Mingione
Lamar	Jim Gilligan (ret.)	Will Davis
Liberty	Jim Toman
Louisiana Tech	Greg Goff	Lane Burroughs
Missouri	Tim Jamieson	Steve Bieser
Northwestern State	Lane Burroughs	Bobby Barbier
Purdue	Doug Schreiber	Mark Wasikowski
San Jose State	Dave Nakama
SIU-Edwardsville	Tony Stoecklin	Sean Lyons
Texas	Augie Garrido	David Pierce
Tulane	David Pierce
Villanova	Joe Godri
Youngstown State	Steve Gillispie	Dan Bertolini