Mack McCarthy
Mack McCarthy (born July 3, 1952)
Current position: Chattanooga Mocs, VCU Rams, East Carolina Pirates
Chattanooga record: 243-122 (.666)
VCU record: 66-55 (.545)
East Carolina record: 34-57 (.374)
Overall record: 343-234 (.594)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 5 (1988, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 1 (1997)
- NCAA Tournament Final Four: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 2 (1986, 1987)
- SoCon Regular Season Champion: 8 (1986, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997)
- SoCon Tournament Champion: 5 (1988, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997)
Awards:
- SoCon Coach of the Year: 3 (1986, 1992, 1993)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2007-2010 | East Carolina |
| 2005-2007 | East Carolina (assoc. HC) |
| 2004-2005 | Georgia Tech (women’s asst) |
| 1998-2002 | VCU |
| 1997-1998 | VCU (assoc. HC) |
| 1985-1997 | Chattanooga |
| 1978-1985 | Auburn (asst) |
| 1976-1978 | East Tennessee State (asst) |
| 1974-1976 | Virginia Tech (asst) |
Mack McCarthy Facts
- William Leroy McCarthy
- Born July 3, 1952
- Hometown: Woodstock, Virginia
- Alma Mater: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (BA, 1974 & MA, 1976)
- Worked for Don DeVoe as an assistant at Virginia Tech after graduation while earning his masters for two seasons
- Spent seven seasons as an assistant under Sonny Smith, two at ETSU and seven at Auburn
- Became the head coach at Chattanooga in 1985; won 243 games over the course of the next 12 seasons and captured eight SoCon regular season and five Tournament titles
- Left Chattanooga to be associate head coach and head-coach-in-waiting at VCU in 1997; became head coach a year later
- After four years at VCU – winning 66 games but failing to go to the postseason – McCarthy resigned
- Worked for ESPN and hosted a radio show for the next several years in Greenville, NC
- Spent one year as an assistant for the Georgia Tech women’s team before taking the associate head coach job under Ricky Stokes at East Carolina in 2005
- Became the Pirates’ head coach in 2007, going 34-57 overall in his three-year tenure
- Since 2014, McCarthy has worked as a college basketball analyst on television, mostly with the American Sports Network, the ACC Network and ESPN3
- Along with his wife, Jean, has one daughter
Mack McCarthy Coaching Tree
- Jeff Capel III (Oklahoma, VCU)
- Henry Dickerson (North Carolina Central, Chattanooga)
- Michael Perry (East Carolina)
- Tic Price (Lamar, McNeese State, Memphis, New Orleans)
