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Originally Posted by jdw3018
Huh, I didn't know that. Must have been a grad asst as it wasn't on the coaching bio I looked up. Sorry about that. He was an assistant for several years under Tom Asbury at Kansas State, so I figured maybe there was some confusion.
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It looks as if the local sportswriter got the year wrong, not surprising. He is known for mistakes. But the truth is that Fox was never a coach of any kind at Kansas. Not an asst coach, not a grad asst. He was just an observer of the program.
From nevadawolfpack.com:
Fox began his coaching career as a graduate assistant coach and then as a full-time assistant at the University of Washington (1991-93) where he was on the same staff as former Nevada head coach Trent Johnson. Following his two-year stint with the Huskies, Fox spent six seasons (1994-2000) as an assistant coach at Kansas State University under Tom Asbury before joining the Wolf Pack staff in August of 2000. While a member of the Wildcat coaching staff, he helped guide Kansas State to an NCAA Tournament invitation in 1996 and two appearances in the National Invitation Tournament (1998 and 1999). The Wildcats led the nation in field-goal percentage defense in 1999 and were tops in the Big 12 Conference in that category from 1996-99.
Fox spent the 1993-94 season observing then Kansas head coach Roy Williams and the Jayhawk program while completing coursework on his master's degree.