Robert McCullum

Robert McCullum
Sport(s) Basketball
Biographical details
Born June 20, 1954
Playing career
Seminole Junior College
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1976–1978
1978–1982
1983
1984
1985–1987
1988–1989
1990
1991–1996
1996–2000
2000–2003
2003–2007
2007
2007–2008
2009–2010
2010–2011
Council Junior HS
Ramsay HS (asst.)
South Alabama (asst.)
Samford (asst.)
South Alabama (asst.)
Southern Illinois (asst.)
Kansas State (asst.)
Florida (asst.)
Illinois (asst.)
Western Michigan
South Florida
Nigerian senior national team
San Francisco (asst.)
UCF (asst.)
Georgia Tech (asst.)
Head coaching record
Overall 84–121 (.410)

Robert L. McCullum (born June 20, 1954)[1] is an American men's college basketball coach. He previously served as the head coach of the Western Michigan Broncos men's basketball team and the University of South Florida (USF) Bulls men's basketball team.[2] He is a native of Birmingham, Alabama.[3]

McCullum was hired to coach the USF Bulls on April 18, 2003 by athletic director Lee Roy Selmon after serving as the head coach at Western Michigan University, where he compiled a 44–45 record.[4] He was fired from USF on March 9, 2007 after showing minimal progress with the Bulls, who ended the 2006–07 season at 12–18.[5] He compiled a 40–76 record as head coach at South Florida. He went on to coach the Nigerian senior men's national basketball team,[6] leading them to a 4–1 record at the All-Africa Games.[7] He was then hired an assistant coach at the University of San Francisco for the 2007–08 season[8][9][10] before taking a year off coaching.[10] In July 2009 he was hired as an assistant coach at the University of Central Florida[10] under head coach Kirk Speraw, a position he held for one year before moving on for the 2010–11 season as an assistant under Georgia Tech men's basketball head coach Paul Hewitt.[11]

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