Homecoming – Alfred Jordan returns to AUC to help coach Morehouse

A erstwhile Clark Atlanta University constituent defender and long-time adjunct manager is coming location to assistance manager his erstwhile rival.

Alfred Jordan, 35, joined the Morehouse College hoops coaching unit arsenic an subordinate caput manager aft 2 years arsenic the pb adjunct nether erstwhile Clark Atlanta caput manager and existent University Arkansas astatine Little Rock caput manager Darrell Walker. Jordan is coming location to the Atlanta University Center (AUC) for a fig of reasons, 1 of which is family. His nine-year-old lad AJ, a Twitter prima owed to each of the younker hoops videos Jordan posts during the season, attends schoolhouse successful Atlanta. “I wanted to travel backmost location to beryllium with my family,” said Jordan, who is primitively from Harlem, New York. “It was 1 of those situations wherever I person been adjacent to manager [Douglas] Whittler and the precocious manager [Grady] Brewer.”

Jordan brings a wealthiness of coaching acquisition to the Maroon Tigers, but not lone that, helium brings a cognition of however to navigate the duality of being a student-athlete astatine the AUC mixed with what helium picked up from the Division I level portion moving with Walker successful Arkansas. “Being astir manager Walker for each of those years [two seasons astatine Clark Atlanta earlier the 2 seasons astatine Arkansas astatine Little Rock] I recovered myself sounding similar a parrot,” joked Jordan astir repeating Walker-isms. “Everything helium did was a build-up to thing different.

“I learned that determination was a batch of madness down the methods.”

On coaching for the Maroon Tigers programme aft having played and coached successful dozens of rival games passim his vocation Jordan, a lifelong New York Knicks fan, has an absorbing instrumentality connected what that feels like. He shared a communicative of however this section of his beingness reminds him of the clip successful the aboriginal 1990s erstwhile Pat Riley near the New York Knicks to manager the Miami Heat. “It’s truthful funny, God has the champion consciousness of humor,” helium said. “He answered my prayers and had maine backmost successful Atlanta coaching my erstwhile rival.”

The recruiting that took spot during Walker’s 2 seasons astatine Clark Atlanta was spearheaded by Jordan and led to a brace of runs to the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) tourney title. Morehouse, contempt having immoderate of the champion teams successful programme history, failed to triumph the SIAC tourney during Walker and Jordan’s clip together. That unreality changed with Jordan connected unit and helium understands that. “At CAU and astatine Little Rock we got a batch of metropolis guys to travel play for us,” said Jordan. “With manager Whittler being from Detroit and having that midwest connection, and my having my eastbound seashore connections, that operation is going to bring a antithetic consciousness to Morehouse.”

There has already been a Division I transportation to the program.

Morehouse volition enactment successful the Chris Paul HBCU Tip-Off November 22-23 astatine Mohegan Sun Arena successful Uncasville, Connecticut. The Maroon Tigers volition unfastened the tourney against Winston-Salem State University earlier playing the victor of West Virginia State/Virginia Union successful either the consolation oregon title crippled a time later.

Jordan was adjacent successful enactment to go caput manager astatine his alma mater earlier the COVID-19 pandemic forced the schoolhouse to cancel the hoops season. Bo Bivens is presently serving arsenic the Panthers interim caput hoops coach.

The 2021-22 Morehouse hoops docket has not been released yet, but what’s for definite is the Maroon Tigers and Panthers volition play their yearly home-and-home games. Jordan volition person to observe his homecoming connected the Morehouse bench.