Dino Gaudio

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| name = Dino Gaudio

| image = Dinoguadio 100210.jpg

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| caption = Gaudio in 2010

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|3|30}}

| birth_place = Martins Ferry, Ohio, U.S.

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| alma_mater = Ohio University (BA)
Xavier University (MS)

| coach_years1 = 1980–1984

| coach_team1 = Wheeling Central HS (assistant)

| coach_years2 = 1984–1987

| coach_team2 = Wheeling Central HS

| coach_years3 = 1987–1993

| coach_team3 = Xavier (assistant)

| coach_years4 = 1993–1997

| coach_team4 = Army

| coach_years5 = 1997–2000

| coach_team5 = Loyola (MD)

| coach_years6 = 2000–2001

| coach_team6 = Xavier (assistant)

| coach_years7 = 2001–2007

| coach_team7 = Wake Forest (assistant)

| coach_years8 = 2007–2010

| coach_team8 = Wake Forest

| coach_years9 = 2018–2021

| coach_team9 = Louisville (assistant)

| overall_record = 129–155 (college)

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| tournament_record = 1–2 (NCAA Division I)

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Dino Joseph Gaudio (born March 30, 1957) is an American former men's college basketball coach and broadcaster who was most recently an assistant coach at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky.

Gaudio was a longtime assistant under Skip Prosser, serving under him beginning at Wheeling Central Catholic High School in West Virginia and eventually following him to Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio and later to Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; after Prosser's death in 2007, Gaudio was hired to succeed him and remained there as head coach until 2010.{{cite news|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/basketball/ncaa/wires/08/08/2060.ap.bkc.wake.forest.coach.2nd.ld.writethru.0517/|title=Wake Forest expected to name longtime assistant Gaudio as Prosser's replacement|publisher=SI.com}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} {{cite news

| title = Gaudio gets nod to replace Prosser at WFU

| newspaper = Winston-Salem Journal

| date = August 8, 2007

| url = http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ/MGArticle/WSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173352304220&path=&s=

| accessdate = December 24, 2007

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In addition to his time at Wake Forest, Gaudio also served as head coach of the boys’ basketball team Wheeling Central Catholic High School (succeeding Prosser), as well as the men's teams at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York and Loyola University in Baltimore, Maryland (where he again succeeded Prosser).

Biography

=Education=

Gaudio is a graduate of Ohio University (1981) and Xavier University (master's in secondary education, 1991).[http://wakeforestsports.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/gaudio_dino00.html Official biography]

=Wake Forest=

Gaudio remained loyal to Prosser, his mentor and predecessor at Wake Forest. In the final days of his life, Prosser attended the games of three 5-star recruits in Las Vegas and Orlando. These recruits remained committed to Wake Forest and made up an eventual number-three-ranked recruiting class for the 2008–09 season, signed by Gaudio as a memory to Prosser.[https://basketballrecruiting.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=820999#rank Rivals.com Basketball Recruiting - Late additions boost Tennessee teams]{{cite news| url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/2008-07-24-3697843448_x.htm | work=USA Today | title=Prosser's recruiting class keeps his memory alive | date=July 24, 2008 | accessdate=May 1, 2010}}

Gaudio tallied three winning seasons at Wake Forest, making the NCAA Tournament in two out of three years. In 2008–09, his Deacons raced out to a 16–0 start and rose to the number-one spot in the rankings for only the second time in school history. However, they went out with a thud, losing in the first round of the ACC Tournament to Maryland before getting blown out by 13-seed Cleveland State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. A year later, they made another early exit in the ACC Tournament. While they won their first-round NCAA Tournament game, they were drilled by Kentucky in the second round. Gaudio was fired a few weeks later.{{cite news|url=http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/news/story?id=5064441|title=Wake Forest fires coach Gaudio|publisher=The Associated Press|work=ESPN|date=April 7, 2010}}

=Broadcasting=

Gaudio became an announcer for ESPN's college basketball coverage in 2011.

=Louisville=

After seven years with ESPN and out of coaching, Gaudio was hired by Chris Mack to be an assistant for the Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team. Mack and Gaudio were previously assistants together at Wake Forest from 2001 to 2004, before Mack left to become an assistant and later head coach at Xavier University.{{cite news|last1=Greer|first1=Jeff|title=Former Wake Forest coach Dino Gaudio is joining Chris Mack's Louisville basketball staff|url=https://www.courier-journal.com/story/sports/college/louisville/2018/04/06/dino-gaudio-louisville-basketball-assistant-coach/485951002/|accessdate=6 April 2018|newspaper=Louisville Courier-Journal|date=April 6, 2018}}

On March 18, 2021, Gaudio's contract was not renewed after Mack hinted at a staff shake-up during his season-ending press conference. Gaudio was then charged with one federal count of attempting to extort money and other things of value from the University of Louisville, according to information released by Michael Bennett, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky. According to the charge, Gaudio, during an in-person meeting with Louisville officials on March 17, 2021, "threatened to report to the media allegations that the University of Louisville men's basketball program had violated [NCAA] rules in its production of recruiting videos for prospective student-athletes and its use of graduate assistants in practice, unless the University of Louisville paid [Gaudio] his salary for an additional 17 months or provided the lump sum equivalent of 17 months of salary." Louisville officials said in a statement: "As detailed in the charging document, after Gaudio was informed that his contract would not be renewed, he threatened to inform members of the media of alleged NCAA violations within the men's basketball program unless he was paid a significant sum of money. The allegations of violations are the impermissible production of recruiting videos for prospective student-athletes and the impermissible use of graduate managers in practices and workouts. While the University cannot comment further due to the ongoing federal investigation and the NCAA process, it continues to cooperate with authorities as well as with the NCAA on the matter."{{cite web| url = https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/31467518/former-louisville-basketball-assistant-coach-dino-gaudio-faces-federal-charge-alleged-attempt-extort-program| title = Former Louisville basketball assistant coach Dino Gaudio federally charged for attempt to extort program| date = 18 May 2021}} On August 22, 2021, he was sentenced to one year of probation and a $10,000 fine.{{Cite web|last=McGavic|first=Matthew|title=Ex-Louisville Assistant Dino Gaudio Sentenced in Federal Extortion Case|url=https://www.si.com/college/louisville/basketball/gaudio-sentenced|access-date=2022-02-10|website=Sports Illustrated|date=27 August 2021 |language=en}}