Tic Price
{{short description|American college basketball coach (born 1955)}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Tic Price
| image = File:Tic Price.jpg
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|11|29}}
| birth_place = Danville, Virginia, U.S.
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| alma_mater =
| player_years1 = 1974–1976
| player_team1 = VCU
| player_years2 = 1976–1979
| player_team2 = Virginia Tech
| player_positions = Small forward
| coach_years1 = 1980–1984
| coach_team1 = Roanoke (assistant)
| coach_years2 = 1984–1989
| coach_team2 = Chattanooga (assistant)
| coach_years3 = 1989–1991
| coach_team3 = Virginia Tech (assistant)
| coach_years4 = 1991–1993
| coach_team4 = Old Dominion (assistant)
| coach_years5 = 1993–1994
| coach_team5 = Auburn (assistant)
| coach_years6 = 1994–1997
| coach_team6 = New Orleans
| coach_years7 = 1997–1999
| coach_team7 = Memphis
| coach_years8 = 2000–2001
| coach_team8 = McNeese State (assistant)
| coach_years9 = 2001–2006
| coach_team9 = McNeese State
| coach_years10 = 2007–2008
| coach_team10 = North Texas (assistant)
| coach_years11 = 2008–2011
| coach_team11 = Lamar (assistant)
| coach_years12 = 2014–2021
| coach_team12 = Lamar
| overall_record = 279–235 ({{winpct|279|235}})
| bowl_record =
| tournament_record = 0–2 (NCAA Division I)
1–2 (NIT)
0–2 (CIT)
| championships = Sun Belt tournament (1996)
2× Sun Belt regular season (1996, 1997)
C-USA National Division (1998)
Southland tournament (2002)
Southland regular season (2002)
| awards = 4x NABC District 8 Coach of the Year (1995, 1996, 1997, 2002)
3× LABC Coach of the Year (1996, 1997, 2002)
3x Louisiana Sports Writers Association Coach of the Year (1996, 1997, 2002)
Sun Belt Coach of the Year (1997)
Southland Coach of the Year (2002)
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George "Tic" Price (born November 29, 1955) is an American college basketball coach. He last coached the Lamar Cardinals men's basketball team. From 2002 to 2007, he served as head coach at McNeese State. Prior to that, he served as head coach of Memphis and New Orleans. Price's daughter is Sports Illustrated model Chanel Iman, who married NFL wide receiver Sterling Shepard in 2017. He is married to the former Jamie Lynn Simms, and the couple has two children - son, Ryan, a college basketball coach who played for his father at McNeese, and daughter, Chanel. He has three granddaughters - Bella Grace Price, Cali Clay Shepard and Cassie Snow Shepard.
Currently, Price works as an analyst on ESPN+ college basketball broadcasts for the Southland Conference and the University of New Orleans. He is also releasing a book focusing on his life and coaching career titled Locker Room Talk in 2022.
Coaching career
=University of New Orleans=
Price went to New Orleans as an assistant coach under Tommy Joe Eagles in 1994, but was named head coach after Eagles' unexpected death in July 1994. After a 20-win inaugural season, Price led the Privateers to a mark of 21–9 in 1995–96, claiming the Sun Belt Conference championship with a 57–56 victory over Arkansas–Little Rock and received a bid to the NCAA tournament where the team lost to North Carolina. In 1996–97, the Privateers posted a record of 22–7 and participated in the National Invitation Tournament. Price became the first coach to win 20 or more games in three consecutive seasons at New Orleans, while setting the Sun Belt Conference career record for winning percentage in league games (.759) and collecting a record 22 consecutive conference home wins.
=University of Memphis=
Price became Memphis's 14th head coach on March 27, 1997. In his first year at the helm, Price and the Tigers exceeded all expectations by going 17–12, winning the National Division of Conference USA and advancing to the NIT. His second season was a disappointment as a young but talented Tiger team posted a 13–15 record. He was forced to resign days before the start of what would have been his third season because of an inappropriate sexual relationship with a student.{{Cite web|url=http://lubbockonline.com/stories/112499/nat_112499042.shtml|title=Ex-Memphis coach Price admits to affair with student {{!}} Lubbock Online {{!}} Lubbock Avalanche-Journal|website=lubbockonline.com|access-date=2016-04-18}}
=McNeese State University=
Price was hired as an assistant at McNeese State in 2000. Prior to the 2001–02 season, Price took over the McNeese State program following Ron Everheart leaving to coach Northeastern University. In his first season, he guided the Cowboys to the nation's largest turnaround, posting a 22–9 record, capturing a Southland Conference regular season title, and securing a berth in the NCAA tournament. Price went 74–68 in his five seasons with McNeese State. His contract was not renewed following the 2006 season.{{Cite web|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/2006-07-28-mcneese-price-fired_x.htm|title=USATODAY.com - Tic Price fired as McNeese State basketball coach|website=usatoday30.usatoday.com|access-date=2016-04-18}}
= North Texas =
Price spent one season as an assistant at North Texas in 2007–08.{{Cite web|url=http://www.meangreensports.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/051407aaa.html|title=Jones Adds Tic Price To Mean Green Basketball Staff - MEANGREENSPORTS.COM - The University of North Texas Official Athletic Site|website=www.meangreensports.com|access-date=2016-04-18}}
=Lamar University=
Price served as an assistant coach at Lamar from 2008 to 2011. He remained at Lamar as associate vice president of student engagement thereafter. However, on February 16, 2014—with five games to go in the 2013-14 season—Lamar president Kenneth Evans fired head coach Pat Knight and named Price interim head coach for the remainder of the season. Price initially said he had no desire to ever coach again, but Evans told him that it wasn't an offer, but an order. Under Price, the Cardinals finished the 2013–14 season with a 1–4 record.{{cite news|url=http://www.nola.com/uno/index.ssf/2015/01/former_uno_mens_basketball_coa.html|title=Former UNO men's basketball coach Tic Price finds love of coaching again at Lamar|last=Iles|first=Trey|publisher=The Times-Picayune|date=2015-01-06}} On March 18, 2014, Lamar removed the "interim" tag from Price's title and formally named him as its 11th head coach.{{cite web|title=Lamar removes interim tag, Tic Price named head coach|url=http://collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/03/18/lamar-removes-interim-tag-tic-price-named-head-coach/|publisher=NBC Sports|accessdate=November 21, 2014|date=March 18, 2014}}{{cite web|title=Tic Price to Lead Lamar Hoops Program Price served as LU interim head coach in final five games of 2013–14|url=http://www.lamarcardinals.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/031814aaa.html|publisher=Lamar University Athletics|accessdate=November 21, 2014}} Price's first full season ended with an overall record of 15–15 and a conference record of 9–9.{{cite web|title=Lamar Cardinals Schedule - 2014-15|url=https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/schedule/_/id/2320/lamar-cardinals|work=ESPN.com|access-date=March 31, 2015}} In 2018–19, Lamar finished tied for third place in the Southland Conference with a 20–13, 12–6 record finishing out the season with 9 wins in its final 10 games and eleven wins of its final 13 games. The 20 win season was the first one for the Cardinals since 2011–12 after missing the 20 win mark by one game the previous two seasons. It was Price's fifth 20 win season as a head coach.{{cite web |author1=James Dixon |title=LU Falls in SLC Second Round on Late Basket |url=https://lamarcardinals.com/news/2019/3/14/mens-basketball-cardinals-fall-in-slc-second-round-on-late-basket.aspx?path=mbball |publisher=Lamar University Athletics |accessdate=March 18, 2019 |date=March 14, 2019}}
Head coaching record
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
|name=New Orleans Privateers
|startyear=1994
|conference=Sun Belt Conference
|endyear=1997
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1994–95
| name = New Orleans
| overall = 20–11
| conference = 13–5
| confstanding = 2nd
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 1995–96
| name = New Orleans
| overall = 21–9
| conference = 14–4
| confstanding = T–1st
| postseason = NCAA Division I First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = conference
| season = 1996–97
| name = New Orleans
| overall = 22–7
| conference = 14–4
| confstanding = T–1st
| postseason = NIT First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal|
| name = New Orleans
| overall = 63–27 ({{Winning percentage|63|27}})
| confrecord = 41–13 ({{Winning percentage|41|13}})
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
|name=Memphis Tigers
|startyear=1997
|conference=Conference USA
|endyear=1999
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = division
| season = 1997–98
| name = Memphis
| overall = 17–12
| conference = 12–4
| confstanding = 1st (National)
| postseason = NIT Second Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 1998–99
| name = Memphis
| overall = 13–15
| conference = 6–10
| confstanding = T–2nd (National)
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal|
| name = Memphis
| overall = 30–27 ({{Winning percentage|30|27}})
| confrecord = 18–14 ({{Winning percentage|18|14}})
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
|name=McNeese State Cowboys
|startyear=2001
|conference=Southland Conference
|endyear=2006
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship = confboth
| season = 2001–02
| name = McNeese State
| overall = 21–9
| conference = 17–3
| confstanding = 1st
| postseason = NCAA Division I First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2002–03
| name = McNeese State
| overall = 15–14
| conference = 10–10
| confstanding = 5th
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2003–04
| name = McNeese State
| overall = 11–16
| conference = 7–9
| confstanding = 9th
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2004–05
| name = McNeese State
| overall = 13–15
| conference = 8–8
| confstanding = 6th
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2005–06
| name = McNeese State
| overall = 14–14
| conference = 9–7
| confstanding = 4th
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal|
| name = McNeese State
| overall = 74–68 ({{Winning percentage|74|68}})
| confrecord = 41–37 ({{Winning percentage|41|37}})
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead
|name=Lamar Cardinals
|startyear=2014
|conference=Southland Conference
|endyear=2021
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2013–14
| name = Lamar
| overall = 1–4
| conference = 1–4
| confstanding =
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2014–15
| name = Lamar
| overall = 15–15
| conference = 9–9
| confstanding = 6th
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2015–16
| name = Lamar
| overall = 11–19
| conference = 3–15
| confstanding = 13th
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2016–17
| name = Lamar
| overall = 19–15
| conference = 10–8
| confstanding = T–5th
| postseason = CIT First Round
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2017–18
| name = Lamar
| overall = 19–14
| conference = 11–7
| confstanding = T–5th
| postseason = CIT First Round
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2018–19
| name = Lamar
| overall = 20–13
| conference = 12–6
| confstanding = T–3rd
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2019–20
| name = Lamar
| overall = 17–15
| conference = 10–10
| confstanding = T–6th
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry
| championship =
| season = 2020–21
| name = Lamar
| overall = 10–18
| conference = 6–10
| confstanding = 7th
| postseason =
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{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal|
| name = Lamar
| overall = 112–113 ({{winpct|112|113}})
| confrecord = 62–69 ({{Winning percentage|62|69}})
}}
{{CBB Yearly Record End
| overall = 279–235 ({{winpct|279|235}})
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