Jaguars Men's Basketball Camp
Coaching Staff A familiar face will be on the bench for the University of South Alabama men’s basketball program as former assistant coach Jeff Price joined the staff as the associate head coach in August 2011.  Michael FloydAssistant Coach Former Jaguar and Mobile native Michael Floyd enters his fourth season as an assistant coach on the USA staff. In his first year back with the program, he helped the Jags earn an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament after compiling a 26-7 overall record — the win total was the highest in school history — and a 16-2 mark in the Sun Belt Conference. His efforts also helped USA claim the league’s East Division championship during the regular season. Floyd spent the 2006-07 season as an assistant coach with Ronnie Arrow at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. There, the Islanders went 26-7 and 14-2 in its first year in the Southland Conference. TAMU-CC earned the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament where it took second-seeded Wisconsin to the limits in the first round. Prior to going to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Floyd was the head coach at Alabama Southern Community College for one season. In his only year guiding the Eagles, they compiled an 18-12 record and recorded a second-place finish in their division. Floyd starting his coaching career as an assistant at Spring Hill from 2000-02 before gaining additional experience at Alabama. He spent two years as a graduate assistant with the Crimson Tide before returning to full-time status as an assistant at Troy for the 2004-05 season. While at UA, he helped the Tide to a two-year record of 37-25 and two berths in the NCAA Tournament which included a trip to the 2004 Elite Eight after they picked up victories over Southern Illinois, Stanford and defending NCAA champion Syracuse. The Crimson Tide’s run Floyd’s second year would come to an end with a loss to eventual tournament winner Connecticut. Floyd played for Arrow at South Alabama from 1994-96, averaging 7.7 points as a freshman. He transferred to Murray State after his sophomore year, helping the Racers to the NCAA Tournament both seasons he was there. MSU went 29-4 his junior campaign, as he scored 10 points in its NCAA Tourney contest against Rhode Island, before posting a 27-6 mark in his final season of collegiate eligibility. In high school at McGill-Toolen, he averaged 21 points, five rebounds, three assists and three steals as a junior to help lead the team to Class 6A state tournament. He was an all-state and all-county player for the Yellowjackets. Floyd graduated from Murray State in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology. He is married to the former Poppy Hogsed and has two daughters, Peyton (11) and Micah (4).  Dominique TaylorAssistant Coach Dominique Taylor joined the staff as assistant coach in June 2011.
Taylor, who previously served as assistant coach at Neosho County Community College, played three seasons for Arrow and assistant coach Michael Floyd at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi from 2004-07. With the Jaguars, he will work primarily with the guards and provide scouting reports for opponents during the season. “I’d like to thank Coach Arrow and the University for this tremendous opportunity. I really believe in what Coach Arrow does here with the program and truly believe that we as a staff have a chance to get South Alabama back on the winning track. I’m glad to be reunited with Coach Arrow and Coach Floyd; I have the utmost respect for them. I’m excited to be here.” The Grand Rapids, Mich. native has spent the last two seasons at Neosho County where he helped lead the Panthers to a 20-win season in 2009-10 and coached six players that went on to NCAA Division I schools, including current Jaguars Antione Lundy and 2011-12 signee Trey Anderson. Lundy was a 2009-10 National Junior College Athletic Association All-American and Anderson was a first-team all-region selection. “When he played for me, I could tell that he wanted to go into coaching,” Arrow said. “I always thought he’d be good and he’s proven that. He’s one of the hardest workers in the business and had a good rapport with everyone on the team. His work ethic as a player was unbelievable; he was always asking to watch more tape and was inquisitive about the game. “He knows our system, our style and what we ask of our players. He is a coach that players can understand and I know they will respect him.” The 2009-10 Panthers were the top rebounding team in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference, including Lundy’s league-leading 13.7 average, and finished tied for third in the KJCCC Eastern Division with a 12-6 mark. Taylor served as recruiting coordinator and assisted with all aspects of the program, including on-the-court coaching, practice planning, academic progress, travel planning and scheduling. He also was involved with team public relations, fundraising and promotional activities. “I really think he’s one of the best up-and-coming young coaches in the country, not only as a recruiter because he is well-connected but he wants to put in his time to be a Division I head coach. There’s no doubt in my mind that he’ll be a very good head coach eventually and I will say that he’s one of the top recruiters out there today.” In addition to his coaching duties at NCCC, Taylor was an adjunct faculty member where he taught undergraduate courses in personal training and coaching basketball. As a student at Texas A&M-Commerce he served as an assistant in the Department of Health and Human Performance where he aided in exercise testing research in the fields of biomechanics, motor learning and controls. Taylor proctored and instructed students in the exercise physiology lab, reviewed and assisted student assignments and provided help with lab experiments. Taylor earned three varsity letters at TAMUCC from 2005-08, after redshirting his freshman campaign, and was a part of three 20-win teams. As a sophomore he was a member of a squad that posted a school-record 26 victories, won the Southland Conference regular season and tournament titles in its first year of membership and earned a bid to the 2007 NCAA Tournament. Active in community service, Taylor has participated in programs that encourage young people to read and was a volunteer for the Conquer the Coast bicycle race. In 2004 he was awarded the St. Thomas Aquinas Leadership Scholarship from Aquinas (Mich.) College and was a member of the Grand Rapids Junior Rotary Club.
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