Shawn Forrest hired by Bob Marlin at ULL

Harry · July 5, 2012

LAFAYETTE – Shawn Forrest, a 14-year collegiate coaching veteran who spent the last four seasons at North Texas, has been named assistant men's basketball coach at the University of Louisiana. The announcement was made by men's basketball head coach Bob Marlin, and the hiring is pending approval by the University of Louisiana System Board of Supervisors.

“We are happy to welcome Shawn into the Ragin' Cajuns basketball family,” Marlin said. “As we went through the search and tried to determine which candidate fit best in our program, Shawn's name kept coming to the top.

“Shawn’s experience as a coach and recruiter in the Sun Belt Conference should provide an immediate benefit to the program,” Marlin added. “The knowledge that he has gained as a coach at the Division I level over the last two decades will help us to achieve the level of success that we are working towards.”

While serving as an assistant coach at North Texas (2008-09 through 2011-12), Forrest worked with teams that averaged 21.3 wins per season. In 2009-10, the Mean Green went 24-9, won the Sun Belt crown and faced Kansas State in the first round of the NCAA Championship.

Forrest was instrumental in helping land the 2010-11 recruiting class of Tony Mitchell, Jordan Williams, Chris Jones, and Roger Franklin, which was ranked as high as No. 31 in the country.

Prior to moving to Denton, Texas, Forrest worked as an assistant coach at Arkansas State for six seasons (2002-03 through 2007-08). He helped the Red Wolves to multiple Top 100 recruiting classes, which included a pair of two-time All-Sun Belt Conference players, a Sun Belt Conference Newcomer of the Year, a league-leading scorer, second-leading scorer and third-leading scorer in the conference.

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Side Show Joe · July 5, 2012

Glad he found a new coaching job. I hope he has much success, starting in 2013.

Harry · July 5, 2012

Good hire by Marlin. Congrats to Shawn.

UNT90 · July 5, 2012

Yep. Glad to see the resume building episode is behind him and that he hooked up with another up and comer in the college coaching society.

MeanGreenTexan · July 5, 2012

Good pickup for coach Marlin. Hopefully coach Benford can run him out of local HS coaches offices, because I highly doubt he plans on going anywhere. There will probably be an uptick in incoming talent at ULL, and we all know coach Marlin is quality. Watch for ULL to dominate the SBC for years to come (starting in 2013-14)... until they get called elsewhere.