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CHATTANOOGA---The Chattanooga Mocs men's basketball staff is now complete. Coach Lamont Paris had two assistants leave after the 2018-19 campaign and completed the 2019-20 edition with the promotion of three from within the program.
 
Assistant Coach Tanner Bronson was joined on the coaching staff by former assistant Eddie Shannon and David McKinley who was elevated from the Director of Basketball Operations position. Those stories are available here for Shannon and here for McKinley.
 
Video Coordinator Roman DiPasquale earned a new title of Assistant to the Head Coach. Colby Arendale shifted from graduate manager to McKinley's former role, while student manager from last year Calvin Williams was added in the graduate manager position.
 
Paris shared the two characteristics that weighed heavily in the decisions.
 
"I value loyalty and those guys have done a great job for us," he explained. "We moved guys up on staff…hard-working guys who know the culture we are establishing."
 
He added that while promoting from within isn't always viable, it certainly is something that goes into putting together a staff beginning at the graduate manager level like Arendale or in the case of McKinley joining his inaugural staff.
 
"It's a personal preference, but for me I always prefer to do that whenever possible," he shared. "Just from the familiarity and continuity standpoint. Hopefully you hired the right people in all your positions.
 
"If you have, promoting them is the way I like to go, but it has to be a viable option."
 
DiPasquale spent the last two seasons in the video coordinator role. His expertise and attention-to-detail makes this step a natural. DiPasquale's career arc includes work in the NBA (Philadelphia and Portland) along with a stop at Stanford. He began the journey as a student manager at Wisconsin (2007-11).
 
Arendale is a Chattanooga grad serving as a manager during Paris' first campaign. He took a step forward to graduate manager last year and was key aide to McKinley getting a small taste of what his current job entailed. The Chattanooga native served as a non-faculty assistant at Boyd-Buchanan High School during his undergrad years at UTC.
 
Williams takes advantage of the shuffle to join the staff while working on his Master's in Teacher Leadership. He was a Dean's List student at UTC graduating this past May with a degree in Sport Administration.
 
PROSPECTUS ONLINE
The 2019-20 preseason prospectus is now available on GoMocs.com (linked above). It includes basic quick facts along with roster info, schedule, Coach Lamont Paris bio & previous season stats.
 
The main notes featured involve the evolution of the program as Paris enters his third season at the helm. This year's team is a year older on average (20.31) than the youngest team in the country (19.31) in 2017-18.
 
The Mocs have the most returning games played in a UTC uniform (189) and by more than double career including other 4-year schools (334) than either of the last two campaigns. This squad has almost as many career starts (124) at the DI level as either of the prior two editions had total games played entering their respective seasons.
 
SEASON TICKETS ON SALE
Season tickets are on sale now. They can be purchased on GoMocs.com (at the link above) or by calling (423) 266-MOCS (6627) or 425-5740. Fans can also stop by the Gate 1 ticket office at McKenzie Arena.
 
Full season tickets range from $105-190 for lower-level reserved seating. \
 
ROSTER REVEAL SERIES
GoMocs.com's summer roster reveal series is complete. Here's the list with the links to the feature stories on each in order of release:
 
4 – Maurice Commander: http://bit.ly/Commander4
1 – Jonathan Scott: http://bit.ly/Scott01
0 – A.J. Caldwell: http://bit.ly/Caldwell0
15 – Ramon Vila: http://bit.ly/RVila15
32 – Matt Ryan: http://bit.ly/Ryan32 
5 – Jaden Frazer: http://bit.ly/Frazier5
3 – David Jean-Baptiste: http://bit.ly/DJ-B3
11 – Rod Johnson: http://bit.ly/rjohnson11
14 – Grant Ledford: http://bit.ly/ledford14
24 – Prosper Obidiebube: http://bit.ly/Prosper0bi24
13 – Malachi Smith: http://bit.ly/MSmith19
12 – Ashton Smith: http://bit.ly/ASmith12
10 – Alex Tostado: http://bit.ly/Tostado10
2 – Jamaal Walker: http://bit.ly/JWalker2
25 – Justin Brown: http://bit.ly/JBrown25
23 – Trey Doomes: http://bit.ly/TDoomes23
 
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