Grambling is announcing their next men’s basketball coach Friday morning and reportedly the name that will be called is Florida A&M head basketball coach Patrick Crarey II.
Liv for Hoops reported Thursday that Grambling had zeroed in on Crarey II as their prime candidate to fill their vacancy.
Crarey II, who would replace Donte Jackson who was announced as Alabama A&M’s head coach last week, takes over a Grambling program that went 12-22 overall and 7-11 within the SWAC last season. Coach Crarey comes to Grambling after a somewhat tumultuous single season at FAMU that saw Crarey causing an uproar when he showed nearly the entire team the door, his contract ratification being tabled by the Board of Trustees.
The contract kerfuffle resulted in a one-year deal, making Coach Crarey II concurrently the new and a lame duck head coach. The Rattlers managed to finish the 2024-25 campaign with a 13-16 overall mark and 10-8 within the SWAC, which was a significant improvement over the 6-23 and 4-14 SWAC record of a season before.
