{"id":17140,"date":"2023-01-27T12:39:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T20:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thespearsjsu.com\/?p=17140"},"modified":"2023-01-27T12:50:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T20:50:48","slug":"damany-hendrixs-rollercoaster-ride-to-sjsu-assistant-coach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thespearsjsu.com\/?p=17140","title":{"rendered":"Damany Hendrix’s rollercoaster ride to SJSU assistant coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Matt Weiner (@mattweiner20<\/a>) \u2013 Basketball Beat Reporter<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Photo courtesy of SJSU Athletics <\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

What many saw as an unmitigated, underfunded, never-ending disaster, second-year SJSU assistant coach Damany Hendrix saw as a “blank canvas” that was ripe for change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The road taken to helping SJSU reach unimaginable heights began on a bus trip back to his hometown of Vallejo, Cali. in 2014 on a phone call with newly appointed Spartans’ head coach Dave Wojcik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne guy was dragging his feet so he [Wojcik] literally called me while I was hopping on the Megabus to come back up north,\u201d said Hendrix who was coaching at CSU Northridge at the time. “He was like, ‘Do you have time to meet tomorrow?’ I’m like, ‘Perfect. I’ll be in the Bay, I’ll come up.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hendrix\u2019s aspirations to venture back to where his recruiting connections lied came to life and died all in one sitting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMaybe halfway on the ride home he called me back and said, ‘The guy called me and accepted the job,\u201d recalled Hendrix.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Damany Hendrix coaching up Kevin Simeth at practice Via SJSU Athletics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The coaching carousel wasn’t a casual amusement ride in a Westfield Mall for Hendrix. It was a Six-Flags roller coaster filled with a hundred-foot rise and a soul-crushing drop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disappointed, but not deterred. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Wojcik abruptly left the gig in 2017 due to personal reasons, Hendrix reached out to newly hired SJSU head coach Jean Prioleau, but Hendrix said that \u201cnothing came to fruition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life moved on nonetheless. He spent the next couple of seasons coaching overseas in Beijing, the G-League and followed Raptors 905 (Toronto Raptors affiliate) head coach Jerry Stackhouse to Vanderbilt, where Stackhouse fulfilled the same role, for two seasons beginning in 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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