For once, the Arizona Wildcats are poaching a coach from the SEC instead of the other way around. According to John Whittle of the BigSpur.com, South Carolina assistant Trip Couch is joining Chip Hale’s staff at Arizona.
Couch has spent the last four seasons with the Gamecocks—two as an assistant coach and two as the recruiting coordinator. Before that, he was an assistant at Louisiana from 1991 to 1992, Houston from 1995 to 2000 and then again from 2011 to 2017.
In between, Couch was an assistant at Texas in 2001 and a scout for the Arizona Diamondbacks starting in 2002.