Sport(s) | Basketball |
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Current position | |
Title | Head coach |
Team | Texas State |
Conference | Sun Belt |
Record | 59–70 (.457) |
Biographical details | |
Born |
Corpus Christi, Texas |
November 16, 1954
Playing career | |
1973–1974 | Texas A&I |
1974–1975 | McLennan CC |
1976–1978 | North Texas |
Position(s) | Shooting guard |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1979–1980 | Lamar (asst.) |
1980–1983 | Midwestern State (asst.) |
1983–1986 | Stephen F. Austin (asst.) |
1986–1991 | Baylor (asst.) |
1991–2000 | Incarnate Word |
2000–2013 | Stephen F. Austin |
2013–present | Texas State |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 524–263 (.666) |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
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Daniel Joseph Kaspar (born November 16, 1954) is an American college basketball coach and the current head coach of Texas State University's men's basketball team. Before becoming head coach for Texas State in 2013, Kaspar served as head coach of the men's basketball team at Stephen F. Austin State University. Kaspar has also served as head coach at Incarnate Word, and as an assistant coach at Lamar, Midwestern State and Baylor.
Born in Corpus Christi, Texas, Kaspar graduated from Mary Carroll High School in Corpus Christi in 1973. He then attended Texas A&I University, an NCAA Division II school, and played shooting guard on the Texas A&I Javelinas basketball team for one year. He then transferred to McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas and North Texas State University. On the North Texas State Mean Green basketball team, Kaspar averaged 7 points as a junior in 1976–77 and 4.2 points as a senior in 1977–78. Kaspar graduated from North Texas State in 1978.
Kaspar began his career as an assistant coach to Billy Tubbs at Division I Lamar University in the 1979–80 season, a season when Lamar finished the regular season first in the Southland Conference and advanced to the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA Tournament. In 1980, Kaspar became an assistant coach at Division II Midwestern State. Kaspar then became an assistant on Harry Miller's staff at Stephen F. Austin in 1983 for three seasons, including two seasons in Stephen F. Austin's transition from Division II to Division I (1984–1986).