Army Head Coach Zach Spiker

(LISTEN) West Point head coach Zach Spiker is our featured guest in this edition of The Passing Game with Fletcher Arritt.  Spiker, who is entering his third season with Army, took over the Black Knight's program in October of 2009, just 10 days before the start of practice.  He got started quickly amassing a record of 14-15, which tied for the second best season the program had enjoyed in 23 seasons and the most wins garnered by a first-year head coach since Bob Knight won 18 games in 1965-66.

Prior to landing at West Point, Coach Spiker played an instrumental role on Steve Donahue's (Show 016) Cornell staff, where he helped the Big Red to two straight Ivy League titles and subsequent NCAA Tournament appearances.

From 2002-2004, Spiker was an administrative assistant on John Beilein's West Virginia staff.  A native of Morgantown, the position was a bit of a homecoming for Spiker, and also afforded him the opportunity to work at the major collegiate level.  He was a graduate assistant at Winthrop under Gregg Marshall (currently the head coach at Wichita State) and played collegiately at Ithaca, where he graduated in 2000.

In this episode, Coach Spiker joins Brooks and Coach Arritt to talk about the unique opportunity he has to coach at West Point, prepping his guys for Patriot League play, and how he hopes to continue to grow with his Black Knight program.  It is an honor to have him as our guest.