Today we talk with East Tennessee State Head Coach Desmond Oliver. The native of Buffalo, New York started his coaching career with Niagara in 1994. After nine stops as an assistant, and 27 years, Oliver finally got his first Division I head coaching job at ETSU in 2021. You can follow Coach Oliver on Twitter at @DesmondOliver2.Each Friday, Jeff Bidwell talks with a current or former Division I college basketball coach about their professional path. There are no overnight success stories in college coaching. We'll talk about the sometimes decades-long journey from the moment they wanted to get into coaching up to that first news conference introducing them as a Division I head coach.Follow on Twitter and Instagram at @AKAJeffBidwell.