USF deal with coach Steve Masiello falls through

According to The Tampa Tribune, Steve Masiello will not coach USF.

Masiello had reached a five-year agreement with USF.

Per The Tampa Tribune, The University of South Florida's search for a new men's basketball coach hit a major snag late Tuesday night when USF learned that the man it was set to hire, Manhattan College coach Steve Masiello, had a previously undetected discrepancy in his background check, a source close to the coaching search told The Tampa Tribune. That background-check information was discovered by Eastman & Beaudine, a Texas-based search firm that was paid $60,000 by USF to find candidates to replace Stan Heath, who was fired on March 14.  USF paid Eastman & Beaudine to find candidates for the men's basketball position. The same firm was paid $100,000 by USF in the search for a new AD, which resulted in Harlan, formerly the associate athletic director at UCLA. According to a document obtained by The Tampa Tribune through a public-records request, the firm's initial $30,000 invoice to USF for the men's basketball search was dated March 12.