Kermit Davis

Who is Kermit Davis?

Kermit "Froggy" Davis, Jr. is an American college basketball coach, the men's head coach at Middle Tennessee State University since 2002.

Davis was previously the associate head coach at LSU for five seasons. His head coaching experience included brief stops at Idaho and Texas A&M.

When promoted from assistant to head coach at Idaho in 1988 at age 28, Davis was the youngest head coach in NCAA Division I. He had been an assistant for two seasons with the Vandals under new and first-time head coach Tim Floyd, who left for New Orleans. Floyd had rejuvenated the program and under Davis, Idaho had consecutive 25–6 seasons in 1989 and 1990, winning the Big Sky regular season and tournament titles to make the NCAA tournament both years. He left the Palouse for Texas A&M of the Southwest Conference in March 1990, but resigned a year later after an 8–21 first season.

After three years at a junior college in Florida and two seasons as an assistant at Utah State, Davis returned to Idaho as head coach in March 1996, then left a year later to become associate head coach under John Brady at LSU.