Education
Born in Los Angeles, Dye graduated from Downey High School of nearby Downey, California in 1956. He transferred to Idaho State University and played on the Bengals basketball team from 1960 to 1962 and graduated from Idaho State in 1962.
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Born in Los Angeles, Dye graduated from Downey High School of nearby Downey, California in 1956. He transferred to Idaho State University and played on the Bengals basketball team from 1960 to 1962 and graduated from Idaho State in 1962.
Dye enrolled at Fullerton Junior College and played on the basketball team there from 1956 to 1958. Dye returned to the Los Angeles area after earning his degree and served as head boys" basketball coach at Saint John Bosco High School of Bellflower, California from 1962 to 1965. Saint John Bosco made a school-high 18-7 record in the 1963-1964 season.
From 1965 to 1967, Dye was an assistant coach at Cerritos Junior College.
Dye again became a head coach in 1967, this time at Santa Monica City College (which became Santa Monica College in 1971). Dye coached Cal State Fullerton to the 1976 PCAA regular season title and 1978 PCAA tournament championship, and Cal State Fullerton made the West Regional Final of the 1978 National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament in what was considered a Cinderella run.
Dye had a 110-77 record in seven seasons with Cal State Fullerton from 1973 to 1980. Dye applied for the head coaching job at San Diego State for the 1980-1981 season but was rejected.
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In 1981, Dye became head coach of Division II Cal State Bakersfield. The program made the 1982 and 1983 National Collegiate Athletic Association tournaments. First-year Boise State University athletics director Gene Bleymaier hired Dye as head coach in 1983, and Dye"s first season with the Boise State Broncos was 15-13, ending seven straight losing seasons and making men"s basketball nearly as popular as football.
With Dye as head coach, Boise State made the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament in 1988, 1993, and 1994, and the National Institute of Technology in 1987, 1989, and 1991.
Dye resigned from Boise State in August 1995 with a 213-133 record in his 12 seasons. In 1996, Dye took his first coaching job in professional basketball as the head coach of the Idaho Stampede, an expansion team that would begin playing in the Continental Basketball Association (College of Business Administration) in the 1997-1998 season.
Dye also served as director of basketball operations of the team, which was the first professional basketball team in the state of Idaho. The Stampede went 25-31 in its inaugural season.
As of 2011, Dye is retired and lives in Carlsbad, California.
In 1973, Dye became head men"s basketball coach at Cal State Fullerton, a program then in transition from National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II to Division I. Cal State Fullerton moved to Division I by the 1974-1975 season and was a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association (PCAA).