Background
He served as the interim head coach of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Runnin" Rebels in 2004 after his father, Charlie Spoonhour, resigned mid-season.
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He served as the interim head coach of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Runnin" Rebels in 2004 after his father, Charlie Spoonhour, resigned mid-season.
He was announced as the Panthers" head coach on April 6, 2012. Previously, he served as the head coach at Moberly Area Community College in Missouri. Spoonhour has also held several assistant jobs, including at Saint Louis, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Missouri and Texas-San Antonio.
Spoonhour started his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Central Missouri State (1994-1996).
This was followed by assistant coaching jobs at Saint Louis (1996-1999) and Valparaiso (2000) before getting his first head coaching job at Wabash Valley College. He was named the National Junior College Coach of the Year by both the NABC and NJCAA. Following the national title season, Spoonhour joined his father"s staff at University of Nevada, Las Vegas as an assistant.
He spent three seasons in Las Vegas and in 2004, he took over as the interim head coach after his father resigned midseason. In the 10 games that the younger Spoonhour coached, the Runnin" Rebels went 6-4, including an appearance in the Mountain West Conference title game and an opening round loss in the 2004 National Institute of Technology. He then went on to spend two seasons as an assistant at Missouri and three as an assistant at Texas-San Antonio before being hired as the head coach of Moberly Area Community College in Moberly, Missouri.
In his three years there (2009-2012), Spoonhour had a record of 63-27.
On April 6, 2012, Spoonhour was hired as the next head men"s basketball coach at Eastern Illinois University of the Ohio Valley Conference. Spoonhour was chosen over a list of final candidates that also included Vanderbilt assistant David Cason, Oregon assistant Brian Fish, Nevada assistant Doug Novsek and Xavier assistant Kareem Richardson. In his first season as head coach, the Panthers finished 11-21 overall, but managed to make the conference tournament for the first time since the 2009-2010 season.
The Panthers were eliminated in the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference tournament by Southeast Missouri State.