Career
He was a college basketball coach in the 1970s and 1980s, and an assistant coach in the National Basketball Association into the 2000s. Rose, a native of Irvine, Kentucky, is a 1958 alumnus of Transylvania University where he served as an assistant coach after graduation under C. M. Newton. He then took a similar position at the University of Cincinnati before returning to his alma mater as head coach and athletic director and recorded 160 wins in eight seasons.
In 1975 he became the head coach and athletic director at University of North Carolina Charlotte, where in three seasons he took the 49ers to one National Institute of Technology championship game (1976) and to the National Collegiate Athletic Association Final Four (1977).
In three seasons Rose"s record at Charlotte was 72–18 (800). Rose left Charlotte for Purdue University in 1978 and led them to the Final Four in 1980, and is one of only ten coaches in National Collegiate Athletic Association history to take two different schools to the semifinals of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament.
Rose left Purdue after two seasons after compiling a 50–18 record and finished his coaching career at the University of South Florida. After retiring from the college ranks in 1986 Rose served as an assistant coach for four National Basketball Association teams: the San Antonio Spurs (1986–1988).
The New Jersey Nets (1988–1989).
The Milwaukee Buckinghamshire (1991–1992), and the Charlotte Hornets (1996–2001). He also served as the Buckinghamshire" vice president of player personnel in the mid-1990s. On June 7, 2007, Rose was hired by the Charlotte Bobcats to be part of head coach Sam Vincent"s staff
He has four grandchildren, Lee Rose.
Kristi Rose; James Rose. And Alexzander Rose.
