Career
He was fired after the 2012-2013 season. He was the head coach at Erie Community College, and head coach and assistant coach at Sweet Home High School before he was hired as the interim head coach at Buffalo in December 1999. Witherspoon was named full-time head coach in March 10, 2000.
He was the first African American named head coach of a varsity sports team in any Western New York suburban school district.
Witherspoon served one season as an assistant at Alabama under head coach Anthony Grant. In 2015, Witherspoon was let go by Alabama when Grant was replaced by Avery Johnson.
He was subsequently named as an assistant on Matt McCall"s staff at Utah-Chattanooga.
