Rochester has their new Boys Basketball Coach.

Written Thursday June 17th at 4:20 PM

Updated Friday June 18th at 12:30 PM

The Falcons are bringing in someone very familiar with the building and is well known within the area as their new boys basketball coach.

Rochester named Nick Evola as the team’s new varsity boys basketball coach confirmed by a very accurate source. Evola confirmed on his Twitter the move on the following day. He takes over for Vance Kirkwood whom was let go in May.  

Kirkwood became the new girls basketball coach at Sterling Heights Stevenson last week.

Evola teaches at Rochester which is a huge plus. 

Evola coached his alma mater Warren Woods Tower from 2011-2019. He led the Titans to the Macomb Area Conference Gold Division title in 2018.

Evola is well known for his run and gun offense when he was at Warren Woods Tower.

Evola was originally named Adams head coach in 2019 but had a change of heart seven days later and left all of a sudden. The job eventually went to Jaret Thomas where he had done a magnificent job with the Highlanders.

Rochester won the Gold despite going 6-8 last season. They have a ton of experience coming back for Evola in Matt Stone, Gabe Mendoza, DJ Reid, Arman Hussiani, Preyston Schroeder, Connor Craium, and Louis Bowes. Program strength is a bit of a question mark for the Falcons.

The Falcons with Evola will be in the Blue this winter and compete against the likes of Oxford, Berkley, Southfield Arts and Tech, Troy Athens, and Seaholm. The district is unknown at this time.

Thoughts

This is an interesting hire for the Falcons. The challenge for Evola will be program strength. Kirkwood had a ton of success when it came to program strength at Rochester despite all the struggles on the varsity level. Also another concern is the competition especially going to the Blue and dealing with some new teams even though there are some familiar ones as well.

I expect the Falcons to be very good this season with the experience back. I know a lot of experts are calling this a great hire for Rochester but there are always questions surrounding a team and this one is no different.

It will be interesting to watch for sure.

Stay tuned to OAA Now for the latest on this developing story. 

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