Brad Estes
President
Phone: (704) 664-9845
Fax: (866) 232-4172
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Brad Estes is the president of the Juco Journal, one of the nation's top Junior College recruiting service, as well as Maximum Exposure Basketball. Estes, who has spent his entire life around basketball, has been involved with programs at the Division I, Division III, Junior College, High School, and AAU levels. Estes worked at the University of South Carolina under coaches Eddie Fogler and Dave Odom, and has worked at some of the top camps and tournaments around the country. Estes has also worked alongside Bob Gibbons, the nation's most well known talent evaluator, at Gibbon's evaluation clinics and tournaments since 2001.
Butch Estes
Talent Evaluator / Contributor
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Butch Estes is currently the men’s basketball coach at Palm Beach State College in Palm Beach, Florida. Estes has more than 30 years coaching experience at the college/university level.
Estes graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he played freshman basketball and was a student assistant coach under the legendary coach, Dean Smith. He was a graduate assistant coach while he earned his master’s degree in administrative education at The Citadel. After completing his degree in 1973, Estes took assistant coaching positions at East Carolina and Rice universities and moved into head coaching positions at Presbyterian College (92-63 record) and Furman University (135-122 record).
In the mid 1990s, Estes left the court for five years to work for Fox Sport Net as a basketball analyst, eventually taking head coaching jobs at Guilford College and Miami-Dade South Community College. He did a brief tenure at the University of Miami as assistant coach in 2006, and in 2007, he moved to the Seattle area to support his wife’s career (she is an executive producer at a local TV station) and accepted an assistant coach position at Seattle University.
Estes holds a 338-267 record as a head coach and is an eight-time Coach of the Year nominee.
Estes was an assistant coach at NCAA Division I East Carolina University and Rice University. At Presbyterian College in South Carolina, he led the Blue Hose to their best record and first national NAIA ranking. He then moved to NCAA Division I Furman University, where he won the Southern Conference title in 1991 and two second place finishes plus an NIT berth in 1991. He took the team at Guilford College (NCAA Division III) from a losing record to the conference playoffs in his second year as coach. Estes finished his head coaching at Miami-Dade Community College where he led the Sharks to a 27-5 record and conference championship in his third year.
He then moved to the University of Miami (Florida) as an assistant coach and helped build the Hurricanes into a contender in one of the toughest basketball conferences in the country – they qualified for the NCAA March Madness.
Coach Estes has 338-267 record as a head coach and an eight time Coach of the Year nominee.
Coach Butch Estes Coaching History:
2008-10 Head Coach, Shoreline Community College
2007-08 Assistant Coach, Seattle University
2006-07 Assistant Coach, University of Miami
2003-06 Head Coach, Miami-Dade South Community Coll., Record: 69-22
1999-03 Head Coach, Guilford College, Record: 43-58
1994-99 Basketball Analyst, Fox Sport Net
1985-94 Head Coach, Furman University, Record: 135-122
1980-85 Head Coach, Presbyterian College, Record: 92-63
1977-80 Assistant Coach, Rice University
1973-77 Assistant Coach, East Carolina University
1971-73 Graduate Assistant Coach, The Citadel
1968-71 Student Assistant Coach, North Carolina
Education:
1973 Master’s Degree in Administrative Education, The Citadel
1971 Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Education, University of North Carolina
