Fourth-year assistant coach Frank Burnell brings a wealth of playing and coaching experience in Florida to USF, having spent his entire career in his native state.
Burnell’s contacts have proved valuable to a roster that currently features several players with prep or junior college ties to the state.
He has played a key role in the rebuilding of the program, focusing his coaching efforts on USF’s front line players. He also supervises the team’s scheduling efforts, academics and shares the scouting duties with his fellow assistants.
Burnell, the head coach at Daytona Beach Community College (coached former Bulls Solomon Jones and Bradley Mosley) over 10 seasons, joined head coach Robert McCullum’s USF basketball staff in mid-July, 2003.
Burnell compiled a record of 213-101 at Daytona Beach. His clubs won four Mid-Florida Conference regular-season titles, a pair of Mid-Florida Tournament titles and a Florida Community College Activities Association state championship. He was named Mid-Florida Conference Coach of the Year in 1999, 2001 and 2002 as well as the NJCAA District 8 Coach of the Year in 1999.
Burnell spent seven seasons ? from 1986-87 through 1992-93 ? as an assistant at Stetson University.
A native of Jacksonville, Burnell is a graduate of Stetson, earning his bachelor’s of arts degree in business administration in 1985. He was a four-year letterman for the Hatters, captained the team his senior season in 1982-83 and was the team’s most valuable player as a junior and a senior. Burnell scored 1,491 points (14.1 ppg) over his career which ranks No. 7 on Stetson’s all-time scoring list. He scored 556 points as a senior (19.9 ppg) which ranks No. 7 on Stetson’s all-time single-season list. He retired No. 4 on both scoring lists.
Burnell played professionally two seasons (1983-84 and 1984-85) in the Continental Basketball Association with the Puerto Rico Coquis.
Burnell and his wife, Teri, have two children, Kevin James, 15, and Jason Scott, 9.
