Knott promoted to associate head coach

Todd Knott

Over the weekend, The Free Press published my story on Minnesota State assistant coach Todd Knott getting promoted to associate head coach.

The promotion came early in the offseason, head coach Mike Hastings said, and Knott turned down a couple of opportunities to leave Minnesota State for another program. 

One of those programs was likely Minnesota where new coach Bob Motzko is assembling a staff:

MSU-Mankato assistant coach Todd Knott of Red Lake Falls passed on a couple of opportunities this offseason. Was in mix at Minnesota. Opted to stay, sources say. Another sign of MSU-Mankato's rise in prominence in college hockey.

— Brad E. Schlossman (@SchlossmanGF) August 27, 2018

As you can read in the story, it's a deserved honor for Knott, the Mavericks' recruiting coordinator and a coach Hastings has spoken quite highly of over the last six years. It's not easy to keep a staff together. And, if my examination of all 60 Division I coaching staffs is right, the trio of Hastings, Knott and Darren Blue (an MSU assistant since 2000) have been together as long as or longer than all but five other groups. 

It seems as though the next step for Knott will be as a head coach somewhere in the next few years.