Robert Lloyd Dye (born May 16, 1937) is an American former basketball coach.

Early life and college years

Born in

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, Dye graduated from

Downey High School Downey High School is one of two senior high schools located in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey, California, and within the Downey Unified School District. It is located at 11040 Brookshire Ave. At the present time the school has an enrollment ...

in nearby

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in 1956. Dye enrolled at

Fullerton Junior College Fullerton College (FC) is a public community college in Fullerton, California. The college is part of the California Community Colleges System and the North Orange County Community College District. Established in 1913, it is the oldest communit ...

and played on the basketball team there from 1956 to 1958. He transferred to

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and played on the Bengals basketball team from 1960 to 1962 and graduated from Idaho State in 1962.

Coaching career

Dye returned to the Los Angeles area after earning his degree and served as head boys' basketball coach at St. John Bosco High School of

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from 1962 to 1965. St. John Bosco made a school-high 18–7 record in the 1963–64 season. From 1965 to 1967, Dye was an assistant coach at Cerritos Junior College. Dye again became a head coach in 1967, this time at

Santa Monica City College Santa Monica College (SMC) is a public, community college in Santa Monica, California. Founded as a junior college in 1929, SMC enrolls over 30,000 students in more than 90 fields of study. Although initially serving primarily pre-college high s ...

(which became Santa Monica College in 1971). Santa Monica won the 1972 California junior college championship with a 26–5 record, and Dye had a 115–50 overall record in seven seasons (1967–1973) with Santa Monica. In 1973, Dye became head men's basketball coach at

Cal State Fullerton California State University, Fullerton (CSUF or Cal State Fullerton) is a public university in Fullerton, California. With a total enrollment of more than 41,000, it has the largest student body of the 23-campus California State University (CSU) ...

, a program then in transition from

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to Division I. Cal State Fullerton moved to Division I by the 1974–75 season and was a member of the

Pacific Coast Athletic Association The Big West Conference (BWC) is an American collegiate athletic conference whose member institutions participate in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. The conference was originally formed on July 1, 1969, as the Pacific ...

(PCAA). Dye coached Cal State Fullerton to the 1976 PCAA regular season title and 1978 PCAA tournament championship, and Cal State Fullerton made the West Regional Final of the 1978 NCAA tournament in what was considered a

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run. Dye had a 110–77 record in seven seasons with Cal State Fullerton from 1973 to 1980. Dye applied for the head coaching job at

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for the 1980–81 season but was rejected; he took that season off. In 1981, Dye became head coach of Division II

Cal State Bakersfield California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB, Cal State Bakersfield, or CSU Bakersfield) is a public university in Bakersfield, California. It was established in 1965 as Kern State College and officially in 1968 as California State College Bake ...

; the program made the

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NCAA tournaments. First-year

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athletics director Gene Bleymaier hired Dye as head coach in 1983, and Dye's first season with the

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was 15–13, ending seven straight losing seasons and making men's basketball nearly as popular as football. With Dye as head coach, Boise State made the NCAA tournament in

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, and

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, and the NIT in

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, and

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. Dye resigned from Boise State in August 1995 with a 213–133 record in his 12 seasons. In 1996, Dye took his first coaching job in professional basketball as the head coach of the

Idaho Stampede Idaho ( ) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canada–United States border with the province of British Columbia. It borders the states of Montana and Wyomi ...

, an expansion team that would begin playing in the

Continental Basketball Association The Continental Basketball Association (CBA) (originally known as the Eastern Pennsylvania Basketball League, and later as the Eastern Professional Basketball League and the Eastern Basketball Association) was a men's professional basketball m ...

(CBA) in the 1997–98 season. Dye also served as director of basketball operations of the team, which was the first professional basketball team in the state of

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. The Stampede went 25–31 in its inaugural season. As of 2011, Dye is retired and lives in

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. He is married and has two children and two grandchildren.

Head coaching record

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References

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Sports-reference stats
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