Michael Fly joined the Jacksonville University men's basketball staff as the Associate Head Coach for the 2023-24 season.
Fly comes to JU with 17 years of experience in college and pro basketball.
Most recently, he served as the Director of Scouting and Analytics last season at Missouri under first-year head coach Dennis Gates.
Prior to his stint in Columbia, he was the head coach at FGCU from 2018-22. While in that role, he led the Eagles to the third-most wins in a single season in program history with 22 victories during the 2021-22 campaign. Two players received ASUN Newcomer of the Year honors and one was named Defensive Player of the Year in the league under Fly's leadership.
He ascended to the head coaching role after working alongside Joe Dooley, and prior to that, Andy Enfield, as an assistant coach during the most successful stretch in the history of the FGCU program. The Eagles won six ASUN Championships and made three NCAA Tournaments during that time, including the historic Sweet 16 run in 2013, in which they became the first 15-seed to ever advance that far in the tournament.
Before heading to Fort Myers in 2011, he was the video coordinator at Florida State for three seasons, helping the Seminoles make the NCAA Tournament all three years, including a Sweet 16 in his final season. He also spent a year as a video coordinator for the Charlotte Bobcats, working alongside current Cleveland Cavaliers head coach J.B. Bickerstaff. Fly graduated from Kentucky in 2004 and got his start in coaching as a Volunteer Assistant the following year at Georgetown College (D-II).
