Donnie Tyndall, the former Southern Miss and Tennessee coach punished by the NCAA after an investigation into major rules violations at USM, has reached an agreement to be an assistant coach for the Toronto Raptors' D-League team, a source told CBS Sports early Friday.
An official announcement is expected soon.
Former NBA All-Star Jerry Stackhouse is the head coach of Raptors 905.
Tennessee fired Tyndall in March 2015 after concluding that an ongoing investigation into the program he previously ran at Southern Miss would lead to Level I violations, which it did. In April 2016, the NCAA imposed a 10-year show-cause penalty on Tyndall despite the fact that it could only directly tie him to the violations at Southern Miss by using the testimony of former assistant Adam Howard, who had already been caught lying to the NCAA twice. According to Tyndall's lawyer, Don Jackson, Howard never accused Tyndall of anything until the NCAA granted him immunity to do so. The result of that was a new version of events that buried Tyndall and allowed Howard to eventually accept a job as an assistant coach at Troy.
Tyndall, who took a job as an associate AD at NAIA Tennessee Wesleyan College last year, has appealed the NCAA's findings.
The result of that appeal is pending.
