Tim Cohane

Tim Cohane (born May 22, 1942) is an American college basketball coach, Wall Street entrepreneur and sports lawyer.

Early life Cohane played basketball at Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, New York where he was the basketball captain of the Catholic High School Athletic Association championship in 1960. After high school, Cohane enrolled at College of the Holy Cross on a full basketball scholarship. After his Freshman season, he transferred to the U.S. Naval Academy and played for that school's basketball team. After graduating, Cohane volunteered for duty in Vietnam on the rivers of the Mekong Delta. For his service, he was awarded two Bronze Stars, a Purple Heart and a dozen other commendations. After a year in Vietnam, Cohane was stationed in Naval Station Newport in Rhode Island where he coached a basketball team on-base.

After leaving Dartmouth, Cohane was introduced to the trading floor of New York Stock Exchange by a friend. Cohane was hired by Salomon Brothers but later met and befriended Larry Rafferty and together they founded Cohane-Raffertry Securities a firm that became a leader in transactions between banks.>ref. Banking News "Cohane to Don Basketball Shoes". While working on Wall Street, he was hired to fill the coaching vacancy at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. After rebuilding the Buffalo Program > "UB Awards Contract Extension" Buffalo Sports Information>Cohane resigned as head coach at Buffalo five games into the 1999–2000 season, as a result of an NCAA investigation in which he was alleged to have violated NCAA rules.. In 2004 Cohane filed a long-running lawsuit against the NCAA, the University at Buffalo, and the Mid-American Conference, accusing them of conspiring to remove him as coach and denying Cohane of due process.To facilitate his law suit Cohane, at the age of 65, graduated from Roger Williams School of Law.> "Tim Cohane Terence Cardinal Cooke Humanitarian Award". Among other things, Cohane alleged that the NCAA knew UB officials coerced players into implicating him; he claimed that UB officials threatened to strip Bulls players of their eligibility and block seniors from graduating unless they corroborated claims of violations by Cohane. On May 15, 2015, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in favor of the NCAA in the case. Cohane is also a 2005 graduate of the Roger Williams University School of Law, and has developed a law practice specializing in assuring due-process and related protections to coaches and student-athletes alike.

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