GREEN ISLAND, N.Y. — For Brian and Ryan Beaury, there are some aspects of their new roles on the Siena College men’s basketball coaching staff that are going to take some getting used to.
For Brian, 63, it’s not saying he’s still the coach of the Saint Rose Golden Knights men’s basketball team, where he spent 33 years, winning over 650 games. “I did make a phone call to somebody and said, ‘Hi, this is Brian Beaury, from Saint Rose.’ So It’s gonna take me a minute, but it won’t take me long,” the former head coach said at a Siena court rehab dedication and ice cream social, this past Monday at George Street court.
Brian said he was officially installed in his new post at Siena on Thursday, July 25. He joins new head coach Gerry McNamara in the role of Special Assistant to the head coach. For Ryan Beaury, Brian’s nephew and the Saints’ new director of basketball operations, it’s been hard not to refer to the new special assistant as, ‘Uncle Brian.
’ “He tells me, ‘Hey man, you got to stop that. You got to stop that.’ But it’s been great,” said Ryan with a laugh.
“I remember going to his games as a kid and asking him questions because I played basketball growing up and just being like, ‘Hey, Uncle Brian, what do you think about this, what do you think about that, picking his brain about various things.’ It’s great to be able to do that now sitting in the same office and watching film with him.” Photo of new Siena men's basketbal.