Here's the Newsday article. I'm betting that Yeboah staying was part of the agreement:
https://www.newsday.com/sports/college/stony-brook/geno-ford-basketball-coach-1.28956762For those who don't subscribe to Newsday:
Stony Brook promoting Geno Ford to head coach, source saysStony Brook has decided to promote assistant coach Geno Ford to become its next basketball coach, according a person familiar with the situation.
Ford, an assistant at Stony Brook under former head coach Jeff Boals for the past three seasons, was previously a head coach at Division I programs Kent State and Bradley.
Ford, 44, takes over for Boals, who left Stony Brook last week to become the head coach at his alma mater, Ohio University. Ford coached Stony Brook last week when it lost in overtime at South Florida in the first round of the College Basketball Invitational.
Ford's experience as a Division I coach combined with the players' and administrators' comfort level with him made him a leading candidate once Boals left. Ford was expected to join Boals at Ohio —where they were college teammates —if he didn’t get the Stony Brook job.
Ford takes over a Stony Brook team that finished second in the America East and is in position to potentially return nearly its entire roster. Up first on Ford’s to-do list will be to convince leading scorer Akwasi Yeboah to stick around for his final year of eligibility.
Stony Brook confirmed Saturday that Yeboah, a first team All America East player, placed his name in the transfer portal, giving him the option to leave. He is on track to graduate, meaning that as a graduate student transfer he would not have to sit out a season before playing.
By selecting Ford, Stony Brook went with familiarity and stability, a different route than when it hired an unproven assistant in Boals to replace Steve Pikiell in 2016.
Ford’s coaching resume is filled mostly with head coaching positions. That includes a three-year stint at Kent State in which he went 68-37 and made two NIT appearances. He left in 2011 for Bradley, a decision that didn’t pan out on or off the court.
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Ford went 46-86 in four years and also was sued by Kent State to recoup the reported $1.2 million buyout in his contract, a somewhat unusual move by a college in an industry in which head coaching changes are common.
After Bradley, Ford spent a year at ESPN before an offer from Boals led him to relocate to Long Island. His son Darin is the varsity basketball coach at Harborfields High School.