Who is the coach for the basketball team in the US state having the American Idol contestant performing a Fuel song on this season?
Roy Williams
Title: Bruce Weber (basketball)
Passage: Bruce Brett Weber (born October 19, 1956) is an American college basketball coach who is currently the men's basketball head coach at Kansas State University. Weber was formerly head coach at Southern Illinois University and the University of Illinois.
Title: American Idol (season 8)
Passage: The eighth season of American Idol premiered on January 13, 2009, and concluded on May 20, 2009. Judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, and Randy Jackson continued to judge the show's contestants, along with Ryan Seacrest as host. The season introduced Kara DioGuardi as the fourth judge on the Idol panel. It was also Abdul's final season as a judge. Kris Allen, a native of Conway, Arkansas, was announced the winner of the competition on May 20, 2009, defeating runner - up Adam Lambert after nearly 100 million votes. This was the second season where both of the final two contestants had been in the bottom three or two at least once before the finale, with the first being season three.
Title: American Idol
Passage: Chris Daughtry's performance of Fuel's "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)" on the show was widely praised and led to an invitation to join the band as Fuel's new lead singer, an invitation he declined. His performance of Live's version of "I Walk the Line" was well received by the judges but later criticized in some quarters for not crediting the arrangement to Live. He was eliminated at the top four in a shocking result.
Title: Patrick Eddie
Passage: Patrick Eddie is a former American basketball player who played center in the National Basketball Association for the New York Knicks during the 1991–92 NBA season. He was the head coach of the Heritage Christian High School Varsity basketball team in 2012-13 and 2013-14.
Title: Chris Burgess
Passage: Chris Burgess (born 23 April 1979) is an American former professional basketball player and current assistant coach for the Brigham Young Cougars men's basketball team. Burgess started his freshman year at Mater Dei High School, then transferred to his local school Woodbridge High School in California and played his remaining high school years. He then attended Duke University and University of Utah. Although Burgess attended training camp with the Phoenix Suns of the NBA, and played on several NBA Summer League teams, he never played in a regular-season NBA game. He did, however, play professional basketball in a variety of leagues in various parts of the world. In 2013, he officially retired from professional basketball and joined the coaching staff at the University of Utah as an undergraduate assistant coach. From 2015 to 2019, Burgess served as an assistant coach for the Utah Valley University men's basketball team. Following the 2019 season, Burgess followed UVU head coach Mark Pope to BYU.
Title: Armen Gilliam
Passage: Armen Louis Gilliam (May 28, 1964 – July 5, 2011) was an American professional basketball player who played 13 years in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1987 to 2000. He also played one season (2005–06) for the Pittsburgh Xplosion of the American Basketball Association. Gilliam returned to the court after retirement as the head basketball coach for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Penn State Altoona Lions from 2002 to 2005.
Title: American Idol
Passage: The finals are broadcast in prime time from CBS Television City in Los Angeles, in front of a live studio audience. The finals lasted eight weeks in season one, eleven weeks in subsequent seasons until seasons ten and eleven which lasted twelve weeks except for season twelve, which lasted ten weeks, and season thirteen, which lasted for thirteen weeks. Each finalist performs songs based on a weekly theme which may be a musical genre such as Motown, disco, or big band, songs by artists such as Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley or The Beatles, or more general themes such as Billboard Number 1 hits or songs from the contestant's year of birth. Contestants usually work with a celebrity mentor related to the theme. In season ten, Jimmy Iovine was brought in as a mentor for the season. Initially the contestants sing one song each week, but this is increased to two songs from top four or five onwards, then three songs for the top two or three.
Title: American Idol
Passage: The show itself is popular in the Southern United States, with households in the Southeastern United States 10% more likely to watch American Idol during the eighth season in 2009, and those in the East Central region, such as Kentucky, were 16 percent more likely to tune into the series. Data from Nielsen SoundScan, a music-sales tracking service, showed that of the 47 million CDs sold by Idol contestants through January 2010, 85 percent were by contestants with ties to the American South.
Title: American Idol
Passage: Once in Hollywood, the contestants perform individually or in groups in a series of rounds. Until season ten, there were usually three rounds of eliminations in Hollywood. In the first round the contestants emerged in groups but performed individually. For the next round, the contestants put themselves in small groups and perform a song together. In the final round, the contestants perform solo with a song of their choice a cappella or accompanied by a band‍—‌depending on the season. In seasons two and three, contestants were also asked to write original lyrics or melody in an additional round after the first round. In season seven, the group round was eliminated and contestants may, after a first solo performance and on judges approval, skip a second solo round and move directly to the final Hollywood round. In season twelve, the executive producers split up the females and males and chose the members to form the groups in the group round.
Title: American Idol
Passage: Since the show's inception in 2002, ten of the fourteen Idol winners, including its first five, have come from the Southern United States. A large number of other notable finalists during the series' run have also hailed from the American South, including Clay Aiken, Kellie Pickler, and Chris Daughtry, who are all from North Carolina. In 2012, an analysis of the 131 contestants who have appeared in the finals of all seasons of the show up to that point found that 48% have some connection to the Southern United States.
Title: Roy Williams (basketball coach)
Passage: Roy Williams Williams at a North Carolina press conference Sport (s) Basketball Current position Title Head coach Team North Carolina Conference ACC Record 424 -- 126 Biographical details (1950 - 08 - 01) August 1, 1950 (age 67) Marion, North Carolina Playing career 1968 -- 1969 North Carolina (J.V.) Coaching career (HC unless noted) 1973 -- 1978 Charles D. Owen HS 1978 -- 1988 North Carolina (assistant) 1988 -- 2003 Kansas 2003 -- present North Carolina Head coaching record Overall 842 -- 227 Accomplishments and honors Championships 3 × NCAA Division I Tournament (2005, 2009, 2017) 9 × NCAA Division I Regional -- Final Four (1991, 1993, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2016, 2017) 3 × ACC Tournament (2007, 2008, 2016) 8 × ACC regular season (2005, 2007 -- 2009, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017) 3 × Big 12 Tournament (1997 -- 1999) 4 × Big 12 regular season (1997, 1998, 2002, 2003) Big Eight Tournament (1992) 5 × Big Eight regular season (1991 -- 1993, 1995, 1996) Awards 2 × AP Coach of the Year (1992, 2006) Naismith College Coach of the Year (1997) 2 × Henry Iba Award (1990, 2006) 2 × ACC Coach of the Year (2006, 2011) 3 × Big 12 Coach of the Year (1997, 2002, 2003) 4 × Big Eight Coach of the Year (1990, 1992, 1995, 1996) John R. Wooden Legends of Coaching Award (2003) Adolph Rupp Cup (2006) Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2007 College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2006
Roy Williams (basketball coach) American Idol