Bio

Devin Aye was hired June 2019 as the Men’s Basketball Coach at San Jose City College.  The 2023-24 basketball season will be his 18th year as men’s collegiate coach at the NCAA, NAIA and California Community College levels and his 10^th season as a head coach in Community College ranks where he has compiled an overall record of 168-84.  Aye was ranked the #1 NorCal JC Men’s Basketball coach according to NorCal Prep & Juco Basketball (Link). An astonishing 100% of the sophomores who finished their sophomore season for coach Aye have received scholarship offers, and 60+ have transferred on to Universities.

Coach Aye was awarded the 2023 Coast South Conference Coach of the Year after winning the Conference Championship and leading the Jags to the State Final 8, and a #3 final state ranking.  Coach Aye is the only recent coach to be awarded the Coach of the Year, and being outright Conference Champs in 3 seperate conferences.  Worth noting, these were all accomplished within his first three years at each colllege. 

From 2017-2019 Coach Aye was the inaugural Athletic Director and Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Copper Mountain College in Joshua Tree, CA. In just 4 months he launched the athletic department and developed curriculum for men’s and women’s intercollegiate basketball. The inaugural 2018-19 CMC team took the state by surprise with a top-5 “Signal the Light” state ranking, and finished 20-10 overall. In 2019-2020 he led the CMC team to a top-10 “Sign the Light” state ranking and gained attention by defeating #16 nationally ranked NJCAA Arizona Western.

Aye’s success includes three conference championships: Lassen College (2013 Golden Valley Conference) , Cosumnes River College (2016 BIG 8 Conference) and San Jose City College (2023 Coast South Conference). He has also been awarded Golden Valley Conference Coach of the Year (2012-13), and BIG 8 Conference Coach of the Year (2015-16) & Coast South Conference Coach of the Year (2022-23). 

In 2016-17 Aye spent the season as Assistant Men’s Basketball coach at William Jessup University in Rocklin, California. He assisted in setting a school record for #16 national ranking, and an18-13 overall record while competing in the nation’s best NAIA D1 conference (GSAC).

In 2015-16 Aye was the Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento, CA. Aye, hired weeks before school started, he put together a roster that won the BIG 8 Conference with only 8 players and finished 17-11. He recruited the conference MVP and an All-State recipient who later signed to an NCAA D1 University (Gerard Andrus). Aye was awarded 2016 BIG 8 Conference Coach of the Year.

In 2012 Aye inherited a Lassen College program that had won 3 games combined the previous two seasons. His first year, Aye resuscitated Lassen College men’s basketball with a record of 23-9, a GVC championship, and top-10 state ranking and #9 seed in Nor Cal playoffs. The 2012-13 season ended in the Sweet 16 of the California state men’s basketball playoffs. Aye received 2013 Golden Valley Conference Coach of the Year, and was elected GVC Men’s Basketball Executive Board Rep.

Coach Aye has assisted 60+ former student-athletes to University scholarships in his 10 years as a head coach in the California Community College system.  At last count, over a dozen were playing professional basketball.  

Coach Aye is the current Coast South Conference Executive Board Representative for the California Community College Men's Basketball Coaches Association. 

SJCC Resume at a glance:

2019-20:  11-17 overall record, 11 win improvement from the Jags previous season.

2020-21: COVID (No season)

2021-22: 22-7 overall record, 2nd place finish in Coast South Conference, 2nd Round Regional State playoffs #10 NorCal playoff seed

2022-23: 26-5 overall record, Conference Champs, State Final 8, #2 NorCal playoff seed (#3 Final State Ranking)

Former Jags Moving on under Coach Aye:

Gavin Wilburn: Tarleton State University

Jordan Gill: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Mison Coilton: Dakota State University

Nikola Milojevic: Hawaii Pacific University

Jerry Jackson III: Texas A&M Texarkana University

Bryan Nguyen: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Trent Blackshire: Mayville State University 

Jaycson Bereal: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Eli Russo: Hawaii Pacific University

Melvin Lipsey: Florida National University

EK Okechukwu: Westcliff University

Jose Bermudez: University of Los Angeles-College of Divinity 

Jayvon Fisher: Jarvis Christian University

Mark Wishom:  Warner Pacific University

Former Jags Signing Pro:

Alkan Ozusug (Turkey)