Russ Bergman (born September 13, 1947) is an American former college basketball player and coach.
He would later become the interim head coach at App State following Maravich stepping down in the middle of the 1974–75 season.
His tenure at Coastal Carolina would end following a bizarre incident when he called a local reporter at The Sun News in Myrtle Beach and confessed to recruiting violations, this was after Bergman took the team to watch the movie Blue Chips, this and an NCAA investigation led Bergman to resign from his position following the 1994 season.
[3][4] Following his departure from Coastal Carolina, Bergman would make multiple stops coaching in professional leagues in both the United States and Eastern Europe.
[5] Bergman would finish the year serving as the school's baseball coach.