Joey Brooks begins his first year at Texas Southern wearing a variety of hats both on-and-off the court. In addition to on-court coaching, scouting and recruiting duties, Brooks will be working at the forefront of TSU men’s basketball NIL revenue generating efforts as well as scheduling as the program's general manager. 

Brooks arrives in Houston following one year in a similar role at Coastal Carolina. Prior to that, he completed his second stint at Nicholls in 2022-23, after getting started with the Colonels while serving as an assistant coach for Claunch in the 2019-20 season – helping the squad to a 55-31 record and 40-15 Southland Conference mark and the 2021 Southland Conference Regular Season title during his tenure.

After two seasons at Nicholls, Brooks joined Dedrique Taylor’s staff at Cal State Fullerton, helping the Titans to a magical 15-game turnaround that saw CSF shift from seventh in the preseason Big West predictions to winning the conference tournament and reaching the NCAA Tournament with a 21-11 record. In his time at Fullerton, the Titans’ defense improved in the rankings by 102 slots in effective defensive field goals percentage (dropping 3.8 percent), 143 slots in 2-point percentage defense (dropping 4.1 percent), and 140 spots in adjusted defensive efficiency.

A 2013 Notre Dame graduate, Brooks also spent two years at Purdue as a graduate assistant. During his time with the Boilermakers, Purdue won a Big Ten Championship and made back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances, which included a trip to the Sweet Sixteen and the 2019 Elite Eight run. During that period, Brooks helped coach five All-Big Ten selections and two All-Americans – leading individual workouts with Carson Edwards, the Jerry West Award winner for the nation's top shooting guard as well as the 33rd Pick in the NBA Draft to the Boston Celtics.

Brooks has led the coaching, player development and/or mentorship of over 30 NBA, G-League, EuroLeague or EuroCup Level professionals in his 10-year career.

A Houston native out of Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, Brooks was a four-year letterwinner playing guard for 80 games at Notre Dame under head coach Mike Brey. He was a two-time Big East Academic Honor Roll honoree and was named to the Big East All-Academic Team, also appointed by Brey to the Notre Dame Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).

Before leaning into his coaching career, Brooks spent a year as a senior analytics specialist in addition to working four years with Pure Sweat Basketball (NBA skills trainer) and building up his skill set at the Marketing Arm (content strategist), Krossover Intelligence (basketball specialist, account executive, and business development assistant), John Lucas Enterprises (NBA/NCAA Player Development) and with IBM.