Charlton Young, Georgia Southern's head basketball coach for the past four seasons, was fired after a meeting with GSU athletics director, Tom Kleinlein, Monday afternoon. "At 6 p.m., (Monday), I had a meeting with ... Charlton Young and decided that we needed to go in a different direction with our basketball program," Kleinlein said at a news conference Tuesday morning. "Charlton and I met for approximately 20 minutes to discuss the future of our program, at which time I informed him that I felt we needed to go in a different direction."