34 violations of recruiting rules, and the Lobo program was placed on probation and banned from post-season appearances for three years. Later career Despite the scandal, Ellenberger remained popular with many Lobo fans. He continued to live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he owned a restaurant, appeared in TV commercials, coached the city's Continental Basketball Association team and a women's professional team, and continued to attend Lobo games. Some fans felt he had been unfairly dismissed and even wanted him to be rehired as coach of the Lobos.<ref name=Holbreich>Curt Holbreich, [http://articles.latimes.com/1988-01-14/sports/sp-35876_1_lobo-games Lobos Going From Pit Toward the Penthouse], L.A. Times, Jan. 14, 1988.</ref> His ability as a basketball coach had never been in question, and in 1986, former rival and longtime friend Don Haskins hired Ellenberger as his lead assistant at University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), where he coached for four years, even serving as interim head coach for one season while Haskins was side-lined due to health problems. Another longtime friend, Bobby Knight, hired Ellenberger as his lead assistant at Indiana University, where he coached for ten seasons, from 1990 to 2000.Mark Smith, Give Him Liberty, Albuquerque Journal, Apr. 1, 2012. Ellenberger spent the following three seasons as an assistant to Tim Floyd with the Chicago Bulls of the NBA. While in Chicago, Ellenberger became enamored with the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and bought a lakeside cabin near Watersmeet. In 2003, he accepted a position as head coach of the girls' basketball team at Lakeland Union High School in nearby Minocqua, Wisconsin, leaving at the end of the 2004–05 school year. He then coached at the Conserve School in Land O' Lakes, Wisconsin. In 2009, he became assistant coach at Northland Pines High School in Eagle River, Wisconsin. He won Coach of the Year in three different districts during those years, and in 2011–12 he led the Watersmeet Lady Nimrods to the Porcupine Mountain Conference title. Later in 2012, he became an assistant coach for the New York Liberty of the WNBA. He then returned to Watersmeet and coached the Lady Nimrods through the 2014–15 season. He had signed as an assistant coach at another high school nearby just before his death. His love of basketball led him to continue coaching, but he had a similar passion for the outdoors, regularly fishing, canoeing, and chopping wood at his lake shore cabin. Ellenberger can be seen briefly in