Bigeddysprings
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Seems like a good hire! Findlay Prep School in Vegas has had some great players including Rashad Vaughn. Hopefully he’s got connections there....
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Very solid hire for Richard. He got a raw deal being fired from UWM when he did. He had a couple decent teams during his tenure at UWM. Supposedly a really good recruiter so hopefully he can pick up where Kimani left off.
Was he a casualty during their AD debacle?
Appears so. Seems the team was pretty unhappy about it.
http://fox6now.com/2016/03/30/uwm-p...-after-coach-rob-jeters-firing-i-was-shocked/
He had some pretty tough teams for a while there. A lot on the back of a player named Peters(?) but such is life in low major basketball.
Wonder how much having Springs on the team last year was an influence on this hire?
I hope zero.
Love this hire. He has a MUCH more impressive coaching record than Kimani did, so hopefully this helps from a preparation, scouting, and adjustment standpoint.
Maybe we can even sign a Wisconsin kid for once as well.
And doesn't carry with him significant baggage.
You forget our high jump champ we recruited from Rice Lake a few years back... [emoji41]Love this hire. He has a MUCH more impressive coaching record than Kimani did, so hopefully this helps from a preparation, scouting, and adjustment standpoint.
Maybe we can even sign a Wisconsin kid for once as well.
Love this hire. He has a MUCH more impressive coaching record than Kimani did, so hopefully this helps from a preparation, scouting, and adjustment standpoint.
Maybe we can even sign a Wisconsin kid for once as well.
A Midwest guy, I am sure they all have connections nationally as far as recruiting goes but I wonder if they will put more emphasis on recruiting the Midwest as apposed to the East coast.
I went to check the numbers since it seems like Pitino hasn’t recruited Wisconsin very heavily.
According to 247, we’ve offered 6 Wisconsin kids in the 2014-2018 classes: Tyrese Haliburton, Jordan McCabe, Terrance Lewis, Henry Ellenson, Riley LaChance, and Sandy Cohen. Cohen and Ellenson went to Marquette, Lewis and Haliburton to Iowa State, LaChance to Vanderbilt, and McCabe to West Virginia. Ellenson was the only one with a Badger offer.
We also offered Nick Fuller, Bronson Koenig, and Matt Thomas in 2013, but I think those were all Tubby offers. Hell even Henry Ellenson was a Tubby offer I think, and I don’t recall if Pitino pursued him hard or not.