Re: Commits/Recruiting
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 10:38 am
eepstein0 {l Wrote}:BCEaglesFan {l Wrote}:Shaddix {l Wrote}:HJS {l Wrote}:What percentage of posters feel that Don needs to target higher ranked players AND do a better job signing the players he targets?
The players he targets are fine. He just can't land any of them. Hopefully he realizes he needs help in recruiting at the end of the year and adds a staff member
Meh, Graham got him the Cali Kids and Hanlan, so you keep him. But Waheed has only got him Owens and Kampmann has gotten nobody.
Kampmann would be my first choice for re-location
Skinner had a GREAT recruiting staff with O'Shea, Coen and Cooley. He replaced O'Shea with Duquette and was able to maintain. But, losing Coen and Cooley soon after in the same year sunk the program. Part of that had to do with Skinner's decision to give remaining staffers a bump and backfill those positions. None of Pat Duquette, Bonzi Colson or Preston Murphy were as good as the men they were replacing.
Similarly, Don initially assembled what appeared to be a very solid staff: Joe Jones, John Gallagher and Nate Graham. Then, Don went down the same road as Skinner. Gallagher left almost as soon as he was announced to become the head coach at Hartford. Graham got bumped and we backfilled with Waheed. Joe Jones left after one year to become the head coach at BU. Graham and Waheed got bumped and we backfilled with Kampmann.
You might be able to pull that off if you are someone like Coach K and the guys you are bumping have all been with you for almost a decade. But, someone who has spent his career in nothing higher than the Ivies and is trying to make the jump to the most competitive basketball conference in the nation simply does not have the same luxury. I said it then and I think it still holds true... when we lost Jones, Don needed to replace him with someone who is experienced at recruiting in a major conference. As I predicted then, that failure will prove his undoing.