What players in the tournament did we recruit/offer/get on campus? I think Cooley got Hillard from Villanova to visit and we may have been involved early with Dunn at PC. Scoochie Smith from Dayton?
We were very close to getting Hillard. I actually went to an AAU tourney to watch him play. He was very good then ...... actually too good as after that AAU Tourney, Villanova offered he verbaled pretty quick. It was his dream school.
What players in the tournament did we recruit/offer/get on campus? I think Cooley got Hillard from Villanova to visit and we may have been involved early with Dunn at PC. Scoochie Smith from Dayton?
Cooley was getting serious interest from Dunn to play at FAIRFIELD!
Freshman Bonzie Colson played 14 minutes and scored 6 points last night in Notre Dame's win over Wichita State. For the season he averaged 12 minutes a game and 5.6ppg.
...Colson said he wasn't sure if UConn offered him a scholarship Monday, but listed the Huskies along with Pitt, Notre Dame, Iowa State, Florida State, Minnesota, Butler, Miami, Stanford, GWU, URI, Fairfield, Quinnipiac, Virginia Tech, Arkansas and Alabama as showing interest...
The other player on ND that we were very much involved with was PG Matty Farrell. He played 4 mpg during the season as a Frosh, and did not play last night. He was supposed to visit us in late Sept as a package deal with the 6-9 Eric Carter.... but renegged, as Boston college offerred, he accepted, and eventually decommitted from BC, and decided to go to Notre Dame. He is a player to watch as he is very good, but I don't think he is ND level.
We missed out on all 3 of our top PG recruits that summer...... Farrell(ND), Jorgensen (GW), and Shuler (Lasalle)
Joe . Your the best at what you do. But to keep it real . Eric who is at Deleware.never was close to coming to Fairfield after what he heard ..and Farrell already got the word on Sydney and was above Fairfield. Also Devon Coleman who is at Temple when he came to campus indicated after what he heard would not be back. Its sad but the word is out on Sydney in the jersey area as well as philly. AAU word like it or not travels fast. That's the fact.
Joe . Your the best at what you do. But to keep it real . Eric who is at Deleware.never was close to coming to Fairfield after what he heard ..and Farrell already got the word on Sydney and was above Fairfield. Also Devon Coleman who is at Temple when he came to campus indicated after what he heard would not be back. Its sad but the word is out on Sydney in the jersey area as well as philly. AAU word like it or not travels fast. That's the fact.
Eric Carter was very interested in us, but even Carter said that Fairfield became less interested in him after we got the commitment from Degnan. As far as Farrell goes, he had a long list of schools, and once he visited and got offered by Boston College, verballed immediately. I don't disagree that it will be difficult for Sydney to recruit after two 7-win seasons; however, players also want immediate playing time and thats what Sydney has to offer and sell..... along with the fact that he had won 85+ games in his last 2 years at Princeton and first 2 years at Fairfield, and gone to the NCAA.
Post by curioustag on Mar 28, 2015 21:54:03 GMT -5
Yes, that legacy of success still continues to wow them in the living room I am sure. C'mon Joe, respectfully, these type of recruits aren't impressed with an Ivy League career and berth 5 years ago. It is unreal that this guy has a job when others in his field with MUCH BETTER EVERYTHING ARE LOOKING.
We cannot be talking about former Top recruits we almost had when we don't "win" vs. Maine when we recruit. This is like discussing the Miami Heat last year to this year in the same vain.
We have got to stop being apologists for this abomination. It is starting to stink from the top down with the release of Assistants who people liked and respected.
I think every struggling mid-major is going to have a list of prospects that 'got away' - that's one of the reasons why they are struggling!
curioustag - every recruit is going to have a different set of the 'most important things' to them. Somewhere there is a guy or 2 that likes what Fairfield has to offer, isn't discouraged by SJ as a coach and sees themselves as a guy that could change the program/be the man and fill the arena... and there are other guys that would prefer to ride the pine for a couple of years at a higher tier school, then transfer.
I don't think there is any lack of excellent talent that would come to Fairfield, it's just a matter of finding them!
Post by curioustag on Mar 29, 2015 16:16:58 GMT -5
I am sure you are right Typhoon but The MAAC is not in the same echelon as A-10, Big East, or CAA at this point...and we are the bottom of the MAAC. I hope we can get this kid that was also offered to by Cleveland State but that program is leaps and bounds ahead of ours at the moment too.
My point is that we are really good at living in the past on this Board, as I can be too. I just look at the seasons we have had and think, are we really talking about kids we almost signed because of Cooley and thinking we're still a "hot commodity" because Sydney won the Ivy five years ago and was a good player twenty years ago? Dream on.
Maybe I am just sour because I would not want my son to play for a coach like this after watching that Press Conference. All coaches and D1 programs have "something to offer" so do creative D2 and D3 schools for that matter. What I want you to "offer" me is character and a team that will learn to fight and play together and receive good coaching and mentoring, haven't seen anything like that recently on and off the court.
Last Edit: Mar 29, 2015 16:33:23 GMT -5 by curioustag
It's human nature to look at the last piece of evidence and give it outsized weight. So we have a coach who almost never berates a player during a game (and how many posts have criticized him for that?), a coach who went out of his way to praise players all season even in losses, a coach who by all accounts has a solid relationship with most players. And a coach, who when emotions were raw, put it all on his two best players. Syd, by my observation, treats players as well or better than many college coaches.
Post by curioustag on Mar 29, 2015 17:04:44 GMT -5
If that is better than most coaches, then God help athletes everywhere. Guess that coupled with his riveting interviews and inability to speak to the media right now, his last time in front of a microphone involved him having no ownership and thus no spine. Just my opinion.
