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No coach is approaching recruiting with the thought I need this many from this state and this many from that state. I don't doubt that Bennett does his due diligence and prioritizes fit in a recruit but I think by focusing on that entirely, you're downplaying the buy in and work that was put in...

Coach K, who else? If you're a building program that's recruiting successfully on a national level, there's probably some dirty business going on behind the scenes. Took Tony Bennett five years before he could really recruit outside of VA, NC and Georgia.

I think that says more about Pitino's ignorance and arrogance early on than the recruits in the Midwest. Wisconsin's recruited the region almost exclusively for the last two decades and we see where it's got them, Iowa had a great regular season with a bunch of Midwest kids and Iowa State's had...

Kimani Young was as connected as anybody to the Northeast tri-state when he got here (which is why Hurley wanted him at UCONN), that didn't help us at all in recruiting good players from that area while he was here. When you're a building program, a kid with strong P6 interest from the coasts or...

Can't hurt. Gotta imagine he'll play 2 but he could obviously play up to 3 seasons with the COVID year. Between Hoggard (I know he plays off ball a bit for them too), Walker and 2021 signee Jalen Akins, they're set at PG for awhile. Big chance at a statement win on the trail for Ben and his...

For Coyle to end the search so abruptly and hire Ben, he had to have been throwing around some notable names for potential assistants and with how he spoke about the emphasis on recruiting (specifically in state) at Johnson’s intro presser, this would make a lot of sense. One thing I’ve been...

How do you think Dain Dainja and Kendall Brown end up at Baylor? Who's the lead recruiter for Trejuan Holloman for Baylor? I'm not convinced we can offer Nuness more than they can or if he'd have interest but if he does, he should be one of the first calls. Can't turn away elite recruiters, we...

I gotta say using Wisconsin as an example only strengthens the argument of emphasizing recruiting in-state and within the region as is reflected in your list of Badger stars. Even if you look beyond that group, you'll see that this golden age of Wisconsin basketball was built on players from...

I would guess Demarion Watson-Saulsberry. Good wing prospect that can shoot the 3 and has the length and athleticism to have some upside as a good defender. He was offered by Xavier while Johnson was there so there's likely already somewhat of a relationship there, already has a zoom meeting set...

By who? David Kahn? Glen Taylor? Do I think there would have been disapproval? Without a doubt...I mean I was and part of me still is skeptical but I also don't think other fanbases have our built in expectation that everything will go south (I blame local media partially for that) which leads...

I would say the response has been stronger than tepid on here especially for an alum coming back home. I’m sure there were some skeptics but I don’t think Iowa State fans were this strongly opposed to Fred Hoiberg coming back to Ames, his post playing career resume was that of an executive in a...

and this list doesn't include SG Braeden Carrington from Park Center who's a good shooter with Florida, Missouri and Seton Hall offers and PF Elvis Nnaji from Hopkins who has Marquette and Arizona offers. Very deep class.

People should go watch Juwan Howard's introductory presser as it's pretty similar to Ben's. He's not laying out his specific philosophy, he's not listing off assistants he's considering or a timeline for when his staff will be announced....pressers like these are meant to be a celebration more...

Fenton got fired because the Wild have a reactionary owner. Some of the moves Fenton made in a year have set the Wild up to have success this year and beyond. Maybe that's something we should take a lesson from.

I don’t know, a lot of Fenton’s moves are paying off now. Fenton signed Zuccarello, traded for Fiala, signed Ryan Hartman, Rask has been pretty solid, drafted Matt Boldy who’s a Hobey Baker finalist, drafted Vladislav Firstov who’s looked good at UCONN, and drafted Adam Beckman who was the WHL...

Definitely defense. Ostrom is a good shout. He was the primary recruiter for Miller's three biggest commits in Romeo Langford, Trayce Jackson-Davis and Khristian Lander (Lander hasn't really panned out yet).

Alright...I’m in...Welcome home Coach Johnson!

Meanwhile, LSU is giving Michigan all it can handle.

I think that’s true for established coaches, I don’t think Coach K is asking much of his assistants. For inexperienced coaches though, I think assistants play a much bigger role and often times make or break young coaches. Recruiting is definitely a big part of it but I also think they help mold...

I think there’s a trade off as we’ve seen with Fleck, PJ’s been paid a good amount of money but as a result, the pool for assistants hasn’t been as big which is part of the reason why they’ve lost a few good ones while making underwhelming assistant hires from the outside. Michigan underpaid...