Yes indeed. Manny Beckman was a great HS head coach. Geno was the state's first Mr. Basketball. He was actually Twin's triple A manager. Great guy. Steve Cunningham also played with Glynn at Waseca and got a scholly to play FB at the U. Both very good three sport athletes. Losts of multi-sport talent from that city.
Old District 4 in Old Region 1 had a pretty solid basketball reputation. I played (not much) for a team in the old Hiawatha Valley League in the one-class era and it was rare--Kenyon in the early-1970s as the best example--for one of the smaller schools to get past Faribault, Northfield, Owatonna, or Waseca. Waseca had some great teams in that era, but never got to state. They had a guy around 6-6 named Howard Deichen (sp?) who was good. I can't remember if Jack Gray (another guy around 6-6) played for Waseca or Owatonna, but he was very good as well. One of the best to come out of the district was Owatonna's Dan Halversen, who I believe graduated in 1968 or 1969 and went on to play at St. Olaf. He was phenomenal.
Kenyon has had some good teams over the years.
The 2020 state tournament was wiped out by COVID and Waseca was primed for a title run. I played in that conference and Waseca has always been a basketball and baseball town. Football was terrible until the last 15 years.
From the past couple years, it wouldn’t usually come put the first day. You need a 3-5 day lag time for stuff to get in order with school and such. Got that from Ryan James.
Played a bunch this year and the two prior years. No covid years. No mention of injuries. I don't possibly see how he could have more than one year left.
Tall people town.
Grant Nelson is way better than Morgan. Although I do think Morgan could be a decent pickup for a bench role.This NDSU transfer last year seems to have worked out for Alabama:
Grant Nelson - Men's Basketball - Alabama Athletics
Grant Nelson (4) Forward - 2023-24 Named to the 2024 NCAA West Region All-Tournament Team Played and started in all 37 games Averaged 11.9 points, 5.9 reboun...rolltide.com
The two of them couldn't be more different. I remember watching Grant Nelson 3 years ago when he was a freshman at NDSU warm up against UST (NDSU's first game at UST)...you could immediately see he had NBA potential. Near 7-footer, fluid, can handle the ball and shoot...Morgan is not that. Morgan is not a stiff (mobility-wise), but I wouldn't say that he is mobile. I've seen him play 3 times in person (at UST) and numerous times on television...the size of the B10 will be a struggle for him as he didn't dominate in the Summit...and in the Summit...he is a big boy, with some skills (those guys should dominate *he didn't). In saying that, I think he could be a much better option that Jack Wilson, and would most likely be a 7.5 point guy, 4 rebound guy... he's not coming in to get double digits. (he is a better non-P5 player *nothing wrong with that*) - but if you compare him to what we had on the roster last year...he would be better than Ihnen (by miles) and JoJ at the 4/5.
unless they find a high end 5 in the portal (unlikely) Morgan wouldn’t have a “bench role” he’d be starting.
I mean, I think it's pretty clear that nothing in my post said "Andrew Morgan IS Grant Nelson!!"
They dominated the HVL for about a decade from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. Had a state tournament team in 1970. Odd thing was they beat a generational Red Wing team to go to the state tournament that year. Their team was mostly juniors that year and they were considered the big favorite to go back to the tourney again in 1971, but they lost to Red Wing in the Region 1 finals that year. I knew a lot of the Kenyon guys and they were/are great guys on and off the court.
I hope CBJ is not waiting - This guy is at a level where if you can get an immediate commitment, you take it.
I’m trying to recall if we ever get commits when they wait. It seems as though if they come here, they make their decisions quickly. No news is typically bad news.
I would hope that WE would wait unless they position it with Morgan that he is depth and he signs up for that.
Agree in principle. It just hasn’t worked well for us in the past.
