6'6" wing from Austin in the 2021 class with offers from Tennessee, LSU, and basically everyone in Texas.
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It appears that Coach Smith recruits primarily HS kids and includes a special focus on international players. Not much on JC recruiting to this point. We'll see what he comes up with, but I'm excited about a departure from Kent's heavy reliance on the junior colleges. Good HS recruiting is how our previously successful coaches all built the program.
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When it's been good we have needed time to develop players and would expect that to definitely be the case with Smith.
Agree to a point, but if refuse to get either a JC, or transfer like Rochestie, as a bridge, stop gap, to fill at least 1 hole, and instead recruits only highschool players, then its going to be a 3,4,5 year wait.
If he gets 1 JC, or 1 transfer from a tulane type, etc, with the rest being HS. Then only 2,3 year wait.
Also I trust Smith to do a better job at getting a good JC/transfer, then Kent
They recruited and offered Rotchestie in high school so there was familiarity already built. Smith has already shown interest in David Jenkins who is transferring from SDSU and there's potentially another transfer possibility according to CSN.
Part of the problem with 2-year transfers is the adjustment time. Probably not the best fit for Smith's system.
Yeah 3 years to play 2,3 years would be the best type of transfers that would have more time to develop in Smith's system.
Kent hit the JCs because he was riding a hot seat and it was getting hotter. He needed results now, not two or three years in the future. He also rarely attracted top quality HS kids but that is another matter. With a six year contract Chun is giving Smith time to build the program with no immediate pressure to win now. High school kids and a few international guys with an eye on the future is fine with me. Ferris is spot on. Our successful times have come with good teaching coaches who have been allowed the time to succeed.
Probably little chance to land this guy. He has multiple offers from better basketball schools.It is funny that the photos of Franks and Klay are included in the post. They did not amass their stats in a sloball offense which other recruiters are sure to point out.
That "sloball" offense at San Francisco ranked #85 in the nation at 77 ppg. That "uptempo" offense at WSU this year ranked #116 in the nation at 74 ppg. Perhaps taking better care of the ball under the sloball offense is more effective than what Kent was running on offense. Just a thought. But by all means, keep up the negative comments and don't bother to see what Smith actually does. I'm afraid it's going to be a long 5-6 years of anger and bitterness for you. The rest of us are looking forward to a team that will actually get some good coaching, and I suspect the recruiting will actually be better too.
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Maybe that shot was taken the last time Gonzaga came to Pullman. All those Spokane "Cougs" decided to show up...
Well, Thompson's points produced more than 4 or 5 conference wins during his time here.
What is funny is that this guy lost 4/5 last five games of the season Then his team lost 89-72 against a Lorenzo Romar coached team in the conference tournament. Some genius you guys are excited about.
Here's something you posted during the season when the Cougs were 3-10 and several posters were loudly criticizing the job Kent was doing. What's the old saying? Physician, heal thyself.
"There are some so called fans who are desperately trying to sabotage the program in their own little way . They need to be ignored and left to their self imposed misery. They are but wisps in the wind. In some ways it is amusing to see their spite and anger as they continue their caterwauling as long into the night." ---El Comanche 2/19/19
I'm sure you will say its a lame excuss, but its said Smith team "ran out of gas" at the end of the season and i think the minutes/games played stats back that up. During the season he did beat Stanford, Cal, swept BYU, and split St Marys with "2 star recruits". So there is that. He also swept Pepperdine in the regular season.
ElC is in his forever lost weekend at Ernie's. Your facts are going to waste.
Heres the thing with Kent. He wasted 3 years with assistants who couldnt recruit ants to a picnic. He spent the last 2 years going 8-28 in conference with talent that should have achieved more. There is not one thing that suggests he would have done any better next year. Heck, Ken Bone finished second in the CBI with only marginally more talent than Kent had this year.
I have no idea how Kyle Smith will do next year, but my guess is we win more and look better losing than Kents last 2 teams.
I have no idea how Kyle Smith will do next year, but my guess is we win more and look better losing than Kents last 2 teams.
Give Kent some credit for year 1. The team looked a lot better than it did the previous year. However, many saw the assistant choices as mistakes from day 1 and it took him 3 years to correct it. When you waste 3 years you kill your own chances for success.
The team that first year looked better but they were all Bone recruits who had gained experience the previous year. It sure didn't appear to me that Kent was trying extra hard to earn his $1.4 million per year. He certainly didn't earn the rollover years.
He got more than a fair shake and the program has not improved from the day he was hired.
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He got far too long and IMO from the start never should have been hired. I never saw the improvement being a "1-year better" thing but that's just me.
I thought Seltzer was a good hire. He had issues as a head coach at Samford but had a impressive career as an assistant. He had a massive exodus of players at Samford and I’m not sure why. But hiring a high school coach from Seatle with no college coaching experience seemed like a stretch to me.
Agreed jourdand, Seltzer was a good hire and a good fit. Haskins was definitely a stretch from HS when there weren't any players coming with him. Marrion didn't seem like a bad hire either. The missing piece to me was Mcroy. This guy has all kinds of experience and just blows my mind why he wasn't on the floor??? just seems like he wasn't utilized like he should have been in his limited role he had.
Good point Yaki.
Spokane has a huge WSU fan base.
Great to see those diehards filling venues for big games in Pac-12 play or out of conference.
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