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ballcoach15 wrote: ↑February 27th, 2020, 9:56 pm One of TV announcers said we "took the crowd out of the game". Anyone know how big crowd was ?About 52 and 12 of the were LU fans. There arena is 4600 and mostly empty. They do have a top 50 recruiting class coming in and have had season ending injuries to deal with this year.
ballcoach15 wrote: ↑February 27th, 2020, 9:56 pm One of TV announcers said we "took the crowd out of the game". Anyone know how big crowd was ?It was a softball size crowd.
ballcoach15 wrote: ↑February 27th, 2020, 9:56 pm One of TV announcers said we "took the crowd out of the game". Anyone know how big crowd was ?Box score says 933.
--Fumble (1961-2009), RIPballcoach15 wrote: ↑February 27th, 2020, 10:54 pm Hard to believe they have a Top 50 recruiting class.It is but it is true
ballcoach15 wrote: ↑February 27th, 2020, 10:54 pm Hard to believe they have a Top 50 recruiting class.The Atlanta area is loaded with HS talent. Their new coach focused locally and signed a 4 star and a 3 star recruit who are HS teammates from Sharpsburg, which is an hour away from Kennesaw. He also signed another 3 star from Newnan, which is just 15 minutes from Sharpsburg. He was able to sell 3 very good players who have probably known each other since they were kids to come and play together an hour away from home. Good job by him.
ballcoach15 wrote: ↑February 28th, 2020, 8:14 am KSU campus isn't a good recruiting tool. One of worst I have been on.I explained how coach Abdur-Raheem pulled off this recruiting class, but of course you are right. They should have never considered going to school and playing basketball at a place where parking for softball is so inconvenient.
Their parking makes LU's good plentiful.
oldflame wrote: ↑February 28th, 2020, 8:54 amballcoach15 wrote: ↑February 28th, 2020, 8:14 am KSU campus isn't a good recruiting tool. One of worst I have been on.I explained how coach Abdur-Raheem pulled off this recruiting class, but of course you are right. They should have never considered going to school and playing basketball at a place where parking for softball is so inconvenient.
Their parking makes LU's good plentiful.
No, their campus is not as nice as Liberty's. Not many are. Things like that are only one factor in a recruit's decision and not the most important by a long shot.
ballcoach15 wrote: ↑February 28th, 2020, 9:54 am#Obliviousoldflame wrote: ↑February 28th, 2020, 8:54 amballcoach15 wrote: ↑February 28th, 2020, 8:14 am KSU campus isn't a good recruiting tool. One of worst I have been on.I explained how coach Abdur-Raheem pulled off this recruiting class, but of course you are right. They should have never considered going to school and playing basketball at a place where parking for softball is so inconvenient.
Their parking makes LU's good plentiful.
No, their campus is not as nice as Liberty's. Not many are. Things like that are only one factor in a recruit's decision and not the most important by a long shot.
When I drove onto KSU campus the first time, I asked myself, why would any recruit come here, if they have other offers ?
ballcoach15 wrote: ↑February 28th, 2020, 10:42 am I will be the first to admit recruiting is a funny business. Heck even some football recruits sign with UVA. That proves most anything is possible if stars and moon are aligned and wind is blowing in right direction.If you cannot see the multiple reasons that some recruits choose a place like UVA, you are blinded by your baseless hate. To name a few:
ballcoach15 wrote: ↑February 28th, 2020, 11:22 am My dislike of UVA football (and basketball) is not baseless.Any basis at all it has in your mind has to do with things that happened decades ago when nobody associated with the programs now was around. I call that baseless. Bennett and Mendenhall run 2 of the most spotless programs in college athletics.
For the record, I respect their baseball and softball.
oldflame wrote: ↑February 28th, 2020, 10:14 am High Point...can't get any high level recruits to come there.High Point likes to call itself "the Harvard of the South." Their strong academics might actually HURT their basketball recruiting process. UVa used to have a similar problem, until they found the right coaches to recruit the right student-athletes.
--Fumble (1961-2009), RIPballcoach15 wrote: ↑February 28th, 2020, 12:20 pm An unnamed high school coach told me that back in the day, that Al Groh got the administration to lower requirements for athletes, at Mr. Jefferson's University.Virtually every university in the country which has high academic standards and also plays sports at a high level makes some entrance exceptions for athletes. Once they are in, the academic requirements to remain eligible are set by the NCAA. Some don't need to make entrance exceptions because their standards aren't that high to begin with.
In any event, those standards are not different from sport to sport at a given school.ballcoach15 wrote: ↑February 28th, 2020, 12:20 pm An unnamed high school coach told me that back in the day, that Al Groh got the administration to lower requirements for athletes, at Mr. Jefferson's University.Bronco had to do the same. There is a short list of people that can get into UVa or Stanford and play football well.
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