This is it here. 100%. Recruiting is so much more important in basketball, where one guy can carry a team.
What happened to the Carolina Basketball program???
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You see that Georgia team last year make that amazing tourney run?
Or Syracuse with Carmelo. Hakim Warrick was the only other guy on that team to play in the NBA. Davidson's tourney runs with Steph Curry, Wally Sczerbiak and Miami (OH), Big Country w OK St., Tim Duncan took Dave Odom to a final 4 ... Dave Odom.
I'm sure there are other examples, but these are the ones I remember well from my youth. You get a big time talent, and just surround them w solid D1 guys (even ones with no NBA hopes), and you can do some real damage.
Not to keep hammering the point, but just remembered our own Frank Martin when he landed Michael Beasley at K-State.
This attitude perpetuates and probably even is at the root cause of our (current) mediocrity in basketball and in football, because it doesn't demand change or excellence.
Many here remember the 70s and mid to late 1990s when South Carolina was very good in basketball. It's happened before and it can happen again. We have a great basketball facility and resources to support the program, but the latter years of Odom and the hiring or Darrin Horn realllllly set us back.
Our coaching hire will be very important to the success of the program, along with fan support. But it CAN be done.
Many here remember the 70s and mid to late 1990s when South Carolina was very good in basketball. It's happened before and it can happen again. We have a great basketball facility and resources to support the program, but the latter years of Odom and the hiring or Darrin Horn realllllly set us back.
Our coaching hire will be very important to the success of the program, along with fan support. But it CAN be done.
Those teams also had elite long-standing coaches. And Tim Duncan is possibly the best forward of all time.
I'm too lazy to go look exactly when each of those years were and who coached at the schools, but as a pretty big hoops fan, the only ones I can name from that bunch are Boeheim and Odom. I know for damn sure Odom isn't elite.
Those teams all had really good players around them many of those teams are making the tourney without those stars
Seems like whenever Beasley talks about recruiting he brings up Frank. But I guess you know more than him
Well two things, A- Huggins brought him to K State, via hiring Hill. B- Martin was the only coach he played for at K State.
Beasley keeps his word, signs with K-State
The No. 1 high school basketball prospect in the nation was true to his word.
Oh Lord, ol drunken Eddie. I'll definitely say he was an elite coach, but one with baggage for sure.
Thank you. This is what Dave Odom tried to recover for us by celebrating 100 years of men's hoops. He successfully brought many of McGuire's troops back to campus.
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I get that but was there to do? We had not been to the tournament in something like six years and it was not getting any better.
I get that but was there to do? We had not been to the tournament in something like six years and it was not getting any better.
