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Makes me recall a hypothetical I posed once
Posted on: April 28, 2020 at 14:02:26 CT
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about simply retaining Fuller to replace Haith. It seemed ludicrous at the time because surely MU was not in a position to make such a reach/gamble of a hire, but of course we know how that played out in reality. Fuller was considering other low level D1 head coaching at the time and decided to remain at MU as associate head coach instead.
Lets assume both Beidschied and Torren Jones are unavailable to whomever is the coach due to their off the court issues (although good chance a legit D1 coach retains Jones). Lets also assume that in having to compile a staff on short notice Fuller reaches out to Fulford in the same manner he did for Kim. I don’t see any reason to think anyone else would have left. I think with a reasonably high level of certainty this would have been our roster:
PG – Wes Clark (SO), Tremaine Isabell (FR))
SG – Kevin Punter (JR), Namon Wright (FR), Duece Bello (JR)
SF – Danuel House (JR), Teki Gill Ceasar (FR)
PF – Jonathan Williams III (SO), Jakeenan Gant (FR), D’Angelo Allen (FR)
C – Keanau Post (SR), Ryan Rosburg (JR)
I wasn’t immensely impressed with Fuller’s coaching in his 5 games at the helm, but he certainly showed reasonable competence and went 5-0. Lets assume he underwhelms in his first season of 2014-15 and only gets 18 or 19 wins, making the NIT. There is very little chance I think that either JW3 or Teki transfer, but I do believe Bello still would have and thus you have Bello’s, Post’s, and an unused scholarship. I suspect our class with Fuller/Fulford would have been:
Add: Antonio Blakeney, Thomas Bryant, JUCO or 5th year transfer big
Resulting in a roster of:
PG – Kevin Punter (SR), Wes Clark (JR), Tremaine Isabell (SO)
SG – Antonio Blakeney (FR), Namon Wright (SO)
SF – Danuel House (SR), Teki Gill Ceasar (SO)
PF – Jonathan Williams III (JR), Jakeenan Gant (SO), D’Angelo Allen (SO)
C – Thomas Bryant (FR), JUCO or 5th year transfer big, Ryan Rosburg (SR)
I think it is difficult to project that roster winning less than 25 games, even with complete incompetence in terms of coaching. Lets be conservative again for the sake of argument and project 26-8 with around a 7 seed in the NCAA tourney in 2015-16. Now you got 3 scholarships we are looking to fill. I would say at that point we are in extremely good position to likely sign Michael Porter JR and Tyler Cook, and some other high level recruit.
I feel like I’m projecting with a pessimistic slant, but that even then result in us having an under 40 coach with serious national recruiting connections and profile that had a very promising 2 year start to his D1 career and momentum to start landing some of the biggest big name guys. Sort of like what we hoped Quin would become.
Edited by FIJItiger at 14:03:12 on 04/28/20
Lets assume both Beidschied and Torren Jones are unavailable to whomever is the coach due to their off the court issues (although good chance a legit D1 coach retains Jones). Lets also assume that in having to compile a staff on short notice Fuller reaches out to Fulford in the same manner he did for Kim. I don’t see any reason to think anyone else would have left. I think with a reasonably high level of certainty this would have been our roster:
PG – Wes Clark (SO), Tremaine Isabell (FR))
SG – Kevin Punter (JR), Namon Wright (FR), Duece Bello (JR)
SF – Danuel House (JR), Teki Gill Ceasar (FR)
PF – Jonathan Williams III (SO), Jakeenan Gant (FR), D’Angelo Allen (FR)
C – Keanau Post (SR), Ryan Rosburg (JR)
I wasn’t immensely impressed with Fuller’s coaching in his 5 games at the helm, but he certainly showed reasonable competence and went 5-0. Lets assume he underwhelms in his first season of 2014-15 and only gets 18 or 19 wins, making the NIT. There is very little chance I think that either JW3 or Teki transfer, but I do believe Bello still would have and thus you have Bello’s, Post’s, and an unused scholarship. I suspect our class with Fuller/Fulford would have been:
Add: Antonio Blakeney, Thomas Bryant, JUCO or 5th year transfer big
Resulting in a roster of:
PG – Kevin Punter (SR), Wes Clark (JR), Tremaine Isabell (SO)
SG – Antonio Blakeney (FR), Namon Wright (SO)
SF – Danuel House (SR), Teki Gill Ceasar (SO)
PF – Jonathan Williams III (JR), Jakeenan Gant (SO), D’Angelo Allen (SO)
C – Thomas Bryant (FR), JUCO or 5th year transfer big, Ryan Rosburg (SR)
I think it is difficult to project that roster winning less than 25 games, even with complete incompetence in terms of coaching. Lets be conservative again for the sake of argument and project 26-8 with around a 7 seed in the NCAA tourney in 2015-16. Now you got 3 scholarships we are looking to fill. I would say at that point we are in extremely good position to likely sign Michael Porter JR and Tyler Cook, and some other high level recruit.
I feel like I’m projecting with a pessimistic slant, but that even then result in us having an under 40 coach with serious national recruiting connections and profile that had a very promising 2 year start to his D1 career and momentum to start landing some of the biggest big name guys. Sort of like what we hoped Quin would become.
Edited by FIJItiger at 14:03:12 on 04/28/20
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