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Post by WorcesterGray on Aug 13, 2019 10:48:30 GMT -5
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Post by WorcesterGray on Aug 13, 2019 10:52:18 GMT -5
Sam Ferry spent last season on the Cleveland State staff. Also spent a year at Pitt and six at Monmouth. Didn't play college basketball, but was student-manager during his time at Vanderbilt.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Aug 13, 2019 10:54:16 GMT -5
Welcome back, RJ.
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Post by WorcesterGray on Aug 13, 2019 10:55:21 GMT -5
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Post by DiMarz on Aug 13, 2019 11:31:57 GMT -5
Maybe I'm just getting old, but this seems like a very young staff, from Head Coach to DOBO
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Post by bison137 on Aug 13, 2019 11:36:56 GMT -5
Sam Ferry spent last season on the Cleveland State staff. Also spent a year at Pitt and six at Monmouth. Didn't play college basketball, but was student-manager during his time at Vanderbilt. Ferry's years as a Vandy student manager paid off for his coaching career. His first job was DOBO at Monmouth, working for King Rice, who was a Vandy assistant during Ferry's time there. Then after moving up to assistant coach there, he was hired by Pitt coach Kevin Stallings, who was the head coach at Vandy while Ferry was there. He actually replaced former Colgate player, Jeremy Ballard, on the Pitt staff. |
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Post by hchoops on Aug 13, 2019 11:38:41 GMT -5
Maybe I'm just getting old, but this seems like a very young staff, from Head Coach to DOBO Young, yet with varied experience. |
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Aug 13, 2019 12:22:49 GMT -5
Maybe I'm just getting old, but this seems like a very young staff, from Head Coach to DOBO Not that age should matter, but we faired very poorly the past ten years with "older" guys. |
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Post by rgs318 on Aug 13, 2019 14:04:37 GMT -5
It is nice to finally have a full staff in place.  Personally I could not care less about age (old or young), just about their results and how they bring the players along...individually and as a team. |
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Post by ericobeyyourthirst on Aug 13, 2019 15:52:03 GMT -5
Maybe I'm just getting old, but this seems like a very young staff, from Head Coach to DOBO Not that age should matter, but we faired very poorly the past ten years with "older" guys. What do you think of the staff? Any other traits you would have preferred to see? |
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Post by southernsader on Aug 13, 2019 16:03:32 GMT -5
R.J. was a no brainer, of course. Ferry looks like a really solid get, especially in mid-August.
So let's see, our assistant coaches went to Holy Cross, Northwestern and Vanderbilt.
They ought to be smart enough to figure things out.
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Post by WorcesterGray on Aug 13, 2019 16:11:39 GMT -5
So let's see, our assistant coaches went to Holy Cross, Northwestern and Vanderbilt.
They ought to be smart enough to figure things out.
The previous staff featured guys from Union, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, and Northwestern - and they weren't smart enough.
Pedigree is highly over-rated.
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Post by southernsader on Aug 13, 2019 16:16:53 GMT -5
So let's see, our assistant coaches went to Holy Cross, Northwestern and Vanderbilt.
They ought to be smart enough to figure things out.
The previous staff featured guys from Union, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, and Northwestern - and they weren't smart enough.
Pedigree is highly over-rated, IMO.
FIFY. |
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Post by bison137 on Aug 13, 2019 16:32:48 GMT -5
R.J. was a no brainer, of course. Ferry looks like a really solid get, especially in mid-August.
So let's see, our assistant coaches went to Holy Cross, Northwestern and Vanderbilt.
They ought to be smart enough to figure things out.
That cuts both ways. He's probably thinking landing a job at Holy Cross - or any D1 program for that matter - is a really solid get, especially in mid-August after being fired the second week of July from his former job. |
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Post by rgs318 on Aug 13, 2019 16:38:35 GMT -5
Teamwork among the coaches can be every bit as important as teamwork among the players. We'll see what develops.
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Aug 13, 2019 16:46:31 GMT -5
Teamwork among the coaches can be every bit as important as teamwork among the players. We'll see what develops. Very astute. |
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Post by hchoops on Aug 13, 2019 16:47:56 GMT -5
R.J. was a no brainer, of course. Ferry looks like a really solid get, especially in mid-August.
So let's see, our assistant coaches went to Holy Cross, Northwestern and Vanderbilt.
They ought to be smart enough to figure things out.
That cuts both ways. He's probably thinking landing a job at Holy Cross - or any D1 program for that matter - is a really solid get, especially in mid-August after being fired the second week of July from his former job. You forgot to add that the whole staff, not just Ferry, was fired when the head coach was canned at Cleveland State. |
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Post by Non Alum Dave on Aug 13, 2019 16:56:40 GMT -5
Curious about the recruiting chops of the group as a whole; whether or not they will have a "wheelhouse" geographical area.
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Post by hchoops on Aug 13, 2019 17:13:04 GMT -5
Certainly RJ, and Ferry, in their times, though brief, at Louisville and Pitt, were involved with some national recruiting.
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Post by bison137 on Aug 13, 2019 18:05:51 GMT -5
That cuts both ways. He's probably thinking landing a job at Holy Cross - or any D1 program for that matter - is a really solid get, especially in mid-August after being fired the second week of July from his former job. You forgot to add that the whole staff, not just Ferry, was fired when the head coach was canned at Cleveland State. No need to add it, since I was only talking about the prospects that Ferry faced in finding a new job this late in the hiring cycle. I think the general situation at Cleveland State was fairly well known to most on this board, although I thought it was unusual that their AD blamed the problems in dealing with the players on the entire staff, not just Felton. |
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