Interesting that Kory Barnett is an assistant at West Virginia. I wonder if he will be coming home.
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will he bring Eric Gordon's best pal, Chester Fraiser? He's one of his staff assistants.
I hear you on this one. Only at IU could an incident 17 years in the rear view mirror be such a consideration, LOL!!
I suppose Frazier could be a candidate at WVU, but I doubt it. If Barnett and Ostrom can help the new HC be successful at IU, then bring them with. Seems he’ll have a lot of cash to bring in whatever coaches he wants.
Ostrom and Barnett make sense. And Frazier by all accounts is a good young assistant. The perk with the extra assistants is you can park a young coach like Barnett that apparently has become a defensive strategist, and he can poach a couple assistants with more experience and recruiting ties…I’m making Neptune tell me no. I doubt he has too many offers for HC positions.
Ostrom was supposed to be a great recruiter, but Archie didn't recruit well. Not sure I'd want him back.
Maybe Archie wasn't a closer. I dunno. If not, I hope he doesn't get any coffee. Coffee is for closers.
Ostrom was not an impressive guy. Don't know of Barnett but the fact that he has two former IU asst coaches does not strike me as a plus.
Barnett was a walk on in the Crean years. Ostrom is the only former assistant, I believe.
Ostrom actually recruited well for us. We had a couple of highly ranked classes. Unfortunately, they weren’t used well once here. TJD, Romeo and a few others were Ostrom recruiting targets I believe.
Two good players in four years isn't good recruiting, especially if one is a OAD shooting guard that can't shoot.
Don't get me wrong, we had to recruit Romeo, but he was no Eric Gordon.
Seriously? I listed two. It doesn’t mean he only recruited two. The two that were listed were the biggest recruits of the Archie era. While Romeo was a flawed shooter, he averaged 16.5 as a freshman, so I’d still call that a successful recruit.
Romeo was a top 5 player, that's a big recruiting win, if he was the lead recruiter. irrelevant if someone thinks he didn't live up to expectations
Seriously. Archie didn't recruit well. Jake Forrester, Rob Phinissee, Jerome Hunter, Lander, none of those kids left IU and went and tore it up somewhere else. It was lack of talent, not coaching, that caused us to miss the tournament three of his four years. Galloway and Leal were even underwhelming.
I'm not a Romeo hater, and he did fine, but Romeo was not a game changer for us. We missed the tournament that year.
They don't hang banners for recruiting wins. Recruiting should be about finding kids that will excel in your system. Not about getting the highest ranked kids.
Race Thompson and Arman Franklin both did plenty well. I know that Race was a direct recruit of Ostrom, and he got him to forgo his senior year and enroll early that summer. Of the 12 recruits that were signed under Archie(Race was the only one that committed after in 2017), Ostrom directly recruited 3 of the most prominent recruits. Lander and Hunter fooled a ton of other coaches at major programs, and we beat them out. Your point is valid, but if we are focusing on recruiting wins then he still beat out top programs. None of them knew they were fighting for pyrite.
I wonder if Devries will keep Armond Hill?
It was so soothing watching him drift off into a blissful sleep as the team turned the ball over and bricked shots from deep. It almost put you into a deep state of relaxation.
This got me thinking about who the other assistants were at the time. Bruiser Flint and wasn’t there an old coach from Park Tudor?
Yep. Bruiser exited after maybe three seasons and was replaced by Kenya Hunter, IIRC.
The Park Tudor coach, whose name also escapes me, left after we failed to get Keion Brooks, even though Brooks' dad played for him at Wright State. I think that was after Archie's first season.
Would be a big plus to have him back home. Hell of a recruiter with Indiana ties.
Plenty well is a matter of perspective, I suppose. They were starters on teams that were as bad or worse than this year's team. Which were below our goals, I'd say.
Don't know who was responsible for bring Hunter to IU, but he would have killed it if not for some medical issues.
