Coleman transfers to...
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Damn wonder what happened to Gonzaga pursuing him. He must’ve passed on them.
Lol, that’s why you gotta worry about lists.
I don’t think it was as bad a decade ago, but dissemination of info, lies … people don’t have shame, it’s easy to do …
In 1977, UE began playing in NCAA Division I athletics. That same year on December 13, a chartered DC-3 carrying the entire UE basketball team crashed in a field near the Evansville Regional Airport en route to a game against Middle Tennessee State. Every member of the team and coaching staff on the plane was killed. David Furr, who was a member of the 1977–78 Purple Aces squad, did not die in the crash, as he was out for the season with an ankle injury and thus was not on the plane that day. However, only just two weeks later after the crash, Furr and his younger brother Byron were killed in a car accident near Newton, Illinois, leaving the entire 1977–78 Purple Aces team dead.
Can’t bash on Coleman, he was a walk-on. But looking at where these guys are ending up says a lot about Otz’ poor recruiting.
He was recruiting low level talent that is now leaving and are in almost every case dropping down to lower level/lower division programs!
TJ’s 2020 roster and where they are now:
Donovan Yap: Fresno State
Moses Wood: Portland
Caleb Grill: Iowa State
David Jenkins: still in transfer portal looking for his 4th school.
Edoardo Del Cadia: Nicholls State
Jhaylon Martinez: UC Riverside
Bryce Hamilton: NBA draft
Isaac Lindsey: Wisconsin as a walk-on
Reece Brown: Howard
Nick Blake: Pacific
Devin Tillie: UC Irvine
Marvin Coleman: Evansville
Mbacke Diong: UCF
2 of his best players that year weren’t even his guys, they stuck around after Munchies
Donovan Yap: Fresno State
Moses Wood: Portland
Caleb Grill: Iowa State
David Jenkins: still in transfer portal looking for his 4th school.
Edoardo Del Cadia: Nicholls State
Jhaylon Martinez: UC Riverside
Bryce Hamilton: NBA draft
Isaac Lindsey: Wisconsin as a walk-on
Reece Brown: Howard
Nick Blake: Pacific
Devin Tillie: UC Irvine
Marvin Coleman: Evansville
Mbacke Diong: UCF
2 of his best players that year weren’t even his guys, they stuck around after Munchies
As absolutely worthless as Menzies was, Otz was right there. Mensa could recruit better but was bad with coaching/accepting losses, getting kids ready to play. Otz was a bit better in those areas but was a crappy recruiter.
And Otz wasn’t trying to fool people with quotes and a terrible schedule, smokescreens and narrative control, Mensa was all about that stuff.
They were nightmares.
So far Kruger has shown he can coach up talent, he can recruit, and he can win the close games, now he just needs to take the next step and get to at least +20 wins next season.
