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Post by Retired Coach on Apr 16, 2024 20:04:31 GMT -5
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Post by Retired Coach on Apr 11, 2024 21:39:49 GMT -5
Bere and Goff were the only 2 coaches I cared if we kept. Bere has a chance to be a monster recruiter for us now that the leash is off. At his previous jobs he was a known as a really good recruiter. Nagy really restricted him by only really letting him go after high school kids. Now that he can really pursue prep school, JUCO and transfer portal kids, I think the talent level is going to be going up moving forward. Goff is a glue guy for the entire staff and does a lot of the background recruiting for us. I’m indifferent on Trice. I think he did a good job helping Trey Calvin develop his overall offensive game the last 2 years but I haven’t really been impressed with his recruiting and I don’t know what else he brings to the table. With 2 open spots now, I hope we bring in a veteran coach with Ohio ties and is a big zone proponent. I think we need to be able to play something at times besides straight man to man and having a coach on staff that is a zone true believer could help. The other open spot is the player development position vacated by Tae Gibbs. I would love to bring Cole Gentry back to Wright State in that role. He just finished his second year as a grad assistant (1 at Wisconsin and 1 at Colorado State) after a brief pro career overseas. This would be a good next move for him and I think he would be a great young up and comer to the coaching staff.
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Post by Retired Coach on Apr 5, 2024 6:52:05 GMT -5
Big D posted this interview on the recruiting board. In it, Ayden discusses why he chose Wright State towards the end and he addresses the coaching change. It sounds like Bere is staying at Wright State based on his comments. I think this is great news. Keeping Bere gives us the best chance to keep Webber too. I also think Bere has been handcuffed by Nagy as a recruiter since he has been here. Nagy only really wanted to go after high school seniors. Bere was a good JUCO recruiter at his previous 2 jobs as a college coach. I think this opens up a whole new recruiting avenue we have been neglecting.
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Post by Retired Coach on Mar 28, 2024 11:00:38 GMT -5
If Blake’s article is accurate this is one of the dumbest decisions ever. If you are going to hire Clint, then hire him. You can’t give him a one year interm contract. He won’t be able to put together a staff or roster on a one year deal. He would basically be a dead man walking. I hope it is inaccurate. I’m ok with hiring Clint. I think he has seen what has worked and what hasn’t in his time here. I hope he learned from it and makes the most out of his chance to be a head coach because if he fails, he probably won’t ever get the opportunity again. If we sign him to a cheaper contract than what Nagy had, I hope they make the rest of that money available to Clint to use to put together an experienced staff. And I really really hope Clint embraces the portal and JUCO players and stops redshirting everyone and utilizes a deeper bench.
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Post by Retired Coach on Mar 23, 2024 21:25:19 GMT -5
Southern Illinois transfer Troy D'Amico has been talking to Coach Bere He’s headed to DePaul. And that kind of sums up why we are screwed in the age of the transfer portal. You have to aggressively go after guys in the portal and lock them up fast. Our staff is kicking the tires on recruits thinking about who they want to make an offer to while other schools are already landing commitments.
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Post by Retired Coach on Mar 22, 2024 8:38:21 GMT -5
And better coaching. Anyone else notice that Dan Bere is busting his ass recruiting the portal and JUCO ranks. Our other coaches, not so much. I don't think it is much of a coincidence that the program started to decline when Coach Cooley and Coach Chambliss left a couple of years back. Our current group of assists are not getting it done recruiting or getting the most out of our players. As much as we need to hit a couple of home runs in the portal, Nagy needs to shake up this staff and bring in some hungry young coaches that want to get out and recruit. Trice, in particular, is not pulling his weight whatsoever.
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Post by Retired Coach on Mar 19, 2024 6:31:53 GMT -5
Cleveland State is playing in the CBI tournament in Daytona Beach against Northern Colorado. I was hoping Wright State would accept a bid to the CBI and give Tanner Holden a chance to score 2,000 for WSU. Assume WSU was offered to play in the CBI, because only 15 teams accepted the invitation to join the 16 team tournament. Also, Chicago State, with a 12 -18 record, is going to the CBI. The CBI was never under consideration. It is a huge waste of time and money that should be spent on something that will benefit the program. If you haven’t noticed, we just lost 3 players that we need to replace for next year. We should all want our staff to be putting 100% of their time and finances into adding to the roster for next year. I would be pissed beyond belief if we were wasting time game planning for a useless tournament when we have 3 major holes to fill for next season.
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Post by Retired Coach on Nov 17, 2023 11:12:37 GMT -5
You have to question the system, the coaching, or the recruiting. It's certainly one of them. There has been a huge drop in our ability to defend the last 3 years and I personally thinks it stems from coaching and recruiting much more than the system. The system worked Nagy's first several years here and it worked for him in SDSU. It also works for tons of other mid-majors too so I don't think there is a problem with the system. I think you have to look at the other 2 areas. I don't think there is a coincidence that our defense started to decline after our 2020/21 season. We had a massive overhaul to our coaching staff that year. Associate head coach Brian Cooley left for Colorado State and Sharif Chambliss left for Wisconsin. We also lost administrative assistant Nick Nagy. That staff worked really well together in all aspects of recruiting, coaching, scouting, and game preparation. The way we taught our system and ran practices was a well oiled machine. After that mass exodus, we promoted the only remaining coach, who was previously our least experienced coach to associate head coach, Clint Sargent. We brought in assistant coach Dan Bere who had some nice D1 experience. We hired assistant coach Travis Trice, who had no college coaching experience, and hired Tae Gibbs as director of player development. We lost a lot of experienced coaches that were familiar with our system and working with each other and replaced them with a lot of guys that weren't. The other major coaching issue we had at that time was that Coach Nagy lost his father and that really affected him. When we really needed him to be a much more hands on coach at practice to teach his staff how he wanted things done, he really took a step back and relied on Clint Sargent a lot more than he should have. I understand why that happened. It was a very hard time for Coach Nagy, but it did have a negative effect on how things have been run since then. The other area that I think has hurt us the most is our recruiting during a period of time 3-5 years ago. I don't think our fans understand how much our school shutdown from the faculty strike, dropping sports due to budget changes, and Covid hurt recruiting. Our staff was severely handcuffed on the recruiting trail by those things. I also think we lost most of our previous staff because of those things. Every kid we were trying to recruit had coaches we were recruiting against in their ear telling them that you don't want to go to Wright State. The school itself is a mess. The whole school might go under. If the school survived all it's financial problems, we were going to drop out of D1, etc. We lost so many kids we normally would have had a chance to sign because they didn't want to take a risk on those things happening here. We also lost the ability to see recruits live or get them on campus during covid because of all the restrictions. A lot of the upperclassman on our roster that our fans are complaining about now were kids we signed while all of that was going on. Alex, Andrew, and Keaton are all great young men but none of them are athletic enough to defend good guards in the HL, let along, the athletic guards we have been seeing so far in our OOC schedule. The good news is I think our staff is starting to hit their stride. The defense is no where near where we want it to be, but it has been improving game by game. It's not going to be up to our previous standards as long as we have this roster due to their athletic deficiencies, but it can be good enough that we can win games with our ability to score. The staff has definitely hit their stride recruiting. The last 2 classes have been excellent. We have added guards that are athletic enough to defend the way our staff wants. They just signed 2 bigs that can bang down low and control the boards the way we want. I think we still have time to turn this season around and make it successful. I think the future beyond that looks even better with the younger roster the staff is starting to put together.
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Post by Retired Coach on Oct 13, 2023 12:15:50 GMT -5
To be complete, the roster also lists walk-ons: Carson Schwieger, Freshman Braden Grant, RS Sophomore Nagy typically doesn’t play 30-40% of his scholarship players. I didn’t think it was worth listing them for the sake of this discussion. Wasn’t trying to offend anyone.
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Post by Retired Coach on Oct 13, 2023 7:11:30 GMT -5
2023/24 Roster:
Seniors: Trey Calvin SS Tanner Holden SS Andrew Welage Bo Myers SS
Juniors: Keaton Norris Alex Huibregtse RS AJ Braun
Sophomores: Brandon Noel RS
Freshmen: Logan Woods RS Drey Carter RS Dayjaun Anderson Kaden Brown Solomon Callaghan
Now that we got the final word that Tanner is eligible this year, the above roster is set. Now the real fun begins. Who is going to start and who is going to make the playing rotation? Will Nagy stick with his old ways and only play 7 guys meaningful minutes or will he take advantage of this roster depth and go 9-10 guys deep? Which of the freshmen play and which of them red-shirt?
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Post by Retired Coach on Oct 11, 2023 18:55:20 GMT -5
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Post by Retired Coach on Aug 24, 2023 20:58:05 GMT -5
Disappointing to see 2 non-D1 opponents in the back half of the non-conference schedule. I wouldn't mind if one of them served as the season-opening game. Fans would have excitement for the first game regardless and it would be a good tune-up for the team before facing D1 competition. The rest of the non-conference is very solid. The Muskingum game is the worst though. Not only are they D3 (non-athletic scholarship), but they had a total of 1 win last season. 2 non-D1 games is criminal when you have our roster. If Tanner is eligible, this team has a shot to do some damage in the NCAAs. That only happens if we get a good seed and that only happens if we play and have success against a good OOC schedule. We should have played another money game on the road vs a quad 1/2 team instead of playing one of these bs games.
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Post by Retired Coach on Jul 26, 2023 21:39:55 GMT -5
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Post by Retired Coach on May 3, 2023 12:15:14 GMT -5
The portal closes in 1 week, so we should know sooner vs later who else we are adding for next season.
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Post by Retired Coach on Mar 8, 2023 16:39:21 GMT -5
I think I can speak for 99% of our fanbase when I say no one cares how you envisioned our first NCAA win would be and that it didn't live up to your expectations. It WAS our programs first NCAA win and it WAS the first NCAA win for any HL team since Butler left. If you still lived in the area, you would have seen the impact that win had on our fanbase and community. It has brought out some true pride in our school. There has been one hell of a lot more vocal Wright State fans proudly wearing their Raider gear in the community since we won that game. I cannot think of the last place I have gone to locally this entire year where I didn't see at least 1 person wearing some of our gear. That was unheard of 20, 10, even 5 years ago. If you think that victory was "close to meaningless", you are clueless. Wright State's basketball program has not achieved the level of success any of us want for it, but we have had some major setbacks along the way: Underhill being fired for shoplifting, Biancardi being fired for breaking NCAA rules at his previous job, the school going into a financial crisis and having to eliminate sports. All of those things have set the program back and it is also the reason I remain a faithful Raider's fan. Because no matter how many times we have been knocked down, we refuse to stay down on the mat. We get back up and fight. This year did not live up to what any of us hoped it would be. Nagy has a winning track record here and at his previous job. I am hopeful that he is going to learn from this season and get the program back on track next year. I AM a Raider fan and will always root for our success. I sure in the hell won't mock our achievements like you two. Well said Big D.
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