calumnus said:CalEnviroLaw said:
Hopefully he can recruit. Cal has had 4 McD AA's in the last 5 years. I like to think that has something to do with the university and its location, and not just the coach and his style of play.
How many McD AA's did Braun bring in his 9 years again? Powe and? Who am I missing?
Wyking brought in zero.
Monty, is a great Hall of Fame coach, but got Bird mostly because he was a Legacy and a Cal fan his whole life. Multiple McD's passed on us with Monty as the coach. Lee came back as a grad transfer after he was gone and Rabb only showed interest after he was gone.
So 3 of the 4 were under Cuonzo. The location and university are great, but it takes the right coach too.
He was a poor recruiter at Georgia all things considered. Hopefully he has some good recruiters on his staff at Cal. He is personable enough.
A couple of things:
Marcus Lee was a transfer who attended Cal for 2 years, played 1, and I believe graduated from Cal. He should be considered a recruit. Also, the fact that Cal probably finished second for him, and other 5 star recruits despite Monty's poor recruiting efforts, Braun's poor win/loss record, Kuchen's poor win/loss record, etc. tends to prove the point that the university and its location puts Cal in the running for a lot of highly coveted recruits.
The fact that 3 of the last 4 McD AA's were from the East Bay tends to reinforce the point about the location advantage Cal has for recruiting.
If we expand the list to McD AA/Parade AA/5 stars, the list is much longer: Brown, Rabb, Bird, Lee, Domingo, Crabbe, Ubaka, Powe, Sampson, 'Reef, Gray, Fowlkes, Gardner, Kidd, Beeuwsaert, Taylor, Johnson, Pitts, Hays, and probably others that I can't remember. How many have Washington State, Oregon State, Utah, or Colorado had (the last 2 since joining the Pac)? Have any of them had any McD AA's ever?
The point being that recruiting to Cal has its relative advantages.
And the academic standards should not be as much of an excuse now that UCLA has moved ahead of Cal in the USN&WR rankings, which, of course, most of us would disagree with.
