Wyoming hires Fresno State Assistant as head men's BB coach

[Young Drachma]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...omingcoach.ap/

-- Wyoming introduced Heath Schroyer as the Cowboys' new men's basketball coach on Friday, reuniting Schroyer with the man who gave him his last head coaching job.

Schroyer comes to Wyoming from Fresno State, where he's been associate head coach for two years.

Hmm...I'm not convinced this guy can get it done here. And if he does, he's left once before and he'll leave again. Was anyone knocking down his door to be head coach before?

I'll reserve judgment until they play a season or two. But I'm disappointed, yet hardly surprised.

[Young Drachma]

For all you WAC folks, how did this team look the past few years? (I know he was just an assistant..)

[Izulde]

How'd he do at Portland State? Anyone have any idea there?

[Young Drachma]

In three seasons with the Vikings, Schroyer went 35-47 overall, 19-23 in the Big Sky Conference. He took over a struggling program and finished last in the Big Sky in each of his first two seasons, going 5-22 in 2002-03 and 11-16 in 2003-04.

But Portland State won the Big Sky regular-season title in 2005, going 11-3 in league play. The Vikings played host to the conference tournament but were upset by Weber State in the semifinals, finishing the season 19-9. Schroyer didn't earn a postseason bid in his three seasons.

After that season, Schroyer left Portland State to join head coach Steve Cleveland at Fresno State; the two had coached together at Fresno City College and BYU.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...e/4657280.html

I'm mostly wondering if this guy can recruit at all. I mean, this isn't Portland State, it's a flagship state university. I think this AD obviously went for the easy pick, because he had ties to the guy and this dude went for the guaranteed head job.

Because I'd read on a few other sites, that schools like Idaho were looking at hiring him. I think Wyoming should've gone after someone who was a bit more proven, even if it was an older assistant.

I don't see the point of firing McClain -- paying him to leave, no less -- to bring in a young guy who is unproven.

[Young Drachma]

Dola --

And winning the Big Sky is no big deal. I mean, that's a transfer league. So if we're just hiring another coach who wants to bring in a bunch of JUCO players, we're no better off than before. And honestly, you can't recruit from in Wyoming and expect to win each year. He needs to find a base somewhere no one else is.

Maybe he's got links to California now, but we've been getting JUCO kids from there for a while. And he worked under McClain when he was last here, so...I don't know how that really does anything for them.

The best player in the state is headed to Wake Forest. If we had a coach that was worth a damn, they could've convinced a kid like that to stay here (especially since he's not exactly the greatest student in the world to begin with and UW isn't Harvard), but he's an anomaly since you don't usually find 4-star recruits out here anyway..so he probably wanted to leave (And who can blame him?)

http://www.nbadraft.net/admincp/prof...esjohnson.html

[MrBug708]

Does Wyoming recruit more from California? Or from the Midwest?

[Izulde]

Originally Posted by MrBug708

Does Wyoming recruit more from California? Or from the Midwest?

California in both football and basketball.

I seem to remember reading something about for football that there's this area in Illinois or New Jersey or some such where they've got a pipeline too, but I can't recall the precise details.