IAAUS- A FBCB 2010 Dynasty

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Over in Conference USA Coach Mike Schaplowsky and his UFC Golden Knights I think have a real shot at the conference crown this year. A top 4 finish should be real do able.

In the America East I am really excited to see what happens this year.
Their are more than a few teams that have a shot this year including Binghamton, Hartford, Maine, New Hampshire and Stony Brook. Should be a nice season for the conference.

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In the America East the top 3 seeds for the tourament are

Binghamton
Maine
Albany- Im learing never to bet against this team. They are always there in the thick of things.

In conf USA

UCF finished 7th at 8-8 in conf( 3 games out of first) and and overall 17-12.

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Binghamton beats Maine 81-56 for the America East title. They are also ranked 24th in the Nation.

UCF loses in the 2nd round of the conf USA tourney

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NIT


#8 Maine beats #9 Murray State 73-61

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NIT


#8 Maine loses a heart breaker to #1 Marshal 58-60


4IT


#4 Albany gets knocked off by #13 Youngstown State 69-77

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NIT

#5 UCF loses to #4 Richmond 61-97

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IAAUS First Round

#9 Binghamton beats #8 Charlotte 74-71

This marks this first time that an America East team has won a game in the IAAUS tourament

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IAAUS 2nd Round


#9 Binghamton loses in a good game to #1 Michigan State 78-85

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IAAUS Final 4


#1 Minnesota and Super Sophmore Rensselar Phan beat #1 Michigan State 75-61


#1 Texas gets crushed by #1 Villanova 56-79

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IAAUS Championship


#1 Minnesota squeaks by #1 Villanova 69-68

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Awards

Player of the year went to Super Sophmore Rensselar Phan


In the America East Binghamton cleaned up with Player of the year, Freshman of the year and Coach of the year.

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There is little doubt that he will go down as one of the greatest players to ever play in IAAUS history

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Recruiting comes in alright. Once I figure out why my upload wont works ill post the pic


UFC though and Mike Schaplowsky pull in the 89th class in the land though which is good for 4th in Conf USA

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Gotta head back into work, till next time

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Head Coaches that moved on to bigger jobs from America East
Their records are at their new jobs

Thomas Desilva went from Binghamton to Santa Clara
19-15 3BI loss in round 1

Mike Schaplowsky went from Vermont to UCF
18-14 loss in NIT round 1

Brooks Olson went from Maine to Boston College
15-16 no postseason

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Coaching Evaluations

I am changing up the format here for the moment. They guys below are the ones that I am not happy with or that I am replacing.



Boston University-Bobby Decastro- I said last year that he was on the ropes and had to at least show a little bit of an improvement. Well going from 6 wins to 9 isn't exactly what I call an improvement.... Unfortunately Bobby never really caught on in Boston and while for the most part his teams were competitive going 65-91 in 5 years isn't saying a whole lot especially if your best year was your first year there. I just cant keep him on staff and thus have shown him the door. He did improve their Prestige from 15 to 26 but thats just not going to save his job. New coach coming up in Boston.



Hartford-Douglas Vargas- Douglas has hit my radar after another disappointing season. He has more rope to hang himself with because he has been a proven recruiter at a school that well doesn't attract any big time guys so he is doing his job in that respect. He just needs to be able to develop his guys more or he will be out of a job here shortly. In his 5 years he has gone 60-95.



Stony Brook- Daniel Hansen- Another coach that has found my radar and he is prob the most upsetting on this list. I had huge hopes for him after he got fired from the Providence job and I quickly brought him on over to a NY school that he should be able to recruit too. The thing is he has done exactly what I have wanted him to do. He has more green and blue potential guys on his roster than anyone (Daniel has been here 4 years now) and he once again landed the top recruiting class for this conf this year. His guys just haven't been able to put it together as a team and that is frustrating. How long do I let that last????

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Well not only does it look like I have to replace one coach but 2 other have recieved offers this year.

Whitney Arguello who has just done an amazing job at Albany has a few offers after going 75-84 in 5 years (the 5 best years in Albany's history).

Daniel Hansen at Stony Brooks is also getting a ton of looks this year. He hasnt done much at at the "Brook" but does have an overall record of 121-193. So he does have some experience behind him.

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Daniel Hansen has job offers from


Utah State
Southern Methodist
South Carolina
Purdue
La Salle
Idaho
Boise State


From the eye test ruled out are Utah State, Southern Methodist, Idaho and Boise State


On the second review La Salle gets cut. While their situation looked nice, they didn't have the roster Purdue or south Carolina had while having bigger expectations and a little bit smaller budget


So that leaves South Carolina and Purdue.

Both jobs are ok, but are both better than Stony Brook plus Daniel would get to go back to the big time where if I am being honest got hosed his first time around at Providence.

They both had the same record last year, South Carolina offers a mere 40K budget increase over Purdue, they have the same Prestige (57) and Purdue had the better recruiting class 154 to 176.

So it really comes down to who has the better roster.

I give that edge to South Carolina so Daniel Hansen will be heading to South Carolina next season!

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Whitney Arguello gets job offers from

Idaho and Utah State.

Neither job is better than the current Albany job that he has now IMHO so he is staying at Albany this round.

Will be interesting to see if he gets more looks next round.

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Assistant Coaches that I am considering for 2 coaching spots in the America East


Zane Lutes- FSU- I liked him last year when he was at Cal and this season he landed at FSU. Ratings of 7-3-10-3

Mikel Hill- Colorado- Overall record of 92-121. Has been an assistant at Colordao for the past 6 seasons and before that was the head man at North Dakota State. He clearly didnt do jack there but I like his ratings and think that ND might not be a fair assessment of his abilitites. Ratings of 10-3-7-8


Charles Ruby- Kansas State- Overall record of 152-139 while at Oklahmoa and LSU. He seems like he can get the job done. Ratings of 9-10-6-4


Jack Adams- Oklahmoa- Fomer head man at Oral Roberts and Virginia Commonwealth. Was great at Oral Roberts just could get over the 500 bug at VCU. Overall record of 138-124. Ratings of 7-10-10-2


Reuben Moore- Syracuse- Former head coach at Utah, Western Michigan, and Arizona State. Has overall record of 243-178. Has a ton of experience and is a proven winner. Has ratings of 7-2-10-10


Sidney Gainer- Arizona State- Was on my list last season as well. Overall record of 148-148 at Columbia. Has ratings of 5-2-10-9

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I have decided to hire

Reuben Moore for Boston University

and

Charles Ruby for Stony Brook

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Originally Posted by muns

Whitney Arguello gets job offers from

Idaho and Utah State.

Neither job is better than the current Albany job that he has now IMHO so he is staying at Albany this round.

Will be interesting to see if he gets more looks next round.

Whitney gets another offer this sim from Marshall

SIGH......... all my good coaches are leaving


Marshall has a Prestige of 54 a budget of 514,317 and they went 23-11 last season. They had a recruiting class rated 217 and their AD wants to play in a post season tourney.

While I don't think they have a great roster I cant keep Whitney on this one.

The Marshall job is clearly better and I loose another coach who did an amazing job for a program that nobody even knew existed. I hope he does well at Marshall.

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The guy I wanted for Albany took the head job at South Dakota Mikel Hill so now I need to take a look at my 3 others from my list.


I end up hiring Sidney Gainer from Arizona State to be the next head coach at Albany.

He always had decent teams when he was at Columbia and im hoping that will translate over well with his new job.

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Originally Posted by muns

Head Coaches that moved on to bigger jobs from America East
Their records are at their new jobs

Thomas Desilva went from Binghamton to Santa Clara
19-15 3BI loss in round 1

Mike Schaplowsky went from Vermont to UCF
18-14 loss in NIT round 1

Brooks Olson went from Maine to Boston College
15-16 no postseason

This list now adds a few more coaches

Whitney Arguello went from Albany to Marshall

Daniel Hansen went from Stony Brook to South Carolina

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Lets check in with our 2 other coaches that were created for the Dynasty

K.N. Smith who was at Akron. I noticed that their head coach retired and I belive it was his 3rd year so he likely found work somewhere else

Also

Shannon Elliott who was at Temple who I am going to assume is still there

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Originally Posted by muns

Lets check in with our 2 other coaches that were created for the Dynasty

K.N. Smith who was at Akron. I noticed that their head coach retired and I belive it was his 3rd year so he likely found work somewhere else

Also

Shannon Elliott who was at Temple who I am going to assume is still there

Nope they both stayed at their current jobs. KN has one more year left on his current deal and Elliott has 2 years remaining on his deal.

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Our number 1 rated recruit that signed with Kansas last year comes in looking like this

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and this is where I am going to stop for the night. Next up is conf predictions and the season