New Basketball Assistant Coach
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Interesting. Good hire I think. Welcome aboard James Kane!
Glad we didn't go after Green at UNI.
Glad we didn't go after Green at UNI.
Just skimming recent articles, it looks like Coach Kane was focused on recruiting transfers to Dayton, as they lost 4 players to transfer themselves. Coach Kane appeared to be involved with recruiting and signing 2 players:
Jhery Matos, a 6’-6” Jr G (Juco). This article says that Kane knew Matos’ AAU Coach.
https://www.mydaytondailynews.com/s...rsue-basketball-dream/pOsPj7cENj5LESsGKxAiIK/
Rodney Chatman is a 6’-1” PG transfer from Chattanooga.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.my...etball-family/iTt0kElCTXgzeqpAFkeDuJ/amp.html
Edit: not saying we are pursuing these kids, just pointing out some recruits that may give some insight to his potential recruiting areas and connections.
Jhery Matos, a 6’-6” Jr G (Juco). This article says that Kane knew Matos’ AAU Coach.
https://www.mydaytondailynews.com/s...rsue-basketball-dream/pOsPj7cENj5LESsGKxAiIK/
Rodney Chatman is a 6’-1” PG transfer from Chattanooga.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.my...etball-family/iTt0kElCTXgzeqpAFkeDuJ/amp.html
Edit: not saying we are pursuing these kids, just pointing out some recruits that may give some insight to his potential recruiting areas and connections.
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Seems to be a very good recruiter and is a lot like Berry in many ways. Good replacement IMO
Players James Kane was the lead recruiter on.
Looks like most his success is in Florida and Tenn. Good areas to mine talent (cough Anderson) but I was hoping to see some players from the Midwest too. The optimistic part of me wants to assume that he has used his time in Dayton to get connections in Ohio/Michigan/Wisconsin/Minn to help there too.
This is from a Dayton message board about Kane
"All that said, losing Kane does hurt. He’s a rockstar recruiter and also a strong coach. I think he’s going to be a very successful head coach. And I think that could happen in the next 3-4 years. So it wasn’t going to be at Dayton because I think Grant’s here till he retires or is fired and I think he’s going to be given plenty of time to prove himself. Like 5 years at the very least."
"All that said, losing Kane does hurt. He’s a rockstar recruiter and also a strong coach. I think he’s going to be a very successful head coach. And I think that could happen in the next 3-4 years. So it wasn’t going to be at Dayton because I think Grant’s here till he retires or is fired and I think he’s going to be given plenty of time to prove himself. Like 5 years at the very least."
He’s been at Dayton for a whole year. The rest of his career has been in the south. He went to U of Florida and the majority of his coaching career was at Murray State. Why would you expect he has connections in Minn/Wisc of all places?
