I don't do much recruiting at all because I teach classes as well so I have to be on campus. I evaluate players we are looking at, scout, work with the post players, help with film exchane, direct/oversee our summer camps, and break down practice tape. This year I am also in charge of putting in a new offense that we will be running.

I am on campus for 20 hours/wk teaching classes. During the offseason, I put in an additional 40+ hours a week with basketball. When the season starts, it will be closer to 60-70 hours/wk with basketball.

So, during the offseason I put in about 60 hours/wk. During the season I put in anywhere between 80-110 hours/wk.

I'm also taking 9 hours towards my masters degree.

Well, when it comes to school that are good but not well known, the big school has nothing to gain. If they win, nobody cares, so they might as well have played a team that sucks that would be a guaranteed win.

I'm not sure how difficult/expensive it is to travel to Reno, but travel costs/time comes into play a lot as well.

In general, larger schools don't travel to smaller schools. They want the guaranteed win and the money that comes from hosting a game.

It is much much much more common for an assistant coach to get a D1 job than a D2 coach.

we don't play Kansas this year, but they will be very good. I imagine that if we played them they would beat us by about 40.

1)I cannot comment on recruits, sorry.
2)eh, Im gonna stay away from this as well.
3)My top 5 would probably be- Roy Williams, Billy Donovan, Rick Pitino, Coach K, Billy Gillispie...in that order.

I read through most of this thread, but I apologize if my questions have been duplicated:

Have you ever been to Indiana/ seen an Indiana high school basketball game?

In general, how important is the "human psyche" when recruiting? This is a very poorly worded and phrased question. Basically, I'm wondering how much you take into account someone's work ethic, integrity, even religion into account when recruiting. I've always though there was so much more to a college basketball team; specifically you need teamwork and trust and cooperation much more than any other field of sports. Seems like kids with good attitudes that like to be around each other is so much more important than raw talent; especially when trying to pull an upset.

Whats the best camp you've ever been to? I'm talking coaches camps here; I know my high school coach went to a Calvin Sampson camp back when he was at OK, and he was a huge [censored] and had most of his assistants run the camp. Most personable college coach you've met even briefly? Most knowledgeable?

Do you guys have any cool equipment? I go to school at Butler and I played a lot of pickup basketball with Lichleiter's son before he bolted for Iowa this offseason, and Garrett told me that they had like a $10k machine where they could literally put in a DVD of a game and pick out spots where a certain player was going right, spots where #34 took a 3-pointer, you could see where a guy was going left or right, etc. and find weaknesses. Just wondering if you have any experience with stuff like this.

How serious is high school baskeball in Texas? Best games you've ever been to? Best high school player you've ever seen? I saw Oden play, but he was nothing spectacular at the time (just a really big kid), I saw Glenn Robinson play when I was like 3, lol, but my dad tells me I was at the game. The best high school basketball player I've ever seen play is Bryce Drew, and I saw him and Tim Bishop play multiple times. He wins out over Chris Thomas and a slew of other boys from Indianpolis and the region.

Might ask more soon.

can you give us a few stories about benching players?
any stories about players with "attitudes"
what kind of Ego does an average college hoop player have?

WHOOP!!!

Hey Casper,

What do you think/know about Mark Turgeon? Do you expect the aggies to take a step back this year with BCG leaving?

Will the A&M backcourt be any good without Acie Law? Will sloan/kirk/carter be able to carry the load?

Will DeAndre Jordan be a huge impact player for us this year?

my weekend getaway was to go to the OSU game this weekend. Who's in first place in the Big 12??

I havent really been involved with any interesting stories about benching players. I guess the only one remotely interesting is last year. We had some off the court issues with one player and ended up sitting him for three games. His backup really picked up his game and became the full time starter. From then on, the former starter had a terrible attitude and created tons of problems for us in regards to team chemistry.

There are definitely a bunch of college players with huge egos, but I would still say that most of them are well grounded.

"my weekend getaway was to go to the OSU game this weekend. Who's in first place in the Big 12??"

Such an awesome game! I hope we can continue to play like we played in the second half....

"I'm still not sold on Sloan being able to handle full time PG status, but time will tell. I think Acie helped Kirk and Carter more than people think. "

I was worried you would say that about Sloan....He showed flashes of brilliance last year but was never very consistent....I agree our front court is going to be really good this year....I think Sloan's performance will determine whether the team will be good or great.

This is probably the first year ever i'm more pumped about Aggie B-ball than Football. It feels so weird.

Gigem!

How good will A&M be this year without Gillispie and Acie Law?