Mount St. Mary’s rising senior guard Jean Cajou says he never formally asked for a release from his National Letter of Intent at Mount St. Mary’s.
“The way I went about it I was like ‘if I had to leave, what would happen?’ I don’t know if I was like ‘I’m gonna leave,’ I just wanted to see,” Cajou said.
A 2009 – 2010 collegeinsider.com Mid-Major All-American Defensive team selection, Cajou confirmed Monday that he did speak to director of compliance Jen Wivell about his options if he got a release. Cajou, however, says he stopped short of asking her for paperwork that would grant him leave from the school once he met new Mount coach Robert Burke.
“I wanted to keep the family aspect and I felt that if I had left that I’d be letting my team down – letting my family down,” Cajou said. “I figured that wasn’t the right thing to do for myself, for my family, for my team and honestly for coach [Milan] Brown.”
Cajou, whose loyalties to his former coach run deep, was disappointed that first assistant Brion Dunlap was not named head coach, but says his animosity over that decision was quelled once he heard about and met coach Burke.
Said Cajou: “[I will] try to do whatever [Burke] asks us to do because I’m definitely trying to go out with a bang. I’m trying to get another championship."
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ATUPEM MAY BE PART OF BURKE'S STAFF
Class of 2009 Mount graduate and a four-year member of the men's basketball team Sam Atupem may be in line to get a spot on coach Burke's staff. Atupem was seen at the press conference as well as speaking to Burke afterwards, which could mean that he is being considered to be part of Burke's staff.
Although there is a chance that Atupem could be named third assistant, he would likely find himself in a director of basketball operations or video coordinator position that covers his graduate classes and provides a modest stipend if he is hired. Atupem was unavailable for comment after the press conference.
A four-year starter for the men's basketball team, Atupem, alongside classmate Markus Mitchell, was a frontline stalwart of the Mount's most recent NEC championship team in 2008. In Atupem's first year away from playing for the Mount, he worked under former second assistant basketball coach Tyrone Perry as a graduate assistant in the Mount's Third Century Scholars program for minority students and was a volunteer assistant for the men's team.
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COMMITMENT UPDATE
Justin Burrell is still undecided as to whether he will come to the Mount next year. According to players who have spoken to Burrell, coach Burke talked to Burrell and remains optimistic that he will be able to retain the 5-foot-8 point guard who garnered Washington Post All-Metro second-team honors this season.
Jeff James from Bowie High School will honor his commitment to play at the Mount next season, while the third member of the original class of 2014 recruiting class, Donte Morales, has since signed with UNC-Wilmington.
Save for walk-on Mike Harvey, all of last year's eligible returning players will be back including David Golladay and Ja'Colby Wells. Wells was the last of this year's freshmen class who was up in the air after Raven Barber and Kristijan Krajina announced they were staying. Golladay redshirted this season and would have been free to transfer without having to sit out for a year. Harvey plans to play at Mary Washington, an NCAA Division III school in Fredericksburg, Va.
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ROBERT MORRIS TO HIRE TOOLE
The Colonials are expected to announce the promotion of assistant coach Andrew Toole to head coach tomorrow, filling the void left by departing coach Mike Rice. According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, this paves the way for NEC Rookie of the Year Karon Abraham to stay with the team.
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Check back tomorrow for details on the men's lacrosse's MAAC championship as well as more information on coach Burke.
Showing posts with label Brion Dunlap. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brion Dunlap. Show all posts
Monday, May 10, 2010
Friday, May 7, 2010
Barber will stay, Burke making good impressions / UPDATE on Krajina
Breathe easy, Mount fans, Raven Barber is here to stay. After meeting his new head coach, Robert Burke, in a team meeting Thursday at about 5 p.m., the highly touted rising sophomore post from Paul VI high school has no desire to look at other schools.
“I’m not going to go anywhere else, I want to be here with my teammates,” Barber said on campus Thursday afternoon. “There ain’t no reason to go somewhere else, sit out for a year, and [then I] gotta learn a whole new playing style. I’m just going to fulfill my college career here [at the Mount.]”
Barber, who missed the first nine games of the 2009-2010 season due to NCAA Clearinghouse issues, is optimistic about what Burke can bring to the program.
“After he started talking I could see that he’s a pretty cool dude. I know he’s real calm. All he wants is the best for us,” Barber said. “He said he just wants to win. He came here and said ‘I want y’all to win, I don’t want to stop what y’all are doing’ so I was really down for that.”
Barber added that his high school coach Glen Farello has known Burke for 10 years and that Farello reassured Barber that Burke is a good fit for the Mount.
Burke plans to meet with all of the players individually Saturday, according to Barber, who looks forward to getting to know his new coach.
“Probably what I’m really curious about is what he wants best for us, to see what he wants best. How he’s going to play us, how he’s going to use our team, and probably how he is as a person because we haven’t fully gotten to know him,” Barber said. “It’s our first day knowing him so that’s what I want.”
Although Barber expressed initial satisfaction in the hiring of Burke, he did say he was disappointed that Brion Dunlap was not named head coach.
“I was disappointed because coach Bri, he knows us as a team and as individuals, he’s like one of the boys. He knew the system and he was going to keep going with how it was and how we played in our playing style,” Barber said.
Nonetheless, Barber remains optimistic for Burke to take over.
“I’m going to see what’s in his head and what he wants with the Mount, what he wants best,” Barber said. “Hopefully it’s another good three years and we stay on our winning path and be successful.”
After making a good impression on the players, Burke put in a little PR work as well. The Mount’s intramural softball championship took place last night at 6 p.m. and Burke stopped by the game to watch as some of the basketball players participated in the championship.
Barber, who started 21 of his 22 appearances in his freshman season, averaged five points and 2.8 rebounds while shooting 53.1 percent from the floor in 15.1 minutes per game.
UPDATE 12:08 p.m.: The versatile 6-foot-10 forward from Croatia, Kristijan Krajina, has confirmed that he will stay as well. Krajina is a post with great size and deadly touch around the rim as well as from 3. He appeared in 20 games averaging 7.4 minutes for the Mount in 2009-2010.
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I don't know much about Burke personally but I agree with most of what Raff, who does know some things about him, wrote this morning.
Go Mount and welcome coach Burke.
“I’m not going to go anywhere else, I want to be here with my teammates,” Barber said on campus Thursday afternoon. “There ain’t no reason to go somewhere else, sit out for a year, and [then I] gotta learn a whole new playing style. I’m just going to fulfill my college career here [at the Mount.]”
Barber, who missed the first nine games of the 2009-2010 season due to NCAA Clearinghouse issues, is optimistic about what Burke can bring to the program.
“After he started talking I could see that he’s a pretty cool dude. I know he’s real calm. All he wants is the best for us,” Barber said. “He said he just wants to win. He came here and said ‘I want y’all to win, I don’t want to stop what y’all are doing’ so I was really down for that.”
Barber added that his high school coach Glen Farello has known Burke for 10 years and that Farello reassured Barber that Burke is a good fit for the Mount.
Burke plans to meet with all of the players individually Saturday, according to Barber, who looks forward to getting to know his new coach.
“Probably what I’m really curious about is what he wants best for us, to see what he wants best. How he’s going to play us, how he’s going to use our team, and probably how he is as a person because we haven’t fully gotten to know him,” Barber said. “It’s our first day knowing him so that’s what I want.”
Although Barber expressed initial satisfaction in the hiring of Burke, he did say he was disappointed that Brion Dunlap was not named head coach.
“I was disappointed because coach Bri, he knows us as a team and as individuals, he’s like one of the boys. He knew the system and he was going to keep going with how it was and how we played in our playing style,” Barber said.
Nonetheless, Barber remains optimistic for Burke to take over.
“I’m going to see what’s in his head and what he wants with the Mount, what he wants best,” Barber said. “Hopefully it’s another good three years and we stay on our winning path and be successful.”
After making a good impression on the players, Burke put in a little PR work as well. The Mount’s intramural softball championship took place last night at 6 p.m. and Burke stopped by the game to watch as some of the basketball players participated in the championship.
Barber, who started 21 of his 22 appearances in his freshman season, averaged five points and 2.8 rebounds while shooting 53.1 percent from the floor in 15.1 minutes per game.
UPDATE 12:08 p.m.: The versatile 6-foot-10 forward from Croatia, Kristijan Krajina, has confirmed that he will stay as well. Krajina is a post with great size and deadly touch around the rim as well as from 3. He appeared in 20 games averaging 7.4 minutes for the Mount in 2009-2010.
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I don't know much about Burke personally but I agree with most of what Raff, who does know some things about him, wrote this morning.
Go Mount and welcome coach Burke.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Moment of Clarity / Go Colonials
Last night at the wonderful SAAC banquet for the student-athletes at Mount St. Mary's, it was brought to my attention by a friend of a friend of a coach who talked to an administrator apparently involved with the search committee that my three finalists post was "way, way off." In fact I was told that only one of them is correct, although I do not know which one. I'm hoping it's Brion Dunlap.
Although I'm sincerely flattered that an administrator on the search committee took the time to read my blog, it was not my intention to upset them as I apparently did. I was simply speculating on who the next coach could be and made it very clear when I had factual information versus when I was simply passing along rumors or my own hunches.
That being said, I want to be clear in the blame that I'm placing. I have no beef with athletic director Lynne Robinson. My athletic career is over and the school can take nothing from what I've done and already received athletically. If I had a problem with Lynne's involvement in the selection process I would say so. In fact I do not know exactly how much influence she even has because of the one man who, I do respect, but am troubled by his involvement; President Thomas H. Powell.
I won't get into the reasons I have a lot of respect for Powell as a person, he really is a great guy and has done a lot for the academic side of campus. But as someone supposedly leading the search committee I'm highly disappointed in the road this process has traveled.
President Powell is a busy man and is often out of town (as he was yesterday), not to mention that his general knowledge of sports is limited. It's no secret that his strong priority for the Mount is academics, and he'll do little to advance the athletic department further along than it is. I'm not saying he doesn't support the sports teams at the Mount - he is very supportive. What I'm saying is that he is not sports savvy.
I am confident that if Lynne Robinson and a search committee she would personally compile would do this search with no interference, it would have been done by now and a great coach would already be receiving a paycheck. If Powell wants the final stamp of approval, I have no problem with that. He is, after all, the Man at the Mount. He deserves final say. But what the school does not deserve is for him to be Al Davis-like in the sense that he wants to micromanage every part of the process instead of letting the experts in the situation do what they're paid to do.
I would not claim to be familiar with all the intricacies of the search process nor how much weight each person on the committee carries. But I do know from talking to some prominent people on the athletic side of campus that Powell is essentially running the show. And that's why I am doing something that I hope I never do again in my life - rooting for Robert Morris.
If the Colonials never win another basketball game in their existence I will be no less upset with my life than I am now. But as for the time it takes them to name a new head coach, I hope they crush us. I hope it's over by the first half, per se. If we're really lucky, Robert Morris will name it's new head coach before we do, let alone in less total time. Keep in mind that Mike Rice officially left the school to go to Rutgers 17 or 18 days (depending on which report you use) after Milan Brown left for Holy Cross. So how embarrassing would it be if our biggest rival beat us to the punch, even though we got a 17-to-18-day head start? Hopefully embarrassing enough that the Mount starts to take itself more seriously.
If Brion Dunlap isn't your man, fine. If he is, even better. I've made it clear that I'm rooting for him. If he is not the choice, I trust that the search committee will make a selection that it deems to be the best suit for the program. I will support that person as much as I'll support coach Bri if he is selected. But that does not change the fact that the school has dragged its feet.
You want to say that it's OK to take our time? That there's a positive correlation with taking more time? Or maybe you have another justification for the length of this process? That's fine, but sometimes different circumstances dictate different approaches. It is MAY 5 - CINCO DE FRICKIN' MAYO - and we don't have a head coach.
The AAU summer circuit is about to get under way. How can the Mount's head coach convince players to come here when the head coach doesn't even exist yet? Who is going to run a summer camp to generate money for the school and program? If you think it's not important to recruiting and that we'll find another late talent like we did with Kristijan Krajina* last year, you're dreaming. We've already lost Donte Morales, who is a borderline Mountain West/Atlantic 10 capable player. If we lose Justin Burrell, too, we'll have one point guard - Lamar Trice.
(*I ate breakfast with Kristijan this morning and he is noticeably bigger. He says he's put on 15 pounds - now at 240 - since the end of the season. He already has a great finesse game, if he can throw some weight around in the low post the next three years he will be a very versatile force.)
So don't tell me it's OK that we take this much time to find a new head coach. If it were March 20, you could convince me, but not early May when we already have a scholarship floating around.
I'm told (actually told this time, not just a hunch) that the coach will be selected by tomorrow. Another person assured me that the selection will be made by the end of the week, which I take to mean as Friday. Regardless of which day it is, I'll be glad when the wait is finally over, even if it has gone a number of days past the common sense deadline.
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Follow The Fan Blog closely the next couple days for updates as well.
Although I'm sincerely flattered that an administrator on the search committee took the time to read my blog, it was not my intention to upset them as I apparently did. I was simply speculating on who the next coach could be and made it very clear when I had factual information versus when I was simply passing along rumors or my own hunches.
That being said, I want to be clear in the blame that I'm placing. I have no beef with athletic director Lynne Robinson. My athletic career is over and the school can take nothing from what I've done and already received athletically. If I had a problem with Lynne's involvement in the selection process I would say so. In fact I do not know exactly how much influence she even has because of the one man who, I do respect, but am troubled by his involvement; President Thomas H. Powell.
I won't get into the reasons I have a lot of respect for Powell as a person, he really is a great guy and has done a lot for the academic side of campus. But as someone supposedly leading the search committee I'm highly disappointed in the road this process has traveled.
President Powell is a busy man and is often out of town (as he was yesterday), not to mention that his general knowledge of sports is limited. It's no secret that his strong priority for the Mount is academics, and he'll do little to advance the athletic department further along than it is. I'm not saying he doesn't support the sports teams at the Mount - he is very supportive. What I'm saying is that he is not sports savvy.
I am confident that if Lynne Robinson and a search committee she would personally compile would do this search with no interference, it would have been done by now and a great coach would already be receiving a paycheck. If Powell wants the final stamp of approval, I have no problem with that. He is, after all, the Man at the Mount. He deserves final say. But what the school does not deserve is for him to be Al Davis-like in the sense that he wants to micromanage every part of the process instead of letting the experts in the situation do what they're paid to do.
I would not claim to be familiar with all the intricacies of the search process nor how much weight each person on the committee carries. But I do know from talking to some prominent people on the athletic side of campus that Powell is essentially running the show. And that's why I am doing something that I hope I never do again in my life - rooting for Robert Morris.
If the Colonials never win another basketball game in their existence I will be no less upset with my life than I am now. But as for the time it takes them to name a new head coach, I hope they crush us. I hope it's over by the first half, per se. If we're really lucky, Robert Morris will name it's new head coach before we do, let alone in less total time. Keep in mind that Mike Rice officially left the school to go to Rutgers 17 or 18 days (depending on which report you use) after Milan Brown left for Holy Cross. So how embarrassing would it be if our biggest rival beat us to the punch, even though we got a 17-to-18-day head start? Hopefully embarrassing enough that the Mount starts to take itself more seriously.
If Brion Dunlap isn't your man, fine. If he is, even better. I've made it clear that I'm rooting for him. If he is not the choice, I trust that the search committee will make a selection that it deems to be the best suit for the program. I will support that person as much as I'll support coach Bri if he is selected. But that does not change the fact that the school has dragged its feet.
You want to say that it's OK to take our time? That there's a positive correlation with taking more time? Or maybe you have another justification for the length of this process? That's fine, but sometimes different circumstances dictate different approaches. It is MAY 5 - CINCO DE FRICKIN' MAYO - and we don't have a head coach.
The AAU summer circuit is about to get under way. How can the Mount's head coach convince players to come here when the head coach doesn't even exist yet? Who is going to run a summer camp to generate money for the school and program? If you think it's not important to recruiting and that we'll find another late talent like we did with Kristijan Krajina* last year, you're dreaming. We've already lost Donte Morales, who is a borderline Mountain West/Atlantic 10 capable player. If we lose Justin Burrell, too, we'll have one point guard - Lamar Trice.
(*I ate breakfast with Kristijan this morning and he is noticeably bigger. He says he's put on 15 pounds - now at 240 - since the end of the season. He already has a great finesse game, if he can throw some weight around in the low post the next three years he will be a very versatile force.)
So don't tell me it's OK that we take this much time to find a new head coach. If it were March 20, you could convince me, but not early May when we already have a scholarship floating around.
I'm told (actually told this time, not just a hunch) that the coach will be selected by tomorrow. Another person assured me that the selection will be made by the end of the week, which I take to mean as Friday. Regardless of which day it is, I'll be glad when the wait is finally over, even if it has gone a number of days past the common sense deadline.
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Follow The Fan Blog closely the next couple days for updates as well.
Monday, May 3, 2010
New head coach likely to be named today
I think we can expect an announcement of who the next Mount St. Mary's basketball head coach is today. I don't have any source to support this notion but here are some clues I'm putting together that make me think it's likely:
-The last interview for the position was Monday
-The two-week self-imposed deadline passed (it's closer to three weeks now) and I think the school is beginning to feel the pressure
-The annual SAAC banquet for the student-athletes is tonight
-Jamion Christian's Twitter update at about 8:22 a.m. this morning
The third point is important because a couple years ago before Bryan Whitten was brought on as the women's head coach, another man whose name I can't remember was supposed to be the new coach. Before he recanted his commitment to take over the program, he was introduced at the SAAC preseason kickoff for the student-athletes that takes place early in the fall semester. I can see tonight's banquet as an opportunity for the school to announce the hire in the early afternoon and possibly introduce him at the banquet. If anything significant happens tonight besides me being recognized or winning an award, I'll Tweet about it @TheBGATour.
As for the fourth point about Jamion's Twitter, this is what it reads: "This day has the potential to be very long...". As Raff pointed out at The Fan Blog, you can't read too much into Twitter posts (unless they're mine), but I'm going to use it to carry the momentum of my first three points. Even though I stated before that Jamion was out of the running, it's possible that I was wrong, or at least that the school allowed more than the three supposed prime candidates I listed to believe they were still in the running. If that were the case, I wouldn't be surprised if the candidates were told that they would know by today.
One thing I am hearing is that Notre Dame assistant Martin Ingelsby has had a number of calls put in on his behalf (not uncommon) and that there is a particular person he would like to bring on board as his first assistant at the Mount if hired. That person is Sean Kearney. If the name sounds familiar it's because Kearney was the one-year Holy Cross head coach who Milan Brown just replaced. That would be the ultimate ironic twist. Kearney and Ingelsby were previously assistants together at Notre Dame before Kearney was hired at Holy Cross.
In my gut I believe that the selection is between Brion Dunlap and Martin Ingelsby. Some people are speculating that the length of this process hurts Brion, but I wouldn't be too concerned. I remember when the women's soccer coach, Paul Wood, resigned a few years ago and it took months to find a replacement (Tom Gosselin.) As Gosselin was a nearby coach at the time the position opened (McDaniel) and an alumni and former men's assistant with good connections to the school, it may have seemed that he was in trouble with the length of the process dragging on for so long. But the Mount turned down some candidates that were arguably more successful/qualified (the head coach at Frostburg and an assistant from the University of Denver) in favor of Gosselin. It turned out well as the women's team finally won some games this season and he seems to have built the program up to respectability and maybe even contender soon enough. My point is that at this odd little place called Mount St. Mary's, you can't use too much common sense when evaluating a situation.
Another interesting note; Robert Morris head coach Mike Rice is expected to be named the head coach at Rutgers today. It will be very interesting to compare RMU's timetable for finding a new coach with our own. We're not the only one's noticing the drag-out as Holy Cross fans are sympathizing with us on crossports.com and a Robert Morris fan poked fun at us at ColonialsCorner.com. An excerpt posted by user name "CC" in reference to Rice leaving: "In any event, let’s hope the process is relatively quick unlike the marathon that the Mount is currently conducting." Touché.
UPDATE 3:32 p.m.: Raff at The Fan Blog agrees with me and has a nice list of candidates that will more than likely contain the Mount's choice.
-The last interview for the position was Monday
-The two-week self-imposed deadline passed (it's closer to three weeks now) and I think the school is beginning to feel the pressure
-The annual SAAC banquet for the student-athletes is tonight
-Jamion Christian's Twitter update at about 8:22 a.m. this morning
The third point is important because a couple years ago before Bryan Whitten was brought on as the women's head coach, another man whose name I can't remember was supposed to be the new coach. Before he recanted his commitment to take over the program, he was introduced at the SAAC preseason kickoff for the student-athletes that takes place early in the fall semester. I can see tonight's banquet as an opportunity for the school to announce the hire in the early afternoon and possibly introduce him at the banquet. If anything significant happens tonight besides me being recognized or winning an award, I'll Tweet about it @TheBGATour.
As for the fourth point about Jamion's Twitter, this is what it reads: "This day has the potential to be very long...". As Raff pointed out at The Fan Blog, you can't read too much into Twitter posts (unless they're mine), but I'm going to use it to carry the momentum of my first three points. Even though I stated before that Jamion was out of the running, it's possible that I was wrong, or at least that the school allowed more than the three supposed prime candidates I listed to believe they were still in the running. If that were the case, I wouldn't be surprised if the candidates were told that they would know by today.
One thing I am hearing is that Notre Dame assistant Martin Ingelsby has had a number of calls put in on his behalf (not uncommon) and that there is a particular person he would like to bring on board as his first assistant at the Mount if hired. That person is Sean Kearney. If the name sounds familiar it's because Kearney was the one-year Holy Cross head coach who Milan Brown just replaced. That would be the ultimate ironic twist. Kearney and Ingelsby were previously assistants together at Notre Dame before Kearney was hired at Holy Cross.
In my gut I believe that the selection is between Brion Dunlap and Martin Ingelsby. Some people are speculating that the length of this process hurts Brion, but I wouldn't be too concerned. I remember when the women's soccer coach, Paul Wood, resigned a few years ago and it took months to find a replacement (Tom Gosselin.) As Gosselin was a nearby coach at the time the position opened (McDaniel) and an alumni and former men's assistant with good connections to the school, it may have seemed that he was in trouble with the length of the process dragging on for so long. But the Mount turned down some candidates that were arguably more successful/qualified (the head coach at Frostburg and an assistant from the University of Denver) in favor of Gosselin. It turned out well as the women's team finally won some games this season and he seems to have built the program up to respectability and maybe even contender soon enough. My point is that at this odd little place called Mount St. Mary's, you can't use too much common sense when evaluating a situation.
Another interesting note; Robert Morris head coach Mike Rice is expected to be named the head coach at Rutgers today. It will be very interesting to compare RMU's timetable for finding a new coach with our own. We're not the only one's noticing the drag-out as Holy Cross fans are sympathizing with us on crossports.com and a Robert Morris fan poked fun at us at ColonialsCorner.com. An excerpt posted by user name "CC" in reference to Rice leaving: "In any event, let’s hope the process is relatively quick unlike the marathon that the Mount is currently conducting." Touché.
UPDATE 3:32 p.m.: Raff at The Fan Blog agrees with me and has a nice list of candidates that will more than likely contain the Mount's choice.
Mount loses Morales
According to Donte Morales's Facebook page, he is going to UNC Wilmington next year. One of the Mount's two stud recruits was expected to stay with the Mount if Brion Dunlap was named head coach, but it appears that the school's foot-dragging has cost them a premium player for the Northeast Conference level.
Morales's status at 11:13 a.m. on Sunday, May 2: "goin to UNC Wilmington".
The Mount's other prized commit, Justin Burrell was the first to comment on his status: "you commited or you just goin to visit?"
This was Morales's response: "i wnt onthe visit bro now im commited bro".
It will be interesting to see what Burrell, who I do not believe has been released from his letter of intent yet, decides to do in regards to waiting for the coach to be named or exploring his own options. The search timeline has already gone well past the two week period athletic director Lynne Robinson originally set to find a head coach.
Morales's status at 11:13 a.m. on Sunday, May 2: "goin to UNC Wilmington".
The Mount's other prized commit, Justin Burrell was the first to comment on his status: "you commited or you just goin to visit?"
This was Morales's response: "i wnt onthe visit bro now im commited bro".
It will be interesting to see what Burrell, who I do not believe has been released from his letter of intent yet, decides to do in regards to waiting for the coach to be named or exploring his own options. The search timeline has already gone well past the two week period athletic director Lynne Robinson originally set to find a head coach.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Mount St. Mary's head coaching search
I'm hearing a rumor that the final three candidates are:
-Brion Dunlap, our first assistant who interviews tomorrow
-Martin Ingelsby, ND assistant
-Chris Harney, St. Mary's College (Md.) (DIII) coach. Ironically, this is where coaches Robinson and Engelstad played. Robinson did not play for him but I believe Engelstad did.
I don't know the validity of this rumor, but it would make sense to me. Also, Jamion Christian was recently ousted as a candidate - apparently. I'm rooting for Brion.
I'm not surprised if these are the final three candidates because they would come cheap and all come from schools similar to the Mount in one way or another. Brion is from the Mount, Notre Dame is considered our sister school, and St. Mary's is a small school and it sounds pretty Catholic to me. All are also pretty young, so that makes sense as well. Since Brion is going tomorrow and is likely the final interview, the search committee was probably narrowing the field as much as possible before getting to him because it's a given that he would be a finalist.
Here are the downfalls of the three candidates:
Dunlap: No college head coaching experience.
Harney: No DI head coaching experience.
Ingelsby: Mike Brey may be about to get fired and the hot water he is in might reflect poorly on Ingelsby.
This also means that Pat Flannery might be out of the mix. We probably couldn't pay him enough to get him out of his fundraising position at Bucknell. He probably made a minimum of quadruple what we could have offered him.
UPDATE: This same source tells me that Ingelsby is the favorite. Still just a rumor and I'd have a hard time believing that completely since Brion hasn't had his interview yet.
-Brion Dunlap, our first assistant who interviews tomorrow
-Martin Ingelsby, ND assistant
-Chris Harney, St. Mary's College (Md.) (DIII) coach. Ironically, this is where coaches Robinson and Engelstad played. Robinson did not play for him but I believe Engelstad did.
I don't know the validity of this rumor, but it would make sense to me. Also, Jamion Christian was recently ousted as a candidate - apparently. I'm rooting for Brion.
I'm not surprised if these are the final three candidates because they would come cheap and all come from schools similar to the Mount in one way or another. Brion is from the Mount, Notre Dame is considered our sister school, and St. Mary's is a small school and it sounds pretty Catholic to me. All are also pretty young, so that makes sense as well. Since Brion is going tomorrow and is likely the final interview, the search committee was probably narrowing the field as much as possible before getting to him because it's a given that he would be a finalist.
Here are the downfalls of the three candidates:
Dunlap: No college head coaching experience.
Harney: No DI head coaching experience.
Ingelsby: Mike Brey may be about to get fired and the hot water he is in might reflect poorly on Ingelsby.
This also means that Pat Flannery might be out of the mix. We probably couldn't pay him enough to get him out of his fundraising position at Bucknell. He probably made a minimum of quadruple what we could have offered him.
UPDATE: This same source tells me that Ingelsby is the favorite. Still just a rumor and I'd have a hard time believing that completely since Brion hasn't had his interview yet.
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