One-time Mount signee Justin Burrell, a Potomac (Va.) High School point guard, has committed to play at the College of the Holy Cross after he attends one year of prep school in the upcoming academic year, according to a source.
Burrell was supposed to enroll at the Mount this summer and join the men's basketball team in the fall as the heir apparent to Jeremy Goode. But after Milan Brown left the Mount for Holy Cross, Burrell received a partial release from Mount head coach Robert Burke and reopened his recruitment.
That recruitment ended today when Burrell gave a verbal commitment to become a Crusader in 2011 after attending Fishburne Military School in Waynesboro, Va., this year. Ironically, this is also the prep school Donte Morales, the other prize recruit of Brown's incoming Mount class who de-committed, attended before re-committing to UNC-Wilimington once Brown left.
Burrell was a Washington Post All-Metro Second-Team selection and was expected to compete with junior Lamar Trice for the starting point guard position this fall. Replacing Burrell and Morales, and joining original signee Jeff James of Bowie, Md., are Julian Norfleet and Josh Castellanos.
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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.
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