True K-Time but also believe part of that was the fact that the time Orlando was here also rode the coattails of the image and excitement the program had going for it overall which itself drew recruits here. Cal brought most of them with him in the beginning (along with the help of WWW) and that fed off itself and lived off the initial WALL< COUSINS class for a while on its own.
Then you want Coach O special recuiter with bigs great teacher look at when was here and who brought in
It doesn't matter if he's completely innocent. His name has been associated with it. Would you let someone who was accused of embezzlement handle your finances? Would you let someone who was accused of certain things babysit your kids?
Your name could have been involved in it, does that make you automatically make guilty? Nope. Nothing ever came from it.
Second chances are great. I really don't care if he did it. But it ain't gonna happen as long as Mitch is in charge, maybe possibly once he's gone.
Need both. Coach O was also well regarded for his ability to develop and coach guards.
That would be the biggest coincidence in a long time then. You can see a CLEAR drop off in recruiting and on court results as soon as he left. The Towns class was hes last class he helped recruit. The difference before and after that class is massive.
Yeah the lead assistant coach on this years Illinois team who signed all their key players, who would want any part of that? Oh the guy that signed all our recruits early on in Cals best years at UK? Yeah Cal should pass. I mean 23-55 at USF is horrible. I'm sure its pretty hard to recruit top 100 talent to USF as opposed to a team like UK. Antigua is one of the top 5 assistants in all of college basketball and probably the best talent scout as an assistant. Dosumo and Cockburn went from 4 stars to competing for B10 player of the year.
I am sure Antigua was the total reason Illinois won the Big 10. Without him they would have been a bottom feeder. They should fire the head coach because Antigua does everything.
well they were since 2005 until he got there. Obviously the head coach is important too, but someone gets the talent in the door
Antigua is a very good assistant coach. He didn’t make it as a head coach, but some people aren’t cut out for that. I hope he does come back.
I sat on this info for at least 2 months and did not share it during the season, Wanted to wait until the season was over to release it. So when it was over I let it fly.
It has, Cal knew and had those he trusted tell him that he needed different voices on his staff. Barbee, Flint and Cal were all basically the same people when dealing with the player. Joel is Cal's yes man and Jai was in his first year at UK as a young coach so he wasn't going to have much of a voice last season. O is obviously huge for recruiting but he can take the place of KP as an alternate voice that the players can go to.
If you try hard enough.
