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       #Post#: 26455--------------------------------------------------
       Re: New Head Coach GENO FORD
   DIR By: steveoh
       Date: March 26, 2019, 4:20 pm
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       Ford + Weber = I'm feeling a lot better about where we're
       heading.
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       Re: New Head Coach GENO FORD
   DIR By: sbufan
       Date: March 26, 2019, 4:39 pm
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       Keeping Weber is big. Feel good about this.
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       Re: New Head Coach GENO FORD
   DIR By: OldSeawolf
       Date: March 26, 2019, 5:09 pm
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       So good news.  We're settled on Ford.  We've got Weber back.  We
       need the trifecta now, and have Akwasi decide to finish his
       career at SBU.
       In other news, Boals has lost 2 quality coaches this week , and
       lost his high scorer to a Xavier transfer.  Not the start that
       he wanted.
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       Re: New Head Coach GENO FORD
   DIR By: NoVA_Seawolf
       Date: March 27, 2019, 2:22 am
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       My initial reaction didn't like this at all after that USF game,
       but with time I think I'll start feeling better about it.
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       Re: New Head Coach GENO FORD
   DIR By: Hammertime
       Date: March 27, 2019, 3:30 am
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       --- Quote from: steveoh link ---
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       > Ford + Weber = I'm feeling a lot better about where we're
       heading.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       Just curious. Why is Weber so important to this BB program? What
       am I missing here.....
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       Re: New Head Coach GENO FORD
   DIR By: Hammertime
       Date: March 27, 2019, 4:39 am
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       To all the Geno Ford lovers out there. This hire could go really
       bad in a hurry for SB and a black eye on the AE conference or
       Ford can turn this program into a real good BB team. It's
       risky..
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       #Post#: 26463--------------------------------------------------
       Re: New Head Coach GENO FORD
   DIR By: ThegreatK
       Date: March 27, 2019, 5:08 am
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       @ Hammertime, Without Weber, Big Jeff,Olaniyi, Lattimer would of
       never even looked at Stony Brook. It’s the assistants who do the
       heavy lifting in evaluating prospects, building the relationship
       with the prospects inner circle(Parents,AAU coach,HS
       coach,Trainer,Mentor,Handler,Neighborhood,
       watchman,Grandparents), getting them to consider using 1 of
       their coveted 5 official visits.All a Head coach really does is
       Seal the deal most of the time after one of his assistants
       applied a full court press. If you are a big time target to the
       head coach then he will get involved but even then it’s still
       the assistant that’s doing the daily check-in’s on said
       prospect.  Majority of assistants sleep at the Wheel.They either
       get tired of competing against schools they feel inferior to,
       get tired of waiting for a commitment, or are just flat out lazy
       and their boss won’t realize it until his contract is up.But as
       the game goes the same lazy assistant and head coaches get
       recycled. The most
       common excuse made by assistants is “I GOT CAUGHT UP WITH THE
       SEASON.”  So they slip up on recruiting and let another school
       make up ground.Weber doesn’t have any of these issues. Big Jeff
       isn’t the only highly coveted prospect I train and mentor,so I
       speak to assistants from all levels often.Blue blood schools on
       down. Weber is one of the best in the nation. I have to give him
       that man.
       When the New Mexico State’s and Utah State’s of the world
       offered Jeff. Weber just turned up the heat and called us more.
       He also made great relationships prior to becoming a college
       coach while working the hoop group camp, guys at Hoop group
       still talk about him til this day that’s how big of an imprint
       he left there. AAU directors up and down the east coast complain
       yearly “Hoop group wasn’t ran like this when Bweb was here.”
       The relationships he built there is why he was the lead
       recruiter for the Rookie of the year after only being on the Job
       6 or 7 months. He was a year ahead of the curve on Lattimer.By
       the time A10 schools realized how good Lattimer was, it was too
       late. He was on Lattimer as a Sophomore when he played on the B
       team of his AAU program. Most coaches won’t even whiff at a B
       team guy just simply because he plays on a B team. But Weber was
       smart enough to know that Team Takeover” (Who won EYBL in 2018
       summer and 2010 Summers) is a program that has so much D1 talent
       in it that they can’t just field one team. The following year
       Miles was good enough to play on Team Takeover’s main team his
       final summer of AAU and Blew up at the Victor Oladipo camp but
       by then Weber had made relationship with The parents,The HS
       coach, The AAU coach and Director and that was all she wrote.
       Cherish this dude and hope that he can become the school’s next
       head coach after Geno has 25 win season or 2  and moves on. If
       Weber can maintain the same pit bull fight in him and keep the
       same work ethic as his career enhances, he can end up a very
       special coach and if he stays here a Seawolf he can gauruntee
       studs walk through the door for years to come.
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       Re: New Head Coach GENO FORD
   DIR By: OldSeawolf
       Date: March 27, 2019, 5:47 am
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       Thanks for that outstanding inside view, theGreatK!  I knew
       Weber had a solid recruiting rep, but now I'm totally sold.
       I'm sure keeping Weber was part of Heilbron's larger plan here.
       #Post#: 26465--------------------------------------------------
       Re: New Head Coach GENO FORD
   DIR By: Tml
       Date: March 27, 2019, 8:33 am
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       I love it.  This team has talent, more talent overall than when
       Pikiell was here and that's no knock on him.  A new head coach
       would have set this program back two years at the very least
       because some of these kids would have left and it takes at least
       that much time to recover.  Instead, SB can build on what it has
       already built.
       Contract breaches happen very day.  Liquidated damages clauses
       are used as swords against employees all the time.  If Ford
       bolts, so be it.  Who's to say the next guy wouldn't bolt after
       winning the AE.  That's what Pikiell did and who could blame
       him?
       
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       Re: New Head Coach GENO FORD
   DIR By: Chairman of the Board
       Date: March 27, 2019, 8:37 am
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       greatK earns his name!
       all this talk about ford and weber- is thornton still on too?
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