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#1
Anxious to see CLU's list of 14 recruits. Can't bode well for those on the roster which bodes well for the future of the program.
Not a fan of Coach White's insistence on releasing them all at once...seems to have lost a lot of steam and who knows who King Bridgeland has been able to swipe away.
#2
Anyone know about Bridgeland accepting the Redlands job?
#3
Strong rumors that Bridgeland is leaving Whitman for Redlands ...
#4
Redlands HC job is open.
Ducey is a local legend. Will be interesting to see which direction they go.
Word was the assistant they hired a few years back was being groomed to take over.
#5
I grew up in Thousand Oaks. Played pickup all summer with those teams. Went away to college and my mom got sick so came home and graduated CLU in 99...but you're right since my screen name in a message board is the wrong year for you, I must not know what I am talking about.

Did Rider go to more than one NCAA tournament in 20 years or did I miss something?
#6
1 NCAA Tournament in 20 years of Rider.
I am hoping White is more in line with his coach, Mike Dunlap.
#7
Going to be a long time before my beloved CLU is relevant.
White appears to be extremely frustrated to say the least.
#8
All Fusina did was complain about how hard the job was. I am not buying it. No way a winning coach like White with one of the best high school jobs in the area walks away from that (same for dimuro) and into the dumpster fire that Fusina tries to make CLU. Fusina inherited a very talented roster and ran the program into the ground in under 18 months. If Fusina wanted to make it work he would have. White has already done more outreach to local coaches in 1 month than Fusina did in two years. CLU is far from perfect and the infastrcture is way behind the times for a school with facilities like they have but it is far from "significant problems".

#9
White should have been the hire the first time.
Glad they got it right - however they did it.
#10
As an alum I am thrilled. I was at school with both of them. They will do great things. I don't care who was involved in the hire. They obviously fixed the mistakes of the last men's basketball hire. This was the hire they should have made two years ago. Better late than never. Just wish Coach White was jumping off from a higher point than where the program is now. He has a lot of ground to make up.
#11
Grimm any insight to what is happening at CLU?
Rumors were the new coach was looking at other jobs.
They return a lot according to the online roster then announced an 8 man recruiting class on social media.
Are players continuing to leave?
#12
Grimm -

Let me say a few things. One I watched you play many times. I am glad you wore the purple and gold. You were the kind of player that made alums proud.

When I said local recruiting I was more referring to the players from immediately around CLU that they never even recruited. When is the last time Ventura, Thousand Oaks, Oaks Christian, Westlake, Agoura, Calabasas had their players go to CLU. They have had guys that could make an impact in the SCIAC. The coaches I have come across in the area say it was rare to have CLU recruit their guys.

We do differ on if keeping Rider's staff intact was the answer. We agree that they made the wrong hire once the job was open.

#13

You forgot one......

Quote from: AlltheKINGSmen99 on February 21, 2019, 07:22:50 PM
They 100% made the wrong hire but would keeping Rider's assistant have been any different? Maybe a few games here and there but they wouldn't be in the conference tournament with him either.

2016-17 they maybe won 20 games, they may have been 2nd in SCIAC by only one game, the may have been ranked in the region....oh, and they may have not only played in the conference tournament, they played for the championship.
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RIder's staff had a full year to interview. Their local recruiting was abysmal, their overall record was mediocre. One year of ALMOST making the tournament should have gotten them the job? They routinely had top talent and routinely missed the tournament. The conference tournament should have saved them. Consistent top 4 finishes then win 2 games in 2 days. Yet it never did save them. They couldn't get over the hump. Isn't it possible the admin viewed another near miss as just more of the same?
#14
There is no example of East Coast bias more evident than in NCAA D3 basketball.
Budgets for most D3's are limited. The ability to play other D3's from the West Coast is limited.
The NCAA some how considers Wisconsin part of the West Region.
West Coast D3 never has a chance at multiple bids unless it is a rare year.
PP and Oxy are both tournament teams.
#15
First time poster.
Longtime lurker.
CLU grad of 99.

The current state of the program is embarrassing, no doubt about it.
What I don't understand is the romanticizing of the Rider era. 20 years and 2 tournaments? They were so consistently mediocre with some of the best talent in the league it was unreal. Dunlap was the last time the program thrived at any kind of national level. They 100% made the wrong hire but would keeping Rider's assistant have been any different? Maybe a few games here and there but they wouldn't be in the conference tournament with him either.

It amazes me that CMS and PP are able to compete and stay at the top of the league every year with their academic standards. Puzzles me why CLU and Redlands aren't better with much lower academic standards.