4-star PG Corey Sanders

[JoshuaG]

"We've got to recruit kids we can try to get, and we have to develop them. That will lead us to recruiting those All-Americans," Antigua said. "We start by recruiting quality athletes who want to play our style (up-tempo). Winning gets people to come out. We will worry about the results when they happen. It starts by chipping away at the rock."

http://www.bradenton.com/2014/07/02/5236428/commentary-after-what-hes-been.html

As much as it pains me to say this, I think that although he wants to target some of these top tier players he understands that there are going to be kids out of our reach for now. The focus is more on getting those glue guys like Santos and asking them to run his offense. Like he said, winning brings the people, he may be a little less focused on full recruitment and a little more on game planning and preparation for the season.

[Triple B]

CoachOA is done with the DOM team for this year, since they lost in the round of 16 yesterday.

I belive there are more positives than negatives for USF arising from his tenure with them.

Considering that he hasn't ever been a head college basketball coach and has not even played one game at USF, it is unrealistic to expect that he will pull in top tier players immediately. The fact that he is even being considered by them at this point is quite remarkable, given our overall dreadful basketball history.

 

Agree completely. If a kid was serious at all about USF, knowing where he was, they would wait if a head coach's visit was what they needed ...

[Triple B]

"We've got to recruit kids we can try to get, and we have to develop them. That will lead us to recruiting those All-Americans," Antigua said. "We start by recruiting quality athletes who want to play our style (up-tempo). Winning gets people to come out. We will worry about the results when they happen. It starts by chipping away at the rock."

http://www.bradenton.com/2014/07/02/5236428/commentary-after-what-hes-been.html

As much as it pains me to say this, I think that although he wants to target some of these top tier players he understands that there are going to be kids out of our reach for now. The focus is more on getting those glue guys like Santos and asking them to run his offense. Like he said, winning brings the people, he may be a little less focused on full recruitment and a little more on game planning and preparation for the season.

 

Coach nailed it. All this D&D type talk about recruiting is fun and all but they don't award wins by the number of stars your players have or where they come from. Programs are built by wins, not stars and zip codes, and that starts with the coaching. CSH was able to get the highest rated class in our history by, along with much needed upgraded facilities, getting to the NCAA's for the first time in 20 years with a team of "glue type players" ... with only two contributors from the state of Florida. It starts with winning, with the coaches getting the most out of the players they do have, and then the "glamour" of the stars will come to appease the recruiting paparazzis ... COA hasn't coached a game yet. 

[DELdaBull]

Coach Antigua has coached some games. With the DR, but still. He has shown he can be a head coach on the international level.  That should help him do his job for USF.

[Triple B]

Coach Antigua has coached some games. With the DR, but still. He has shown he can be a head coach on the international level.  That should help him do his job for USF.

 

Good point ... Should have added "at USF".

[Mama_Bull]

Coach Antigua has coached some games. With the DR, but still. He has shown he can be a head coach on the international level.  That should help him do his job for USF.

 

Good point ... Should have added "at USF".

That is one of the "positives" to come out of his coaching the DOM team. He probably needed that in order to get hired by USF in the first place. Many of The FIBA players on the various international teams know him from that experience and I suspect that he will spend some time recruiting those players.