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(03-10-2017 01:54 PM)Mungumry Blazer Wrote:  Can we please stop recruiting these "athletic" players and recruit some true basketball talent. Guys that can actually shoot a jump shot, follow a shot, throw a pass, catch a ball, pump fake and drive, use the glass on a shot, and in the words of Gene Bartow, "knows what to do with the ball when he's near the boards." Because right now we have maybe two that have real basketball talent.

UAB and its contemporaries are pretty far down the list for "true basketball talent" recruits. Most of our successes have been with developing "athletic players" who were undervalued by more traditional power teams who have greater recruiting war chests. With the likes of Vaden and Lee, UAB got lucky due to blessed circumstances (as did UAB FB with Hackney and White).

Furthermore, UAB has not had a nationally respected BBHC to come close to matching Gene Bartow to attract such players to our program. ALL the conference affiliations were negotiated with Gene Bartow as our leader, and UAB's only move since was almost (forcibly) carried out by the actions of the BOT and Ray Watts in 2014-15.