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I'm holding out hope all six of these guys are Blazers next season. Battle looks like he could start tomorrow he actually plays the ball.

Not sure how many of these commitments will last, when a new staff is hired on these coaches will most likely be fired, so if these kids are committing to these four coaches, when they are fired i think the kids will just turn there backs and look elsewhere

(01-15-2014 02:34 PM)ucketB73 Wrote:  Not sure how many of these commitments will last, when a new staff is hired on these coaches will most likely be fired, so if these kids are committing to these four coaches, when they are fired i think the kids will just turn there backs and look elsewhere

I talked to one who decommitted and said intends to get in touch with Mackin. said Everything should be straight and it'll be like nothing happened. Just waiting on who the new coach is.

Assistant coaches have been hired in order to get certain players so it makes sense that this would be true - keeping ACs - in this case. Besides, with the recruiting time so short, the new FBHC might want to keep them at least one year just to keep continuity in the program. There is likely nothing to be gained by creating "recruit orphans" by breaking their link to the program.

(01-15-2014 02:34 PM)ucketB73 Wrote:  Not sure how many of these commitments will last, when a new staff is hired on these coaches will most likely be fired, so if these kids are committing to these four coaches, when they are fired i think the kids will just turn there backs and look elsewhere

I imagine these kids are bright enough to know these coaches might be gone in a week. At least I hope so.

(01-15-2014 03:49 PM)Smaug Wrote:  

(01-15-2014 02:34 PM)ucketB73 Wrote:  Not sure how many of these commitments will last, when a new staff is hired on these coaches will most likely be fired, so if these kids are committing to these four coaches, when they are fired i think the kids will just turn there backs and look elsewhere

I imagine these kids are bright enough to know these coaches might be gone in a week. At least I hope so.

i would like to think so, but i think a lot of these kids commit to the coaches rather then the school which is crazy to me