Joe Dooley (Kansas AC)

Collegiate Sports
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and he is snatching top 150 recruits out of NC :)[/quote]

Yea, also, Kelsey has strong connections in Georgia as well. Everyone knows about Aminu, but I’m pretty sure he was also responsible for Tony Woods out of Rome, GA (another top 50 recruit) and although Rivals credits Jeff Battle as being Ari Stewart’s (top 50 recruit, Marietta, GA) main recruiter, I think Kelsey had a huge part in his recruitment to Wake.

With Kelsey at the helm, we should be able to recruit this area very well, and you know he’s going to surround himself with a nice staff.

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One person who I’d love to see on a new staff is someone that’s currently out of work: the former interim head coach of Fordham, Jared Grasso. Great recruiter that was trapped in a hopeless situation.

He has very close ties to some of the top prep schools in the NYC area (such as the Hurley family, who sent one of their boys to play for another NC school in the early 90s) and was able to use such ties to convince kids to play basketball at Fordham (not an easy sell). Charlotte would be a much easier sell for higher quality kids from the same area. I hope the new head coach adds him before a St. John’s or a Seton Hall decide to add Grasso to their staff first.

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One person who I’d love to see on a new staff is someone that’s currently out of work: the former interim head coach of Fordham, Jared Grasso. Great recruiter that was trapped in a hopeless situation.

He has very close ties to some of the top prep schools in the NYC area (such as the Hurley family, who sent one of their boys to play for another NC school in the early 90s) and was able to use such ties to convince kids to play basketball at Fordham (not an easy sell). Charlotte would be a much easier sell for higher quality kids from the same area. I hope the new head coach adds him before a St. John’s or a Seton Hall decide to add Grasso to their staff first.[/quote]I don’t think that Grasso and Spears would make it together…

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One person who I’d love to see on a new staff is someone that’s currently out of work: the former interim head coach of Fordham, Jared Grasso. Great recruiter that was trapped in a hopeless situation.

He has very close ties to some of the top prep schools in the NYC area (such as the Hurley family, who sent one of their boys to play for another NC school in the early 90s) and was able to use such ties to convince kids to play basketball at Fordham (not an easy sell). Charlotte would be a much easier sell for higher quality kids from the same area. I hope the new head coach adds him before a St. John’s or a Seton Hall decide to add Grasso to their staff first.[/quote]
agreed. he could stay at fordham as as assistant or come here and help us land monster classes. can you imagine if we hired away kelsey and grasso?

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I think the single thing that puts Pat Kelsey above Joe Dolley for this job is his marketing ability.

That is something that we desperately need: somebody who can sell the program to the city and the media. Kelsey, IMO, is the best of all of the candidates (asst or head coach) in that aspect.

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[quote=“Lew, post:25, topic:22875”]I think the single thing that puts Pat Kelsey above Joe Dolley for this job is his marketing ability.

That is something that we desperately need: somebody who can sell the program to the city and the media. Kelsey, IMO, is the best of all of the candidates (asst or head coach) in that aspect.[/quote]

Winning sells this program to the city and media

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One person who I’d love to see on a new staff is someone that’s currently out of work: the former interim head coach of Fordham, Jared Grasso. Great recruiter that was trapped in a hopeless situation.

He has very close ties to some of the top prep schools in the NYC area (such as the Hurley family, who sent one of their boys to play for another NC school in the early 90s) and was able to use such ties to convince kids to play basketball at Fordham (not an easy sell). Charlotte would be a much easier sell for higher quality kids from the same area. I hope the new head coach adds him before a St. John’s or a Seton Hall decide to add Grasso to their staff first.[/quote]I don’t think that Grasso and Spears would make it together…[/quote]
;D

Maybe they wouldn’t kick each other’s a** if they were on the same side of the battlefield.

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[quote=“Lew, post:25, topic:22875”]I think the single thing that puts Pat Kelsey above Joe Dolley for this job is his marketing ability.

That is something that we desperately need: somebody who can sell the program to the city and the media. Kelsey, IMO, is the best of all of the candidates (asst or head coach) in that aspect.[/quote]

Great point! It takes more than wins to sell the program and get real, long lasting support. This program has one before and will win again, but to truly grow and develop a fan base including our alumni but also the general community will take a lot of effort on and off the court.

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[quote=“Lew, post:25, topic:22875”]I think the single thing that puts Pat Kelsey above Joe Dolley for this job is his marketing ability.

That is something that we desperately need: somebody who can sell the program to the city and the media. Kelsey, IMO, is the best of all of the candidates (asst or head coach) in that aspect.[/quote]

Agreed… We need equal parts John Wooden and WC Fields

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how is a coach with a marketing degree gonna mesh with our program… :-X

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They will use color paper signs for game nights instead of black and white.

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[quote=“mtanner, post:26, topic:22875”][quote=“Lew, post:25, topic:22875”]I think the single thing that puts Pat Kelsey above Joe Dolley for this job is his marketing ability.

That is something that we desperately need: somebody who can sell the program to the city and the media. Kelsey, IMO, is the best of all of the candidates (asst or head coach) in that aspect.[/quote]

Winning sells this program to the city and media[/quote]BULLSHUIT !!! BULLSHIT !!!

It’s been proven winning does NOT improve media coverage. If anything, it has proven it gets worse (we were ranked #1` in country in golf, and Observer does big story on good golf programs in NC, but omitted us from story… and the O was the ONLY major paper in the state to NOT publish last year’s win over a top 5 chapel hill baseball team). Those of us that have been around for a while know this.

And receiving media coverage helps big time when it comes to getting support from the city. I’m not talking about media coverage where writers and sports editors that give us cheap shots whenever they get a chance, and try to tell the city we’re not worthy.

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[quote=“Over49er, post:32, topic:22875”][quote=“mtanner, post:26, topic:22875”][quote=“Lew, post:25, topic:22875”]I think the single thing that puts Pat Kelsey above Joe Dolley for this job is his marketing ability.

That is something that we desperately need: somebody who can sell the program to the city and the media. Kelsey, IMO, is the best of all of the candidates (asst or head coach) in that aspect.[/quote]

Winning sells this program to the city and media[/quote]BULLSHUIT !!! BULLSHIT !!!

It’s been proven winning does NOT improve media coverage. If anything, it has proven it gets worse (we were ranked #1` in country in golf, and Observer does big story on good golf programs in NC, but omitted us from story… and the O was the ONLY major paper in the state to NOT publish last year’s win over a top 5 chapel hill baseball team). Those of us that have been around for a while know this.

And reeiving media coverage helps big time when it comes to getting support from the city.[/quote]

we’re talking about mens basketball, not golf, its a little different.

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[quote=“mtanner, post:33, topic:22875”][quote=“Over49er, post:32, topic:22875”][quote=“mtanner, post:26, topic:22875”][quote=“Lew, post:25, topic:22875”]I think the single thing that puts Pat Kelsey above Joe Dolley for this job is his marketing ability.

That is something that we desperately need: somebody who can sell the program to the city and the media. Kelsey, IMO, is the best of all of the candidates (asst or head coach) in that aspect.[/quote]

Winning sells this program to the city and media[/quote]BULLSHUIT !!! BULLSHIT !!!

It’s been proven winning does NOT improve media coverage. If anything, it has proven it gets worse (we were ranked #1` in country in golf, and Observer does big story on good golf programs in NC, but omitted us from story… and the O was the ONLY major paper in the state to NOT publish last year’s win over a top 5 chapel hill baseball team). Those of us that have been around for a while know this.

And reeiving media coverage helps big time when it comes to getting support from the city.[/quote]

we’re talking about mens basketball, not golf, its a little different.[/quote]I would have given examples for men’s basketball, but it would have taken a month. You must be relatively NEW to Niner Sports.

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[quote=“mtanner, post:33, topic:22875”][quote=“Over49er, post:32, topic:22875”][quote=“mtanner, post:26, topic:22875”][quote=“Lew, post:25, topic:22875”]I think the single thing that puts Pat Kelsey above Joe Dolley for this job is his marketing ability.

That is something that we desperately need: somebody who can sell the program to the city and the media. Kelsey, IMO, is the best of all of the candidates (asst or head coach) in that aspect.[/quote]

Winning sells this program to the city and media[/quote]BULLSHUIT !!! BULLSHIT !!!

It’s been proven winning does NOT improve media coverage. If anything, it has proven it gets worse (we were ranked #1` in country in golf, and Observer does big story on good golf programs in NC, but omitted us from story… and the O was the ONLY major paper in the state to NOT publish last year’s win over a top 5 chapel hill baseball team). Those of us that have been around for a while know this.

And reeiving media coverage helps big time when it comes to getting support from the city.[/quote]

we’re talking about mens basketball, not golf, its a little different.[/quote]
sorry but you’re wrong, and 40 is all over it

yeah he used a bad example in golf, but when we were ranked in/out the top 25 and had made 5 of the last 6 NCAAs from 96-2001, I can assure you winning did nothing to improve our media coverage

that said, this year was about as good a year by the Observer is some time, we had a pregame piece just about every game

I also think there is more buzz in this city over our program RIGHT NOW than is quite some time, I’ve heard 30 min segments on 610 devoted about our next coach several times…there is a real curiosity who we hire among sport fans

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Per ESPN insider, Joe is on the list for both the Iowa and Seton Hall jobs.
Katz also has mentioned him in connection with us.

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[quote=“Tintin, post:36, topic:22875”]Per ESPN insider, Joe is on the list for both the Iowa and Seton Hall jobs.
Katz also has mentioned him in connection with us.[/quote]

Good for them. I hope he gets one of them… and not the job here.

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Update from Jeff Goodman of Fox Sports:
http://community.foxsports.com/goodmanonfox/blog/?pref_tab=blog

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[quote=“Niner92, post:38, topic:22875”]Update from Jeff Goodman of Fox Sports:
http://community.foxsports.com/goodmanonfox/blog/?pref_tab=blog[/quote]

Sounds like Goodman believes Dooley is the guy we want.

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[quote=“Lew, post:37, topic:22875”][quote=“Tintin, post:36, topic:22875”]Per ESPN insider, Joe is on the list for both the Iowa and Seton Hall jobs.
Katz also has mentioned him in connection with us.[/quote]

Good for them. I hope he gets one of them… and not the job here.[/quote]thats mature ::slight_smile: