West Liberty Hilltopper Basketball

[Columbuseer]

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New transfer
http://hilltoppersports.com/news/201...-transfer.aspx

Watched high school highlights. Very strong, powerfully built player who can shoot 3 and drive to basket in traffic. Linebacker body with point guard skills. Wlu has needed this kind of player to counter the wju guy or bengaya last year. D1 player of year, and 1st team all state in Ohio in 2014. His family has seen too much tragedy so I am already cheering for him.

[Chevydude89]

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Hearing that Guillozet is not returning to west lib. Visiting Valdosta st where bo justice is but also still potentially to go to the new crutch land even having to sit out a year. Also intereest from D1 wright st and Lincoln memorial offer still out there for him

[Layton]

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New transfer
http://hilltoppersports.com/news/201...-transfer.aspx

[boatcapt]

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Hopefully they will now have some people to mop up sweat from the floor with real mops. Basic game day fundamentals were lacking from my personal experience.

That seems to fall under the position description of Rex Lancaster and his staff (does he have a staff??). It will be interesting to see how he performs at doing the little things related to game day operations that we take for granted when they are done right, but are very noticeable when done wrong. Things like having people with mops who are actually paying attention to what's going on in the game (and not texting on their phone), shagging soccer balls that go out of bounds, insuring there is toilet paper in the bathrooms and that the trashcans are emptied before the games AND during the games, insuring appropriate security is at the game and that they are trained on how to respond professionally to unrouly fans, etc, etc, etc. Game day ops is so much more than unlocking the gates to the football field or insuring the lights are on in the ASRC on game day.

[Columbuseer]

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Anybody know what caused the shakeup in the SID office at West Liberty?

Longtime SID Matt Watson is out, and former Wheeling paper sports editor Don Clegg is in. Really good hire. Don has been there doing, I assume, the vast majority of the writing/game notes/etc. for years now.

Watson's only qualification to be SID was his father being the AD, so this is a big, positive change (especially if Ullom had a hand in it). [\QUOTE]Annnndddd...what exactly was Ullom's qualification to be AD?

Looks like Ullom also created a position called Manager of Athletic Operations and promoted one year Grad Assistant Rex Lancaster into the position. Lancaster will be in charge of game day operations and will also manage the web site, be responsible for game promotion and statistics as well as expanding WLU's social media campaign.

Hopefully they will now have some people to mop up sweat from the floor with real mops. Basic game day fundamentals were lacking from my personal experience.

[boatcapt]

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[QUOTE=ssidiver;2057030]Anybody know what caused the shakeup in the SID office at West Liberty?

Longtime SID Matt Watson is out, and former Wheeling paper sports editor Don Clegg is in. Really good hire. Don has been there doing, I assume, the vast majority of the writing/game notes/etc. for years now.

Watson's only qualification to be SID was his father being the AD, so this is a big, positive change (especially if Ullom had a hand in it). [\QUOTE]Annnndddd...what exactly was Ullom's qualification to be AD?

Looks like Ullom also created a position called Manager of Athletic Operations and promoted one year Grad Assistant Rex Lancaster into the position. Lancaster will be in charge of game day operations and will also manage the web site, be responsible for game promotion and statistics as well as expanding WLU's social media campaign.

[Columbuseer]

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Anyone know if guillozet is staying at west lib? He was still on roster a week or so ago. I really liked his game.

[ssidiver]

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Anybody know what caused the shakeup in the SID office at West Liberty?

Long-time SID Matt Watson is out, and former Wheeling paper sports editor Don Clegg is in. Really good hire. Don has been there doing, I assume, the vast majority of the writing/game notes/etc. for years now.

Watson's only qualification to be SID was his father being the AD, so this is a big, positive change (especially if Ullom had a hand in it).

[IUP Extra Mile]

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Welcome to the Dog Days of Summer...No NBA to distract us...Nary a juicy rumor for us to latch on....It's about 120 days until hoop practice starts....

May it go fast!!

[boatcapt]

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Good points. I agree Dennis at pg is not automatic. According to crutch Dennis had a very high basketball iq as a frosh. He knows the system.
He might have an edge at start of season. Maybe 2 or 3 of the pgs are on the floor at once. White could be sg.

Crutch plays a very deep bench so no doubt whomever is second or third is going to get minutes...produce and the minutes will continue...don't and they will decline.

While WLU had a couple of players that were listed as forwards, they really all played like guards...just that a couple of them were taller.

[Columbuseer]

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Good points. I agree Dennis at pg is not automatic. According to crutch Dennis had a very high basketball iq as a frosh. He knows the system.
He might have an edge at start of season. Maybe 2 or 3 of the pgs are on the floor at once. White could be sg.

[boatcapt]

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We assume Dennis is going to walk right in and be the starting PG at Nova. I say not so quick. Nova returns a pretty good starting PG in BJ Edwards (A transfer who started as a TF at D1 Jacksonville University) who amassed 70 assists to lead Nova in an injury shortened season. Also, according to Verbal Commits, they signed D1 transfer Issac White who was the two year starting PG at UMass Lowell but was injured after only 10 games last season. While Dennis will certainly have a good shot, I wouldn't be totally surprised if he was parked on the bench to start the season behind one or maybe both of these cats.

[boatcapt]

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Good one.
Dennis at center will give him opportunity to learn to finish at the rim. Lol
Maybe pastor crutch not pleased with basketball skills of non post guys in soph and jr class. Isaac white averages 94% ft, 44% 3s and got 20 pts in win over Boston college his frosh year. Pastor crutch has said in previous homilies that height is not a deal breaker. But 4 guards is surprising. Probably has 1 or 2 slots left.

I'm not surprised at all by Crutch's recruiting class at Nova. Over the years at WLU, it became more than obvious that he didn't particulary care for the size of his players. All they needed to do was shoot the 3, have an extremely high defensive motor and be unselfish with the ball. Think he felt like rebounds wouldn't be an issue if his teams were hitting 45% of their 3's and they were forcing turnovers. On the defensive end, he seemed to be willing to "trade" an inside 2 by the other teams big to get the ball back and make a 3 of his own...he'd trade 2's for 3's all night long!!

[Columbuseer]

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Good one.
Dennis at center will give him opportunity to learn to finish at the rim. Lol
Maybe pastor crutch not pleased with basketball skills of non post guys in soph and jr class. Isaac white averages 94% ft, 44% 3s and got 20 pts in win over Boston college his frosh year. Pastor crutch has said in previous homilies that height is not a deal breaker. But 4 guards is surprising. Probably has 1 or 2 slots left.

[IUPbigINDIANS]

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If there would be a jump it would be bush league D1 so that arena would be more than fine. Most of the 'low end D1' (term used loosely) draw horrible ... couple thousand. Some not even that much. It's not like the Florida Chapter of the Church of Crutch would be joining the ACC. Many of those lower D1 schools would die to even have an arena like the KCAC or Cal's arena.

I have noticed with his recruiting class .... Dennis may be playing power forward or center.