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  • #16
    Looks like the job announcement was taken down, so maybe there is a hire and an announcement of that hire coming...

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    • #17
      UAF goes all in on Coach Ostanik after pressuring him out of the same job back in 2007.

      https://x.com/NanooksMBB/status/1797674610772840662
      Last edited by gratefuldad; 06-03-2024, 01:24 PM.

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      • #18
        It’s funny, I ran into a long time coach in Alaska basketball and he told me Friday about UAF “that is Frank’s job, everyone knows he is getting it”. So I guess it hasn’t been that big of a mystery.

        Frank has a lot of roster slots to fill and it’s late in the game recruiting wise. UAA just finished up their class, probably most schools in the GNAC are done and he will just be getting started. Hopefully he has already started.

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        • #19
          He is a good fit at UAF and I predict that he'll be successful up there. The first order of business if you're coaching in Fairbanks will be the recruiting hurdle. How to convince enough good players that Fairbanks is where they want to be.

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          • #20
            Originally posted by gratefuldad View Post
            He is a good fit at UAF and I predict that he'll be successful up there. The first order of business if you're coaching in Fairbanks will be the recruiting hurdle. How to convince enough good players that Fairbanks is where they want to be.
            Great information, thanks. I think you could sell some players on Fairbanks and Alaska. It's a beautiful state, Fairbanks is a nice city, and the college is well respected. I get it, players think 2 to 4 years anywhere is a lifetime. But if they look at it as an experience, somewhere to get an education and play ball, that's good. A friend of mine from Oregon moved up to Alaska several years ago just on a whim, she loves it and has never left.

            On the basketball side of things one can look at playing time. Personally, I think there's not a lot of worse things in sports than sitting on a bench and not being able to compete at game time. This coach seems to understand the lay of the land up there and I'm guessing he can sell it.

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            • #21
              Happy we have a coach with so much experience in Alaska and success throughout. I wasn't excited initially because of the history of when Ostanik left last time, but I'm open to the possibility that he learned a lot from that experience and will not repeat it. I think he's got a step up in the recruiting department than somebody new to Alaska, as he runs a lot of high school basketball camps around the state (I think the Alaska Basketball Academy runs the biggest camps in the state) and has for a long time. So at least in terms of Alaska athletes, he may put a lot more pressure on UAA in terms of getting Alaskans to choose Fairbanks over Anchorage. But in order to sustain that, he's got to develop those kids, find them playing time, and make it an experience that speaks to kids year after year.

              But yes, you all are right, it's REALLY LATE in the game for recruiting and he's got a lot of roster spots to fill as most of the guys with playing time from this past season and eligibility left departed shortly after Sparling departed... I'll be eager to see how the roster fills out!

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              • #22
                Ostanik hires former UAA great Tobin Karlberg to be his lead assistant in Fairbanks. Tobin spent last season as an assistant at Lewis and Clark St (NAIA).

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Anchorage View Post
                  Ostanik hires former UAA great Tobin Karlberg to be his lead assistant in Fairbanks. Tobin spent last season as an assistant at Lewis and Clark St (NAIA).
                  I like this!

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