by balla45 » Wed Feb 20, 2013 12:32 am
I'm not even going to go in depth as to how much this p*sses me off.
Here are some of my thoughts.
My program ran workouts, twice a day, whenever we were not on the road, all summer.
I personally did at least 40 individual workouts with Tyler Rudolph, Alex Quist, Robert Hutchins, Ben Weisbeck, Scott Nagel, Darius Sparks, Jayden Ferguson, and others.
We have now added two Fargo area coaches to our staff as we expand east, who will also be conducting workouts.
I've personally coached the #1, #2, #4, #5, #6, #10, and #11 scorers in the WDA, #2, #3, #6, #9, #10, #11 rebounders in the WDA, as well as #1, #4, #5, #7, #9, #10, #11, #14, and #15 field goal percentage guys in the WDA, and the #2, #4, #5, and #6 three point percentage guys in the WDA, all over 40%.
Our Century guys, Tyler Rudolph, Alex Quist, Robert Hutchins, Ramey Schatz, and Dalton Feeney have 2 losses in North Dakota, both to our Saint Mary's guys, Ben Weisbeck, Scott Nagel, and Darius Sparks.
Ferguson has had multiple games of over 25 points and over 15 rebounds for Williston, even though he is the only threat on his team.
James Richman of Maple Valley averaged 5 points and 4 rebounds last year, he is now averaging 19 points and 11 rebounds this year. I feel it is safe to say he improved.
Tyler Rudolph averaged 6 and 3 last year. He's averaging 14.8 and 8.5 this year. I feel it is safe to say that he improved.
Taylor Krenz is about to become his school's all time leading scorer, in by far, his most productive season. They just won their District Tournament too. Yeah, he says that the 9:00 a.m. defensive workouts and ball handling workouts on Tuesdays and Thursdays really helped him.
Of our 14u team last year (9 current freshman and 1 8th grader) 6 of the 8 Class A kids got moved up to jv as freshmen, 1 plays varsity, and 1 just had a 34 point 19 rebound game in freshman basketball last Friday. The other, Casey Walcker is a solid varsity contributor for undefeated Beulah.
One of our girls players opened up her season with 38 points, which is top 5 all time in Class A, if I am not mistaken. I'm not even going to begin to discuss how well the girls have been playing this year.
Weisbeck averaged 4 points a game as a freshman, played a summer with us, then was the only Class A All State sophomore, and will likely be All State for the rest of his career, and already has received a full ride offer to play in college. Nagel did not get on the court as a freshman. He played with us for a summer, then he ends up being All Conference as a sophomore, on a team that brought back 3 starters. Rudolph had 0 double doubles as a sophomore, in games within 10 points this season, he is averaging 17 points and 13 rebounds. I tend to think doing post workouts all summer with Jayden Ferguson and James Richman really helped him improve his game.
Kids do not just play for us to play in a bunch of games. They play because they know we are going to do everything possible to squeeze as much potential out of them as we can. Coaches do not come to games for teams that don't have good players. Exposure is useless if you are not good enough to play for the coaches you are exposed to. It doesn't matter if you play in a tournament where a bunch of D1 coaches make appearances, if you are not good enough to play there, they will not want you.
And to be fair and not just brag up my program, I had ZERO EDC boys last year. Every one of the top 10 scorers in the EDC played for ECI or Dakota Pride last summer.
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