NCAAbbs

This guy was ranked as the 10th best player in Texas by Scout.com.

Way to go Mack Mac!!

Chris Turner

who said ECU has a "no-name" coach...coach Mac was at UT-Chatt during their best runs...i seem to remember him having a Sweet 16 under his belt has head coach there.

C-USA has some great coaches...

good get for ECU.

Go Tigers!!!
Drew

This clueless poster above tried to put him down.

Check the coaches hotseat thread.

You probably never even heard of him until ECU hired him. College football diehards have heard of him, but that's about it. He took UTC on a tourney run and all of a sudden he's a "big name coach"? Laughable.

College football diehards know of him?


Ask any Marshall fan about Mack, he kicked our tails in some of our best years in the past 25 years. He's a great coach and a helluva guy.

well...being from Memphis with family in Chattanooga i know a little about UTC.

lets start with the fact UTC plays in a 11,000 seat arena...

while at UTC, coach Mac won 243 games, leading UTC to a Sweet 16.

he was also the head coach at VCU for 4 years, winning 65 games.

he's a perfect fit for ECU, and he seems to be recruiting well.

Go Tigers!!!
Drew

Two nationally ranked players in less than a week that both decomited from Pac 10 and SEC schools because of coaching changes and were some of the most sought out recruits in the spring. Pretty good. Imagine what he might do when he and his staff gets a whole year to build relationships with the underclassman and with a winning program to sale. Looks like he has us on the way stocking the shelf towards that goal.

Hey The other Greg Childress, you remember when you told me a couple weeks ago Mac would never be able to recruit at a level high enough to get us to post season or ever be anything more than a .500 CUSA team. We just beat out a dozen or more BCS schools on those two guys. Good ones too.

He's another clueless poster.

Jonesing you are a piece of work. USM signs a great recruiting class in football full of thee and four stars. Even a five star. You blast USM as having really done nothing in doing that and poke fun at us winning a "recruiting trophy". Now you are ogasmic over two basketball recruits. Like I said, you are a piece of work.

Not really. You just don't have a clue on the difference in the sports. Basketball recruiting is 10 times more acurate than football and I said that at the same time when I talked about football recruiting because I knew some one that didn't know his **** would bring it up one day.

It's because of the 30+ games a year in basketball vs 12-15 in football (of which a player only plays about half the plays as well), and then the entire AAU summer for basketball to scout. Basketball players do not fall through the cracks like football players. There are also a hell of a lot fewer that play basketball and to identify on the court than the field 50+ vs 12 and less focus as well. When's the last time anyone couldn't spot a 6-8 guy that could play hoops in 50+ games a year of action.

Also football is a physical sport in which players all require weight training and can be built int he weight room, and you have no clue really how they will respond in a weight training program. Some guys get into a weight program and add 100 lbs and you can't see genetics or #'s of mucle fibers on who can do that. Its far more unpredictable and with the shear numbers so much higher much harder to identify the best players especially in 12 games.

We just had a 1 star unknow player go in the first round last week. Look at the NBA first round and tell me how many were off them recruiting map and then look at the NFL one and tell me the difference. It's not even comparable. We aren't even good in hoops and I know this kind of crab. Get a clue. Your the piece of work spouting off looking silly.

Honestly Jonesing, yoiu give "homer" a whole new level of being. Your spin is just unreal. If ECU had signed a recruiting class like USM did in football you would have been here everday raving about it. Like I said, you are a new level of "homer".

I have said it from day one. Coach Mac will get you back near the top. (I assume you have been there before?)

It's not spin. Look up the accuracy of each and get back to me next time you decide to spout off. Heck top basketball programs get commits in the 9th and 10th grade sometimes because they are that easy to pick out. Good luck trying to identify the football players that early. None of it is an exact science but football recruiting can't hold a candle to hoops & it doesn't take a genius to figure that out or the logical reasons why.

What was Fletcher ranked again? What about the forgetable 5 star Esterling(sp?) that rode the bench behind him? There is your importance of football recruiting. Now quit stinking up our thread. I didn't say anything about your football recruits on one of your numourous threads you bombarded us with. Only afterwards when you trying to beat your chest about them to me, in defending a coach that hasn't won a game yet and that's all you had to pump him up.

Very very nice two late additions. Hard to find them with so many signing early nowadays.

I can see with that great tradition of ECU basketball how you have become such an expert on rating basketball recruits.

If we had ever been there before, would we be this excited about recruits?

BTW, we have been in the tournament before, but it feels good knowing that we may be moving in that direction again.

Apparently you didn't read all my response because I said this a few post ago.

I said the exact thing at the same time we were talking about football recruiting .

It doesn't.

Oh looky Kentucky got a commit from an 8th grader today...... It's easier to spot talent in hoops. Nuff said.

http://rivalshoops.rivals.com/content.as...CID=803673

By signing these two kids Coach Mac has done the impossible! He has ECU fans excited and talking basketball even while our baseball team is trying to host a regional and football season just around the corner. Thats just awesome!!!

Kentucky, Maryland, Wake, Virginia, Marquette. These are pretty good basketball schools we have beat out for these players I would say Greg Childers. Still never got back to me.

Crap, someone sign coach LaBarrie to a multi year deal.

He maybe looked at as replacement for Mac down the road............keep up the good work guys.

Mack hired Jeff Capel as well & he succeeded him at VCU after rebuilding that program. Left him his most talented players that got Capel to the NCAA as well.

I think he is a great member to have on our staff. I had never heard of him prior to him being hired at ECU, but seems to be doing well here. I met him a few weeks back at a baseball game and is a really nice guy and envisions us being near the top of C-USA and in the NCAA tournament (what coach wouldnt).

He could very well be groomed to take over once Mack retires.

I have only been at ECU for 3 years, but have heard others mention that this could very well be our best recruiting class in the history of the program. Two nationally ranked players and one 'sleeping giant' as one person mentioned. This is a great step for our program, I realize not all 'hyped' players flourish in college, but for ECU fans it is something we have never really been able to celebrate. For Mack and company to just step in and grab two great players in the spring is amazing, I can only imagine what will happen once the program starts to turn around. The words ECU Basketball and Excitement are rarely used in the same sentence unless you are referring to the NC State game last season, and many ECU fans are excited about basketball season for the first time ever. I know most others in the conference are tired of hearing about us finally getting 'big-time' players, but for us it is a big deal. We have been at, or near the bottom of the conference for far too long and I think we are finally making progress.

Move over Memphis...ECU is taking over CUSA basketball....

Now that's what I'm talking about!

Hey, a Pirate can dream can't he?

Its a shame to see a perfectly well intentioned thread high jacked like this!!

If you are going to bring up the Fletcher/Easterling thing, at least know what you are talking about. East wore a red shirt, at least until late in the season when it was burnt by our former head coach, an action that still baffles Southern Miss fans.
Fletcher is a hard working team player, East was not, the end result was the correct one. East sat behind Fletch because of his atlitude, not his ability.