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Who do you want?

Who will be the next Sac State Men's Basketball Coach?

  • Cameron Dollar

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Brian Katz

    Votes: 10 76.9%

  • Tony Marcopulos

    Votes: 3 23.1%
  • Total voters
    13
  • Poll closed .
duke51 said:
Since Grizz is rooting for Katz and I'm rooting for Marcopulos, perhaps we're not the most objective observers...

To all of you Hornet fans who are regulars on this board, I'd love to hear your take on the article and how it impacts your interest in Marcopulos. To me, the article only gives me reason to want a coach like that in charge of a basketball program.
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I'm with you Duke.

Unlike the many Katz fanboys that have sprung up on this message board, grizz seems adamant about doing everything he can to slam Marcopulos.

To me, this article only makes me more confident that Marcopulos is the right guy for the job. He sounds like a DI coach in waiting who was never meant to be a JC Coach. He probably feels like he's been there much longer than he should have been.

In terms of the sense of community, that will come with winning at a DI university. I could care less where he gets his players from if he coaches here. If he wins, people will come (not like a JC). When Jenkins' teams were hovering around or below .500 you couldn't get a seat in the Hornet's Nest (which isn't saying that much, but it shows that there's interest). If he WINS, it will peak local players' interest in what's going on too. Eventually, the local players will want to come to us, rather than the other way around.
 
My first take is that in California, no one really cares about JC sports. I mean, the paper in this town doesn't even cover the football and men's hoops games for the 3 JC's here. So I see where Marcopulos is coming from in that he wants to assemble the best team period. Maybe the talent in the Santa Cruz area is not that good. I can't remember any HS team that has made it to the State Finals, let alone the NorCal finals.

I don't buy too much into what other coaches are saying bits. That is self-promotion and a lot of DI schools do it in their media guides. I guess Im indifferent about him and Katz because I don't them at all and had not heard of them before this whole process started.
 
SactoHornetAlum said:
My first take is that in California, no one really cares about JC sports. I mean, the paper in this town doesn't even cover the football and men's hoops games for the 3 JC's here. So I see where Marcopulos is coming from in that he wants to assemble the best team period. Maybe the talent in the Santa Cruz area is not that good. I can't remember any HS team that has made it to the State Finals, let alone the NorCal finals.

I don't buy too much into what other coaches are saying bits. That is self-promotion and a lot of DI schools do it in their media guides. I guess Im indifferent about him and Katz because I don't them at all and had not heard of them before this whole process started.
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I hadn't heard of either of them myself. But, with what we've been presented with as the school's options... I'd go with Marcopulos.

Wouldn't it be hilarious if after all this talk, they bring in Cameron Dollar?
 
SactoHornetAlum, you wrote, "Maybe the talent in the Santa Cruz area is not that good. I can't remember any HS team that has made it to the State Finals, let alone the NorCal finals." Well, the talent in and around the Santa Cruz area has been very good for several years, including state championships won by Santa Cruz High School in 2005 and Palo Alto High School in 2006.

I think some of the discussion is short-sighted when it comes to recruiting locally. No, I don't think any coach is going to win a national championship by confining their recruiting to the Sacramento area. However, there are some damn good players in this area, and Jenkins apparently refused to even consider recruiting them. Let's not forget, as well, that by recruiting good local players, it seems to reason that attendance at games will increase by virtue of name recognition. There are plenty of basketball fans in this area who, if there were local players competing at Sac State, would start attending Sac State games on a regular basis. This is where Katz clearly shines above the other two competitors -- he has a hands-on working knowledge of the local talent and, more importantly, has the utmost respect from local coaches who may be more likely to steer players his way. Also, unlike Marcopolus, Katz has similar respect among his peers on the JC level, who would also be in a position to encourage their players to attend Sac State. As for support from D1 coaches, Katz more than holds his own -- he has a boatload of top-notch D1 coaches who have already made the call to Wanless in support. The difference is that Katz doesn't feel the need to brag about it on a website.
 
SCFP: Like I said, I don't follow much about the state championships unless there is a local school involved, like Sac High was this year. Palo Alto is not in Santa Cruz either BTW...that's Bay Area proper, like Mitty, Pinewood, etc. that have won NorCal and/or State championships.

I agree about the lack of emphasis recruiting locally. However, I do know that the ones who were locally that Jenkins did go after often turned us down because of The Nest. That article awhile back from that kid from Vacaville who was quoted...I think he went to Saint Mary's. Anyway, I just want someone to get in here who will A) recruit quality student-athletes who WILL graduate B) can teach the game C) can make adjustments not only in the game, but throughout the year D) who will WIN.

My biggest beef with Jerome was he never knew how to make adjustments...always have to stick with the gameplan. The championship coaches have learned that you need to make adjustments and sometimes the gameplan you devise or style of play you devise will not always work.
 
I agree that nobody really follows JC sports. The Lodi News-Sentinel doesn't cover Delta at all, and the Record gives it short shrift. However, what coverage the Record does give the Delta hoops program has ALWAYS been positive, because that's all the news they've ever had, whether it's Katz or Gina Johnson.

I WILL say this, though: Katz has EXTENSIVE post-season experience and moving personnel on to 4-year schools. To the best of my knowledge, all Marcopulous has ever done is sit on lunch-time phone duty and be lucky enough to land a 7-foot center who turned out to be a HUGE NBA bust.
 
SactoHornetAlum on Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:49 am

Anyway, I just want someone to get in here who will A) recruit quality student-athletes who WILL graduate B) can teach the game C) can make adjustments not only in the game, but throughout the year D) who will WIN.
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In the end that is all that any of us could want. We have been waiting for that our entire time in D-1.
 
SactoHornetAlum,

Of course, Palo Alto isn't in Santa Cruz. But Fairfield, Vacaville and Stockton aren't in Sacramento, but I would expect the next Sac State coach to recruit from those immediate areas.
 
scfp said:
SactoHornetAlum,

Of course, Palo Alto isn't in Santa Cruz. But Fairfield, Vacaville and Stockton aren't in Sacramento, but I would expect the next Sac State coach to recruit from those immediate areas.
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True, but there is a bigger geographically divide between Palo Alto and Santa Cruz than there is one with Fairfield, Vacaville, Stockton and Sacto. They are all in the valley.
 
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