Providence is at a crossroads in terms of recruiting and elevating its basketball program. If you whiff on the Chukwu/Abu tandem despite all of Ed's hard work serious pessimism will be the theme in Providence. As of today both of these kids in my opinion are clearly undecided. Joe D. the UConn radio guy never discusses recruiting or acts as a promotional arm for the team when addressing the recruiting landscape. My unbiased opinion is he is the best play by play guy in college hoops.
You really need both of these kids to dream of your own 1 shining moment: Good luck!
The reality is that PC has been at this one supposed crossroad since Gillen left.
I remember a couple of years back (on a board for the entire BE) a discussion among PC fans on the futile move BC made in canning Skinner. In their eyes Skinner had had exceeded anything BC could have hoped for in terms of success and they needed to realize that what they had with Skinner was as good as it would get. The irony there was a couple years earlier, their stance on PC replacing Welch was that they needed a coach who could get them
over the hump, something Tim was incapable of. Somehow BC had this impenetrable wall they wanted to scale while PC merely had a hump they wanted to get over. What they criticized BC for was likely the exact thing they did when they canned Welch a few years earlier.
I remember Keno being the most ingenious hire ever while he and his staff were going to dominate New England recruiting for the next few decades. When Cooley reaches the point where he shows the fan base what the realistic of performance for that school is, he'll be blasted and chastised by a fan base who believes anything less than elite stature is a failure. When Cooley's replacement is hired, he will be anointed as superior to any other coach in the country and their ridiculous talk will continue.
I'm doing better. Thanks.
