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Tech Hires Dayton's Brian Gregory

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According to Jeff Goodman, Dayton's Brian Gregory is "likely" to accept Georgia Tech's offer, and now he has accepted it.

By the way, while we knew that Dayton had had a couple of transfers, we didn't realize the extent of potential issues there.

It seems clear that this season, and post-season, were a bit of a train wreck, largely due to the circus surrounding transferred PG Juwan Staten and his father Billy.  Both Staten and Spearman complained that they were being told to pass too much and felt restricted.

“It just wasn’t the right fit," Spearman told the Dayton Daily News earlier this month.  "BG is a great coach. I got along with the coaching staff and players. But I want to have the ball in my hands. I want to set up other players. I’m 6-3, but I know what I can do on the court.

“Basically, I couldn’t show my ability. It’s all about player development. You have to work on your game, but the coaches have to put you in situations to improve. I could work on my ‘handle’ three hours a day, but I’d get in the game and they’d be yelling at me, ‘Pass the ball.’

Oh, the horror.

Staten's dad was not as diplomatic.

  • “Juwan trusted him. I trusted him. But once he showed me this year ... he played on his words. He’d say, ‘We’re going to get the ball in your hands and do this and do that.’ He didn’t say, ‘We’re going to get the ball in your hands, but you’re going to pass it every time.’ ”
  • “Nobody wanted it to end like this. But when you recruit better kids, you’ve got to adjust your philosophy to fit the kids you’ve got there. But it was, ‘Don’t do this, don’t do that.’ You start saying to yourself, ‘What am I?’
  • “You look at programs that have talent like Juwan, and they let them play. A lot of those teams are in the NCAA tournament.”
  • “In three [high school] years, we had no problem. BG ... well, I’m not going into that. It is what it is. I think they know a lot, but I don’t think they know it all. A lot of things are just common sense.”

Fair enough.  It's probably also common sense that a kid who attends four schools in four years is having some issues, whatever the reason and whoever is at fault.  You can sort of see why Gregory might not mind a change.

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