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I know this was mentioned a couple weeks ago but now it's official, and his name has been added to the
official page at Wabash Valley College - congrats to Dodie!!
Congrats Dodie. Hope this is just the start of a great coaching career. Never been a classier Brave.
I agree. DD is intelligent and well spoken, and he has a great personality. Though he's probably learned a lot from his dad and from his prior coaches, I sure he has much to learn. But I've always thought he would make a great coach.
"After playing professional basketball for one season in China, Dodie Dunson,
at age 26, decided it was time to get into coaching. He wanted his first job
to be at the junior college level.
???A lot of kids get overlooked,??? said Dunson, himself a juco player at
Vincennes after a freshman season at Iowa State. ???I see there are a lot of
guys who don??™t get the right breaks. It??™s an opportunity to get yourself to
the next level. It??™s a really big help that a lot of kids don??™t look at.???
Dunson found the juco job he was looking for at Wabash Valley College,
where he will assist new coach Mike Carpenter.
???(Carpenter) called me and said there was an opportunity here,??? Dunson
said. ???I knew the city supports the team and it??™s a great community.??? Dunson
was already very familiar with WVC. His brother, Brandon, played there as did
cousin Dmitri Riggs.
Dunson has been a recruiting coordinator and coach with his father at Team
Illinois AAU program, thus he has a handle on, or at least information on,
virtually every player in the state. ???Since I??™m fresh out, I know a lot of the
guys coming up the ranks, which should really help in bringing in recruits.???
Dodie Dunson, who was just hired as an assistant coach at Wabash Valley CC a year ago, has now been hired at the D1 level.
He was just hired as the Director of Basketball Operations at Western Illinois University, and he will work under another former BU player Billy Wright.
I have heard many people say that they thought Dodie will make a great head coach some day. This is another step in that direction.
Congratulations Dodie!
From the sounds of it and from reports we've been reading - Dodie is an outstanding guy, a tireless worker, an outstanding recruiter - has connections since he & his dad have been doing this stuff for 20 years, so this was obviously well deserved, and I expect Dodie will move up the chain of commend.
Thanks for getting this story up on Dodie way ahead of the curve, DC, he's one of my favorite past BU players
--- how many people remember this???
Dodie first verballed to Illinois State out of high school - and signed a LOI with ISU in fall of 2004.
He was then let out of his Letter of Intent in Oct. 2005 and went to prep school at Brewster.
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