DeVaughn Purcell Eastern Oklahoma 2014

[mvcfan]

http://www.jucorecruiting.com/devaughn-purcell-eastern-oklahoma-continues-see-interest-grow/

ISU is on this kid and Bradley seems to be throwing it's name in the hat.

[Da Coach]

DeVaughn Purcell is another big wing guard, suggesting the Macari Brooks verbal is far from a sure thing.
According to the up-to-date stats, he is averaging 21.5 ppg, 4.7 rpg, and shooting 59.0% overall, and 44.1% from three.

[LongTimeFan]

MVCFAN, thanks for the info.

[tornado]

I would love to have at least 3 or 4 kids shooting 44% - from the arc....

[Da Coach]

Eastern Oklahoma's DeVaughn Purcell just received a scholarship offer from Florida International University. Purcell is originally from Orlando, Florida.

[Da Coach]

Auburn just offered DeVaughn Purcell.

[Da Coach]

Alabama now has become involved recruiting DeVaughn Purcell

[Redbirds]

Suppose to be visiting ISU this weekend.

[tornado]

JucoJunction lists DeVaughn Purcell from Eastern Oklahoma State Community College's offers as:
Auburn, Mississippi, TCU, and Western Kentucky...
the Auburn offer of course was before Tony Barbee was fired...

and yet other sources list him as just now getting offers from FIU, Central Florida, Tulane, Kennesaw State, George Mason, UTSA, Middle Tennessee, etc....
but as Tom Crean gets more desperate with more and more players leaving and scholarships opening - he's now going hard after Purcell.

http://indiana.scout.com/2/1388084.html

[Da Coach]

DeVaughn Purcell committed to Dan Muller and Illinois State after visiting this past weekend.

[wily coyote]

DeVaughn Purcell committed to Dan Muller and Illinois State after visiting this past weekend.

The rich keep getting richer. My question is how in the he-- is ISU getting these kids?

[Redbirds]

Good assistants. I am sorry but Geno and Les have done a terrible job of surrounding themselves with talented assistants. I know some on here love the coaches that Jim had but there is a reason why none of them currently have a job in the bball world.

[tornado]

.... there is a reason why none of them currently have a job in the bball world.

Hmmm...you are very wrong -- MORE guys from the Jim Les & Geno Ford tree are in coaching over the past decade than you have
ISU guys in all the history of ISU basketball - can't believe you'd make such a silly statement....
I will catch you up a little...since FAR more BU guys and past assistants have gone on to coaching success than ISU guys

-Lennox Forrester is a DI head coach
-Willie Scott is currently coaching a professional team
-Alvin Brooks III is a top assistant at Kansas State and also a hot commodity in the coaching world
-Jim Les is currently a DI head coach
-Howard Moore is a DI head coach
-Kyle Vogt is currently a DI assistant
-Jim Platt is currently a DI assistant
-Steve Merfeld is a top assistant at a Top-10 ranked team
-Al B has been both a head coach & a DI assistant every year since he left BU
-Jeremy Crouch is still coaching, paying his dues, and will likely be the head coach at Pekin for a long time to come
-Geno's assistant at KSU, Rob Senderoff is a DI head coach
-Geno's assistant Patrick Beilein is a DII head coach and doing quite well
and even a couple of JL's UCD assistants have already moved on to take bigger and better DI assistant coaching spots.
And if you go back even a couple years before Mo left - you have Molinari still coaching, Duane Broussard a TOP assistant under Alford at UCLA,
you have Ritchie McKay a top assistant under Bennett at Virginia, Rob Judson - has been a head coach & top assistant many places - currently at Indiana,
George Barber is still a college head coach, Tony Wysinger is still coaching, Mo McHone went on to a long pro career, and Phil Leib has been coaching the past 20 years as well..

but I am not willing to award the recruiter of the year trophy yet to Muller - he seems to have brought in a lot of inconsistent and troubled players with some arrests and discipline issues that would probably get the players & BU coach's names splashed across the front pages...

[Da Coach]

Good assistants. I am sorry but Geno and Les have done a terrible job of surrounding themselves with talented assistants. I know some on here love the coaches that Jim had but there is a reason why none of them currently have a job in the bball world.

Wow, you could not be more wrong. Just who are you referring to?
The only assistants I can think of who are not still coaching are Chuck Buescher, who was a great coach and was in great demand as an assistant, but wanted to retire, and Eric Buescher, who was also offered a full time assistant coaching position at UC Davis, but turned it down because he was recently married, his wife was pregnant, and they had just built a home locally and did not want to uproot the family and move. I am not aware of any of Jim's assistants who are out of coaching because they were not good at what they were doing. Can you?

[tornado]

Yup - nearly all the JL guys are still coaching - many are top DI assistants, some head coaches-
in fact even the past two DBO's are having success at what they're doing...

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