I have a feeling BC's basketball team is going to look considerably whiter in the next few years.
why is that? because we fired a black coach and hired a white one?
Because the guy seems to have a thing for guys with strong fundamentals and outside jumpshots. That kind of player tends to be white.
Plus, I have a feeling the ex-coach of Cornell will have a much easier time recruiting prominent white players than black ones, especially to a school like BC.
So what are you basing this on. It doesnt seem to be based on fact considering the two white players committed to BC this season are no longer with the team and the one black recruit is.
Based entirely on a subjective guess based on the reasons I stated. It would be difficult to deny, however, that Donahue will have less recruiting pull in the urban African-American community than in the suburban white one.
Why is that difficult to deny?
Have you talked to him? Do you know his contacts in the major urban areas? Have you been there when he has talked to non-Caucasian prospects and seen something we don't know about?
You are basing this solely on the color of many of the players he was able to land at one of the hardest learning institutions in the country to get into. You have NO evidence whatsoever that he will have even the slightest problem recruiting non-Caucasians. NONE!!
All I'm saying is I have a hard time seeing a guy from Cornell with no other big coaching credentials having much pull in that community, especially when he's coaching at a school like BC.
BC already has a tough time getting top recruits, I don't see that improving any with Donahue. It's going to take a few years for him to build up a reputation, especially amongst the African American community (because of where he comes from).
I'm not saying it matters, necessarily, though it might. I wouldn't mind if BC could become like Duke with a ton of top white players making up their team...but it seems like Duke already has the monopoly on that.
But I trust Donahue to get the most of his players, whoever they might be - whether it's a bunch of lightly recruited kids from white suburbia or lightly recruited kids of other ethnicities from the inner city. He showed at Cornell that he's capable of doing that.