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blahblah wrote:The salt is real with Ducks fans. For those thinking McCoy was some Oregon-Lock and UNLV came out of the woodwork 3-weeks before his decision is just ridiculous. I'll educate you on some actual reasons why McCoy is headed to Las Vegas. From his point of view, it was the logical choice.

1. Shaun Manning is McCoy's Guardian in San Diego. Manning has run an AAU program named Ground Up for years.

2a. Marvin Menzies(UNLV Head Coach) has known Shaun Manning for almost 20 years.
2b. Remember that Menzies coached under Steve Fisher at SDSU in San Diego.(1999-2003) Henry Bibby and at USC 2003-04, Lon Kruger at UNLV 2004-05....but his biggest influence was coaching under Rick Pitino at Louisville. Pitino praised Menzies as one of the best recruiters in the nation. 2007 New Mexico State hired him and he subsequently recruited and signed a handful of Top-100 players during his time there taking NMSU to the NCAAs 5 times in 9 seasons. He brought NMSU their first 3 WAC Basketball Championships and produced two AP All-Americans... Menzies style of offense resembles a Pitino's 2-1-2 Post focused offense. In addition, Menzies rebounding schemes are borrowed from the Cardinals.
Menzies likes BIGs like Pitino likes BIGs and runs the offense through the 4 & 5.
(See how this would be attractive to McCoy so far?)

3. Anthony Smith - JC xfer Feather River College... signed a LOI to play for UNLV in January. Smith played for Shaun Manning's AAU team 'Ground Up'. Smith describes Manning as basiclly his 'uncle'...Smith has a tragic past where he has lost 4 close family members to murders... Manning and his AAU program saved this kid. He helped him get his GED and into a Juniou College. McCoy and Smith are like brothers.....

4. Assistant Coach Andre LaFleur
Lafleur is from Southern California and has known Shaun Manning for 15+ years as well. He was the NCAA Assist leader in 1989and drafted by Houston. He played in the the NBA for a year and then overseas for 11 years. He then was an assistant under Calhoun at UConn -he recruited and coached All-Americans Hasheem Thabeet and Kemba Walker and then went to work for Ed Cooley at Providence where he recruited and coached Kris Dunn. LaFleur was Smith's and McCoy's lead recruiter.

When McCoy said it felt right and it felt like family, well there is no wonder. Manning took McCoy on his official as well as 4 unofficial visits to Unlv. With Menzies-Manning-LaFluer's familiarity with each other and the fact that Anthony Smith had signed, it probably did feel 'right'.... Add in Menzies 2-1-2 Post Offense he favors the UNLV commitment seemed logical to McCoy.

karlhungis wrote:

blahblah wrote:The salt is real with Ducks fans. For those thinking McCoy was some Oregon-Lock and UNLV came out of the woodwork 3-weeks before his decision is just ridiculous. I'll educate you on some actual reasons why McCoy is headed to Las Vegas. From his point of view, it was the logical choice.

1. Shaun Manning is McCoy's Guardian in San Diego. Manning has run an AAU program named Ground Up for years.

2a. Marvin Menzies(UNLV Head Coach) has known Shaun Manning for almost 20 years.
2b. Remember that Menzies coached under Steve Fisher at SDSU in San Diego.(1999-2003) Henry Bibby and at USC 2003-04, Lon Kruger at UNLV 2004-05....but his biggest influence was coaching under Rick Pitino at Louisville. Pitino praised Menzies as one of the best recruiters in the nation. 2007 New Mexico State hired him and he subsequently recruited and signed a handful of Top-100 players during his time there taking NMSU to the NCAAs 5 times in 9 seasons. He brought NMSU their first 3 WAC Basketball Championships and produced two AP All-Americans... Menzies style of offense resembles a Pitino's 2-1-2 Post focused offense. In addition, Menzies rebounding schemes are borrowed from the Cardinals.
Menzies likes BIGs like Pitino likes BIGs and runs the offense through the 4 & 5.
(See how this would be attractive to McCoy so far?)

3. Anthony Smith - JC xfer Feather River College... signed a LOI to play for UNLV in January. Smith played for Shaun Manning's AAU team 'Ground Up'. Smith describes Manning as basiclly his 'uncle'...Smith has a tragic past where he has lost 4 close family members to murders... Manning and his AAU program saved this kid. He helped him get his GED and into a Juniou College. McCoy and Smith are like brothers.....

4. Assistant Coach Andre LaFleur
Lafleur is from Southern California and has known Shaun Manning for 15+ years as well. He was the NCAA Assist leader in 1989and drafted by Houston. He played in the the NBA for a year and then overseas for 11 years. He then was an assistant under Calhoun at UConn -he recruited and coached All-Americans Hasheem Thabeet and Kemba Walker and then went to work for Ed Cooley at Providence where he recruited and coached Kris Dunn. LaFleur was Smith's and McCoy's lead recruiter.

When McCoy said it felt right and it felt like family, well there is no wonder. Manning took McCoy on his official as well as 4 unofficial visits to Unlv. With Menzies-Manning-LaFluer's familiarity with each other and the fact that Anthony Smith had signed, it probably did feel 'right'.... Add in Menzies 2-1-2 Post Offense he favors the UNLV commitment seemed logical to McCoy.

I don't know why this isn't common knowledge to everyone.