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DeVaughn Purcell Eastern Oklahoma 2014

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.
 
Eastern Oklahoma's DeVaughn Purcell just received a scholarship offer from Florida International University. Purcell is originally from Orlando, Florida.
 
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
 
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.
 
Redbirds said:
.... there is a reason why none of them currently have a job in the bball world.
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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...
 
Redbirds said:
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.
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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?
 
Pretty impressive. I wish those highlight vids would show more of his game. From his stats, I am sure he must be able to do a few more things other than dunk the ball. I believe every shot he took on the video was an undefended dunk.
 
Yeah these videos are always misleading and really good at getting your hopes up. Kaza Keane looked like Pistol Pete in his videos.
 
That highlight video is from last year...and with his high school hairdo he looks a lot like Donte Thomas.....
and most of it is from pickup games or in an open gym with no defenders.....
curious if any video of him exists from within the past year...

Andy Enfield (formerly of FGCU) now the USC head coach offered Purcell a year ago having known him from Florida....
they have since reportedly withdrawn their offer and gone a different direction and the discussion of this topic on the USC board is interesting...
USC wouldn't take a lot of jucos because it takes time for the kids to play in Enfield's system and get to know it pretty well and juco kids don't come with a lot of time available - however - there was a general sense among some of those posting (not my assessment - just what I read) that the reason his entire highlight tape is nothing but dunking is that there's a lack of highlights of him dribbling, driving, dishing, penetrating or shooting from the outside against defenses.
 
tornado said:
Andy Enfield (formerly of FGCU) now the USC head coach offered Purcell a year ago having known him from Florida....
they have since reportedly withdrawn their offer ...
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now it has become a little more apparent why a lot of schools backed off.....you just have to search under the right name in the databases.
 
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