Basketball recruiting can be hectic, downright exhausting even. Those are the good days. Now throw in the pandemic.
Contact periods, visits, even the AAU season were thrown out of whack.
Central Missouri’s Chris Richardson was one of the few in good shape, considering.
The Mules’ staff already concluded their 2020 class in May. One less thing to worry about.
Then Will Ryan resigned at Wheeling University to take a Division I job at Green Bay.
Richardson applied for the Cardinals’ opening and was selected from an extensive and deep coaching pool.
That was the good news. A head coaching position as a solid program in one of the more exciting conferences in Division II.
Bad news? The recruiting class, while begun, isn’t finished. Oh, and the team’s best returning player and one of the more dynamic players in the Mountain East Conference? Yeah, he entered the training portal.
Have at it.
Richardson managed to piece together a solid recruiting class despite a lack of lead time. That class will be detailed in a Friday story on LedeNews.com.
But for now, let’s talk the process and its challenges.
This had to be one of the more interesting and challenge recruiting periods of your career?
It’s funny. A lot of times in Division II, you are basically done recruiting going into the summer, but you know that in July and, every now and then, in August, there may be a guy or two out there that you end up trying to get.
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