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Help me out here.  Is the fact that Dawkins didn't recruit Tacko Fall a knock on Dawkins -- e.g., sure he did a whole lot better than Haase this season, but that's because he had a player that Haase wouldn't have been able to recruit and, hey, he wasn't even the guy who brought him in?  Or, conversely, is it evidence of why, in fact, Dawkins is better than Haase -- as in, look what Dawkins was able to do this season even though he wasn't playing with "his guys"?  After all, not yet having "his guys" seems to be the most common excuse for Haase on this Board.

Broadly speaking, there are three factors (under his control) that go into his success:
1) recruiting ability
2) player development
3) gameday coaching

So, if we are going to assess Dawkins' success, he should get credit for #2, especially since Fall was a "late bloomer" who didn't start playing basketball until he was in his teens.  I don't think there is enough info to determine #1, at least at UCF (you can reasonably say he didn't do well in #1 at Stanford).  If after Tacko Fall leaves UCF, Dawkins is able to continue his success, then that speaks well to Dawkins' coaching ability.  But if he doesn't; that his success was completely due to the fact that the guy before him recruited a player who "broke college basketball", then maybe Dawkins was more lucky than good.

BC

[BostonCard]

Help me out here.  Is the fact that Dawkins didn't recruit Tacko Fall a knock on Dawkins -- e.g., sure he did a whole lot better than Haase this season, but that's because he had a player that Haase wouldn't have been able to recruit and, hey, he wasn't even the guy who brought him in?  Or, conversely, is it evidence of why, in fact, Dawkins is better than Haase -- as in, look what Dawkins was able to do this season even though he wasn't playing with "his guys"?  After all, not yet having "his guys" seems to be the most common excuse for Haase on this Board.

Broadly speaking, there are three factors (under his control) that go into his success:
1) recruiting ability
2) player development
3) gameday coaching

So, if we are going to assess Dawkins' success, he should get credit for #2, especially since Fall was a "late bloomer" who didn't start playing basketball until he was in his teens.  I don't think there is enough info to determine #1, at least at UCF (you can reasonably say he didn't do well in #1 at Stanford).  If after Tacko Fall leaves UCF, Dawkins is able to continue his success, then that speaks well to Dawkins' coaching ability.  But if he doesn't; that his success was completely due to the fact that the guy before him recruited a player who "broke college basketball", then maybe Dawkins was more lucky than good.

BC