Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Band Aid to Gunshot Wound: Fuller Hired to Stop Louisville Losing Recruits to Calipari

Luckily Louisville players knowing alot about guns.



Losing recruits left and right, but mainly East to Lexington, Rick Pitino announced a few coaching staff changes yesterday, including the hiring of Tim Fuller. Fuller was an NBA marketing field rep for Nike over the last two years. He was also the director of basketball operations with Wake Forest for two seasons, leaving in 2006 to become a Fairfield assistant, where he stayed one year.

Fuller is specifically in charge of "Rebranding" Louisville in the eyes of recruits. This rebranding by an assistant coach sounds like a mere band-aid, to a bleeding festering wound, caused by the Wildcats - but hey, you have to have some lime-light right?  Why not let it be the guy who was an assistant at Fairfield. Fuller says his focus will be to get Louisville to stop losing recruits to Kentucky.

Louisville has also hired former player David "Mr Glass" Padgett. Padgett will not be part of the physical training team, with which he grew accustomed to during his two knee surgeries and various other injuries, but will be assistant strength coach.

During the conference, Pitino also said senior-to-be guard Preston Knowles is in his doghouse. Without getting into details, Pitino said that it doesn't have anything to do with Knowles' altercation with his girlfriend's stepfather in May.


"He's not in my good graces right now. He has to do certain things to get back on this basketball team and prove he's worthy enough to be a Cardinal. ... Right now he's sort of in limbo."
Pitino also talked about signee Justin Coleman's academically eligibility issues and how he may not be able to play this fall.

Both guard issues making Roburt Sallie crucial for Pitino.

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