RE: Andy Assalay

[Ted Cassis]

  Add this to the 5 years with the cats and it seems he's up to ten years. And Pitino and Crean seem to find him effective to help at their summer camps so i think he's in the clear as far as respect from basketball people go. And I didnt say he did anything other than coach at a high school? Did I say he did anything else? Im just saying, before we jump to conclusions, at least give the man credit where its due.

"Before arriving at UC, Assaley served as varsity assistant and JV head coach to Howard Brownstein (winningest active coach in Cincinnati: 404 wins) at Cincinnati Country Day from 1995-2001. In both 1999 and 2001, CCD earned spots in the district finals of the state tournament while his JV Team completed a 20-0 campaign in 1999. In his six seasons at CCD, Assaley's teams won a total of four Miami Valley Conference championships.   Assaley is also a veteran of the summer camp scene and has spent considerable time teaching and coaching at the prestigious Five-Star Basketball Camp, as well as Cage Scope Blue Chip, Wake Forest University, Marquette University and the University of Louisville. Andy has also had the responsibility of running the extensive summer basketball programs at UC." (UCbearcats.com)

Dan Marshall <address@hidden> wrote:
      that i can agree with

    
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  From: dfairchild [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 2:16 PM
To: address@hidden; address@hidden
Subject: RE: [UC Basketball] Andy Assalay


  
  Regardless of Andy's skills and experience, the reality is that AK did not have the ability to select the best candidate for the job.  1) what legitimate candidate would want the job given the uncertainty of the position (will the coaching staff be in place next year?)  2) the timing was impossible to do a legitimate search - too little time to do a full search and I imagine most of the good associates have been in place for this season since mid summer. (remember when Huggins hired Kennedy?  It went on for several months and went through several candidates).
   
  The promotion of Andy was one of convience - to make anything more out of it (a poor or good decision on Kennedy's part) is a waste of time.
   
  Given the circumstances, it illustrates that Kennedy is in a compromised position.  As I have heard AK say - it is, what it is.
   
   
    -----Original Message-----
From: Dan Marshall [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 10:42 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: RE: [UC Basketball] Andy Assalay


  ted... does he really have 10 years coaching experience?
   
  and I thought he only coached at a high school?
   
  these are REAL questions... I didn't know he had 10 years coaching experience

    
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  From: Ted Cassis [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 6:35 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: RE: [UC Basketball] Andy Assalay


  
  I have to say something about this Midol induced rant we just heard, not that it ultimately effects me, but his career stats according to UC's official website as an high school coach seemed rather impressive. Its a good thing the New Jersey Nets didnt hire Lawrence Frank because he never played basketball either....oh wait, they did and he took them to the finals. We all have to start somewhere. You take shots at the small school he coached at. He coached against small schools too. Its not as if he coached at St. X and coached against small schools. He played against equal opponents and went undefeated. So thats a stupid argument quite frankly. Why not take a risk on an unknown? It seemed to work last time uc did it with some guy named Huggins. But regardless, I am glad you stalk Andy Assaley outside his home and watch people pull in his driveway, I hope that works out well for you. I figure if he was playing with guys like andre tate he would've picked something up along the way.
 As for me, I will trust that the last 10 years he spent coaching at one level or another is enough to teach him and that AK is smart enough to recognize he's capable of the job that he offered Assaley. You just seem really bitter about an assistant coach and thats actually kind of a sad statement. In conclusion, your an idiot.
   
  Lou D'Ambrosia <address@hidden> wrote:
  Don...

If it was up to me, I would have made you the honorary coach for this season 
on the basis that every single one of your posts have made me laugh! :)

Lou


> From: address@hidden
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> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [UC Basketball] Andy Assalay
> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:00:12 EST
They could have gave the job to Joe Blow
> from Kokomo because they know he will be gone also.


  

    
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