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May 3, 2007

Assistant Coach Watching

Filed under: Assistants,Basketball,Coaches,Dixon — Chas @ 9:00 am

It’s now confirmed that South Carolina assistant coach, Ken Potosnak, has interviewed for the assistant coaching job with Pitt.

Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon received permission last weekend from USC coach Dave Odom to interview Potosnak, who expects Dixon to make a decision in about a week.

Potosnak said he is interested in the job because Pennsylvania is his home state.

And if Greg Dave Odom doesn’t win this year, Odom is likely out of a job and so will Potosnak.

Coach Dixon didn’t have to rush the decision since the late signing period is meaningless with all of Pitt’s 2007 scholarships filled.





I’m intune with USC basketball program, and I’ve never heard Potosnak discussed as a highly notable assistant. Odom’s program is a complete joke at this point, and they’re getting killed in recruiting by Clemson, CofC, and Winthrop (even Costal Carolina is making strides against them!). Hence, you’d have to wonder about his ability to bring in kids to the program. However, over the past few years they’ve had some pretty talented guys, Renaldo Balkman and Tre Kelly (probably the best player you’ve never heard of), but these guys were not developed at all while at USC. Balkman has proven to be a legit NBA player with the Knicks, and the best they could muster with both Balkman and Kelly were 2 NIT championships… I just don’t have much confidence in what Potosnak could possibly be contributing, and I’m not sure what value he’d have for us at Pitt.

Comment by Greg in Columbia 05.03.07 @ 11:33 am

Look it’s spring, can we talk football already, I realize this is your site, but come on the last two weeks have been primarily basketball, I haven’t heard one story on new possible recruits in close to a month…thanks

Comment by Marco 05.03.07 @ 3:44 pm

Marco you might want to work on being a little more polite on your requests while on this site that Chas is gracious enough to provide us with.

Being rude and then throwing in a disingenuous “…thanks” at the end isn’t gonna work.

Then again, what the hell do I know?

Comment by Ryan M 05.03.07 @ 4:31 pm

If you’re looking for us to fully replace Dokish…well he has many more connections than we do and he focused his blog mainly on recruiting while we tend to branch out a bit more.

Comment by Dennis 05.03.07 @ 4:40 pm

Recruiting news sucks and Dokish’s blog was for pussies.

Comment by ChrisA 05.03.07 @ 4:55 pm

Hehehe

Comment by Jeff 05.03.07 @ 5:16 pm

I don’t Greg Odom, is going to be out of a job anytime soon…..Dave Odom maybe.

I agree recruiting news sucks, when Pitt Football starts winning some games, then maybe I’ll be able to get excited about these so called top ranked recruting classes.

Comment by C 05.03.07 @ 6:28 pm

“The most important thing is the kids at St. Benedict’s and my family,” Danny Hurley said. “That’s all I think about. I don’t want to be a college assistant coach, on the road nine months of the year and missing my children grow up.

“The worst feeling I’ve had in a very long time was the year I spent at Rutgers between my son’s first and second birthday and the look on his face when I’d come home from long road trips — the look of not knowing for sure who the hell I was. My dad didn’t put me in that situation and I’m going to be there for my kids the same way.”

Comment by Steve Mergelsberg 05.05.07 @ 10:15 pm

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