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Recruiting News

#pcbb Weekly Recruiting Update 10/24/14

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With 2015 point guard Justin Robinson committing to Virginia Tech on October 12th Friar fans have been wondering if Ed Cooley and his staff have any other targets in the class of 2015 or would they just hang on to that scholarship and move on to the 2016 class. The reality is that a coaching staff can never stop recruiting and college rosters can change at seemingly any moment so hanging on to the scholarship might mean they use it on a midyear transfer or a spring commitment. With that said, there doesn’t appear to be any targets in 2015 that Cooley and his staff have zeroed in on after Robinson. Memphis wing LaGerald Vick announced his commitment to Larry Brown’s SMU Mustangs on Wednesday and Vick will also reclassify to 2016. Vick had gotten some late interest from the Friars in August and even scheduled an official visit to Friartown but that visit was ultimately cancelled. Davon Dillard was a name being mentioned in late August but I haven’t heard much of anything about him since he transferred from Bowman Academy (IN) to basketball factory Our Savior New American (NY).

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Ed Cooley on The John Feinstein Show 10/22/2014

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While in New York City on Wednesday for Big East Media Day Ed Cooley popped on the radio with CBS Sports’ John Feinstein:

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Why Providence’s Late Night Madness is Important

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The building was rocking. The student section was standing and cheering loudly. Ed Cooley was raising his arms to keep the volume up. The players were feeding off the crowd’s energy. While this might sound like a Saturday night game in February at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center this was the scene at last Friday’s Late Night Madness inside Mullaney Gymnasium.

The atmosphere was electric and no disrespect to Jalen Rose, who was outstanding, but Ed Cooley was the master of ceremonies. Cooley manages to command the room even when the room is a 20,000 square foot gym. Dressing in all white for his entrance to the Madness event, Cooley got the crowd pumped up and had the recruits smiling and laughing the entire time he was on the microphone. One thing that Cooley stressed to the students in attendance was that they need to carry this enthusiasm and noise to the Dunk. I’m sure there were a lot of students there for the experience of Madness and the post-Madness concert with Big Sean but at least getting them in the door is important.

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The Ed Cooley Radio Show 10/15/14

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The second installment of The Ed Cooley Radio Show was broadcast live from McPhail’s on the campus of Providence College. As usual John Rooke was the host and there was even a special guest appearance by President of the Friar Faithful, James Kirby. Cooley talked about a variety of topics including Rodney Bullock’s knee injury, Ben Bentil’s clearinghouse situation, scheduling strategy and others. You can listen to the show courtesy of FriarTV by clicking this link.

Here is a transcript of most of Cooley’s comments:

Cooley’s opening quote: “We’re excited to open the season against a team that made the NCAA Tournament last year and our players are doing a great job. We’re really young, we’ll get into that later but we’re just incredibly appreciative and very nervous about the upcoming season.”

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Providence’s Cooley Confirms Bullock Lost for the Season

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Ed Cooley confirmed to The Providence Journal’s Kevin McNamara that Rodney Bullock has torn his ACL and will be out for the entire 2014-15 season. While this hurts for a myriad of reasons, not the least of which is that Bullock will now have to sit for a second straight season at Providence, as long as Ben Bentil gets cleared by the NCAA Clearinghouse it will soften the immediate blow as Cooley will still have depth in the frontcourt. The injury occurred during one of the team’s first few  practices of the season on Sunday, October 5th.

Cooley’s comments from McNamara’s article:

“I feel awful for Rodney. It’s very unfortunate,” Cooley said. “He’s had a rough go of it here but he’s committed to working on his academics and rehabbing and coming back with us next year.”

Bullock was slated to be a solid contributor this season and put up impressive numbers during the Friars’ Italy trip, albeit against lesser competition. It’s good to hear that Bullock will stay at Providence and if he gets approved for a medical redshirt he would essentially join the class of 2015 recruiting class which would mean that class now contains 4 members and the 2014 freshman class contains 5.