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rthomas
04-07-2014, 07:45 PM
good pick by the new head coach.

CameronBornAndBred
04-07-2014, 07:48 PM
good pick by the new head coach.
Thanks for the update, and I agree. CWell's one of the ones I mentioned as one I would like to see on the Duke bench in a suit. (Once again.)

gumbomoop
04-07-2014, 08:31 PM
St. Louis guy, so presumably some recruiting cred there and in Midwest?

fuse
04-07-2014, 09:12 PM
My favorite Duke player of all time! Go C-well!

79-77
04-07-2014, 10:50 PM
My favorite Duke player of all time! Go C-well!

One of my favorites as well. Tough, clutch, selfless, multitalented and passionate.

Billy Dat
04-08-2014, 08:15 AM
My favorite Duke player of all time! Go C-well!

Mine, too! I am excited that he is back on a college bench in a full assistant's spot.

moonpie23
04-08-2014, 08:31 AM
how long will it be until we see them on Duke's schedule?

:rolleyes:

Black Mambo
04-08-2014, 08:41 AM
how long will it be until we see them on Duke's schedule?

:rolleyes:

Probably in the round of 32 of next year's tournament. #SelectionCommitteeStoryLine

TKG
04-08-2014, 09:05 AM
Probably in the round of 32 of next year's tournament. #SelectionCommitteeStoryLine

Of curse, that assumes we make it to the round of 32...... ( gotta be able to laugh)......

The Gordog
04-08-2014, 10:13 AM
Very interesting. IIRC, their playing days overlapped (Wojo graduating in 1998, C-well in 2000) and so Wojo was an assistant in C-well's last 2 years. So great to see them sticking together.

freshmanjs
04-08-2014, 10:18 AM
Very interesting. IIRC, their playing days overlapped (Wojo graduating in 1998, C-well in 2000) and so Wojo was an assistant in C-well's last 2 years. So great to see them sticking together.

wojo was not an assistant on the 1998-99 team

mgtr
04-08-2014, 10:19 AM
Of curse, that assumes we make it to the round of 32...... ( gotta be able to laugh)......

Very appropriate typo. Even better if it was on purpose!

tbyers11
04-08-2014, 02:15 PM
It appears that Wojo has filled the other 2 official assistant coaching slots at Marquette besides Carrawell. According to this USA Today article (http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2014/04/07/chris-carrawell-joins-marquette-coaching-staff/7446581/) he has retained Jerry Wainwright from the current Marquette staff. He has also hired Mark Phelps (http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/08/4945108/assistant-coach-mark-phelps-leaving.html) from Missouri where he was an assistant under Frank Haith last year.

Wainwright has head coaching experience at UNC-W, Richmond and Depaul and was an assistant under Dave Odom at Wake. Phelps was head coach at Drake for five years from 2008-2013 and was a longtime assistant to Herb Sendek at NC St and Arizona St before that.

I think it is a good idea for a first-time head coach to have staff members with head-coaching experience. I don't know much about Phelps but I thought Wainwright did well at UNC-W and Richmond. Interesting that he has chosen to remain at Marquette.

superdave
04-08-2014, 04:07 PM
It appears that Wojo has filled the other 2 official assistant coaching slots at Marquette besides Carrawell. According to this USA Today article (http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2014/04/07/chris-carrawell-joins-marquette-coaching-staff/7446581/) he has retained Jerry Wainwright from the current Marquette staff. He has also hired Mark Phelps (http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/08/4945108/assistant-coach-mark-phelps-leaving.html) from Missouri where he was an assistant under Frank Haith last year.

Wainwright has head coaching experience at UNC-W, Richmond and Depaul and was an assistant under Dave Odom at Wake. Phelps was head coach at Drake for five years from 2008-2013 and was a longtime assistant to Herb Sendek at NC St and Arizona St before that.

I think it is a good idea for a first-time head coach to have staff members with head-coaching experience. I don't know much about Phelps but I thought Wainwright did well at UNC-W and Richmond. Interesting that he has chosen to remain at Marquette.

Wainwright went 136-103 at UNCW including two NCAA tournaments. He went 50-42 at Richmond, including another NCAA berth. He only went 59-80 at DePaul and was fired mid-season in 2010. Career record - 245-225.

When he got fired at DePaul (http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/blog/_/name/katz_andy/id/9106837/marquette-golden-eagles-wainwright-buzzing-again-college-basketball), he had a broken leg coming from getting run over during a game. Then he found out he had prostate cancer....

That's rough! Glad to see he's bounced back and is putting down some roots at Marquette.

JamminJoe
04-08-2014, 04:17 PM
Great news for Carawell and Wojo. CC is one of my all time favorites - willing to do anything on the court to win, from playing center to point.

Edouble
04-08-2014, 04:58 PM
Great news for Carawell and Wojo. CC is one of my all time favorites - willing to do anything on the court to win, from playing center to point.

I don't recall Chris ever playing point guard.

CameronBornAndBred
04-08-2014, 05:02 PM
I don't recall Chris ever playing point guard.
Check out this entry from Jim Sumner's book "Tales from the Duke Blue Devils Hardwood".
http://books.google.com/books?id=PmlkVxHLR-gC&pg=PA170&lpg=PA170&dq=chris+carrawell+point+guard+duke&source=bl&ots=Izf7_p8RQt&sig=sM40zQ13hcX72aerIPlvI7NcEhY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Z2NEU_afHei80AH2tYDgDQ&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=chris%20carrawell%20point%20guard%20duke&f=false

brevity
04-08-2014, 07:10 PM
It appears that Wojo has filled the other 2 official assistant coaching slots at Marquette besides Carrawell.

Note to mods: this is the proper spelling of his last name. The thread title currently has it wrong ("Carawell").

Also, link from GoMarquette (http://www.gomarquette.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/040714aab.html).

throatybeard
04-08-2014, 09:55 PM
It appears that Wojo has filled the other 2 official assistant coaching slots at Marquette besides Carrawell. According to this USA Today article (http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2014/04/07/chris-carrawell-joins-marquette-coaching-staff/7446581/) he has retained Jerry Wainwright from the current Marquette staff. He has also hired Mark Phelps (http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/08/4945108/assistant-coach-mark-phelps-leaving.html) from Missouri where he was an assistant under Frank Haith last year.

I like that move for Phelps. At Mizzou, Frank Haith is proceeding to mess up what he inherited from Mike Anderson, who fixed the mess left by our own Quin Snyder.