It was going to end badly for whoever followed Haskins, but it would have been even worse if G Ray had been coach. Despite Rabs personal issues, he was able to land coaching jobs afterwards. What did G Ray do? Do ranching stuff? Tells you 2 things, 1, he didn’t have the passion for college basketball and 2, nobody thought of him highly enough to pull him away from the ranch.
The unfortunate thing with Rabs wasn’t that he failed on the court, he messed it all up off the court.
Well not exactly, he lost a top recruit Alex Galindo after he had already signed with UTEP, exactly the same thing that happened to Tim Floyd with Issac Hamilton.
Wrong. Galindo signed with Gillispie... and took his talents to Kansas (then FIU) when UTEP chose Sadler over Rouco.
Galindo was a Gillispie recruit. He de-committed when Sergio Rouco didn’t get chosen over Doc Sadler. Rouco and Galindo went to FIU.
No Sir, Galindo was a Jason Rabadeaux recuirt, he had nothing to do with Billy Gilliespie and I remember that pretty well. But maybe you are right about the non-binding commitment.
You’re dead wrong. Go look up when Galindo played and then when Rab coached here.
You are the one who is dead wrong and should go look up, Alex Galindo was been recruited by Jason Rabadeaux. I even remember Rabadeaux say the words, quote: [ They're are sharks in the water ] when he lost him as a recruit.
Saying Galindo would have been a NBA player under Rab, is an opinion. Saying Galindo was a Rab recruit, is not.
Alex Galindo was a BG recruit
When Gillespie was the coach and we had Fili, Omar, and Jason Williams begining their first year, they had an open practice for the public in Memorial Gym. I was there! Alex Galindo WAS there and was being recruited by Gillespie. I remember vividly Gio St Amant throwing a pass to Galindo at the end of the practice in the corner and Galindo nailed a long three!
All right all right, seems like I had it wrong. I had forgotten that el ruco de Sergio was involve back then.
