April Phillips, considered a rising coach, has been hired at San Jose State. She was most recently an assistant at Cal and Texas.
San Jose State hires new head coach
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Wish the best for her! I REALLY hope that she does her due diligence and hires assistants with California ties, especially in Norcal. I remember they hired a coach a while back and the assistants had not been west of Mississippi. SJSU is a hard enough sell but if a coach finds assistants with local/regional ties, makes for a better program.
Sounds like a really good hire. We'll find out soon her ability to recruit both locally and nationally, as well as how effective she can use the transfer portal. As a Spartan alum, I wish the program the very best moving forward.
After one season at Texas, April Phillips to lead San José State's basketball program
April Phillips spent the past season as an assistant coach at Texas. She has also worked at Arizona, Cal and Loyola Marymount.
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There is no reason she should ever leave the Bay Area to recruit, we have enough talent here to consistently win national championships game in and game out. The BVAL alone has the talent and so do some of the lesser leagues as well. Hopefully she sees the light that the old coach didn't.
Let's make that the state of California as a whole. Recruiting south of King City is a no-brainer too. One wag has observed that you could rent an apartment in downtown Fullerton, recruit only in Orange County and find enough talent to be successful in Division I.
San Jose State is in the Bay Area. They must stay local and recruit BAY AREA TALENT only or move the school if they think there’s not enough talent here to succeed. Plain and simple.
Sorry. Way too much competition for prep talent in NorCal. Spartans are low-woman on the totem pole at this point. They need to recruit wherever they can. Confining them to the Bay Area is a formula for further failure.
You couldn’t be more wrong you just have to know where to look and actually care enough to do so. Which is San Jose’s problem.
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