DUBulldog wrote:Redbirds4Life wrote:Drake - Who knows what direction they will go....I'd contest that if they could ever get Keno Davis back, which is a big IF, I would think about it. He is the only coach who has had real success in the last decade or so. I know he kind of bailed after one year, but he also might be your ticket to getting back to more competitive basketball...but that's also if Drake wants him and if Keno would come.
I'm not sure I'd want Keno back. In nine seasons since leaving Drake, he's 123-124. Currently in his 5th season at Central Michigan, his team is 6-9 in the MAC. In his one season at Drake, his recruiting was terrible. Not bad, but terrible.
Two of his three fall recruits never came to Drake at the request of the coaching staff that followed. One of them ended up playing D3 ball and the other ran track at one of the Dakota schools. The third was at Drake for two years, and literally never played a minute.
At the end of his 28-5 season, he had one scholarship left.....and he used it to get a commitment from a juco point guard that Drake had asked to walk two years prior. If a former walk-on candidate is the best you can do coming off a top 20 season, then you cannot recruit.
Understand, I guess I don't have much of an argument for that. I think my thought was just because he had one great year there, I figure he could create some buzz and get the train back on the tracks, but from what you and the person above said, it's not as much what Keno did, that got them to the big dance.
