How about the run
@step_basketball
head coach, Pat Massaroni is on !!!
Placing his players onto
Kentucky
UNC
Duke
Syracuse
St. John’s
in consecutive years.
All the while remaining to be one of the humblest, high class and hardworking men in the business
College Placement Coach All Stars
Thank you for all your submitted testimonials, college coach input was particularly appreciated.
We will run this survey again at the end of the grass roots season, hoping to find more of these stars to give their due to.
DM me with your testimonials re your grassroots coach that is busting his butt to get you into a college uniform.
After seeing your responses, I will publish a First Team, Second Team and Honorable Mention for
"College Placement Coaches All Stars"
Criteria ⬇️
In case you’re wondering why so many high academic colleges are stacked into the D3 Top 10
Well they have smart kids, duh…
Ie, most of their rosters are loaded with D1 offerees … who chose the value of the degree (40 yr impact) over the level of play (4 yr impact)
Apparently, I just went Global…
I’ve been helping this Nigerian basketball academy place their kids into America schools over the years, so they just dedicated one of their showcase tournaments in my honor
How frigg’n cool is that!!!
Coach S' Poll
NEPSAC Class AA
In a testiment to being a great conference...
where the previously ranked
#14
and
#12
can rise up an put a double digit loss on the
#2
and
#4
respectively.
Unfortunately, that also makes this ranking process pretty messy
The more updated s/o in New England these days:
"The colleges are coming!...The colleges are coming!"
NEPSAC Showcase - Milton, MA June 22-23
NEPSAC Showcase - Hamden, CT June 29-30
For college coach pre-reg, see
Playing hs basketball with a shot clock or without= an entirely different sport. With shot clock, its about player skill and talent development...without, its about tedious coaching gamesmanship. Its 1 reason the college-bound kids are leaving the CIAC for the prep schools
#ctbb
If you’re a AAU program director, and
@DTXBasketball
does a clinic on
“How to do Everything Right to Get Your Players into a College Uniform”
Be sure to enroll
Congrats!
NCAA called me today (irony that they are working when the rest of us are watching NCAAs)
They are working to clear the path so NEPSAC hosts a Exposure event this June 21-23
Moving parts still, but prep your prospects to Save-the-Date in the meantime
I have a new favorite place on the planet,
@avonoldfarms
Yesterday, I’m working to set up
Next thing I know I have a full crew helping me, including the Head of School’s wife
What a great culture!
And my forecasted pick for showcase MVP is
@HappyHourHEALEY
Thank you!!!
NEPSAC Coaches Assoc President, Sean Kelly is winning Fathers Day so far.
His wife gave healthy birth to their 2 guard this AM
Addendum to our Showcase Player Preview
I got to mention what a tremendous group of humans that is the staff
@avonoldfarms
The welcoming, solve every issue, culture in that family of people is special
Eg, the Head Masters wife jumps in to help us sort jerseys
During their summer break no less…
THANK YOU!
Pretty epic watching
@JJohnson_49
,
with an assist from his mentor and HOF program-builder, John Carroll,
turn a non-contending Class D NEPSAC program into a AAA program virtually “overnight”
…and being so very late in the recruiting year cycle
#Impressive
AAU Coach PSA,
If you’re coaching a college prospect,
know his gpa
Compile video on him
Reach out (or have him) to at least 10 good-fit schools with his game schedule
If you can’t,
please release the player to a program that is working the process
#ItsAboutTheKid
For all those coaches who say things like “my guy is a high IQ point guard… he really sees the game…”
@KolbeMBB
has a guy in
@StaplesSantos
who is measurably better…
A few years back, I took seven, D3 commits to play in a Live Event in Vegas vs multiple big rep and shoe company teams… we not only went unbeaten, we blew teams out
7 guys playing team defense and team offense chess cost a whole lot of D1 prospects their HM spots that week
We do not play basketball like a AAU team. I'm sorry, we actually rotate on defense, close out, box out, run sets, have roles, all the things college coaches would want to evaluate.
Very impressive and constructive response from the NCAA re openingthe door for Prep School players in the June D1 Evaluations
If you are a prep coach interested in hosting these events, DM me
If the aspiring college players from Greater Connecticut had any idea how fortunate they are to have Jason Perrier relentlessly working behind the scenes on their behalf,
I think they’d add another 10 hrs/wk of shooting reps just to feel worthy of his efforts
2022
@CT_Elite_BBall
Senior Showcase is 4/15 from 5:30pm-8pm at Newtown Youth Academy. Seniors in ‘22 & Academic ‘23 players who were invited need to register before 4/13. We have a well rounded list of players for this event so college coaches feel free to connect.
#Elitefamily
If you want to watch a NY High School Hall of Fame resume-build in progress, focus in on the huge success that
@step_basketball
coach Pat Massaroni has built
Hard work, smarts and humble willingness to share the credit apparently still works in this world
Congrats!!!
Pretty cool subplot to North Carolina-Duke: Former
@step_basketball
teammates AJ Griffin of Duke and RJ Davis of North Carolina will face each other for a third time this year.
If you’re a college hoops junkie, and you are within commuting distance of Worcester,MA
You will want to get to these games.
A semi-private preview showing of a parade of the next 4 years’
@NCAA
impact players.
The audience will include you and at least a dozen NBA scouts
If you have a gpa > 3.0, get to this camp!!!
If you’re not aware, this is where the VAST majority of Academic D3s (as in life-altering diplomas) start their shopping in earnest for rising seniors.
It’s not “just another camp”
Interested in playing the game in college? July 5 - 7, 2021 All Academic Camp @ Mansfield Sportsplex delivers what it advertises. Nothing fancy about it, play in front of hundreds of college coaches against solid competition. GPA, SAT's, ACT's matter more than your jumpshot.
Huge kudos to
@PrepBridgeport
coaches Greg Thomas and Ponce James for building a successful program from absolute scratch… and providing opportunities to young men who weren’t getting them elsewhere
Very, very cool !
NEPSAC Class A (large school) rankings
There’s a reason why these alums fare so well as college ball freshmen...
They are playing with and against college level talent every night in NEPSAC play...
I encounter coaches who believe their job is to win games
But if you're coaching college prospects, a big value-added is getting the word (film and grades) out in front of the right-fit college coaches.
If you can't do that, then get your players into a program that will.
At 6’2”, I get confused when someone refers to me as being tall…
Because I spend too much of my life in basketball gyms…
When I took this photo of
@SouthKentHoops
7’1 Deng Mathiang, my nose lined up with the “P” in NEPSAC on his jersey 🥴
The ole “Nice Guys Finish Last” adage is taking a beating
True to his
@UVAMensHoops
roots, Coach Sene pulled in a bunch of high talent, high character guys and pivoted
@DarrowSchool
from a Class D also-ran into a
@nepsacaa
tournament team 💪🏀✅
I’m back in the AAU game... sort of...
Will be coaching a team of college-bounds for the Academic Basketball Club this spring. ABC is more like a college-placement service than an AAU program.
#tremendousplacementrecord
Always have very coachable kids/tied into their big GPAs
On behalf of >250 prospects and >100 NCAA coaches, thank you
@sdohertyhoops
and
@HHBasketball1
for doing all unglamorous details from 7am to 9pm to make this thing hum
Looks like it’s gonna trigger >$10mm in scholarship offers and D3 fin aid
That’s on you!
Nature abhors a vacuum…
As we watched the college prospect info flow take a major hit with the demise of traditional local print media coverage
It’s so powerful to see social media generation scouts such as
@0wenCarlson
@DylanThayer0
@AasimSullivan
@_BrianReichert
step up
The
@millbrkmustangs
guards are going to absolutely hound your ball handlers on the perimeter… because there’s so much wingspan length and mobility guarding the paint ….from Traore and Fall
It’s not an enjoyable or stress free experience for the opponent
Big round of applause for
@azousene89
Takes over a noncompetitive, non college-prep program
@DarrowSchool
Survives the pandemic’s attempt to derail all momentum
Now has his team make the cut for one of the most competitive Field of 8 tournaments in the country 💪
Speaking of programs on the rise…
@billy_thom
has improved his
@millbrkmustangs
program every single year this past decade that he has been there
Doing it the right way, with really high class kids
Now they’re knocking off the regional powerhouses…
#RightMakesMight
FINAL
@millbrkmustangs
79
@PeddieHoops
72
‘23 Kyle Marshall (📷) put his athleticism on display, slashing to the rim regularly. ‘23 Lucius Gibson was an anchor inside as ‘23 Liam Kennelly (Tufts) ran the show.
‘24 Noah Payne + ‘23 Raja Coleman were bright spots for Peddie
NEPSAC players and college coaches, block out your last two weekends of June, 2020
We will be back with our hundreds of prospects auditioning from hundreds of college coaches events
Led his team to the Prep School National Final Four, but still unsigned ???
I’m so confused...
Have we not seen enough from the uber-talented Little Man PGs to see how well it translates at the college level???
Congrats to
#NMH
captain Darius Ervin ‘20 for earning 2nd team
#NEPSAC
AAA. Darius averaged 18.1 pts, 4.7 assts, 3.8 rebs and hit 124 3s while shooting 51% from 3 & 90% FTs. A 1,000 point scorer, Darius tied the school record for wins in a career with 121
#BelieveYourEyes
#GoNMH
I had until wait until I got home and carbo-load before attempting this, but I counted the total number of NCAA coaches who signed in for the two NEPSAC Showcases.
The total: 282
Note to our region’s Federal Reserve stats staff, please see above re the spike in June’s GDP 😉
I nominate
@CoachChills
as the next President of the Litchfield County Board of Tourism
Incredible !
Apparently the NCAA has moved its annual coaches’ convention to South Kent , CT 😉
Today’s fun fact:
has had
> half of million user hits in the past 10 days
We don’t want to break the internet, but we’re feeling pretty bullish about how this event is gonna go
Maybe the most stunning and disappointing news that I have ever received on the prep school basketball front.
Coach Carroll has created amazing life-changing opportunities for so many in his run at NMH, that he is Hall of Fame- worthy on that count alone.
Super-pleased with the quality and quantity of college coach attendance at this weekend’s Milton, MA Showcase...but based on the buzz that I’m getting from them is next weekend at Hamden will be nuts
I’m looking for a food truck that I can rent and get rich from😉
Back to teaching this great game to the best coaching-absorption age, 12 year olds
BTW, my family is trying to get me into a 12 step program to cure my teaching-hoop addiction 🙂
Per my math,
Approximately 45% of the NCAA player pool graduates this upcoming year
Which reverse engineers the 2025 high school class (and next year’s Jucos) into being biggest incoming class of players ever
Hope college coach realize that they need to re-pivot their scouting
Coaches keep wondering where all the players are….
The math doesn’t math guys.
You won’t take HS kids or as many JUCO as before.
When all you take is portal players the pool of talent consumes itself.
Nobody to back fill.
2 years of portal mania has left the cupboards bare
Troy McKoy Jr.,
@MMAPGBasketball
looks good on his trip back to his New England home turf
Best player on the court today amongst this galaxy of D1-bound stars
Strong, athletic, skilled and tough minded
To my college coach connections,
Step away from the portal drug for a minute, and see ⬇️
Harper is national
#1
ranked,
Fland is signed by Kentucky
but you got no offer for Ritvo???
Ps.
@step_basketball
alums are excelling at HMs
It brings me great pleasure to have to scroll back through to find this Tweet… all day long
As college coaches reach out to me asking how to sign up for these two events…
Let’s gooooooo!!!
College Coaching staffs,
We will be hosting the two most prolific June Scholastic Lives
Babson Park, MA June 16-18
Avon, CT June 23-25
Over 500 college prospects, playing on 3 side by side courts
Hope to see you there
We did a quick survey today of the
@NEPSAC
coaches as to which colleges they knews would be attending our Showcase next weekend ( )
Here were the first 100 names that came back
Portal over-load craziness …
How does a 3.8 gpa, 4 to 1 assist ratio starting floor general for
@BrewsterHoops
Not yet been embraced by a recruiting college?
That’s 4 to 1 vs the toughest college prep competition on the globe
🚨 UNCOMMITTED Brewster Academy 6'3" point guard JB Frankel '23 (3.8 GPA, 34 ACT) 🚨
4:1 ASSIST (124) to TURNOVER (30) ratio on season!
Season Highlights ⬇
Coach Roman of
@DTXBasketball
may be greatest gift that a Connecticut-based college prospect has ever received
His behind-the-scenes leg work on behalf of his kids is just unparalleled
Give him a follow, you will get a glimpse at the gold standard
I work hard to help my kids because my kids are hard workers! My time is well spent because they take the initiative to make sure they're doing everything they can to help themselves!
I’ve mentioned it before, but if you’re a high academic CT basketball player with aspirations to play college ball
Take a very serious look at playing for
@DTXBasketball
They have
@CoachNoelroman
!!!
And no one works that niche process harder for his players.
Love watching
@step_basketball
program build by Coach Pat Massaroni
Almost single-handedly brought High Major recruiting back to CHSAA ball
Then this year, a couple other programs we’re getting all the hype…
So he has his squad go out & slay one of them in the season opener
Jabi Alberto 6’6 ‘23
@PharosAcademyBB
wing defends like Pipen and passes like Kidd.
In dictionary under “positionless basketball”.
D1 length, effort and athleticism. His level and impact at the next level will be tied directly to his investment in 3 ball shooting reps.
Greyson Trubia 6’8 F ‘24
@Suffield_Hoops
The big man showed strong inside presence
And also showed the ability to shoot from outside
and run the floor.
Double-doubled in all 3 of his games
Check out this 1st round upset of the
#1
seed
And
@CushingBBall
as
maybe the most mis-seeded 16 seed in the history of the sport
Look out!
@CoachJCorms
has them rolling!!!
Coaches here is my teams schedule for the NEPSAC showcase this weekend at Avon Old Farms school in CT!
Friday 6/28
Saturday 6/29
4pm CT 1 vs Vermont Academy
7pm CT 1 vs Bridgeton Academy
Saturday 6/26
8am CT2 vs Cushing Academy
@ToneAnderson5
@coachwest617
@DarrowHoops
Ok, now we’ve gotten the official blessing from above...
Sister Jean’s Loyola - Chicago will be attending the NEPSAC Showcases
Milton, MA June 22-23
Hamden, CT June 29-30
The game intensity felt more like March than June with
@NMHBoysHoops
v
@MacduffieHoops
…which might have something to do with the millions of $ in scholarshipping power crowded around the court.
One’s eye can’t help but being drawn to the NBA length of Bol.
OG Advice for Prospects
headed to showcases:
Avg game, you will:
Touch the ball 10% of the time
Play defense 50%
On offense w/o ball 40%
Ie, a college scout is forming his opinion of you as a recruit
5X more on D 4X more w/o ball
Play accordingly!
This year's D1 Live Period rule changes are bringing
@NEPSAC
players and
@NCAA
coaches together like never before...
Milton,MA Showcase June 22-23
Hamden, CT Showcase June 29-30
Ben Csernak 6’7 forward ‘24
@aof_basketball
a European big man with bounce, who can push his own break and stretch the floor. The London native has imposing size, matched with a multi-tool skill set.
A scholarship level player.
Congrats to my good friend Tony Bergeron
@tony_bergeron
on being named Assistant Coach at U Mass. Has been incredible to all of our West Coast Elite players. Has helped a lot of our kids. Great Coach and person. Will do big things at U Mass.
I think if you a parent who’s paying attention, you’d hope that you could send your son to be part of a Fran Dunphy type program
Where it about developing and taking care of your people, first and foremost.
I haven’t quite figured out
is it the high talent/high academic/high character focused
@MiddlesexMagic
that’s a pipeline to the NEPSAC programs, or
is the high talent/high academic/high character focused
@NEPSAC
that’s a pipeline to the Middlesex Magic program?
Oh my!
@CoachChills
is trucking talent into South Kent, CT this fall like he wants to open his own version of the G League
Gotta catch as many of their 2022-23 games as I can
Elmarko Jackson: Welcome to the New England‼️
After drilling a couple 3’s & dropping a few dimes,
@ElmarkoJ
took flight in
@SouthKentHoops
win over Brimmer at the 2022 NEPSAC College Showcase.
Jackson, Papa Kante and Nate Guerengomba give
@CoachChills
one hell of a foundation…
Zoumana Traore 6’7 forward
@MillbrookMBB
Added a few inches lately, which will also elevate the level of college interest
Double-double machine, competes for those boards
great mobility and energy
Improving three point threat will open the floor for his blow-by prowess
In my rather extended coaching journey, I keep running into this very high correlation between high gpa kids and
their coach-ability (duh!) and their ability to do their shooting rep home work => great shooters
@DTXBasketball
is trying to corner the market on those kids