#RallyforRusty has really taken off around the state. It's an honor to be able to tell this story. Good luck to Mullen and all the area basketball teams who are heading to state. #CoachMoore#MooreStrong
I am excited to begin my coaching career and am looking for opportunities for next season! I am open to schools across the country and multiple levels. I have completed my masters during my playing career so I am looking for a full time position to pour into a program.
Trey and I have learned a lot these last couple years and are looking forward to helping the next up and coming hoopers!!
You can text or call me at 308-546-7473
I coached against Ben McCollum across six seasons. We built our roster and our defensive system with the goal of taking them down. While we beat them three times in a row, they always flexed greater winning four D2 National Championships and beating us a large majority of the time. There is no team we studied more as a staff than McCollumâs teams. Here is what he does better than most coaches in the country:
*Point guard development: Ben McCollum is to college basketball what Andy Reid is to NFL football. Reid is widely considered the best QB coach developing Donovan McNabb, Alex Smith, and Pat Mahomes. If you think Bennett Stirtz is good for Drake, you should have seen McCollumâs point guard Trevor Hudgins (2x National POY) who signed and played with the Houston Rockets. Before Hudgins was National POY Justin Pitts. Simply put, McCollum always has the best point guard in the country. He develops them and they play the entire game. Stirtz leads the country at 39.4 MPG; Hudgins was at 37.7 MPG. McCollumâs methodical and controlled style of play protects them from injury and their team defense protects them from foul trouble. Stirtz was a second team all-conference player in our D2 league last season. He is now one of the best players in the country in NCAA D1 and a serious NBA prospect. No one develops PGâs better than McCollum.
*Team Defense: No one gets players, who shouldnât be able to guard, to be better on D than McCollum. Mitch Mascari should get blown by every possession. Daniel Abreu shouldnât be able to guard 6â10+ big men. Bennett Stirtz should be attacked off the bounce constantly to wear him out and get him in foul trouble. Opposing coaches know these things and try them. But it doesnât work well. McCollumâs best, and most underrated strength, is coaching team defense. His guys are tough, physical, legal, smart, play for each other in the gaps, take pride in winning their individual defensive matchup, and they donât get tired. Plus, he always has one bona fide elite on-ball defender on his roster (see Isaiah Jackson and Diego Benard) to shut down elite guards.
*Shot developer: Many college coaches donât develop or change their playerâs jump shots. Shots typically get worse for months at a time before they get better and most players are stubborn and/or not there long enough before transferring to their next school. McCollum develops shooters. One example is Mitch Mascari. Here is his shooting splits over the past five seasons:
*Fr: 7/27 3PT - .259
*So: 20/60 3PT - .333
*Jr. 56/120 3PT - .466
*Sr. 82/171 3PT - .480
*Gr. 87/214 3PT - .407 (vs. D1 closeouts)
It isnât just Mascari either. A key reason Stirtz went from second team all-conference at the D2 level to the Larry Bird MVP of the Missouri Valley Conference is because of his improved perimeter shot. His last season in D2, Stirtz was 36/110 from 3PT (.327). This season at Drake he is 62/156 3PT (.397). He is perhaps shooting 80% from 3PT on âbig shotsâ too. For perhaps McCollumâs best shot development job, see Ryan Hawkins, who starred for four years at NW Missouri State before transferring and being All-Big East at Creighton his final season.
*Master in-game manipulator: As Benâs former assistant Austin Meyer says, âYouâll play the game the way Ben McCollum wants you to play.â Iâve never seen, or coached against, someone who manipulates pace the way that Ben does. He can play his point guard the entire game as a result. Most players donât want to play this way. Itâs slow, sometimes boring, itâs controlled, there isnât a lot of freedom, and the point guard usage rate is amongst the highest in the country (I.e. the PG gets to create in this system while others donât). However, McCollumâs innate ability to identify selfless, no-ego players during the recruiting process allows him to get the buy-in needed to operate this way and at his pace. âPress them.. just speed them upâ⊠Good luck with that.
When i watch Clayton play he reminds me of so many former Lopers from the state who just got better and better. He has done a great job this season!
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The new-look @UNKMBB team trails Concordia-St Paul 44-38 at the half A balanced Loper attack includes 10 from JaâBryant Hill & 5 from Clayton Moore #LopesUp https://t.co/gRVINLSHR8
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Junior guard Samantha Moore hits the dagger 3 to take the lead late in the 4th quarter in our win vs Emporia State!
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Imagine being in President Trumpâs shoes for a moment on J6 as you get word the Capitol is getting swarmedâŠ
- You were considered a near lock to be a two-term president in February of 2020
- You delivered one of the best economies ever seen for 3 years before China unleashed a lab grown virus on the planet
- You warned states repeatedly of the dangers of mass mail-in voting, but Democrats forced the measures through anyways
- You watched as election officials caved to COVID fear mongering to relax election integrity measures violating election laws and state Constitutions
- You witness 51 âintelligence officialsâ collude with Big Tech to censor a bombshell story about a laptop that directly implicated Joe Biden
- You campaign tirelessly to sold-out arenas crisscrossing the country with historic enthusiasm
- Your opponent is a two-time failed candidate, disqualified for plagiarism, who barely survived the primary, and then barely left his basement during the campaign
- You win 74,222,958Â votes, more than any other presidential candidate has ever won
- You learn that somehow 159,633,396 people voted, the largest turnout in U.S. history, breaking the previous record by 20 million votes â the first time more than 140 million people voted and the highest % turnout in 120 years
- You somehow âloseâ by 42,000 votes in 3 states among a host of irregularities, drop box scandals, and controversies and despite winning practically every bellwether county and state
- You think back and remember they spied on your campaign, invented a fake Russia hoax, impeached you and constantly smeared and lied about you in the media
- You remember that anarchists and race hustlers unleashed months of riots and chaos in a possible domestic color revolution
- You remember that you offered National Guard troops on J6 but the offer was denied by Nancy Pelosi and Muriel Bowser
- You remember that you said just hours before to peacefully and patriotically march
- You remember everything youâd given up in your previous life to be hated, attacked, and vilified by the DC snakes, insiders, and elitists
- Your own VP just fist-bumped Nancy Pelosi inside the Capitol
- You realize the entire DC cabal has conspired and plotted to hand the White House to a puppet they could control
Is it any wonder why Trump might have been a little upset on J6?
He wasnât responsible for what happened despite what the media says. It was four years of lying, cheating, and betrayal by those who wanted to get Trump at all costs.
Nevertheless, he gathered himself and released a video telling people to go homeâan act the illegitimate J6 Committee tried to criminalize.
Then they impeached him again.
Despite all of it, heâs decided to come back to retake the White House and finish what he started, a decision that provoked Bidenâs DOJ to indict him multiple times for 700 years in federal prison.
Who else could endure what Donald Trump has?
Quick reminder kids.
What you shoot on the golf course this week wonât matter in 10 years. Same as if you get beat at state tennis. Same as if you strikeout three times. Same as if you miss your goal time on the XC course.
Smile. Have fun. Let it all hang out.
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4 short years ago, we had:
Peace in Europe
Peace in the Middle East
1% inflation
$1.75 a gallon gasoline
2.5% mortgage rate
A growing economy
Full employment
What the hell happened?
Honeymoon over for Rhule, 100% loss on him. Clock management was killer, totally botched. OC and HC not on same page. Using your 3rd string RB that was in the doghouse for fumbling, fumbled. DBâs playing 10 yards off when they are closing in on FG range. Man, this one stings.