Archive for Monday, April 29, 2013  Opinion: Note to Self: Hire
Mitchell Wiggins    April 29, 2013   I have no idea whether
former NBA guard Mitchell Wiggins has any coaching experience,
but I sure would ask him if he has any interest in trying out
the profession if I were one of the four schools recruiting his
son, Andrew Wiggins.  Does Mitchell Wiggins have a personality
that lends itself to recruiting elite high school basketball
players, which involves communicating with parents, high school
coaches and AAU coaches? Beats me.  Does he have any recruiting
contacts? He has had regular contact with the most coveted high
school basketball recruit since Greg Oden, and that would be
good enough for me to pull the trigger on hiring him.  Package
deals, even though nobody can admit they are package deals, have
a tendency to work. Just look at the last two of Kansas
University’s three NCAA basketball tournament titles.  Ed
Manning, Danny’s late father, joined Larry Brown’s staff at
Kansas, and it worked splendidly