Steve Nesbitt weighs in:
 http://blogs.post-gazette.com/sports/2013-06-20-18-53-28/dukes-dispatches/42556-hello-nakye-sanders

I'm obviously very pleased with the committment.  We had one spot to give and I think we used it wisely.  

I liked this quote from Sander's coach in Nesbitt's article:  "He is definitely still growing,” Woodman said. “He could just get huge and nasty. … By the time he shows up at Duquesne he could be 6-10, 240.”

Also here is a blurb from Adam Zagoria
http://zagsblog.com/articles/nakye-sanders-to-duquesne/

 

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Sounds likea GREAT get -  as for all those rebounds am remided of a quote by Moses Malone -  once said "I'd like to thank all those guys ..  for missing all those shots.. and making all those rebounds possible"

Welcome to the Bluff Nakye!!

this is a great 'get.' feels like we finally got the guy that we really went for after all of those misses. I really like what coach is doing. something special is cooking on the bluff!

Nakye is a former football player who has been describe as a rebounding machine. Looking at the video below (Nakye is #20 in blue) I can see why.  A few years ago the Dukes missed out on a tough football guy turned basketball player.  Pitt came in late and stole Chevy Troutman who led to Pitt's basketball resurgency.  Hopefully it is our turn to steal one of these guys.



 

duq81 wrote:

We will be adding 3 very nice pieces to the roster next year. What I like, is that Ferry is not stacking talent in one or two classes. Some coaches like to set things up to have a senior and junior dominated team in their fourth or fifth year. These guys will be 3 and 4 year starters. The team has a big year, the coach gets a better job, and the program crashes the following year. Ferry is trying to set us up for a sustained run. If we can string together 2-3 very good years, we could become a force in this league over a sustained period of time, as winning will allow the coaches to recruit at a higher level. I don't want to assume too much, but this is why I preferred Ferry over Dambrot. Ferry is looking to climb the ladder. There are no guarantees of course, but when you land the right rising coach, he can really lift a program to great heights. An older guy like Dambrot was only going to lift us so high. Ron might well have done this, but for the shooting.

Ironduke81 wrote:

Well said if not for the shooting Ron would have made a big splash. Dambrot got two raises by threatening to take GA's multiple offers. If you are going to fire your coach with 2 years on contract you have his replacement locked in. Coach Ferry benefited & has an opportunity at Duquesne. I know this is a Duquesne board but WVU is loaded thanks in part to Ron .

Actually, GA did have his coach, Dino Gaudio. He just didn't anticipate that we were not going to stand for it. I think he thought that Dino would excite us. He thought wrong. Dambrot did us a favor by not coming here. More and more, I'm thinking that we got the right guy, and that GA got lucky with his first choice. I didn't want a guy who had failed as a head coach. I wanted a rising star, and we may have just that.
 

ElDuque wrote:

Dino excites me. Like food poisoning after a bad meal.

LOL!
 

Another article on Sanders from the NY Post
http://nypost.com/2014/10/11/staten-island-a-hotbed-for-basetball-talent/

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