Greg Fahey: New GM

[orangecuse]

Multiple of my friends played for this guy on city rocks and also as someone who had a close connection to a high up Siena administrator when this guy was there, I can confidently say this is a good move. I don’t know him personally but I can tell you someone I trust implicitly does.

He’s a good dude first of all, very personable and a good communicator. By all accounts he was a great dude in the Siena program.

As far as a basketball mind, he is a great assistant to have and a good talent evaluator. Knows his stuff NIL wise, and is very smart with budgeting and making dollars stretch in terms of budgeting.

Obviously Gerry will always have final say in roster moves and resource allocation, but I can tell you this guy is a hard worker and someone who takes pride in finding gems. I would guess he will be brought in to find some under the radar prospects in the coming years. I really like the hire, and am confident in saying the program is going in a great direction.

Well, unfortunately, this is where our hoops program is nowadays. Same as it has generally been in football for the past two plus decades or so...hinging upon primarily finding 'diamonds in the ruff.'

 

[Sherman20]

I wouldn’t bet on it, just because I’m sure there is a million other instances where that doesn’t happen. But we’ve seen it before.

There are a lot of other instances where it does work out. Arguably a majority of the mid-major players in the portal were sub-100 or unranked guys out of high school. Look at even the guys on our roster last year like Kingz, Kyle and George. But Painter has proven to be a great evaluator. I’m hoping Gmac can be similar.

 

[Cusefan0307]

I mean, you might not be wrong about Ryan Moesch. I was thinking about this yesterday. Braden Smith was a 3-star, 198th ranked prospect who had an immediate impact at Purdue and has become an all-conference player and one of the best PGs in college basketball the past few years.

Moesch just was named player of the year in the NEPSAC so nothing would surprise me. That’s with him playing with the RCSI 51st best player in the class on his own team.

 

[FrozenWaves]

Albany City Rocks connection certainly helps...