A-10 COACH OF THE YEAR? MOONEY OR ODOM ... OR BOTH
For What It’s Worth (and, remember, it is only sports): Take a bow, CHRIS MOONEY and RYAN ODOM . It says here you should be co-Atlantic 10 coaches of the year … Although we still question how Mooney uses his big men, the UR boss has taken a bunch of marginal players (mostly transfers) and turned them into a successful, fun-to-watch unit … that has performed way beyond all reasonable expectations … In his first season at VCU, Odom was left with some talent by former coach MIKE RHOADES … but, with few exceptions, was limited to one-on-one mentality. Add a few transfers, including one playing for his fourth (or was it fifth?) school and another who couldn’t fit in with a team-concept stressed at his previous stop, and there must have been times when Odom wondered why he left Utah State for Franklin Street … At least, he was left with a clean program, unlike Rhoades who, ...