"Recruiting experience wont be much of a factor in the decisionBrey believes it can be overrated. Brey was a high school coach at the time Dukes Mike Krzyzewski gave him his first job in college basketball. Success on the recruiting trail, Brey said, comes down to personality, and he said his candidates fit that mold."
There you have it in his own words. Yet more proof, as if any more were needed, of why Brey has run a mediocre program for the great bulk of 17 years. His candidates, by the way, are reportedly all former players. It would never occur to him to hire an outstanding assistant from another program who actually proved he could be a successful D-1 Ass't BB coach. But then, after seeing how all of Brey's former assistants have failed in their head coaching jobs, maybe a hot shot assistant wouldn't come.