Jim Ferry, former Duquesne coach, to be Pat Chamber's assistant for MBB

[francofan]

I think this is a good move. Ferry did a good job at Duquesne and should help the young team this year. I look for the Lions to have a winning record in Big 10 play this year and to be on the inside looking out in March when NCAA bids are awarded.

https://www.dkpittsburghsports.com/...mer-duquesne-coach-ferry-join-chambers-staff/

 

[Evan Ceg]

Chambers always spoke highly of Ferry when the two teams played and Ferry at Duquesne, like Chambers at Penn State, coached at a place that's tough to recruit and win. Ferry did a great job turning around LIU-Brooklyn prior to his appointment at Duquesne.

I think it's a good hire. I'm interested to see what effect Ferry has on our offensive schemes. Ferry should also help with recruiting connections in the NYC/Long Island corridor.

 

[Art]

Chambers always spoke highly of Ferry when the two teams played and Ferry at Duquesne, like Chambers at Penn State, coached at a place that's tough to recruit and win. Ferry did a great job turning around LIU-Brooklyn prior to his appointment at Duquesne.

I think it's a good hire. I'm interested to see what effect Ferry has on our offensive schemes. Ferry should also help with recruiting connections in the NYC/Long Island corridor.

Yeah, it only took him nine years to do it. Maybe Chambers hired him as a reminder to Barbour.

 

[psuguy43]

Here is his Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Ferry_(basketball)

Interesting hire - I really like what he did at LIU. Basically took them from bottom of the conference to back-to-back NCAA appearances during his tenure there (along with an additional conference COTY award in 2005 without a NCAA appearance to show for it --- 1 bid conference, only matters if you win the conference tourney).

Duquesne, not so much - but, he inherited absolutely nothing as well and did improve on that a slight bit in his 5 years. An interesting note that he originally had Jamari Walker going there (the PG recruit that we signed about a month ago for the 2017 class), nd the rest of his class that he had are mostly going to major programs after release -- one to TAMU, and a big/center to VCU.

Take it for what it's worth, but I think the fact that Chambers now has an assistant coach with substantive DI HC experience is a bit of a feather in his cap. I'm going to be very interested in seeing if this changes anything when it comes to our schemes on the court.

Welcome, Coach Ferry.