* UC-B stuff, won last 3 all on road, won WAC regular season, good team
* Good to still be playing basketball on 3/21
* Still ways to go with the program
* Reminder of season starting with Division II Shorter win, took going to overtime
* Philosophy of team can beat individuals just playing together
* Treated this as a new startup. Met with local business leaders and asked how you make a new startup business successful (and translated it to basketball):
a) Hiring of staff
b) Scheduling
c) Evaluation (not recruiting, but evaluating current players' strength and weaknesses, and then designing offense/defense schemes to their strengths and working on developing the players in ways that would be successful)
* Staff deserves a lot of credit for all this above
* When he arrived, so many people told Josh that he had to get the students involved again, they were dormant and not going to games. So he started speaking to various student groups, sometimes as few as 3-4 people. Did everything he could to try and build awareness, knowing it wouldn't work overnight, but if he could make people aware, they would then pay attention and hopefully that would spark things.
* Shouldn't have won 17 home games with the team we had, but we did because of the home crowd
* John Gillom went 1/9 (Syracuse) because of all the airball chants and crowd enthusiasm
* Late in recruiting, many kids who signed early regret it now, said 2018 recruiting class is best first chance to truly move the needle on recruiting
* Felt Jose Alvarado was so important to rebuild, because he is a winner, enthusiastic, passionate, and unafraid. We're going to be out-manned against teams for some time yet, and needs kids who don't care and aren't intimidated. Jose is that kind of guy. Said next year this time when they speak again they're going to tell Josh, 'you were right about that kid'.
