If you are one of the two or three people that actually read this blog, let me apologize for the recent dearth of new posts. After my last post regarding coaches needing to set aside more time for their personal lives, I guess my recent hiatus from blogging was "appropos."
Anyway, in a previous post I half-seriously compared Coach Walberg's system to a guerrilla warfare strategy similar to what the Massachusetts Minutemen employed during the Revolutionary War (scroll down a bit to read it here). Ironically enough, Coach Walberg is now a "Minuteman" himself, as he has taken a job as the lead assistant for new UMASS coach coach Derek Kellogg.
http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/college/basketball/view/Kellogg_names_four_assistants_at_UMass/srvc=colbb&position=5
I wasn't particularly surprised by this news, as I had noticed that Kellogg and Walberg seemed to have a very good rapport when I watched them work together last fall at the Mid-South coaches clinic in Memphis. I expect the Minutemen to be good next season as Kellogg inherits a strong group of athletic, penetrating guards and wings (including Ricky Harris from Calvert Hall) from former UMASS coach Travis Ford. I am hopeful that UMASS will at least be on TV more frequently than Pepperdine was, and it is nice that they are on East Coast time. I can't wait to see how much of the true Walberg philosophy Kellogg will actually adopt, as Calipari's version of AASAA was fairly watered-down imho. Regardless, look for UMASS to be among the leaders in points scored per game next year, and look for me to be sporting a UMASS t-shirt.
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