What's impressive about Terry is that he has already beat out: Texas A&M, San Diego State, UNLV, New Mexico, Houston, Fresno State, and others in just his first 3 UTEP commitments. All of those schools had offers to at least one of our first 3 commitments. He is now battling it out with Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, South Carolina and Butler for some other recruits. Putting this together so quickly shows that Terry knows what he doing in recruiting and college basketball success is probably more than 50% due to recruiting than it is coaching.
What Terry is already doing is also a big step up and at a different level compared to what we have been used to here lately under Floyd. For instance Terry's early signee is now being recuited by Tech and OSU. By comparison, Floyd's early signee Jacob Eyman is currently being recruited by Cal State Northridge and Eastern Washington. I have also not seen any high level of recruiting interest in Martinez or Ochieng either since we let them out of their scholarships. The fact that Terry previously signed Isaac and now the major programs are after him is also a good sign about Terry's ability to evaluate talent and secure that talent before they draw too much attention.
