This is pretty random ...
In looking up Mike Deane on Wikipedia, there is a sentence that says, "He also recruited Dwyane Wade at Marquette, but left the program a year before Wade came to Marquette."
I know it's Wikipedia, but is that right? I don't remember Mike Deane getting credit for landing D-Wade.
I'll hang up and listen.
I don't have any firsthand knowledge but recall around that time hearing thru the grapevine that Deane was interested in Wade or rather "a very special talent"; no doubt, given Dean's attitude towards recruiting, somehow or the other most certainly Wade would have been brought to Deane, not the other way around.
Deane was a notoriously, not-wok-so-hard recruiter while being an outstanding floor coach.
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The story goes that Deane was the first one on him but Crean convinced the powers that be to admit him to school.
Quote from: Afroman on March 17, 2019, 05:10:08 AM
This is pretty random ...
In looking up Mike Deane on Wikipedia, there is a sentence that says, "He also recruited Dwyane Wade at Marquette, but left the program a year before Wade came to Marquette."
I know it's Wikipedia, but is that right? I don't remember Mike Deane getting credit for landing D-Wade.
I'll hang up and listen.
Ask Wade, who doesn't mention it at all. Did MU send letters like every school did back in the day....sure. Did an MU assistant on the staff see him early on and say this kid is good, we should track him, etc. Yup. When Wade is asked about the recruitment process, however, Jeter (who I believe was the on on Deane's staff that took notice) isn't mentioned.
Deane did try, with small success (Wardle, Cordell), to recruit the Chicago area, so it wouldn't be a surprise if he made some initial contact with Wade before being fired.
But in no way was DWade a Mike Deane recruit.
Quote from: Pakuni on March 17, 2019, 09:35:38 AM
Deane did try, with small success (Wardle, Cordell), to recruit the Chicago area, so it wouldn't be a surprise if he made some initial contact with Wade before being fired.
But in no way was DWade a Mike Deane recruit.
I think Odartey would have come to MU for Deane. Deane might not have wanted to deal with the headache of Wade's academics, especially after Alton Mason. Crean had the benefit of time to wait a year on Wade, Deane, not so much.
at the time the story was Blankson urged Crean to go after Wade. Not on Crean's radar prior.
Well, this explains why D-Wade used to wear those Wagner shorts!