LaMonta Stone Honored

Nice honor for LaMonta Stone, who was named one of the top 25 mid major assistants in College basketball. He was the top ranked of only two MAC coaches to be honored in this way. (Collegeinsider.com gave the awards).

He finished #15. I think we probably tend to take him for granted, but he has coached at Ohio State, including at BG and EMU. Perhaps most impressively is that he coached River Rouge in (downriver) Detroit to two state championships and was 126-24 during his stint there.

I'll wager a guess that the number of bad coaches who do that--at any high school--is pretty low.

I would think that Coach Orr would elevate LaMonta to be his top assistant, but he hasn't done it so far, and it would have seemed that you could do that as soon as Coach Jackson left. That may or may not mean anything but given the opening and Coach Stone's ability, I think it would be a great fit.

There were rumors that Coach Stone had some other opportunities, and I would suspect he will eventually find his way to another job. It would seem like the Midwest would be a good fit, given his strong recruiting ties in the Detroit area.

In the meantime, we are lucky to have him here, and I think our team benefits from his ability.

Jermaine Henderson of Miami was the other MAC Coach to make the list.

Steve Merfeld, former BG assistant now at Bradley was #11.