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Posted by: Jerry Trickie
April 24, 2009 at 11:39 a.m.

Do you Tweet? The coaches do, now.


It’s been a pretty quiet week with coaches in and out, which makes it nice for me to be able to get a little work done ahead of time on some other projects.

One thing I’ve started doing is helping the coaching staff get set up on Twitter so they can get connected with you guys, the fans. I just met with Doc about an hour ago and got his page set up, so if you want to follow the staff, their Twitter pages are:

@Coach_Sadler
@Coach_Mathews
@Coach_Anwar
@Coach_Roese
@Chris_Croft_NU
@Jim_Shaw_NU
@NUhoopsblog

Right now as they get started, I’m guessing they'll only Tweet a couple times a month in the offseason, but most of them seem genuinely interested in doing it on a more regular basis during the season. Chris Croft and Jim Shaw are already into it pretty good, Tweeting at least a few times a week. And I’ll be Tweeting on the blog page as well.

Right now I’m also working on writing some stuff for next year’s media guide. I’ll try to give more of an update on some of the incoming guys next week and a few interesting tidbits as a follow up to last season.

As you can imagine, finding info on some of the international signees we’re starting to get is tough, but I had a little inside help earlier this week. Christopher Niemann stopped by my office on Monday and helped me look up (and translate) some stats and honors on his former teammate Christian Standhardinger, who has really exploded onto the scene. He averaged 22.6 points and 8.2 rebounds per game this season and was the league's November Youngster of the Month for his outstanding play.

By the way, Christopher is getting around fine, doing well in his rehab and said he is planning on staying around this summer to strengthen his knee. He’s anxious to get on the court again and play in the Big 12. For me personally, I’m excited to see him back on the practice court, because he and Brian Diaz were really going at it at the end of the regular season before the injury. They will be fun to watch as they progress next year.

The players are just wrapping up their NCAA-allowed workouts with coaches in attendance, and today is the last one before the start of school in the fall. From here on out, it’s on the players to get better. They’ll still lift with our strength coach, Rusty Ruffcorn, but otherwise, they need to pull each other together. This is a point where a lot of leadership comes into play for next season.

This time of year is also when the rest of the staff over in basketball gets a little time to work on other stuff. Chris Croft, the team’s director of operations, is working on next year’s schedule (good article he sent me here). He and Jim Shaw, video coordinator for the program, are also getting ready for summer camps. Here’s some camp information if you know any youngsters who want a fun time while learning a little bit (think they may even learn a good defensive posture and how to take a charge?).

I’ve dropped a few notes to former players overseas and hope to get them to write a few lines and help me get some stats for a blog in the next couple weeks. If you want to hear about anything else, you can always email me at nuhoopsblog@hotmail.com.

Thanks for checking in and Go Big Red.