While most coaches would take a month off after getting bounced from the first round of the NIT tournament next week, Minnesota’s Tubby Smith is not most coaches; he still has a tender or two left for next fall if he cares to use them, and beyond that, Smith is likely already at work formulating his recruiting plan for his Class of 2009.
Certainly, this Gophers team will improve next fall whether Smith adds more kids or not for next season; already, his recruiting class is arguably between first and third in the Big Ten, and a Top 20 class - some say higher - nationally. But Smith isn’t likely to stop looking for ways to improve the Gophers, and one can be assured that he wants to improve on this recruiting mark in 2009 and beyond.
Avoiding kids with black marks against them, like criminal records or backgrounds that include drug rehabilitation, Smith’s Gophers team will hopefully be less likely to make bad decisions that embarrass the team and the school, not to mention Tubby himself.
Tags: drug rehabilitation, men's basketball, Minnesota Gophers, NCAA, recruiting
