The die is cast, the decision is made and Mike Montgomery, for better or worse, is our head coach. From this point on, it's a lot more constructive to focus on the positives.
Montgomery has already done a great job recruiting the current roster. I doubt you'll see a single player transfer as a result of Montgomery's reputation for winning. The players can already imagine a full and boisterous Haas Pavilion as Montgomery mania sweeps the Bay Area.
Despite the choice of Montgomery, Ryan Anderson is headed to the NBA if he can be assured of being a first round choice. Montgomery's comments about wanting Ryan to move in with he and his wife were surely flattering to Ryan, but the Andersons are well aware of Montgomery's bias towards players staying all four years (He did not support Childress or Jacobsen's early departures) and are simply focused on understanding where Ryan will likely fall in the draft.
I think we're going to get an immediate upswing in recruiting. I feel confident that both DJ Seeley (a top 50 national prospect) and Garrett Sim (likely the Oregon State Player of the Year) will honor their commitments to Cal. Top 2009 targets include Branden Lane, a sweet shooting 6'9" prospect our of Sacramento, who likely will be thrilled with Montgomery given Mike's track record with big men and sweet shooting perimieter players.
The big questions at this point:
- What type of assistants in addition to his son will he hire? Will that group include an "ace" recruiter?
- Will Cal run a similar system to the one Stanford ran or have Mike's theories evolved since his stint in the NBA? If Montgomery really wants to leverage the recruiting flexibility of Cal, will he go more uptempo and run the more popular varieties of a motion offense rather than the very disciplined set of fixed plays he used at Stanford?
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