Marvin Menzies has a plan

Coach Marvin Menzies has a plan and is utilizing it to what seems like an excellent benefit:

NMSU recruits getting head start
Jason Groves
Las Cruces Sun-News
2/12/2008

LAS CRUCES —Spending time in high major programs has made an impact on New Mexico State University men's basketball coach Marvin Menzies.

Menzies was hired as a first-time Division I coach in large part due to a successful career recruiting, which he has proven in his short time in Las Cruces.

Menzies, like those that he has worked under, likes to get the most out of his talent.

"I like the idea of bringing in recruits and them not playing for a year so they can understand what college life is like," Menzies said. "Utilizing the Doña Ana Community College, we have been able to bring in some kids who weren't initial qualifiers out of high school."

With current redshirts Troy Gillenwater, Hamidu Rahman and Robert Lumpkins already at the branch campus, Menzies added two more guards in the last month. Terrance Joyner (Genesis One in Missisippi) and Faisal Aden (God's Academy in Dallas) are the latest two additions.

Joyner and Aden came to Las Cruces for the spring semester, where they have had an opportunity to improve academically after leaving prep schools, which have come under more scrutiny from the NCAA...

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