More on Dominick Brumfield

 Without getting it straight from the proverbial horse's mouth (and even then who really knows), it's impossible to tell why a certain recruit selects a certain school.

In Dominick Brumfield's particular case, he selected Hawaii.

Why?

All that can be done is guess and here goes:

* Heck, you can't find a more beautiful place.

* Gib Arnold and Brumfield knew each other from their respective stays in southern California as a high schooler and a USC assistant coach.

* Not having to fly into LA and then also take another 3-hour-or-so flight to get home probably was a factor.

* Brumfield's coach, Mark Poth of Big Bend Community College, coached with Gib Arnold's father and earned his master's degree from UH (go here and scroll down).

* Opportunity for major playing time is certainly available for the earning.

* Brumfield is a hula enthusiast.

No, we're kidding about the last one.

Maybe.

What we do know is we talked with Coach Poth yesterday and he shared some information on his player.

"Dominick has a real good upside and and great footspeed," Poth said. "He was a pleasure to coach -- he's  a great kid,"

Poth added, "He led our team in three-point shooting and is more of a perimeter player than an inside one."

According to Poth, Brumfield will earn his AA degree this summer and has three years of eligibility remaining, having redshirted at his previous school (Missouri State).


Doing this post got us to thinking, is there some sort of vortex between Hawaii and the Pacific Northwest (or at least some of the community college coaches up there)?

We recall Riley Luettgerodt‎ from Chemeketa Community College (Salem, OR) and his deciding on UH. His coach,
David Abderhalden, previously had 'big' Chris Boaz -- out of Portland -- come to the islands.

Cliff Wegner of Clackamas Community College had 'big' Brian Freeman who seemingly was headed to Hawaii until a molasses-like coaching search took on "Waiting For Godot" dimensions and Freeman finally ended up at Long Beach State.

The Friday edition of around-the-WAC

Here is Nick Jezierny's feature on the new Bronco basketball assistant coaches.

Linder can afford a pay cut since he is coming to Boise from the uber-expensive Bay Area housing market but part of his quote about recruiting mystifies us to a degree. USF has two players from France and one from Czech Republic on the roster as well as three community college transfers.

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We agree with Teddy Feinberg's conclusions on Jahmar Young and the NBA draft here. Become a defensive force (the size, quickness and long arms are there to do it) and show some dribble-drive proclivity to set up teammates and the pro contract will bring more zeroes.

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Shawn Harrison puts a wrap on USU's season here and the highlights are his selections for various Aggie honors.

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Tony Jones has the very latest on the recruitment of Stephen Rogers here and we'll venture a gut level guess: the 'long arm' prevails again and Rogers chooses BYU. We see Utah State as a close second with too much turmoil and iffiness surrounding Utah for Jim Boylen to win out. Feel free to shower PTW with praise or scorn once the choice is made.

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Dayton Morinaga has more on Walter Roese, who will be aiding Gib Arnold, here. A number of the rosters of various community colleges feature Brazilians and most are of the center and power forward variety. Idaho had two players from Brazil on its 2009-2010 roster in Luciano de Souza and Luiz Toledo.

Brian McInnis tells us that Gib Arnold's wallet will grow larger if he can gets a greater number of cheeks in the seats.

Ferd Lewis features the same subject matter.