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After his hire was announced early last week, Rutgers women’s basketball hosted the official introductory press conference for new head coach Gary Redus II today. The event gave Redus his first chance to address the Rutgers community.
Takeaways
One of the major takeaways from Redus’ press conference was the emphasis on keeping local talents at home. Redus has been all over the country recruiting for LSU and has earned himself a reputation as a very good recruiter along with that. In his press conference, he mentions how he believes that Rutgers is in one of the best recruitment spots for women’s basketball and that he no longer has to take a long flight to reach a recruit. According to Redus, now he can drive to a lot of the recruits he needs to see in person and hopefully convince them to stay home.
Another major takeaway from his press conference came after NJ.com’s Steve Politi asked what kind of style of play he wanted to run. His response: “I want to play fast, I want to get the ball moving, I really want to space the floor and not so much run set after set after set. I really want to teach ball movement and player movement.” He mentioned the system run by Indiana Fever head coach Stephanie White, whom Redus worked with during his time at Vanderbilt, and how he wanted to create a similar system. It appears that Rutgers women’s basketball will at least be adopting a more modern style of play under Redus.
One final takeaway from the event that was announced after the press conference ended is that Redus will be getting his own general manager to help him identify and evaluate players, among other things. According to Rutgers AD Keli Zinn, Rob Sullivan, who is currently the general manager for both the men’s and the women’s programs, will move over to just the men’s side of things and will focus solely on that. It sounds like Redus will have a lot of say in who his GM will be, as he described his perfect GM as someone who has a background in understanding the players the team needs.
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