Nike/VCU Villa 7 is going on NOW in Beaverton, Oregon

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The top assistant coaches in the nation are congregating near Portland Oregon for the annual Villa 7 Consortium put on by VCU and Nike. Coaches Anthony Grant and current coach Shaka Smart both sprung forth from this consortium of the greatest young basketball minds in the nation. The next VCU coach may just come from this batch of considerably talented assistants. Jerry Colangelo with USA Basketball kicked things off today and a number of highly distinguished coaches and leaders in the basketball world will be speaking tomorrow including Butler's Brad Stevens, Xavier's Chris Mack, Syracuse's Jim Boeheim, and Missouri's Mike Anderson.

This program is one of the many great things about VCU that sets it above its peers in the CAA. If you'll notice from the list of attendees, assistants from George Mason and Northeastern are in attendance at our event. The AD at ODU is also in attendance. Yet another thing of which we can be extremely proud here at VCU. Here are the confirmed attendees at Villa 7, who knows? Perhaps the next coach (whether 2 or 10 years from now) will come from this group!

* Neill Berry, South Carolina
* Jeff Boals, Ohio State
* Bob Cantu, Southern California
* Chris Caputo, George Mason
* Raphael Chillious, Washington
* TJ Cleveland, Missouri
* Aki Collins, Marquette
* Travis DeCuire, Cal
* Andy Enfield, Florida State
* Chris Ferguson, Oklahoma State
* Jorge Fernandez, Miami
* Brian Fish, Creighton
* Jim Fox, Davidson
* Kyle Getter, Virginia Commonwealth
* Gregg Gottlieb, Cal
* Matt Graves, Butler
* Donny Guerinoni, LSU
* Jerod Haase, North Carolina
* Steve Henson, UNLV
* Mike Hopkins, Syracuse
* Jerrance Howard, Illinois
* Kenya Hunter, Georgetown
* Kwanza Johnson, Georgia
* Mike Jones, Virginia Commonwealth
* Stan Jones, Florida State
* Pat Kelsey, Xavier
* Andre LeFleur, Connecticut
* Paul Lusk, Purdue
* John Mahoney, Michigan
* Eric Martin, West Virginia
* Jim McCarthy, Northeastern
* Archie Miller, Arizona
* Dan Muller, Vanderbilt
* Craig Neal, New Mexico
* Scott Pera, Arizona State
* Josh Postorino, DePaul
* Mike Rhoades, Virginia Commonwealth
* Dave Rice, BYU
* King Rice, Vanderbilt
* Kareem Richardson, Drake
* Ron Sanchez, Virginia
* Pat Sellers, Connecticut
* Jim Shaw, Washington
* Pat Skerry, Providence
* Joel Sobotka, Portland
* Russ Springmann, Texas
* Travis Steele, Xavier
* Dwayne Stephens, Michigan State
* Dedrique Taylor, Arizona State
* Vince Taylor, Minnesota
* Rodney Terry, Texas
* Will Wade, Virginia Commonwealth
* Torrey Ward, Mississippi
* Michael White, Mississippi
 
What? No Gators? I guess coach Donovan might consider forbidding his assistants to attend at this point, eh?
 
Jim Boeheim. I like him more and more than say someone like Gary Williams. He seems like he sticks up for the NonPrivelged 6.
 
Don't the assistants have to be there since it is a VCU sponsored/endorsed event? Perhaps they serve more of an administrative/organizational role there as opposed to participatory.
 
The esteem and national recognition that VCU has garnered in recent years as an off-shoot of the Villa 7 is almost unmeasureable. This was the brainchild of VCU athletics and grows every year.

It is my understanding that no other non BCS school gets more looks from the top assistants across the nation than VCU. Much of this has to do with the Villa 7.
 
VCU should be able to get some games from some of the higher quality teams in the list in the article?
 
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