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How Sam Merrill became the player who could carry Utah State deep into March
By Brian Bennett Nov 12, 2019 5
HENDERSON, Nev. — Sam Merrill is sitting on a thickly padded lounger next to the palm tree-lined, sand-bottom pool at Green Valley Ranch Resort Spa & Casino. A DJ spins some electronic dance music. The pool area is almost empty on a pleasantly sunny October afternoon, which suits Merrill just fine. This is definitely not his comfort zone.
Truth be told, if Merrill weren’t playing basketball — at which he stars for Utah State — or doing interviews about basketball as he is here poolside at Mountain West media day, he’d probably be on the couch in his apartment watching his beloved Utah Jazz or the NFL or any sporting event he could find on TV.
“I’m a pretty boring guy,” he says.
This assessment seems fair in most respects. The 23-year-old Merrill doesn’t have many non-sports hobbies outside of hanging out with his wife, Kanyan, and friends. Shoot, he has lived in Utah his entire life and has somehow never been skiing. You won’t find him hiking through one of the state’s national parks either.
When it comes to his deep understanding and competitive fire in basketball — or any type of game, really — well, now that is pretty interesting. Through genetics and the incessant hours he spends watching and studying sports, Merrill has developed into the Aggies’ galaxy brain. There’s little he doesn’t do on the court; last season, he led the team in minutes, scoring, assists, 3-pointers made and free-throw percentage while often guarding the opposing team’s best player. That’s why the 6-foot-5 senior guard is an All-America candidate and the reigning Mountain West player of the year on a team that was the unanimous preseason pick to defend that title. It’s also why Utah State, which won the league’s regular-season and tournament title in wildly unexpected fashion last season, started the year ranked in the top 20.
Those who know him say there’s nothing that remarkable about Merrill’s running or jumping or overall athleticism. He simply masters the intangibles, things that some might consider the boring stuff.
“He’s not sprinting and beating anyone down the court,” point guard Abel Porter says. “But because he knows exactly what everybody else is going to do, he knows what’s coming. He can outthink every single person on the court.”
Or as Aggies coach Craig Smith puts it: “He’s this super respectful, All-American type of guy, the kind you’d definitely let watch your kids. But on the floor, he goes from Clark Kent to Superman. He’s an incredibly steely competitor.”
As members of the LDS church, the Merrills observed Mondays as a family home evening. They used to play board games that night. They had to quit, because inevitably Sam and his three sisters would get into screaming matches.
“One of our daughters is an attorney, so you can imagine her argumentative style,” says John Merrill, Sam’s dad. “None of them are very fun to be around when they lose.”
John can’t really explain why the family gets so heated over silly games, other than to point to both of Sam’s grandfathers. They’re both in their 80s, yet they still bicker over about who was the better high school athlete and who passed down the right genes to Sam. He certainly inherited their traits, for better and for worse. He’s been known to yell “Come on, man!” and storm off during supposedly laid-back games of Pickleball, cards or Kan Jam. Kanyan and his friends have learned not to take offense.
“He gets overly competitive,” says Porter, who has played on the same teams as Merrill since both were 10 years old. “Like weirdly competitive over dumb stuff.”
This is not a new development. Lynn Lloyd coached Merrill from first grade through the end of high school in the Exum Elite/Utah Prospects grassroots program. There are more than 40 kids on Division I teams this season alone who graduated from that program, including BYU star Yoeli Childs. But Lloyd says that Merrill is “the most competitive kid I’ve ever had.” Not always in the happiest way for a coach. Merrill threw more basketballs at walls and into bleachers after mistakes than any player Lloyd has ever seen. If his team would lose a four-on-four scrimmage, Merrill would beg Lloyd to let him run it back even though their practice time had ended. As nice as Merrill was off the court, he was often prickly and unpleasant between the lines.
“He’s just wired differently,” Lloyd says. “Even if you’re just walking down the street with him, he’s got to finish first. There’s nobody quite like Sam.”
It’s also what helped make him a great player, however. Merrill was never the best player on any of Lloyd’s teams until he reached high school. He was never the best ballhandler or shooter or defender. Yet every time the game was on the line, Lloyd made sure Merrill had the ball in his hands. Because he always made the right play.
His Utah State coaches and teammates say the same thing about him now. Almost every trip down the court, Merrill makes the right read, the correct pass, the perfect defensive rotation. It’s eerie, in a way. Smith describes Merrill as having “almost a photographic memory” of scouting reports. He knows not only what his assignments are but also the responsibilities of every other position on the floor for both teams. Smith will ask for Merrill’s opinion on sets and drills the Aggies run in practice. “He’s so smart that we really value his perspective,” Smith says.
Since he was a kid, Merrill has wanted to know the why behind every play, not just the how. When he’s watching the Jazz or a random football game, he’ll text friends with detailed breakdowns of teams’ strategies and plays. “Sometimes I get what he’s talking about, and sometimes I don’t,” says Kanyan, who plays soccer for the Aggies. “He is always watching something. That’s the reason why he’s super smart. It’s almost every aspect of his life.”
Merrill was blessed with outstanding hand-eye coordination, so not all his success comes from between the ears. He was all-state in basketball and football at Bountiful High. His senior year, he decided to pick up baseball again after not having played for five years. He batted leadoff for a team that won its first state title in 26 years. He spent much of the offseason playing golf with Porter, getting down to a 3-handicap by the end of summer.
He is obsessive, borderline maniacal, in his love of sports. Recently, John Merrill heard Sam being interviewed by a reporter, and Sam knew who led all Utah high schoolers in assists in 1997. How could he possibly know that, John thought, since his son was born in 1996?
Lloyd remembers driving his son, Trevor, and Merrill in a van to a tournament when both were young. Trevor was engrossed in a novel during the long trip. The entire time, Merrill pestered him, unable to understand why Trevor would be reading a book. “Hey,” he kept insisting, “can’t we just please talk about sports?”
Utah State’s season ended at the hands of Washington in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, giving Merrill something to push him during the offseason. (Kevin Jairaj/USA Today Sports)
There was never much of a question that Merrill would attend Utah State. His dad was born in Logan, and his mom was an Aggie. His older sister, Molli, was a three-year starter at goalkeeper there from 2008 to ’11 and now is an assistant coach on the women’s soccer team. Sam committed to Utah State when he was a sophomore in high school. Even though Stanford showed interest, Sam didn’t take any official visits. “I told John, knock some sense into him,” Lloyd says. “It’s Stanford! But he was always going to be an Aggie.”
His college career had to wait, however, as he served a two-year Mormon mission to Nicaragua after graduating high school. He barely touched a basketball in those two years. Whenever he could find a court, it would be 95 degrees and oppressively humid. That was tough for someone so passionate about sports, but not as tough as the poverty he saw all around him or the mean responses he’d often get when he tried to talk about his faith. At one point, he and another missionary were robbed of their cell phones by a local, who threw a rock and hit Merrill squarely in the mouth.
“Whatever I go through in basketball,” he says, “it will never be as hard for me as it was down there.”
Merrill came back to Logan in 2016, out of shape and playing for a new head coach. Stew Morrill had retired while Merrill was on his mission, handing the job over to former assistant Tim Duryea. Merrill was developing into a go-to guy, earning third-team All-Mountain West honors as a sophomore. But the team went just 31-34 in Merrill’s first two seasons, leading to Duryea’s firing.
Utah State then hired Smith, and his pairing with Merrill proved, well, bountiful. Here was a coach with a creative and intuitive mind and boundless energy to match that of his best player. The Aggies were picked to finish ninth in last year’s Mountain West preseason poll. Instead, they won 28 games, upsetting Nevada for the conference crown, thanks in large part to Merrill’s breakout season. Smith rode him hard. He upped Merrill’s usage rate from 20.8 percent as a sophomore to 26.5. When the conference title got within reach, Merrill rarely left the floor. In a four-game stretch beginning in late February, he played all 45 minutes of an overtime win at Boise State, followed by full 40-minute performances against San Diego State and Nevada. Then he logged all 45 minutes of another overtime win in the altitude at Colorado State.
“The end of that Colorado State game was the first time he looked fatigued, after 170 straight minutes,” Smith says. “That really speaks to his resolve. Not only was he our playmaker, the battery for our team on the offensive end, but he doesn’t get enough credit for how good a defensive player he is. In today’s day and age, a lot of high offensive usage guys don’t guard the other team’s best player. He wants that. He craves that. He thrives on that.”
Merrill finished second in the Mountain West in scoring (20.9 points per game), but he didn’t care that much about his numbers. There were many times at the end of games where Merrill was double- or even triple-teamed by opponents determined not to let him beat them. Instead of forcing a shot like No. 1 options often do, Merrill would swing the ball to an open teammate. “He’s the most unselfish superstar I’ve ever been around,” Smith says.
Merrill has found a way to skate the line between being hyper-competitive but also a popular teammate. That’s hard to do, but it’s possible mostly because Merrill turns his competitive drive inward and is most demanding of himself, not others. When Childs and Merrill square off in summertime pickup games, Lloyd says, Childs talks a lot of trash to try and rattle Merrill. He hardly says a word in return.
“There’s no (I can't express myself without swearing) with Sam,” Lloyd says. “He doesn’t judge anybody. As long as you’re trying, he’s good with you.”
But he can’t stomach losing. The way last season ended, with a blowout loss to Washington in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, ate at him all summer. He had only 10 points on 2-of-9 shooting in that game. His six turnovers were a season-high. “I’ve probably watched every game I’ve ever played in,” he says. “I’ve never watched that one.”
He also wasn’t happy with his outside shooting last year. He made 37.6 percent of his 3s, which was well above average. But he’d been a 46 percent 3-point shooter his first two seasons and ranked in the top 25 nationally in that category as a sophomore. He’d love to join the 50/40/90 club, and he has reached those percentage benchmarks in different seasons. Last season, he shot 90.9 percent at the free throw line, 11th best in the country, and he connected on 50.4 percent from the field as a sophomore.
Still, as Aggies senior guard Diogo Brito says, “If you’re just talking about his shooting, then you’re not really talking about Sam as a player.” His do-everything ethos game is what makes him special; heck, he even designed the throwback uniforms Utah State will wear this season. His usage load could be a little lighter this time, as the Aggies return four starters, including an emerging star in the middle in Portugese big man Neemias Queta. Merrill is happy to score less if it means winning more in March.
Merrill declined to go through the NBA Draft process in the spring partly because he believed big things were possible this season in Logan. He also figured he could play in front of scouts for every team at Chris Paul’s CP3 Elite Guard Camp, where he held his own against top competition. Merrill will turn 24 in May, ancient by NBA Draft standards. He’s probably not going to blow anyone away in testing drills either. Here’s how Merrill would scout himself: “A very mature person and great teammate who knows who he is as a player. He may not have the highest ceiling in the world, but you know what you’re going to get from him.”
Both Lloyd and Smith believe Merrill will make a great coach someday, and that’s something Merrill has talked about doing since he was a kid. You can see it already. The single-minded intensity, the ability to see the game from all angles, the lack of interest in anything that’s in his way. He’s like an old coach in a young man’s body.
But he’s still got plenty of playing days ahead, including this promising season. Merrill came into it highly motivated and is off to a good start: Entering tonight’s game against Denver, he’s averaging 21 points, 5.5 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game. He doesn’t tell many people this, but he took a screenshot of the final score of that 78-61 loss to Washington. He uses it as the background for his cell phone, a constant reminder to work harder. You might not notice it if you didn’t know it was there. Much like Merrill himself, the most interesting part lurks just under the surface.
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How Sam Merrill became the player who could carry Utah State deep into March
By Brian Bennett Nov 12, 2019 5
HENDERSON, Nev. — Sam Merrill is sitting on a thickly padded lounger next to the palm tree-lined, sand-bottom pool at Green Valley Ranch Resort Spa & Casino. A DJ spins some electronic dance music. The pool area is almost empty on a pleasantly sunny October afternoon, which suits Merrill just fine. This is definitely not his comfort zone.
Truth be told, if Merrill weren’t playing basketball — at which he stars for Utah State — or doing interviews about basketball as he is here poolside at Mountain West media day, he’d probably be on the couch in his apartment watching his beloved Utah Jazz or the NFL or any sporting event he could find on TV.
“I’m a pretty boring guy,” he says.
This assessment seems fair in most respects. The 23-year-old Merrill doesn’t have many non-sports hobbies outside of hanging out with his wife, Kanyan, and friends. Shoot, he has lived in Utah his entire life and has somehow never been skiing. You won’t find him hiking through one of the state’s national parks either.
When it comes to his deep understanding and competitive fire in basketball — or any type of game, really — well, now that is pretty interesting. Through genetics and the incessant hours he spends watching and studying sports, Merrill has developed into the Aggies’ galaxy brain. There’s little he doesn’t do on the court; last season, he led the team in minutes, scoring, assists, 3-pointers made and free-throw percentage while often guarding the opposing team’s best player. That’s why the 6-foot-5 senior guard is an All-America candidate and the reigning Mountain West player of the year on a team that was the unanimous preseason pick to defend that title. It’s also why Utah State, which won the league’s regular-season and tournament title in wildly unexpected fashion last season, started the year ranked in the top 20.
Those who know him say there’s nothing that remarkable about Merrill’s running or jumping or overall athleticism. He simply masters the intangibles, things that some might consider the boring stuff.
“He’s not sprinting and beating anyone down the court,” point guard Abel Porter says. “But because he knows exactly what everybody else is going to do, he knows what’s coming. He can outthink every single person on the court.”
Or as Aggies coach Craig Smith puts it: “He’s this super respectful, All-American type of guy, the kind you’d definitely let watch your kids. But on the floor, he goes from Clark Kent to Superman. He’s an incredibly steely competitor.”
As members of the LDS church, the Merrills observed Mondays as a family home evening. They used to play board games that night. They had to quit, because inevitably Sam and his three sisters would get into screaming matches.
“One of our daughters is an attorney, so you can imagine her argumentative style,” says John Merrill, Sam’s dad. “None of them are very fun to be around when they lose.”
John can’t really explain why the family gets so heated over silly games, other than to point to both of Sam’s grandfathers. They’re both in their 80s, yet they still bicker over about who was the better high school athlete and who passed down the right genes to Sam. He certainly inherited their traits, for better and for worse. He’s been known to yell “Come on, man!” and storm off during supposedly laid-back games of Pickleball, cards or Kan Jam. Kanyan and his friends have learned not to take offense.
“He gets overly competitive,” says Porter, who has played on the same teams as Merrill since both were 10 years old. “Like weirdly competitive over dumb stuff.”
This is not a new development. Lynn Lloyd coached Merrill from first grade through the end of high school in the Exum Elite/Utah Prospects grassroots program. There are more than 40 kids on Division I teams this season alone who graduated from that program, including BYU star Yoeli Childs. But Lloyd says that Merrill is “the most competitive kid I’ve ever had.” Not always in the happiest way for a coach. Merrill threw more basketballs at walls and into bleachers after mistakes than any player Lloyd has ever seen. If his team would lose a four-on-four scrimmage, Merrill would beg Lloyd to let him run it back even though their practice time had ended. As nice as Merrill was off the court, he was often prickly and unpleasant between the lines.
“He’s just wired differently,” Lloyd says. “Even if you’re just walking down the street with him, he’s got to finish first. There’s nobody quite like Sam.”
It’s also what helped make him a great player, however. Merrill was never the best player on any of Lloyd’s teams until he reached high school. He was never the best ballhandler or shooter or defender. Yet every time the game was on the line, Lloyd made sure Merrill had the ball in his hands. Because he always made the right play.
His Utah State coaches and teammates say the same thing about him now. Almost every trip down the court, Merrill makes the right read, the correct pass, the perfect defensive rotation. It’s eerie, in a way. Smith describes Merrill as having “almost a photographic memory” of scouting reports. He knows not only what his assignments are but also the responsibilities of every other position on the floor for both teams. Smith will ask for Merrill’s opinion on sets and drills the Aggies run in practice. “He’s so smart that we really value his perspective,” Smith says.
Since he was a kid, Merrill has wanted to know the why behind every play, not just the how. When he’s watching the Jazz or a random football game, he’ll text friends with detailed breakdowns of teams’ strategies and plays. “Sometimes I get what he’s talking about, and sometimes I don’t,” says Kanyan, who plays soccer for the Aggies. “He is always watching something. That’s the reason why he’s super smart. It’s almost every aspect of his life.”
Merrill was blessed with outstanding hand-eye coordination, so not all his success comes from between the ears. He was all-state in basketball and football at Bountiful High. His senior year, he decided to pick up baseball again after not having played for five years. He batted leadoff for a team that won its first state title in 26 years. He spent much of the offseason playing golf with Porter, getting down to a 3-handicap by the end of summer.
He is obsessive, borderline maniacal, in his love of sports. Recently, John Merrill heard Sam being interviewed by a reporter, and Sam knew who led all Utah high schoolers in assists in 1997. How could he possibly know that, John thought, since his son was born in 1996?
Lloyd remembers driving his son, Trevor, and Merrill in a van to a tournament when both were young. Trevor was engrossed in a novel during the long trip. The entire time, Merrill pestered him, unable to understand why Trevor would be reading a book. “Hey,” he kept insisting, “can’t we just please talk about sports?”
Utah State’s season ended at the hands of Washington in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, giving Merrill something to push him during the offseason. (Kevin Jairaj/USA Today Sports)
There was never much of a question that Merrill would attend Utah State. His dad was born in Logan, and his mom was an Aggie. His older sister, Molli, was a three-year starter at goalkeeper there from 2008 to ’11 and now is an assistant coach on the women’s soccer team. Sam committed to Utah State when he was a sophomore in high school. Even though Stanford showed interest, Sam didn’t take any official visits. “I told John, knock some sense into him,” Lloyd says. “It’s Stanford! But he was always going to be an Aggie.”
His college career had to wait, however, as he served a two-year Mormon mission to Nicaragua after graduating high school. He barely touched a basketball in those two years. Whenever he could find a court, it would be 95 degrees and oppressively humid. That was tough for someone so passionate about sports, but not as tough as the poverty he saw all around him or the mean responses he’d often get when he tried to talk about his faith. At one point, he and another missionary were robbed of their cell phones by a local, who threw a rock and hit Merrill squarely in the mouth.
“Whatever I go through in basketball,” he says, “it will never be as hard for me as it was down there.”
Merrill came back to Logan in 2016, out of shape and playing for a new head coach. Stew Morrill had retired while Merrill was on his mission, handing the job over to former assistant Tim Duryea. Merrill was developing into a go-to guy, earning third-team All-Mountain West honors as a sophomore. But the team went just 31-34 in Merrill’s first two seasons, leading to Duryea’s firing.
Utah State then hired Smith, and his pairing with Merrill proved, well, bountiful. Here was a coach with a creative and intuitive mind and boundless energy to match that of his best player. The Aggies were picked to finish ninth in last year’s Mountain West preseason poll. Instead, they won 28 games, upsetting Nevada for the conference crown, thanks in large part to Merrill’s breakout season. Smith rode him hard. He upped Merrill’s usage rate from 20.8 percent as a sophomore to 26.5. When the conference title got within reach, Merrill rarely left the floor. In a four-game stretch beginning in late February, he played all 45 minutes of an overtime win at Boise State, followed by full 40-minute performances against San Diego State and Nevada. Then he logged all 45 minutes of another overtime win in the altitude at Colorado State.
“The end of that Colorado State game was the first time he looked fatigued, after 170 straight minutes,” Smith says. “That really speaks to his resolve. Not only was he our playmaker, the battery for our team on the offensive end, but he doesn’t get enough credit for how good a defensive player he is. In today’s day and age, a lot of high offensive usage guys don’t guard the other team’s best player. He wants that. He craves that. He thrives on that.”
Merrill finished second in the Mountain West in scoring (20.9 points per game), but he didn’t care that much about his numbers. There were many times at the end of games where Merrill was double- or even triple-teamed by opponents determined not to let him beat them. Instead of forcing a shot like No. 1 options often do, Merrill would swing the ball to an open teammate. “He’s the most unselfish superstar I’ve ever been around,” Smith says.
Merrill has found a way to skate the line between being hyper-competitive but also a popular teammate. That’s hard to do, but it’s possible mostly because Merrill turns his competitive drive inward and is most demanding of himself, not others. When Childs and Merrill square off in summertime pickup games, Lloyd says, Childs talks a lot of trash to try and rattle Merrill. He hardly says a word in return.
“There’s no (I can't express myself without swearing) with Sam,” Lloyd says. “He doesn’t judge anybody. As long as you’re trying, he’s good with you.”
But he can’t stomach losing. The way last season ended, with a blowout loss to Washington in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, ate at him all summer. He had only 10 points on 2-of-9 shooting in that game. His six turnovers were a season-high. “I’ve probably watched every game I’ve ever played in,” he says. “I’ve never watched that one.”
He also wasn’t happy with his outside shooting last year. He made 37.6 percent of his 3s, which was well above average. But he’d been a 46 percent 3-point shooter his first two seasons and ranked in the top 25 nationally in that category as a sophomore. He’d love to join the 50/40/90 club, and he has reached those percentage benchmarks in different seasons. Last season, he shot 90.9 percent at the free throw line, 11th best in the country, and he connected on 50.4 percent from the field as a sophomore.
Still, as Aggies senior guard Diogo Brito says, “If you’re just talking about his shooting, then you’re not really talking about Sam as a player.” His do-everything ethos game is what makes him special; heck, he even designed the throwback uniforms Utah State will wear this season. His usage load could be a little lighter this time, as the Aggies return four starters, including an emerging star in the middle in Portugese big man Neemias Queta. Merrill is happy to score less if it means winning more in March.
Merrill declined to go through the NBA Draft process in the spring partly because he believed big things were possible this season in Logan. He also figured he could play in front of scouts for every team at Chris Paul’s CP3 Elite Guard Camp, where he held his own against top competition. Merrill will turn 24 in May, ancient by NBA Draft standards. He’s probably not going to blow anyone away in testing drills either. Here’s how Merrill would scout himself: “A very mature person and great teammate who knows who he is as a player. He may not have the highest ceiling in the world, but you know what you’re going to get from him.”
Both Lloyd and Smith believe Merrill will make a great coach someday, and that’s something Merrill has talked about doing since he was a kid. You can see it already. The single-minded intensity, the ability to see the game from all angles, the lack of interest in anything that’s in his way. He’s like an old coach in a young man’s body.
But he’s still got plenty of playing days ahead, including this promising season. Merrill came into it highly motivated and is off to a good start: Entering tonight’s game against Denver, he’s averaging 21 points, 5.5 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game. He doesn’t tell many people this, but he took a screenshot of the final score of that 78-61 loss to Washington. He uses it as the background for his cell phone, a constant reminder to work harder. You might not notice it if you didn’t know it was there. Much like Merrill himself, the most interesting part lurks just under the surface.
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Lots of old people on the board can't even figure out if the game is streaming or not. I doubt they're going to be able to figure out how to read the athletic on an app. So I save them the time and effort.Real Life Aggie wrote:Please don't quote the story when you post, lol.
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I apologize; that was not what I meant. I'm very glad that you posted it in here so I could read it without downloading the app.QuackAttackAggie wrote: ↑November 12th, 2019, 4:38 pmLots of old people on the board can't even figure out if the game is streaming or not. I doubt they're going to be able to figure out how to read the athletic on an app. So I save them the time and effort.Real Life Aggie wrote:Please don't quote the story when you post, lol.
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I see what you mean. No problem.Real Life Aggie wrote:I apologize; that was not what I meant. I'm very glad that you posted it in here so I could read it without downloading the app.QuackAttackAggie wrote: ↑November 12th, 2019, 4:38 pmLots of old people on the board can't even figure out if the game is streaming or not. I doubt they're going to be able to figure out how to read the athletic on an app. So I save them the time and effort.Real Life Aggie wrote:Please don't quote the story when you post, lol.
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Would love to see Sammy as a future Utah State head coach!!!
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Amen to that. Merrill could helm the Ags for 40 years when his playing days are over and retire as one of the greatest/winningest coaches in college basketball history.ThunderAggie wrote: ↑November 13th, 2019, 10:41 amWould love to see Sammy as a future Utah State head coach!!!
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Re: Great spotlight of Sam on The Athletic
I'd like to see Sam do well in the NBA for a while before coming home to become one of the winningest coaches.ChicAggie wrote: ↑November 13th, 2019, 12:13 pmAmen to that. Merrill could helm the Ags for 40 years when his playing days are over and retire as one of the greatest/winningest coaches in college basketball history.ThunderAggie wrote: ↑November 13th, 2019, 10:41 amWould love to see Sammy as a future Utah State head coach!!!
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ChicAggie
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Re: Great spotlight of Sam on The Athletic
Agreed. Hence "when his playing days are over."USUMAE wrote: ↑November 13th, 2019, 12:42 pmI'd like to see Sam do well in the NBA for a while before coming home to become one of the winningest coaches.ChicAggie wrote: ↑November 13th, 2019, 12:13 pmAmen to that. Merrill could helm the Ags for 40 years when his playing days are over and retire as one of the greatest/winningest coaches in college basketball history.ThunderAggie wrote: ↑November 13th, 2019, 10:41 amWould love to see Sammy as a future Utah State head coach!!!
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