18th Episode Featuring ESPN's Paul Biancardi
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This week's guess on The Passing Game with Fletcher Arritt is ESPN's National Recruiting Director of High School
and College Basketball, Paul Biancardi. Biancardi has spent the past twenty-five years working in the college basketball world. Biancardi began his coaching career at Salem State (MA), where he graduated in 1985. From Salem State, Biancardi headed to Boston where he spent time on the staffs of Suffolk University, Boston University, and Boston College.
In seven years as an assistant with the Boston College Eagles, Biancardi helped the team to three NCAA Tournaments, two NITs, and one Big East Championship. From BC, Biancardi then moved to Ohio State, where he continued his success. While at Ohio State, Biancardi was named by many different publications as one of the best assistants in the country. This helped Biancardi land the head coaching position at Wright State University. In his three years at WSU, Biancardi posted a winning record in conference and was named the 2004 Horizon League Coach of the Year. Coach Biancardi now works with ESPN and is one of the nation's top evaluators of talent.





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Recruiting evaluations
Can recruiting evaluations, or the lack thereof; hurt a player in their efforts to get seen by colleges. For example a kid ranked as an all-state player, one of 24 players in class 4A,5A and was never even mentioned in any ranking services.