The signing of Eric Robertson on Thursday morning completed a five-man recruiting class for University of Tennessee at Chattanooga basketball coach John Shulman.
It’s a class, Shulman said, that will increases the Mocs’ athletic ability and will allow them to play a different style of basketball — fast.
“I think you’ll see us playing in the full court defensively because we’ll be able to do it,” said Shulman, who also received scholarship papers from Casey Jones this week. “We’ll have Farad [Cobb] and [Dontay Hampton] at the point. But instead of having to throw it to the point, my goal is to have three points on the floor at the same time.”
Cobb is a 6-foot-1 point guard signed in the fall period along with 6-4 guard GerVaughn McGhee and 6-7 forward Josh Warren. The additions of Jones (18.8 ppg, 8.4 rpg) and Robertson (19 ppg, 8 rpg) make this the largest signing class in Shulman’s tenure at UTC.
And following an 11-21 season, and with the coach owning just two years on his contract, it’s an important class. Shulman said he tackled the past season head-on in visits and brought up the season on his own accord.