UTC basketball player Farad Cobb participates in practice at McKenzie Arena.It seemed like a very good plan to John Shulman.
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men’s basketball coach would have a senior, Dontay Hampton, running the point and freshman Farad Cobb spending the 2012-13 season learning the position.
The plan changed in July with one awkward step that tore Hampton’s right ACL, knocking him out of playing for at least the first six weeks of the season and thrusting Cobb into the limelight with zero college experience.
The point guard plan has changed even more since July. Sophomore shooting guard Ronrico White spends about 75 percent of his practice time at the point, and Shulman added freshman Alex Bran as a walk-on.
“We’ve got three healthy point guards right now,” the coach said, referring to White as “a combo guy” and Cobb as “an extremely skilled pure point but he doesn’t know everything.”