Back in Indiana

Sorry. Been busy. But this came over yesterday on a Google alert.

Good guy, Henney.

He told me in May in my reporting that his first exposure to Davidson basketball was in 2004. Henney’s from Indiana, Fort Wayne native, IU grad, but in 2004 he was a civics teacher and the head tennis coach and the assistant basketball coach at Fred T. Foard High School in Newton, N.C., and that summer he worked McKillop’s camp.

What struck him the most, he said, was that (1) McKillop was always there -- at many camps the head coach is there only when the parents drop their kids off and then again when they pick them back up -- and that (2) McKillop in about two days knew like 80 percent of the kids’ names.

He worked camp again in the summer of ’05, Henney did, and then in the winter of ’05-’06 he drove to Davidson three, four evenings a week, he said, to watch the Wildcats practice. Hour each way. After teaching school. After coaching HIS practice.

Totally worth it, he said.

Basketball people talk about Bob McKillop-run practices, and how physical they are, and how precise they are.

Len Kosmalski, who played in the NBA, and the father, obviously, of Landry and Logan, told me last summer about watching a practice on Landry’s recruiting visit way back when.

“Everything was right down to the minute,” he said. “Not a minute was wasted.”

Here's what the Sporting News’ Mike DeCourcy said in May when we talked about McKillop and his practices: “A lot of guys get to that level by selling themselves as coaches and selling the program. There are very few out there who teach the game as well as Bob.”

Anyway, Henney was hired in '06, and was on staff for two years, and in those two years Davidson won 58 games. Not bad.