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Bobby Cremins, one of my all-time favorite college basketball coaches, is coming out of retirement to take over the hoops program at the College of Charleston.

Although it’s been a while since he last worked in collegiate athletics, I like Cremins’ chances of doing a good job on the recruitment front. He was able to turn Georgia Tech into a power for a stretch of nearly 15 years by attracting top point guards to his program (Mark Price, Kenny Anderson, Stephon Marbury, and Travis Best) and he seemed to have cornered the market on blue chippers from the New York market.

If Cremins can work some of that same magic, the College of Charleston will be a regional powerhouse for those second-tier and troubled recruits that don’t make it into the top SEC and ACC schools.