Oak Hill Academy

[1inStripes]

Amazing to see a program seemingly change so quickly, losing yesterday at the Arby's to Trinities Christian.  TCC isn't a bad team but they have lost to good teams in the Knoxville area.  Stoneman left after 2-3 seasons go back to SC to coach a very good HS program.  Just odd seeing OH not being ELITE across the board on the Gold team.

[swvavol]

The very lax transfer rules has contributed to Oak Hill not being as good as they once were.

[Sixcat Adjacent]

Yerrick Stoneman is a lifelong friend of mine. I have some knowledge of the situation. I'll share what I believe to be suitable for public consumption and keep what I'm not certain about to myself.

• OHA hired Carmelo Anthony as the GM of basketball operations earlier this summer. Anthony's first order of business was to fire Yerrick and hire Anthony's long-time friend and AAU (Team Melo) coach John Zito as the new head coach. That transition hasn't been as fruitful as Anthony, OHA, and Zito lead everyone to believe. Oak Hill already has 4 loses this season. One of which was to a mediocre Davidson Day (Steph Curry) program that has been trounced by the better programs in Charlotte so far this season. Davidson Day is 10-6 and OHA is 13-4 on the season.
• OHA is at a disadvantage with NIL. They don't have the funds to compete with other EYBL programs such as Montverde Academy. Montverde paid Cooper Flagg three times what OHA had available to spend on the entire team. Yerrick was well liked by former players. It's my opinion, they won't get the donations from former players the way they thought they would just by giving Carmelo Anthony the keys to the basketball kingdom. Zito isn't very well liked either.
• OHA has secured millions in funding from Saint Germain Academy in Paris to be a feeder soccer program for the French Academy Soccer program. They seem to be more focused on soccer right now and basketball has slipped. 

Yerrick's new program is Greenville High School. They are currently 7-2 with loses to CATS Academy of Boston and Archbishop Moeller of Cincinnati. Both of those programs are elite! Greenville already has a 50-45 win over the #1 ranked AAAAA program in South Carolina (Westwood). Yerrick's other former team, Ridge View SC, is also in the Arby's Classic. Yerrick won 4 Class AAAAA state championships as head coach of Ridge View from 2018-2022. 

 

[1inStripes]

3 hours ago, swvavol said:

The very lax transfer rules has contributed to Oak Hill not being as good as they once were.

OH wasn't dealing with most of the kids impacted by your typical transfer situation.

[1inStripes]

2 hours ago, Sixcat Adjacent said:

Yerrick Stoneman is a lifelong friend of mine. I have some knowledge of the situation. I'll share what I believe to be suitable for public consumption and keep what I'm not certain about to myself.

• OHA hired Carmelo Anthony as the GM of basketball operations earlier this summer. Anthony's first order of business was to fire Yerrick and hire Anthony's long-time friend and AAU (Team Melo) coach John Zito as the new head coach. That transition hasn't been as fruitful as Anthony, OHA, and Zito lead everyone to believe. Oak Hill already has 4 loses this season. One of which was to a mediocre Davidson Day (Steph Curry) program that has been trounced by the better programs in Charlotte so far this season. Davidson Day is 10-6 and OHA is 13-4 on the season.
• OHA is at a disadvantage with NIL. They don't have the funds to compete with other EYBL programs such as Montverde Academy. Montverde paid Cooper Flagg three times what OHA had available to spend on the entire team. Yerrick was well liked by former players. It's my opinion, they won't get the donations from former players the way they thought they would just by giving Carmelo Anthony the keys to the basketball kingdom. Zito isn't very well liked either.
• OHA has secured millions in funding from Saint Germain Academy in Paris to be a feeder soccer program for the French Academy Soccer program. They seem to be more focused on soccer right now and basketball has slipped. 

Yerrick's new program is Greenville High School. They are currently 7-2 with loses to CATS Academy of Boston and Archbishop Moeller of Cincinnati. Both of those programs are elite! Greenville already has a 50-45 win over the #1 ranked AAAAA program in South Carolina (Westwood). Yerrick's other former team, Ridge View SC, is also in the Arby's Classic. Yerrick won 4 Class AAAAA state championships as head coach of Ridge View from 2018-2022. 

 

The NIL era is what I had a feeling has led to a lot of OHA downfall.  Seems like it will become a shell of its former self if they cannot generate the money necessary to compete with people like Montverde.

[Sixcat Adjacent]

45 minutes ago, 1inStripes said:

The NIL era is what I had a feeling has led to a lot of OHA downfall.  Seems like it will become a shell of its former self if they cannot generate the money necessary to compete with people like Montverde.

Facilities matter with today's kids. OHA has quaint, modest facilities to say the least, which used to be charming. Charming isn't in today's teenagers vernacular so, they will have to address that somehow I would imagine. 

But I'm not sure any of that matters if they cannot figure out how to level the playing field in terms of NIL.

[1inStripes]

Yeah facilities matter but healthy bank deposits tend to matter most.

[Liam McPoyle]

Yerrick's an outstanding coach and wasn't the problem.

Oak Hill's “Bibles and basketballs” model is no longer enough to attract elite talent.