Over the past five years, Ed Bright has built Sports U/Team Izod into perhaps New Jersey's premier AAU basketball program, pumping out top recruits such as Karl-Anthony Towns (Kentucky), Quenton DeCosey (Temple), Wade Baldwin (Vanderbilt) and DeAndre Bembry (St. Joseph's).
Bright's program has sent dozens of players to top colleges across the nation, but there's one school in particular that hasn't landed any of them recently: Rutgers.
The Scarlet Knights now have an opening atop their basketball program after Eddie Jordan was fired Thursday following three disappointing seasons. Bright, the founder and chief advancement officer of Sports U, said the school's next coach must mend relationships with New Jersey's top AAU and high school programs if Rutgers basketball has any hopes of emerging from the doldrums.