Top Recruiting Classes
30 March 2010 at 8:48 am Peter G. Klein 4 comments
| Peter Klein |
Memphis, Ohio State, and North Carolina have the top-ranked US college basketball recruiting classes for 2010. But how about the Berkeley economics department’s 1963 recruiting class? As I learned this weekend, department head Andreas Papandreou hired five brand-new assistant professors that year: Dan McFadden, Oliver Williamson, Sid Winter, Peter Diamond, and David Laidler. Not a bad haul!
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REW | 30 March 2010 at 12:31 pm
Like most top basketball recruiting classes, most of this team “went pro” elsewhere after a short stay ;-)
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Peter Klein | 30 March 2010 at 12:54 pm
True, true. Actually Williamson was, in today’s parlance, a “one-and-done.” But he (and McFadden) came back, many years later.
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Cliff Grammich | 1 April 2010 at 4:29 pm
Peter, are you comparing Papandreou to Steve Fisher, coach of the one-time Fab Five at Michigan? Or maybe Williamson to O.J. Mayo, the most recent one-and-done NCAA/NBA player?
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Konstantina Kiousis | 4 April 2010 at 8:54 am
Greeks have good taste.