Kyle Neptune is all the time on the transfer

Fordham’s first-year head coach is a person in movement all day — every single day — planning, teaching, recruiting and fund-raising for a program that’s simply beginning to awaken from three many years of basketball hibernation.

It’s 8 a.m. and Kyle Neptune’s flatscreen tv is exhibiting the edited model of La Salle-Richmond. Sitting subsequent to assistant coach Tray Woodall in his Midtown residence, he makes an attempt to search out weaknesses in his crew’s subsequent opponent.

It is the beginning of a 14-hour day for the Brooklyn native and former Villanova assistant coach, one that can embody employees and planning conferences, apply, movie examine and recruiting. Once the day begins, Neptune is nonstop. His cellphone hardly ever stops buzzing. Opposing coaches, mother and father and media members are on the opposite line.

The man tasked with reviving Fordham’s lengthy dormant males’s basketball program is in excessive demand as he nears the tail-end of a surprisingly profitable first season — in comparison with current years for the Rams. They enter Thursday’s Atlantic 10 Tournament opener in opposition to George Mason 15-15 and 8-10 within the convention, their greatest season in six years.

His job is hectic, however up to now pleasing. He by no means noticed this as profession suicide, as some have described teaching at Fordham up to now.