"Most kids would be stone-faced and pretend like they don't hear it, " Balza said.
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Balza instilled in his first recruits the pedigree he carried with him from the sport's heartland.
"It was important to me that they had those Midwest values, " said Balza, now coach at Bethany Lutheran College (Minn.).
Once he found Balza and had a team to sell, McAloose reached out to the athletic department's target demographic: Midwestern snowbirds.
As for the actual brand of basketball, Balza coached what he knew, and what he knew was Michigan's 1989 national championship team.
Balza wanted his team to be a shameless imitation of that Wolverines team: In the years before they became full Division-I members in 2011-2012, it wasn't uncommon for the Eagles to blow past 100 points in a game.
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