It Just Not Right

[Murph]

I know a manual high school player who went to eastern illinois because coach mo said he didnt want to recruit local players because he didnt want to hear *****ing from local fans if things didnt work out. And dont think he wasnt good enough to play at bradley. He was good enough to play for the Peoria kings!

What local talent did he ever get?

Mo didn't like recruiting local players, he always said there's too much pressure on him to play them and too much pressure on the kids to perform. Versace never recruited many local players either, the only one I remember off hand was Trevor Trimpe.

I don't care where they come from as long as they're good students and can play.

[Da Coach]

Don't forget Eddie Matthews from Brimfield, and Gus Mason from Peoria. They were Versace recruits.
Dick concentrated on Chicago, and by 1984-85 season more than half of the roster (8 players) were Chicago kids.

[squirrel]

I'm with Murph. I don't care where they come from as long as they can play, get good grades, and keep their nose clean.

Both Mo and Les had decent players.

BU is cursed by being the lone program in such a hoops hotbed, in that it gets all the attention from all the local HS coaches/fans.

[lefty]

Mo didn't like recruiting local players, he always said there's too much pressure on him to play them and too much pressure on the kids to perform. Versace never recruited many local players either, the only one I remember off hand was Trevor Trimpe.

I don't care where they come from as long as they're good students and can play.

Mo didn't want to take a chance on marginal D-1 players from the local area.
he recruited several very hard and they all went BCS...Vershaw,Koch,Grimm come to mind. I'm sure there were a few others.

[lefty]

I know a manual high school player who went to eastern illinois because coach mo said he didnt want to recruit local players because he didnt want to hear *****ing from local fans if things didnt work out. And dont think he wasnt good enough to play at bradley. He was good enough to play for the Peoria kings!

What local talent did he ever get?

Not sure how he fit in Mo's plans from the juco route and EIU was the only school that offered from what I know. Plus he did so so at EIU

[Chico]

Sounds like a lot of excuses.....




Wait those aren't excuses they're explanations.....

Not excuses, just facing facts and telling it like it is. Good thread OOB.

[BRADLEY FAN 49]

It is absouletely wrong that JM refused to recruit local players, I know for a fact he tried hard to get the local talent.

Would you have prefered we lost to Kansas and POB stayed?

The Kansas game wasn't the reason P.O.B. went to the N.B.A. It was the pitt game.

I just think Losing P.O.B. was totally unexpected, and JL had to completely rethink how he was going to recruit. We still haven't got to where he wants to be.

I think with the recruits he has coming in we have a good start.

[ph]

The Kansas game wasn't the reason P.O.B. went to the N.B.A. It was the pitt game.

I just think Losing P.O.B. was totally unexpected, and JL had to completely rethink how he was going to recruit. We still haven't got to where he wants to be.

I think with the recruits he has coming in we have a good start.

It was not just the loss of Plan A POB, it was the earlier known losses of plans B (SS to another injury) and C (XC did not qualify)

[lefty]

It was not just the loss of Plan A POB, it was the earlier known losses of plans B (SS to another injury) and C (XC did not qualify)

I didn't think there was much hope in XC coming here