Article on Odiakosa, ISU, and new redshirts in the Pantagraph

[tornado]

I just checked ISU's schedule and they don't play any D-II's ..

yeah...they shy away from that level of competition...

[MacabreMob]

As if Bradley is the only team to ever lose in an exhibition game.

Michigan State (then ranked in the Top 10 in the country) lost to Div II Grand Valley State in an exhibition game in November of 2007.

[tornado]

how come nobody is hammering BU for losing an exhibition game this year as well...doesn't that make two years in a row??
That means we are really bad and probably shouldn't even be picked higher than 10th!

http://www.bradleybraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=19332&SPID=1498&DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=204775197

[it's boogie time]

After looking it up, Dustin McGuire was the SLU player I was thinking of. He has since tranferred to Northern Kentucky. He redshirted as a sophomore at SLU when the coaching change happened.

It seems like most of the talk of redshirting comes from the fans. Very few guards ever redshirt and you have to basically be a big man project or have a lot of sophomores and juniors ahead of you to redshirt. Creighton and SIU did use this tool effectively earlier in the decade to build their program.

[dogsrus]

I'd still like to see either DSE or the other fresh pg (mind slips my name) RS this year.....

[SFP]

I'd still like to see either DSE or the other fresh pg (mind slips my name) RS this year.....

We do have the extra scholarship open to RS someone. The problem is just one injury and we'll need whoever we chose. RS should only be done when a player is not physically mature enough to be able to compete at this level. Sometimes it takes a year or two for a young guy to catch up and this will keep them from serious injury. That is why you see it in football all the time!

[shaunguth]

We do have the extra scholarship open to RS someone. The problem is just one injury and we'll need whoever we chose. RS should only be done when a player is not physically mature enough to be able to compete at this level. Sometimes it takes a year or two for a young guy to catch up and this will keep them from serious injury. That is why you see it in football all the time!

The only scholarship even possibly spoken for at this point would be for Sean Harris. I agree, however, that a RS should only be used when absolutely needed.

[Da Coach]

Another Pantagraph article- this one addresses the scholarship situation, and the ISU beat writer reveals his picks for the preseason MVC awards-

http://www.pantagraph.com/app/blogs/main/?p=4355

He picks BU 6th, behind Indiana State.

[tornado]

interesting...on his all Conf team Benson picks two players who have never played a game in the conference yet.
He justifies that because of Chamberlain Oguchi last year, but apparently he forgets that Oguchi was NOT 1st Team All Conference nor among the top 5 vote-getters for POY.
He also has SIU at #2....wonder who their scorers are going to be?

[jeffsu]

It might be going out on a limb to put Iowa transfers Freeman and Kelly on the all-league team, but they were impact players in the Big Ten Conference and should make immediate impacts on their new teams. Remember Champ Oguchi last season?

In the league race, you could mix up spots 2-7 and make a case for any of those teams. SIU will be hurt by the dismissal of Ryan Hare. ISU needs to have a couple young players step up and produce. Bradley has a solid perimeter group, but are the Braves??™ inside players good enough?

Better than I thought it would be. I wondered the same questions, but he addresses them later on. Though I'm still surprised by SIU being #2 and CU being #4, and Indiana State at #5... he admits that 2-7 could flip around.