Sean Harris LOI is in

[AZ BU Fan]

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Not going after you real fan, just wondering how you came to these conclusions.

Cause it beats the alternative!

[AZ BU Fan]

Anyone know if he's able to work on his game while in Honduras?
Jason

At the very least, SH can practice chucking coconuts or pineapples through straw nets.

[shaunguth]

BU article....

http://www.bradleybraves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3400&ATCLID=205032026

[Da Coach]

In case anyone missed it, the BU article includes this photo of Sean signing his papers-


He looks good!

[shaunguth]

He looks good!

He looks pretty happy too! As much as some have been wondering if he would still sign, maybe he was wondering if Bradley was still interested in him or if BU had found someone else to take his scholarship like some schools may have done.

Kudos to both Sean Harris and Bradley for sticking with this very long process!

[braveatheart]

Gonna play devil's advocate here for a second -

1. How do we know the recruiting classes are getting better? Do we have anything to prove that they've been any better than any of JL's other recruiting classes?

2. Why would we start playing with 2 forwards and a center now when we haven't for the better part of a decade? Do you really think that there's going to be this massive philosophical shift all of the sudden? We had 'Cellus, Zach, and POB and didn't play that way. Do you think that we'll ever have 3 guys more suited to play those roles than those 3? We may NEVER have 3 guys more suited to play that style than those 3, and very rarely if ever were they on the court together.

Not going after you real fan, just wondering how you came to these conclusions.

We won't have much choice. Have you seen the roster for next year? It has eight bigs and 5 guards. If we are not playing 2 forwards and a center then it will have to be 3 forwards. There just wont be enough guards on the roster to play 3 guards very often.
If we play three guards we won't be two deep at each position. That would leave us four deep at both the bigs positions. The math says we have to have 3 bigs on the court more often than we have 3 guards next year.
Unless the roster changes you will see BU going big next year. We have no choice.

[amckillip]

We won't have much choice. Have you seen the roster for next year? It has eight bigs and 5 guards. If we are not playing 2 forwards and a center then it will have to be 3 forwards. There just wont be enough guards on the roster to play 3 guards very often.
If we play three guards we won't be two deep at each position. That would leave us four deep at both the bigs positions. The math says we have to have 3 bigs on the court more often than we have 3 guards next year.
Unless the roster changes you will see BU going big next year. We have no choice.

Agreed completely with this. We graduate 3 Guards, and are bringing in a center, a forward and 2 guards. Our 4th+ year players will be WE, AT, and TB next year. I suspect we will play a bigger line-up. We are effectively adding 3 bigs next year TB, AD, and Sean Harris. One of whom will be our best player (assuming TB is in a condition to play basketball),

[Chucky T's]

We won't have much choice. Have you seen the roster for next year? It has eight bigs and 5 guards. If we are not playing 2 forwards and a center then it will have to be 3 forwards. There just wont be enough guards on the roster to play 3 guards very often.
If we play three guards we won't be two deep at each position. That would leave us four deep at both the bigs positions. The math says we have to have 3 bigs on the court more often than we have 3 guards next year.
Unless the roster changes you will see BU going big next year. We have no choice.

I really want to believe this but somehow, someway I think we will still see some type of three guard line-up

[ER3]

We won't have much choice. Have you seen the roster for next year? It has eight bigs and 5 guards. If we are not playing 2 forwards and a center then it will have to be 3 forwards. There just wont be enough guards on the roster to play 3 guards very often.
If we play three guards we won't be two deep at each position. That would leave us four deep at both the bigs positions. The math says we have to have 3 bigs on the court more often than we have 3 guards next year.
Unless the roster changes you will see BU going big next year. We have no choice.

We will have a lot of bigs next year as far as quantity is concerned...but outside of Egolf, Prosser, and Taylor Brown, I don't see any of them being threats to be big parts of the rotation...Harris could be a wild card depending on what kind of shape he is going to be able to get into before the season kicks off...but Wells, Davis, Thompson, and Knezevic, that is just a group of guys that look to me to be nothing more than redshirt candidates or borderline D-I players at this point.

We'll still have to play a bunch of guards if and when the depth doesn't materialize in the frontcourt...problem is that we won't have the depth in the backcourt next year that we have had for the last few years...so we really will be asking for a lot out of freshman Abell and Stewart...

[braveatheart]

We will have a lot of bigs next year as far as quantity is concerned...but outside of Egolf, Prosser, and Taylor Brown, I don't see any of them being threats to be big parts of the rotation...Harris could be a wild card depending on what kind of shape he is going to be able to get into before the season kicks off...but Wells, Davis, Thompson, and Knezevic, that is just a group of guys that look to me to be nothing more than redshirt candidates or borderline D-I players at this point.

We'll still have to play a bunch of guards if and when the depth doesn't materialize in the frontcourt...problem is that we won't have the depth in the backcourt next year that we have had for the last few years...so we really will be asking for a lot out of freshman Abell and Stewart...

Right, Stewart and Abell sound like good ones but they will still be only true freshmen. The four bigs you mention will be a senior, a junior, a juco transfer sophmore and either a redshirt freshman or a sophmore.

You could be right, but assuming true freshmen get significant minutes and the more experienced bigs sit for all but a couple of minutes a game seems a bit of a reach to me right now.

Even if the true freshman get significant minutes we still have to go big. How else do the numbers add up?

[ER3]

Right, Stewart and Abell sound like good ones but they will still be only true freshmen. The four bigs you mention will be a senior, a junior, a juco transfer sophmore and either a redshirt freshman or a sophmore.

You could be right, but assuming true freshmen get significant minutes and the more experienced bigs sit for all but a couple of minutes a game seems a bit of a reach to me right now.

Even if the true freshman get significant minutes we still have to go big. How else do the numbers add up?

We can't "go big" if the bigs can't contribute. And at this point, I would be of the opinion that guys like Abell and Stewart, even as freshman, would be better prepared to give us quality minutes than guys like Sticks, Knezevic, and Davis...

You're right though...it is tough to make the numbers add up...We'll need some good news on Taylor's health and some really good development out of the newcomers and the younger guys on the roster in order to have any semblance of depth anywhere on next year's team...

But that's the future...we need to worry about winning NOW.

[AZ BU Fan]

We can't "go big" if the bigs can't contribute. And at this point, I would be of the opinion that guys like Abell and Stewart, even as freshman, would be better prepared to give us quality minutes than guys like Sticks, Knezevic, and Davis...

Then why the *ell does our Coach in residence continue to recruit bigs who can't contribute? Seems the "lessor" teams BU has played so far have bigs who are better than ours. What's their secret?

I am seriously beginning to think there is a 100% correlation between JL supporters and Cubs fans....

[amckillip]

Then why the *ell does our Coach in residence continue to recruit bigs who can't contribute? Seems the "lessor" teams BU has played so far have bigs who are better than ours. What's their secret?

I am seriously beginning to think there is a 100% correlation between JL supporters and Cubs fans....

How competitive are those teams overall though? Their bigs may look better because of matchups with BU, but in the long run BU still is better.