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2017 SF Elijah Childs Lee Summit, MO is one of the fast rising D1 prospects in the midwest 2017 class. Childs is a high Major talent with multiple D1 offers...
USA TODAY High School Sports is proud to announce the American Family Insurance ALL-USA Missouri Boys Basketball Team. Players were selected based on their athletic achievements from the 2015-16 se…
He "chose Bradley over offers from Saint Louis, Indiana State and UMKC along with interest from Wichita State."
This seems like a great recruit for Coach Wardle. He was looking for a more offensively skilled inside player, and Childs fits that bill. After watching the videos of him, he reminds me a bit of Alex Foster, who I saw play several times in high school at De La Salle HS and Seton Academy. Foster has never quite shown the dominance he did in high school, but let's hope we see more of it this season at Bradley.
Childs is also left handed and appears to know how to use his body to get shots close to the basket. And the write-ups about him suggest he can make the occasional mid range jump shots, too. It has been a while since Bradley has had an inside player who could score reliably. Taylor Brown is the only BU player in the last 10 years who could play inside and could score consistently, though he was not a typical "inside" player.
Elijah Childs hopefully has the capability to develop into that kind of player as well.
He has some pretty nice inside moves on both the offensive and defensive ends.
That is a good highlight video, good looking player. If he were 2 inches taller he'd be an elite prospect I think. Great get for bradley. I'm curious what the players on the team think of us already being over committed by two. Does the coach know there are two guys moving on at the end of the year or just preparing for what happens every year anymore? Do we have disgruntled players? Are one of the international kids thinking of pursuing pro opportunities overseas? I have lots of questions.
Also pretty good recruiting to get a verbal from a kid who has not even had his campus yet, coming next week end and thanks to Wichita State for wanting him to go to prep school for a year helping him to decide on BU now!
Also pretty good recruiting to get a verbal from a kid who has not even had his campus yet, coming next week end and thanks to Wichita State for wanting him to go to prep school for a year helping him to decide on BU now!
Seems like a very solid get for you guys. Built like someone that can come in and compete physically right away.
As far as the prep school thing ... tends to happen when you have no Scholarships available for 2017 ha!.
... curious what the players on the team think of us already being over committed by two. Does the coach know there are two guys moving on at the end of the year ....
the answer is.... that we do not know the answer but the coach definitely does...and I think it will become obvious in the near future that the our coach is making precisely the right moves and most responsible moves.
Remember, we have two players who are completing their 4th year of college (Jojo McGlaston and Alex Foster) - it certainly isn't completely unheard-of that they would want to maybe just get their degree and move on or go play professionally -
Evansville's Mislav Brzoja did just that and Bradley's Mike Shaw likewise got his degree and left last year when he could have pursued one more year of eligibility had he wanted.
Coach Wardle does not have a history of "over-recruiting" or dismissing players without cause. Last year and this season he knew there would be players leaving by their own choice. So I am sure that he already knows things that haven't been made public yet, and that a couple scholarships are due to open for these two 2017 recruits (Stipanovich & Childs).
This is also a pretty unique situation in terms of class balance. No team in the country had more freshman than we did last year, and while a few left, we still have a ton of sophomores. We also have 0 seniors. That lack of class balance is what I think is contributing to this over recruiting. I doubt Coach Wardle will make over recruiting like this a habit, but it was basically was a necessity with how unbalanced our classes were.
Plus, as has been stated on here, players leave programs every year for a variety of reasons. I don't love the idea that if all 13 players on scholarship wanted to stay, that they couldn't because we're over committed, but I'm also not of the delusion that is a likely scenario.
This is also a pretty unique situation in terms of class balance. No team in the country had more freshman than we did last year, and while a few left, we still have a ton of sophomores. We also have 0 seniors. That lack of class balance is what I think is contributing to this over recruiting. I doubt Coach Wardle will make over recruiting like this a habit, but it was basically was a necessity with how unbalanced our classes were.
Plus, as has been stated on here, players leave programs every year for a variety of reasons. I don't love the idea that if all 13 players on scholarship wanted to stay, that they couldn't because we're over committed, but I'm also not of the delusion that is a likely scenario.
The most consistent reason for kids to choose or stay at a school unfortunately is not academics, but rather playing time.
The preponderance of freshmen and sophomores on this team also means that there are kids who realize early on that they will be playing behind other kids who are in their same class or even younger. That is the case here.
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