Recruiting???

[Da Coach]

Are any of the players on track to graduate before the next basketball season?

Though I do not know with certainty, Foster is the only one who would seem to be on track to graduate this spring. He spent 2 years at Texas Tech and now 2 at Bradley. However, he has another year of eligibility left after this year.
Jojo is the only other player in his 4th year, but he just graduated juco last spring, so I doubt he would be in the same position to graduate this year.

[fork]

Here is the list of MVC FG %- and among qualified players (minimum 75% of team's games, and minimum 5 attempts per game), the top Bradley player in FG% is 31st-

http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/statistics/player/_/stat/scoring-per-game/sort/fieldGoalPct/group/18

#16?

[Da Coach]

Thanks for catching that. Bradley does have 1 in the top 30.

[tornado]

I think if you look at the NJCAA stats site, you'll agree that this might be one of the weaker years for juco recruiting...

I know stats don't always tell the whole story but there are very few - no more than a dozen kids playing at a high enough level with scoring averages over 20 ppg and decent shooting pct.
I don't know who we ought to be going after -

Heck - we saw how Washington State was impressed enough to go hard after Davante Cooper - and yet Cooper is starting & playing full time but only averaging just 4.7 ppg/6.7 rpg and he's been shut out completely scoreless several times recently.

http://www.njcaa.org/sports/mbkb/2016-17/div1/boxscores/20170111_excs.xml

http://www.etfinalscore.com/ET-TJC/269245/tjc-women-men-pick-up-road-wins

[LongTimeFan]

Whether you agree with JC players or not. One thing is a fact. Continued games like this or going to greatly affect attendance and probably donations. Once more year with games like this would probably do it.

Many games of 20 point blowouts, with many turnovers, and seeming lack of intensity is not going to keep interests up among facts. Some here may argue about the number of 20 point blowouts, but it is the mercy of teams that keeps it from being more than are on the scoreboard now.

[Da Coach]

Your point is valid. There is no way this team is significantly improved with only the 2 high schoolers we have committed for next year. We need a couple jucos to even have a prayer of a .500 season next year. Unfortunately, I doubt we'll see it happen.

For those brainless who mocked my predictions of the fallout that I predicted would take years to get back to the level we were at when Glasser cleaned house in 2011, the fallout was even worse than predicted, and has lasted much longer, and now looks like it will still be years before we overcome. If ever.