New Recruit Poll

[amckillip]

Re: Hey Nuts-iesque!

If you want to watch a team full of average JUCOs get season tickets to ICC! I don't believe the young men JL is courting in this 11th hour quite measure up to ZA, LW, and MS! I think we have a stable full of young players with talent and character to fill out the regulation 200 minutes! If we can get a Coley or Knapp do it otherwise - save the scholarship for another day!

Average Jucos? You think Thats what were getting? You must be nuts, One of the JUCOS we're getting, at one point, was the 18th ranked recruit in the nation, Coley is the #3 JUCO Player in the Nation, DC is one of the best JUCO centers in the Nation... come one now.

Just so ya know Theron Wilson, Coley and Knapp are definitely more recruited than Matt Salley, Lawrence Wright, Will Franklin, or Zach Andrews ever were and look how they turned out. Like I said for a school of our budget to be competitive we need to look to JUCOs. Your right to watch average JUCO Ball go to ICC(who by the way were #1 in the region for a majority of the year), but BU Basketball is a mix of 4-year and JUCO players integrated into a good system, identified and recruited by a good coach for what they can bring to the team, not the stigma of where they came from.

[mexicobufan]

I thought Wilson was a three star recruit per rivals?

[Big Mike]

And Rick Patino came in to look at him ........I trust the staff knows what it is doing....remember WF was a last minute recruit and ended up being the go-to guy last season!

[shaunguth]

Re: Hey Nuts-iesque!

If you want to watch a team full of average JUCOs get season tickets to ICC! I don't believe the young men JL is courting in this 11th hour quite measure up to ZA, LW, and MS! I think we have a stable full of young players with talent and character to fill out the regulation 200 minutes! If we can get a Coley or Knapp do it otherwise - save the scholarship for another day!

Average Jucos? You think Thats what were getting? You must be nuts, One of the JUCOS we're getting, at one point, was the 18th ranked recruit in the nation, Coley is the #3 JUCO Player in the Nation, DC is one of the best JUCO centers in the Nation... come one now.

Just so ya know Theron Wilson, Coley and Knapp are definitely more recruited than Matt Salley, Lawrence Wright, Will Franklin, or Zach Andrews ever were and look how they turned out. Like I said for a school of our budget to be competitive we need to look to JUCOs. Your right to watch average JUCO Ball go to ICC(who by the way were #1 in the region for a majority of the year), but BU Basketball is a mix of 4-year and JUCO players integrated into a good system, identified and recruited by a good coach for what they can bring to the team, not the stigma of where they came from.

Well put and right on! The scholarships for 2007-08 will most likely be 8 four-year players and 4-5 juco's. The following season will probably look very similar. Last season was 8 four-year players and 4 juco's. I don't have the numbers for the Sweet 16 season, but we are at the very least in the middle of three very similar seasons when it comes to the ratio of four-year players to juco players. Considering the recruiting job JL and staff has done as well as getting the guys to play together....I don't see any problem with this.

edited to add: I would not be as comfortable if the number of four-year scholarships dropped below eight. I think that number is just fine though.

[Big Mike]

i'd like to check other.......but I couldn't find it on the options.....is it too late to write in Rashad Austin?

[shaunguth]

Just came across this from TwinCities.com, not that it matters now....

Kansas State men's basketball coach Frank Martin will come to town this week on a private jet to visit 6-foot-5 former Park Center star guard Andre Gilbert, who is being recruited out of Mount San Jacinto Junior College in California.

[amckillip]

Just came across this from TwinCities.com, not that it matters now....

Kansas State men's basketball coach Frank Martin will come to town this week on a private jet to visit 6-foot-5 former Park Center star guard Andre Gilbert, who is being recruited out of Mount San Jacinto Junior College in California.

Thanks, I didn't realize he was getting much other interest.

[Da Coach]

And I posted on the recruiting forum, that Theron Wilson, who lead Seward County in virtually ever statistical area, averaged over 19.4 points and 10.7 rebounds, lead his team in steals and blocks, is now leaning toward Mercer. He also has a scholarship offer from Illinois State, but late reports do not mention them any more.