New Recruit "High on Bradley"/Waithe Visits Tues.

[it's boogie time]

Have any of you been to Pepperdine? I never would have made it to a class if I was enrolled there.

I don't think many people come to Bradley for the scenery.

[Da Coach]

You are right boogie-
I was there a couple years ago when Bradley played at Pepperdine (and lost on a last second shot). The campus is spectacular and right along a huge sprawling stretch of Malibu coastline.

Considering that any home there with even a view of the ocean sells for millions, the land value alone for the Pepperdine campus has got to be in the $billions.

I am surprised Pepperdine can't recruit more top 150 players. They don't play football, so basketball and volleyball are their marquee sports. It is an expensive school to attend but is highly rated in academics. They should get better players!

[BradleyBrave]

You are right boogie-
I was there a couple years ago when Bradley played at Pepperdine (and lost on a last second shot). The campus is spectacular and right along a huge sprawling stretch of Malibu coastline.

Considering that any home there with even a view of the ocean sells for millions, the land value alone for the Pepperdine campus has got to be in the $billions.

I am surprised Pepperdine can't recruit more top 150 players. They don't play football, so basketball and volleyball are their marquee sports. It is an expensive school to attend but is highly rated in academics. They should get better players!

Their baseball team is one of the top teams in the country. I also believe their golf team is as well.

[chitownBUB]

By the way, Pepperdine did just get a verbal committment on Tuesday from San Diego's 6-7 All Stater, Tyrone Shelley, a 27 pt/gm scorer as a junior.
Pepperdine also recently got Rico Tucker who transferred from Minnesota, Rico's brother Tyler Tucker, and 6-8 Malcolm Thomas.
Shelley is a Rivals Top 100 and had offers from Kansas, Kentucky, UConn, and Washington.
Pepperdine should have a good team in the next two years.

[georgethedog]

Re: Campus

Exactly. IMO the 2 current 2007 scholarships will go to big men.
Bradley's interest in this kid, a 2007 recruit, was a long time ago before the committments by Maniscalco (who is a much better point guard), and DeAaron Williams and Jeremy Fears (both of whom become eligible in 2007). Bradley simply doen't need another combo guard, unless he is a McDonald's AA caliber, which Perine is not. I suspect Bradley pulled back their tentative offer a long time ago, and I suspect UNI, and Creighton did, too, since they have recently gotten guard committments, too. UW-GB probably was the best offer this kid had going.

As a UW-Green Bay alum, I am pleased. They have had good teams in the past (Dick Bennett era) and the school is one of the most picturesque schools in the country. They are building a state of the art athletics facility that should be done soon. If Bradley had this kind of campus to offer along with the obvious Bradley pluses, they would have the best recruiting class in the MVC year after year. I am not trying to be a UW-Green Bay recruiter, but check out this link for a virtual tour of the campus. It is spectacular! For those of you who are ready to kick me off the discussion board, I grew up a Bradley fan back in the Fieldhouse days. I am also a Bradley alum and former Bradley faculty member. It would be interesting to see BU play UW-Green Bay, but they never do.

http://www.uwgb.edu/admissions/virtu...n_library.html

George,

Don't take this the wrong way but I wouldn't call that campus "spectacular". Sure, it's nice. But so is Bradley in the fall, Wake Forest most anytime, UVA, Creighton, UNC-CH, UNC-W (right near the ocean), and a whole host of others.

Hey Braves4Life, I am not taking it wrong, but have you ever been there??? I love Bradley, but there is no comparison even in fall. I do realize most kids are not that concerned about those things, but I think that their facilities (athletic and academic) are and will continue to be superior to places like Bradley and kids do look at those things. That is why BU is so hot after the land west of campus. I hope that in the near future BU can boast of better athletic facilities so that is not something that turns a kid away when everything else is working in a positive direction. I guess my point is basically this; if we could couple our basketball tradition and the sweet 16 momentum with a great campus like UW-Green Bay, recuiting would be that much easier and more successful. I guess that is in short all I am saying.

[thefish7]

I gotta admit, Bradley's campus isn't a strength... Not sure it's much of a weakness, but it's basically nothing special. Before coming to Bradley I toured several schools, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Georgetown, American U, George Washington U, Lehigh... Georgetown, Northwestern, American, and Lehigh all had more aesthetically pleasing campuses... Lehigh in particular was amazing-- 1600 acres, they basically own the mountaint their sitting on. Bethlehem, PA, however, is NOT a nice city.

GWU is the epitome of a city campus. It's literally several high rises in downtown Washington-- I didn't like it very much. Notre Dame really felt like a very large version of Bradley, so I think it's pretty much a push.

I chose BU because it was close to home (had been living overseas), family members had gone and liked it, it's very very good reputation among employers (according to USNews was around the same as the best schools I was looking at for my major), and they offered me money. I also liked the campus specifically because it was small, taking 45 minutes to get to class didn't appeal to me at all. Anyway, just my two cents.

[PeoriaLou]

How's your jump shot?

[mike radigan]

How's your jump shot?

He'd be better on the swim team.