Bradley recruit- 2016- Point guard Darrell Brown, Jr.

[tornado]

wow - talk about interest in Bradley basketball skyrocketing...
even on a Super Bowl Sunday afternoon - traffic is peaking at a couple hundred to find out about our newest Bradley Brave!!!

I checked a few other message boards - and even the busiest - the Shocker board - only had 9 people on, and the ISU & SIU boards had
only 1 or two - but the deadest board of all was....well, you know.....they had only a single YahooBot

and I see practically everything we talk about or mention here get discussed elsewhere on another message board or on people's twitters.
Literally within minutes after news is posted here, it's cut and pasted or tweeted about...people must have BradleyFans loaded on their browser continually!


There's a guy who ruins MemphisHoopers.com - he has more..

[Da Coach]

I think there will be more to come...

[tornado]

The Bradley scholarship grid has been updated. I think it's correct.

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/announcement.php?f=9

thanks - BEST Scholarship Grid I have seen - puts those even on the professional pay sites to shame

just for reference...here are the scholarship players who have eligibility remaining plus those potentially coming in

1- Donte Thomas 9.0ppg
2- Dwayne Lautier-Ogunleye 8.6 ppg
3- Luuk van Bree 8.6 ppg
4- Ronnie Suggs 8.3 ppg
5- Antoine Pittman 7.7 ppg
6- Callum Barker 5.4 ppg
7- Scottie James 3.7 ppg
8- Davante Cooper 1.6 ppg
9- Joel Okafor 1.3 ppg
10- Alex Foster - redshirting
11- Koch Bar - signed for Fall 2016
12- Nate Kennell - signed for Fall of 2016
13- Jayden Hodgson - committed for Fall of 2016
14- Darrell Brown, Jr. - committed for Fall of 2016

[egib52]

We are one over now, so my recollection is we can't take anymore commitments until 2 current players are no longer on the roster.

[Da Coach]

We are one over now, so my recollection is we can't take anymore commitments until 2 current players are no longer on the roster.

We can take as many commitments as Coach Wardle wants to get, as long as only 13 players enroll next season on scholarship. So this will all get sorted out over the next few months.

To clarify, at this time, only 1 current scholarship player will have to leave before next year's class starts, or 1 recruit fail to enroll.

We are currently 1 under the limit of 13 scholarships for this season 2015-16, since Warren Jones left, and as far as we know that scholarship has not been re-used (there were unconfirmed rumors that it might have been given to D'Angelo McBride for the remainder of this season).

3 scholarships will be open next season (the Bell, Shaw, and Jones scholarships), and we now have 4 recruits committed (only 2 have signed so far). Those scholarships will not be officially counted until those recruits actually enroll at Bradley in the summer or fall, but sometime before all 4 new recruits enroll, one player currently on scholarship will have to leave or go off scholarship.

We can speculate who that might be, but we would prefer not to see names posted on the board. I actually expect there will be at least one or two more new 2016 recruits that emerge before all is done.

[tornado]

Dave Reynolds has a good column about the newest commit Darrell Brown..

http://www.pjstar.com/article/20160207/SPORTS/160209502

(caution, gobs of pop-ups and questionnaires that pop up before you can access article - even if you are a subscriber)


apparently this one was influenced by our assistant Jimmie Foster's connections...
and the fans can be proud as they obviously created the very atmosphere that appealed to Darrell & his family!!
I have to think he knew that some of his other offers would be as a back-up or deep sub for a few years and some were with the requirement to redshirt...
I think he has a great chance to start here from day-1

[tornado]

I don't know of any rule that limits how many commitments a team can land...but some leagues have rules to limit
"OVERSIGNING"....

The Big Ten disallows any team from oversigning more than 3 players in football (three players in football), then yanking scholarships away from others to solve the problem...but it is a topic of discussion & concern only in basketball

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/23032/the-big-tens-take-on-oversigning-part-i

http://www.crimsonquarry.com/2012/5/17/3027143/indiana-hoosiers-and-the-oversign-tom-crean-plays-the-numbers-game

This is exactly what happened to Matt Roth who then got run off to solve IU's oversigning-

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/bigten/story/2012-05-07/matt-roth-indiana-scholarship/54813574/1

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/eye-on-college-basketball/18992247/fifteen-guys-for-13-spots-indianas-delicate-scholarship-situation

I doubt if any such rule exists in the Missouri Valley..... this article says...
"It is uncommon, but not unheard of, for programs to oversign to guard against transfers,
players pursuing professional opportunities or other forms of attrition."

http://www.courierpressblogs.com/sports/ue/ue-reportedly-offers-senior-guard-is-interested-in-indianapolis-howe-junior/

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National recruiting expert saying...
"nice'
"Major sharpshooter"

https://twitter.com/coreyevans_10/status/696777435694522368

..and reportedly other premium recruiting services saying same...

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story about Darrell & his team

http://www.memphishoopers.com/predictions_germantown_2015-2016.asp