BU recruit- class of 2008 juco- Roberto Mafra

[Da Coach]

As I have said in other threads, there is much better talent at jucos these past few years than there was in earlier years. Here is an updated listing of the Top 200 jucos, and it's amazing to see all the top 50 Division I schools that go after jucos now. A few years ago, you would never see schools like Kansas and Kentucky going after jucos, but now both have signed kids on this year's and last year's lists. Bruce Weber went years without ever considering jucos, but now he has signed one each of the last 2 years. And many more top programs are scouring the jucos and signing players.

http://jucojunction.rivals.com/viewrank.asp?ra_key=2005&Year=2008

I don't think there is anything wrong with signing a couple jucos in the same recruiting class. Usually they are physically better developed, and more ready to contribute right away than high school kids. Big schools recruit them mostly as backups, and midmajors recruit them to fill holes on their teams.

[beanocookschins]

The drawback that I don't like about Juco's is only having them 2 years. And yes they would be in the same boat. I just think they are a higher level of talent than we have been getting and I would take the tradeoff.

Agreed. The learning curve isn't nearly as great. For the most part, how a guy is by the second semester of his first year (league season) is what you are gonna get. For guys like Theron Wilson, etc. it has worked out well. For Cole Scott and David Collins, not so much.

I personally would be OK with one JUCO for every three HS kids--not the other way around.

[Bradleyguy10]

Agreed. The learning curve isn't nearly as great. For the most part, how a guy is by the second semester of his first year (league season) is what you are gonna get. For guys like Theron Wilson, etc. it has worked out well. For Cole Scott and David Collins, not so much.

I personally would be OK with one JUCO for every three HS kids--not the other way around.

I completely agree with that. I'd rather use the majority of available scholarships for incoming freshmen that we can have all 4 years rather than juco players..I hate to say it but i just feel like we missed a possible real-time contributor to the team with DC (maybe not so much TCS). And plus instead of having a juco team develop them, we can develop them into the type of player we need specifically for us. TW did work out for us and yeah obviously POB. But we can still get that out of freshmen when we develop them ourselves.

I WOULD be happy to be wrong about DC though...he's got one more year to prove something