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2007 BU commitment-- Will Egolf

I can't say this kid excites me too much. He's not on Rivals or Scout. The last Alaskan we had got homesick after a year and left. I am sure he's a skilled player, but he's not the impact player I think we need. He may end up being one, but I don't think he will be immediately. We have 2 other scholarships, lets get some impact guys now.
 
Hey .....it's a BIG........and right now it sounds good to me.....I'll trust the coach's on this one....lets hope there will be more size to go with this kid! :wink:
 
Big Mike said:
Hey .....it's a BIG........and right now it sounds good to me.....I'll trust the coach's on this one....lets hope there will be more size to go with this kid! :wink:
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He's listed at 6'7" 194...not exactly a 'big' in my world. He's basically the same size as Ray Brown and Gavin Schaier. I'm not saying it's a bad recruit, I just think we need 'bigger' (literally) impact guys to truly make this a special class.
 
The last Alaskan BB is referring to was Cameron Rigby who was a freshman on the 1996-97 team. He left after 1 season at Bradley.
Althought Rigby did play his junior and senior years at Bartlett High School in Anchorage, Alaska, he was actually from Melbourne, Australia. Because there was no high school basketball in Australia, he moved to Alaska to try to earn a Division I scholarship. I think the fact that he was from Australia played a part in Rigby's transfer to the University of San Diego.

Here is more on Will Egolf--
His high school team, Juneau Douglas, finished 4th in the Alaskan Class 4A state playoffs last March (the largest class). Will Egolf scored 10 points and had 5 rebounds in the final game. He was named to the All Tournament team.
http://www.jdcrimsonbears.com/emp.php?article=34

Here is a picture of Will. He looks like he might be a lefty.--
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Another picture--
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Some other links--

http://www.branchwest.com/teamalaska.html

If any of these Juneau Empire links ask for a password, enter
ID- bradleyfans
password- bradley

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/032006/spo_20060320012.shtml

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/010806/spo_20060108016.shtml

http://www.akworks.com/stories/012006/spo_20060120029.shtml
 
I still have the tapes of the Kansas and Pittsburgh games," Egolf said. "There are


Anyone know what the rest of this had to say?
 
mexicobufan said:
I still have the tapes of the Kansas and Pittsburgh games," Egolf said. "There are


Anyone know what the rest of this had to say?
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The next part of the article says:

"There are a lot of similarities with Bradley's style and the way our high school plays. I like how they use their four man (power forward).
Bradley coaches first spotted Egolf this summer at AAU tournaments in Las Vegas and Los Angeles...."

Then there are several more paragraphs of how Jim Les had a connection with the kid since the kid's personal coach was an ex-NBA guy (Mark McNamara) that Jim was friends with. It also talks about the kid's parents, family, high school, and his recruitment.

Not sure why the online PJS story left so much out.
 
I like his enthusiasm for BU. I am not sure if he'll be contributing right away in the pivot, but sounds like a solid 4 year player.
 
That's where it cuts off on the first page and goes to the second page on the hard copy.

It mentions that he needs to hit the weights. The pictures that Da Coach (thanks) posted show this.

He's an academic qualifer.
 
It says that BU only has one ride left for this class? I thought with XC leaving we would have two left after this kid? If we only have one left we had better get a true big with the last ride.
 
mexicobufan said:
It says that BU only has one ride left for this class? I thought with XC leaving we would have two left after this kid? If we only have one left we had better get a true big with the last ride.
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BU has 2 rides left with XC's departure. IMO they wouldn't be offering a kid like this who still needs to develop if they only had 1 remaining scholarship.
 
BU needs to get a juco kid with the scholarship left behind by Xavier Crawford.
Frankly there just wouldn't be any high school 2006 players remaining who could help but if a juco kid out there still wants to come and play at BU it would be a perfect fit for the scholarship, in hopes that in another two years, XC will finish at Yuba and return to BU.
 
tornado said:
BU needs to get a juco kid with the scholarship left behind by Xavier Crawford.
Frankly there just wouldn't be any high school 2006 players remaining who could help but if a juco kid out there still wants to come and play at BU it would be a perfect fit for the scholarship, in hopes that in another two years, XC will finish at Yuba and return to BU.
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how about ping?
 
tornado said:
BU needs to get a juco kid with the scholarship left behind by Xavier Crawford.
Frankly there just wouldn't be any high school 2006 players remaining who could help but if a juco kid out there still wants to come and play at BU it would be a perfect fit for the scholarship, in hopes that in another two years, XC will finish at Yuba and return to BU.
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Ok, if we land a JUCO, doesn't that leave one more ride? Before XC's departure, there were 2 available. XC leaves, that makes 3. Egolf takes one, leaving 2 more. Reynolds says we only have 1 more left for next year. Are we still trying to get an impact big for this year, ala UNC-Charlotte a few days ago? Are we giving it to Lavin or Phillips (HUGE mistake)? Something isn't adding up here.
 
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