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2010 BU Recruit- Michael Ocherobia

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Bradley has made a scholarship offer to Michael Ocherobia, a 6-foot-8, 240-pound center who??™s been playing at a prep school in the Canary Islands. Ocherobia, 21, is originally from Nigeria and spent time in England before landing in the islands off the coast of northern Africa. It is believed that Ocherobia would have at least three years of college eligibility beginning this fall. The athletes can??™t sign a National Letter of Intent with an American university until his academic documents have been processed and approved. ... The current Braves begin final exams next week. Les said all would return to BU for summer school in June.
 
Future Walk-On said:

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Bradley has made a scholarship offer to Michael Ocherobia, a 6-foot-8, 240-pound center who??™s been playing at a prep school in the Canary Islands. Ocherobia, 21, is originally from Nigeria and spent time in England before landing in the islands off the coast of northern Africa. It is believed that Ocherobia would have at least three years of college eligibility beginning this fall. The athletes can??™t sign a National Letter of Intent with an American university until his academic documents have been processed and approved. ... The current Braves begin final exams next week. Les said all would return to BU for summer school in June.
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So it's public now. I think most people have been pretty excited about this guy.
 
Here is a bit more information about the newest Bradley big man recruit Michael Ocherobia-

Michael Ocherobia is 6'8", 252 pounds and reportedly has nearly a 7 foot wingspan (as measured by Coach Les).
He is originally from Nigeria, but was raised in England and speaks excellent English.
He has spent the last year at the Canarias Basketball Academy, where he received recruiting interest from numerous D1 schools.

Links and more info about the newest Bradley Brave commit Michael Ocherobia-

First- here is an informative video about the Canarias Basketball Academy (CBA) founded by a former assistant coach at several US colleges, Rob Orrelana-
http://www.hoopsfix.com/2009/10/video-cba-canarias-basketball-academy/

Old article about the coach that started the CBA (Canarias Basketball Academy)-
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1032375/index.htm

Complete CBA Roster-
http://www.cbacademy.org/index.asp?modulo=05&idioma=en

Michael Ocherobia's roster page-
http://www.cbacademy.org/index.asp?modulo=05&idioma=en&id=28

Picture roster for CBA-here he is listed at 6'8", 265 pounds. Scroll down to bottom of page 2.-
http://www.cbacademy.org/panel_de_control/archivos_subidos/CBA%20MEDIA%20GUIDE%20%20TOUR%20USA%20low.pdf

ESPN rating- the scouts who rated him saw him play at a prep school tournament on the East coast (see below) in early February. Incidentally, that is where Bradley coaches first saw him and became interested.
http://insider.espn.go.com/ncb/recr...g/tracker/player?recruitId=104738&season=2010

Article about CBA with a picture of Michael Ocherobia-
http://latinosports.com/basketball/hoops-academy-teaches-game-life-lessons.html

Another article about the school-
http://www.nysportscene.com/?p=2444

Brief report of the CBA team when they played at a prep school tournament in the US in February. This is the only time Michael Ocherobia played in the US.-
http://netscoutsbasketball.com/blog...all-invitational-canarias-basketball-academy/

Listed 7th player down on this Euro prospects site. Note that a couple of his teammates at the Canarias Basketball academy are also listed as committing to Division I colleges.-
http://www.europeanprospects.com/information-database/ncaa-recruiting-europe-based-played/
 
Da Coach said:
Links and more info about the newest Bradley Brave commit Michael Ocherobia-

Note that a couple of his teammates at the Canarias Basketball academy are also listed as committing to Division I colleges.
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Is this an offer or a verbal commitment? We should consider changing the headline of this thread if it is the latter...
 
DC, is there reason to believe this clearing process will go smoother than the JW one and that MO will be here next year?
 
BUfan14 said:
DC, is there reason to believe this clearing process will go smoother than the JW one and that MO will be here next year?
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I really don't have any information to say with authority, but the Canarias Basketball Academy has placed nearly 20 kids in Division I schools in the past 3 or 4 years, and all of them got through the NCAA Clearinghouse process OK, and all qualified academically. The people who run the CBA also say that there should be no problem with Michael Ocherobia. His schooling was in England, where transcripts and verifiability is usually not the same kind of problem that has been seen with kids from African countries. I hear the Bradley coaches are not worried.
Nonetheless, given the problems some Bradley recruits have had (John Wilkins, Dwight Buycks, Xavier Crawford, DeAaron Williams, etc.), I don't blame Bradley fans for worrying about it. All we can do is wait and see.

And Ocherobia is a strong verbal commitment to Bradley. He is not going to end up changing that.
 
Duane82 said:
I hope this doesn't turn into us talking and wondering about him a year from now like we are for JW.
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He's already 21. If this takes as long as Wilkins, Ocherobia will be collecting social security before the NCAA decides anything.

Well, I guess he's not eligible for social security since he hasn't worked in the US.
 
And regarding Dave Reynolds' statement- "It is believed that Ocherobia would have at least three years of college eligibility beginning this fall."

There is no reason I can see why Michael Ocherobia would not have a full 4 years of eligibility. The NCAA does have something called the 21 year old rule, but I don't think it would apply to Ocherobia.-
http://www.ncaa.org/wps/portal/ncaa... and Recruiting/Faqs/eligibility_seasons.html

It says-
In Division I only, if a student-athlete has participated as an individual or as a team representative in organized sports competition, that kind of participation during each 12-month period after his/her 21st birthday and prior to initial full-time collegiate enrollment will count as one year of varsity competition in that sport. Any participation in organized competition during time spent in the U.S. armed services will be excepted.

Since Ocherobia has been in the prep school and not participated in organized competetion, and he is currently 20 years old, and will not be 21 until July, he should not lose any eligibility time.
 
This is just my opinion so don't be mad at me. What I don't understand is why you guys feel the need to talk about potential recruits before they are in hand. We've been told that other coaches read our site, so why give them information what we're up to, someone could go after them, loose lips sink ships. How did the PJS get that information and who gave it to them, tell me that.
 
BU RICK said:
This is just my opinion so don't be mad at me. What I don't understand is why you guys feel the need to talk about potential recruits before they are in hand. We've been told that other coaches read our site, so why give them information what we're up to, someone could go after them, loose lips sink ships. How did the PJS get that information and who gave it to them, tell me that.
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They obviously have rock-solid sources......I mean John Wilkins did verbal to Iowa State.......right? ;-)
 
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