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Rate this years recruiting class.

One of the more positive things about BU MBB heading into the 2016-17 season is the focus on the players: returning players, new recruits, and future player recruiting!

How refreshing.

BW will have to clean out some of the 13 schollys committed for 2017-18 after next season in order to add new players with better skills for 2017-18 and beyond.

Hopefully BU's 'full roster' (on paper) heading into 2016-17 will not deter future prospects from considering BU... nor the fact BU has had to, and will have to, cut loose players already on schollys in order to rise from the grave of the MVC.
 
don't know if you can count Alex Foster with this year's recruiting class but he is now eligible and will be part of this fall's group of new players
I hope he adds a ton and silences any doubters............

but incoming transfers into the MVC have historically had a spotty record of success...even many of the highly touted ones...
Just curious - who have been the MOST important incoming transfers in the MVC (at least recently - let's not go back to Steve Kuberski)

Remember when Jake Kelly transferred from Iowa to Indiana State- there were some who said he'd dominate the Valley...
Instead - he was pretty mediocre...

Same said about Anton Grady - coming off a Player-of-the-Year-talk season at Cleveland State - but BOTH his scoring & rebounding dropped to only half of what they were there...
same for Northwestern transfer Kale Abrahamson, Ibby Djimde, Diamond Taylor, Banyard, Trey Blue and lots of others -
Even Milton Doyle looked quite promising at first but looks very average-MVC caliber now...
Washpun was a key transfer - and I think you can say Champ Oguchi was also - but how many others have there been?
 
I like that we have some key guys with experience from last season:

Pitt - DLo - Von Bree - Suggs - Thomas, among others

The incoming players will bring athleticism and practices should be more competitive, which can only be a good thing.

Hoping for a season in which we were as competitive as the last 10 or so games, and come close to a .500 overall record, with a possible post-season tourney (CIT or something)
 
tornado said:
but incoming transfers into the MVC have historically had a spotty record of success...even many of the highly touted ones...
Just curious - who have been the MOST important incoming transfers in the MVC (at least recently - let's not go back to Steve Kuberski)
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Rolan Roberts certainly had an impact at SIU in his one year there.
 
wow - boogie - you got a good memory on that one...
Rolan did have a great year in 2001-2002...
13.8 ppg, 7.1 rpg, helping SIU to a 28-8 record and a Sweet Sixteen post-season run that help launch Bruce Weber's hiring at Illinois
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools.../auto_pdf/2001-2/stats/season_stats_final.pdf

..but note I did qualify and ask - who "at least recently" had a big impact......



Just for the heck of it..here's my ranking of the best transfers into the MVC in the past decade

#1- I'm gonna list Marcellus Sommerville even tho he transferred more than 10 years ago but was still here a decade ago - and he technically came to BU from juco but was at Iowa before that. So some might argue he doesn't count, but I will list him.

#2- Wes Washpun- from Tennessee, one of the best players the past couple years in the MVC

#3- Greg Echenique- transfer from Rutgers - not a superstar but a solid MVC player

#4- Champ Oguchi- transfer from Oregon-

#5- Desmar Jackson- Wyoming transfer

#6- (pickings already getting pretty slim to fill out the top Ten) - will go with Dwayne Lathan, although injured a lot

#7- Milton Doyle- jury's kinda still out but does produce double digits

#8- Anton Grady - but only played a reserve role for one year so again getting to be a stretch

#9- Auston Barnes - yup, kinda counts as a DI transfer tho he had a stopover at juco- was our leading scorer..

#10- Jimmy Gavin - yup - transferred from Mississippi State and although his talents weren't appreciated much here, he did go on to prove himself to be as good as just about anyone on this list!

Honorable Mention- really marginal guys, Tony Freeman (Iowa transfer), Will Creekmore (Boston U.). Jordan Clarke (Vermont), Kale Abrahamson (Northwestern)
(all filled roles and had good stretches, but failed to live up to the hype & expectations)

..then really there's not even anyone else I can think of who even put up any points - maybe Kobby Acquah, Chris Blake/Air Force?
 
thanks- was thinking I missed someone..
Jesperson definitely killed us, but his numbers in the MVC and especially against every MVC team but Bradley were modest at best...just under 10ppg as a senior and 5.9 ppg as a junior....a little less productive than Abrahamson but far more valuable because of his 3-pt shooting
So I'd put him somewhere between Jackson & Doyle
 
Most, if not nearly all the players plan to be on campus for the first summer sesion that starts Monday, June 6.
 
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