Historically UNI has always employed a pretty strong inside game with guys like Stout, Coleman, Schneiderman, etc...combined with good guard play especially bigger guards like 6-4 Erik Crawford, 6-3 Ben Jacobson...and a 3 guard offense.
Recentlly, several guards have left UNI reportedly because of playing time issues because they have a "glut of guards".
but with all the recent recruits being exclusively guards, they are really going to have to rely on guard play.
Steven Jones left, Mason Stewart left, and UNI also has a lot of guards returning...Ahelegbe, Josten, Brown, Viet, Dunham, Reed, Molstead.
Their other 2007 incoming players ARE ALL GUARDS, Matt Culliver, Jon Montgomery, and Drew Lundberg, so they will have only 2 front court players with any SUBSTANTIAL EXPERIENCE...Coleman and Koch, with Eglseder returning with only 7 minutes per game.
So is this correct, PTTB?
The roster this fall will have 11 guards - Ahelegbe, Josten, Brown, Viet, Dunham, Reed, Molstead, Matt Culliver, Jon Montgomery, and Drew Lundberg,
and will have Coleman, Koch, Eglseder, Pedescleaux, and incoming freshmen Barz and O'Rear as the only front court players?
So of those 16 players, who are the walk ons?
I guess Lundberg is the one that stumps me. He wasn't really recruited by anyone else, is not even in the scout.com database, and Rivals barely mentions him, noting only that he's a zero-star, and by all accounts just doesn't have D-I talent. So he comes to UNI with the promise that he'll get a scholarship maybe 1 or 2 years down the road, but surely he must see all those other guards already ahead of him and by next year he'll be so deep in the playing rotation, he will get miffed and transfer. So why doesn't a kid like this see what's coming? I will be surprised if he even plays as much as Saihou Jassey did.
From what I've heard, this kid is a more offensive minded Bryan Mullins. Good pick up for UNI.
