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2010 BU Recruit- Michael Ocherobia

BSSFan#1 said:
He's already 21. ..
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incorrect, he is currently 20, he turns 21 on July 27, 2010.
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q...U9cU7j&sig=AHIEtbRF1pes_2EQuDQswVNOcKcVGpWICg

He is roughly the same age as or a little older than Milos Knezevic, Jake & DSE --
..and is just a little younger than Will Egolf & AT



shaunguth said:
They obviously have rock-solid sources......I mean John Wilkins did verbal to Iowa State.......right? ;-)
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I believe all too often some in the journalism profession use web sources such as message boards and wikipedia...
 
This has been common knowledge for awhile so I am sure Dave Reynolds would not have put it in the paper without the blessing of Coach Les. It has been on the pjstar boards for awhile. This is not a Wilkins situation. CBA has placed a lot of kids in Division 1 so there shouldn't be a problem, its just gonna take some time. Let's hope everything gets done before the signing date ends so we can lock him in.
 
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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This is 2010....not 1970...

There are thousands of websites that are dedicated to providing information about college basketball recruiting...who's visiting where...what schools are looking at every guy out there...prospect databases...videos...rankings...you name it.

No college coaching staff is looking at bradleyfans.com every morning to see who Bradley is recruiting so they can fire up their private jet and fly to the Canary Islands or Bartonville, Illinois and try and steal whatever recruit Jim Les might be looking at.

If a kid can play and is looking for a D-I opportunity, programs will find out about him...and when they do find out about him, it certainly won't be from a college basketball message board in Peoria, IL that has maybe a hundred visitors a day.
 
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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Gee, I guess we can't please everyone.
Some fans have known about Mike Ocherobia for almost 2 months. This site intentionally kept this information confidential at the request of people involved, so not to adversely affect his recruiting. Now that he is 100% committed to Bradley, we have continued to keep the info off the boards, while posters on other bulletin boards (who are not Bradley fans) have chosen to publically discuss it.
But now that the info has finally reached the PJ Star and gotten published widely, I don't see any reason that the true Bradley fans here shouldn't be informed about Michael Ocherobia since there is little known about him, and little available on the internet, and everyone wants to know about this athletic big man.
 
ER3 I think you are narrowing the field down to far by saying a message board...word of mouth and the internet are the biggest avenues for coaches to find out about players...so to single this site out...you may be right, but when the word gets out..it gets out...and it can start here... you think that the recruiting sites don't take a look at various sites to get their info? I believe we have had recruiting sites post here...

I can tell you that I knew that a coach from Colorado St and Oklahoma visited the Island a week before the signing period...now how did i know that? It was not posted here....but with information I got here I found out...

your right its not 1970 message boards and the internet were not available...
 
ER3 said:
This is 2010....not 1970...

There are thousands of websites that are dedicated to providing information about college basketball recruiting...who's visiting where...what schools are looking at every guy out there...prospect databases...videos...rankings...you name it.

No college coaching staff is looking at bradleyfans.com every morning to see who Bradley is recruiting so they can fire up their private jet and fly to the Canary Islands or Bartonville, Illinois and try and steal whatever recruit Jim Les might be looking at.

If a kid can play and is looking for a D-I opportunity, programs will find out about him...and when they do find out about him, it won't be from a college basketball message board in Peoria, IL that has maybe a hundred visitors each day.
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You are wrong about this. I suggest you talk to just about any coach who has ever worked at the D1 level and you will find out.
Some college coaches will do anything to get ahead or stay ahead. Division I is very competetive, and every coach knows he could lose his job anytime if he doesn't succeed.
There are coaches who will use negative recruiting techniques, and have done so against Bradley in the past, to try to interfere with Bradley getting the recruits they are seeking. Even if a coach doesn't want a kid for his team, there are some who will use negative recruiting to keep the kid from going to their rival. It doesn't just happen against Bradley either.
Again, ask any D1 coach. None of them ever talk or complain about these things publically, but it happens abundantly.
And Bradley's coaches aren't the only ones that try to keep information about who they are recruiting secret. Most D1 coaches do this. Many times we will see a kid commit to a school that nobody knew was even in the picture with the kid until he commits. There have been numerous examples of this just these past couple weeks since the LOI period began.

And Mrcoachdude is correct- maybe other coaches don't necessarily read the opposition's message boards. But info that appears on message boards about a new recruit often finds it's way onto the recruiting sites like Rivals, Scout, and there are many more, and from there it's easy for other coaches to find out who's recruiting who.
 
I have been told personally on several ocasions by a well known D-I head coach, that he does check message boards occasionally, including this one, and he's even complimented me on the fact that Bradley's board is way better than most!!
And if you choose to believe they would NOT use info on blogs, websites, and message boards about recruits, then you are fully entitled to believe it, but you have not done any recsearch on it and are likely just offering opinion....but they do.
 
Well, I am glad to hear Braves news one way or another.
I don't see this kid being pushed around in the paint like some of our guys were last year. I know that TB is only 6'6", but if he improves on his rebounding, as he showed he definitely could last year, 2nd chance points will not be as much a factor in 2010-'11.
Maybe he's the X-factor we need to make us Valley contenders?
We can't expect him to take over games or be the top scorer, but he can give us help in the intangibles and free up our guards to score more easily.
I'm getting ahead of myself, but I'm staying positive that we'll get this guy in a Braves uni.
 
Da Coach said:
Gee, I guess we can't please everyone.
Some fans have known about Mike Ocherobia for almost 2 months. This site intentionally kept this information confidential at the request of people involved, so not to adversely affect his recruiting. Now that he is 100% committed to Bradley, we have continued to keep the info off the boards, while posters on other bulletin boards (who are not Bradley fans) have chosen to publically discuss it.
But now that the info has finally reached the PJ Star and gotten published widely, I don't see any reason that the true Bradley fans here shouldn't be informed about Michael Ocherobia since there is little known about him, and little available on the internet, and everyone wants to know about this athletic big man.
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Hey Coach...there are some Bradley fans on that other board :) I am sure you weren't calling out all the posters over there...

I am curious how one can call themself a fan and post what they know could cause a problem?????? Why? Even if it were a little thing and probably would not make much difference.....why?
 
mrcoachdude said:
I am curious how one can call themself a fan and post what they know could cause a problem?????? Why? Even if it were a little thing and probably would not make much difference.....why?
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Maybe some "Fans" don't post early because their source asked them not to post until official?
 
mrcoachdude, the poster who started the Ocherobia thread is an
ISU fan, and the majority of posts in the thread are from ISU and Illini fans. That was what I am referring to.
 
Air Petey said:
Maybe some "Fans" don't post early because their source asked them not to post until official?
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I also new a while back with links and everything but my source asked to keep it off the board. I want all the information possible and I'm sure not going to open my big trap to hurt my future chances of getting updates.:mrgreen:
 
SFP said:
I also new a while back with links and everything but my source asked to keep it off the board. I want all the information possible and I'm sure not going to open my big trap to hurt my future chances of getting updates.:mrgreen:
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Bingo!!

Winner, Winner..... Chicken DINNER
 
Da Coach said:
You are wrong about this. I suggest you talk to just about any coach who has ever worked at the D1 level and you will find out.
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What exactly am I wrong about?

Are you saying that if I talk to any coach who has ever worked at the D-I level they are going to tell me that they look at bradleyfans.com to find their recruiting information?

That was the only claim I said that I disagreed with in my original post...that opposing coaches look at this board to find recruiting targets that they could steal from BU.
 
Da Coach said:
Gee, I guess we can't please everyone.
Some fans have known about Mike Ocherobia for almost 2 months. This site intentionally kept this information confidential at the request of people involved, so not to adversely affect his recruiting. Now that he is 100% committed to Bradley, we have continued to keep the info off the boards, while posters on other bulletin boards (who are not Bradley fans) have chosen to publically discuss it.
But now that the info has finally reached the PJ Star and gotten published widely, I don't see any reason that the true Bradley fans here shouldn't be informed about Michael Ocherobia since there is little known about him, and little available on the internet, and everyone wants to know about this athletic big man.
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First of all when BU does not announce information on this player it is for a reason, I have known about him also for a long time and if it was suppose to be public they would have issued a statement about him like todays in the paper.
 
Da Coach said:
mrcoachdude, the poster who started the Ocherobia thread is an
ISU fan, and the majority of posts in the thread are from ISU and Illini fans. That was what I am referring to.
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I don't know how you came up with that :? "the majority"? I can root for whoever I want to and you can't stop me. I root for Bradley first, but I also like to follow Illinois, Loyola, ISU and SIU - what's the problem with that, I grew up in Illinois and like the teams from Illinois.
 
real fan said:
First of all when BU does not announce information on this player it is for a reason, I have known about him also for a long time and if it was suppose to be public they would have issued a statement about him like todays in the paper.
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What? Tons of us have known about him... And aren't you agreeing with DC?

And there is actually a very big reason BU doesn't announce stuff even though they'd like to... They can't. They didn't announce the Stewart commitment, even though they really want it to be out, because it's against NCAA regulations. As would BU announce anything about Michael...
 
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