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Bradley gets committment from 2019 Sean Houpt

Da Coach

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Add one more player to the 2019 recruiting class- preferred walkon Sean Houpt of Danville High School-
https://twitter.com/IL_IrishMBB/stat...83075971878912
http://verbalcommits.com/players/sean-houpt


Congratulations Sean, welcome to Bradley! You picked a terrific school!

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Sean Houpt is a terrific shooter.
Videos-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIPtJQzQWJU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIXbNyG6px0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDKtuSTuwu4

Sean has a younger sister Erin, who is a sophomore at Danville HS, and who is also quite a basketball player-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChZTFP_2t-c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YYm-BO-8Nk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DZdsX81bCs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDq3HcBsQcE

(Coach Gorski, we need to recruit Sean's sister!)
 
One more impressive thing about Sean Houpt- he is a straight A, 4.0 GPA student at Danville. He will love Bradley, and his GPA will help boost the already spectacular team academic successes!


And Sean's father, Ted Houpt just recently resigned as the head boys basketball coach at Danville HS. He will continue to teach there, but wanted more time to follow Sean's college basketball career.
http://www.news-gazette.com/sports/...after-seven-years-leading-danville-hoops.html
 
I think this is a good thing....we could use some help at guard next season....does preffered walk on mean full ride down the road?
 
I don't think any decision has been made. It is similar to Pete Hanley, who did earn a scholarship his last semester. But with his strong academics, Sean will get a lot of scholarship help from Bradley.
I believe the term "preferred" just means that he was invited to join the team, and will not need to try out.
 
Welcome to the Hilltop! Exciting times! Let's get it!

He has a legit chance to fight for minutes given there's 5 other guards. He can get on campus and get acclimated earlier than Ville who will be in Europe all summer.
 
I have a good feeling about Sean. Bright and I am sure hard work ethic. Can never have enough shooters. Welcome to the team!
 
He looks (although from a highlight video) to be the kind of shooter we have needed more of for years. I would guess that the only thing holding him back from getting a scholarship at this level is strength and athleticism. So hopefully he can add to each once he starts working with the S&C staff.
 
Maybe the worthless Peoria Journal Star has decided to just give up and abandon their coverage of Bradley basketball altogether?
Bradley landed a verbal commitment from a stellar prep player right here in Central Illinoi yesterday, the news is easily found all over twitter, it's being reported by high school and college recruiting writers in Chicago and all over the state of Illinois, it was tweeted yesterday PM by his AAU coach with the Illinois Irish (Gavin Sullivan), and even tweeted by former PJ Star sports writer Aaron Ferguson. Yet, the PJ Star beat writer assigned to cover Bradley basketball has not posted a word about it. He hasn't reported or tweeted about this. In fact, the beat writer hasn't even tweeted in nearly a week. And there is no mention of Sean Houpt's commitment anywhere in either the print version of the PJ Star, nor anywhere on the online version.
Can anyone explain why the local "newspaper" is not bothering to report this news or report anything about future Bradley Brave Sean Houpt?
 
Da Coach said:
Maybe the worthless Peoria Journal Star has decided to just give up and abandon their coverage of Bradley basketball altogether?
Bradley landed a verbal commitment from a stellar prep player right here in Central Illinoi yesterday, the news is easily found all over twitter, it's being reported by high school and college recruiting writers in Chicago and all over the state of Illinois, it was tweeted yesterday PM by his AAU coach with the Illinois Irish (Gavin Sullivan), and even tweeted by former PJ Star sports writer Aaron Ferguson. Yet, the PJ Star beat writer assigned to cover Bradley basketball has not posted a word about it. He hasn't reported or tweeted about this. In fact, the beat writer hasn't even tweeted in nearly a week. And there is no mention of Sean Houpt's commitment anywhere in either the print version of the PJ Star, nor anywhere on the online version.
Can anyone explain why the local "newspaper" is not bothering to report this news or report anything about future Bradley Brave Sean Houpt?
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Dave Reynolds is covering the weather now for PJS - https://www.pjstar.com/news/20190505...28-feet-monday
He's also been writing some entiries for a blog - https://maroonpr.com/2019/05/06/peor...ith-jim-thome/

so maybe he's been taken off the sports coverage? Kirk stepped down from PJS sports to write press releases for OSF.
I don't doubt that they are both very good at what they do but something really weird is up...

it's like -- what if I called a knee surgeon and was told that after doing that for 30 years, he doesn't do that any more and he's working now as a pizza delivery guy - that would be a pretty strange thing.....
 
tornado said:
Dave Reynolds is covering the weather now for PJS - https://www.pjstar.com/news/20190505...28-feet-monday
He's also been writing some entiries for a blog - https://maroonpr.com/2019/05/06/peor...ith-jim-thome/

so maybe he's been taken off the sports coverage? Kirk stepped down from PJS sports to write press releases for OSF.
I don't doubt that they are both very good at what they do but something really weird is up...

it's like -- what if I called a knee surgeon and was told that after doing that for 30 years, he doesn't do that any more and he's working now as a pizza delivery guy - that would be a pretty strange thing.....
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Cool your jets DR is on vacation and no where near Here. It is to bad the PJS can't find someone to keep us informed while DR is gone.
 
The PJ Star has a responsibility to cover important local sports news. They consistently fail big time at that. Having one of their reporters on vacation is a poor excuse for not having someone at least get this story online or maybe at a minimum, have someone tweet about it. They are continuing to prove Bradley people right about their amateurish failure to cover Bradley sports. Apparently high school girls track deserves wall to wall coverage, but having someone take 5 minutes to report a Bradley basketball recruiting commitment from a Central Illinois kid isn't. And they wonder why nobody reads their rag any more.

If DR is on vacation, I'll cut him slack, though he has tweeted about breaking news while out of town on occasions in the past.
But there is no excuse for the PJ Star not to report this. Just pick up the phone and give the kid's family (or the BU coach or Sean's coach) a call and get the story. How hard can that be?

Heck, even the volunteer staff at the Bradley Scout student newspaper had the story reported hours ago-
https://twitter.com/ScoutSportsDesk/status/1126634889791639552
 
nothing surprises me any more, this whole week the paper carriers in our neighborhood must have chosen to go on strike...or protest something...
I don't get the paper but a few others in the neighborhood do and the carriers used to go up the driveway and chuck the papers on the porches
or they stuck them in boxes on the mailbox post - but now they are just dropping it on the ground at the end of everyone's
driveway or in the street and in this weather, the paper gets wet.
Some homeowners don't even bother to pick it up so they have multiple waterlogged newspapers.
 
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