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Dave Reynolds recruiting article

I wouldn't put any stock into anything Reynolds says about recruiting. He told us all how wonderful the recruits, that are now our players, were. He is the mouth piece for the drive by media that tells us how sunny things are in our basketball program.
 
I think we could do way worse - he's a diligent reporter but seems oddly "on board" lately as if he's supposed to support everything up on the Hilltop...
I agree that some of his "can't miss" and "difference maker" and "starting caliber" predictions for players who now don't even get a minute of playing time were a bit over the top.
 
No matter who the coach is, or who is writing the resume on new recruits, it's always the same positive reporting.
 
Chico, on that we would disagree - extremely few of the recruits we've seen in the prior decade got glowing writeups before they stepped on the floor - and mixed in were numerous columns attacking the recruiting broadly with "Too Many Jucos", "Too Many "D-I Virgins", roster turnover, transfers, plus drive-by attacks on ethics such as the slam that we cheated to get Marcellus Sommerville, that we cheated to run off TCS, and that the head coach "surrounded himself with people who favored expediency over the proper way"
 
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I think the reporters any info guys are always wanting to write something positive about a recruit to pump up the fan base and to keep us engaged all year.. I don't know why T has to bring up the previous staff it has been 3 years since they left LET IT GO!! IT IS OVER!! WHO CARES! No disrespect but enough is enough. You can bring a lot more to the conversation than the past T. You always have great info that is appreciated by all to keep us engaged all year and thank you for that..
 
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Chico, on that we would disagree - extremely few of the recruits we've seen in the prior decade got glowing writeups before they stepped on the floor - and mixed in were numerous columns attacking the recruiting broadfly with "Too Many Jucos", "Too Many "D-I Virgins", roster turnover, transfers, plus drive-by attacks on ethic such as the slam that we cheated to get Marcellus Sommerville, that we cheated to run off TCS, and that the head coach "surrounded himself with people who favored expediency over the proper way"
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Granted there were columns, and probably a few posts on this board, complaining about the things you mentioned, but the recruits themselves usually are positively written about and not all live up to expectations.
 
When has any college recruit not initially been written up in glowing terms -- coach speak? This is not a criticism of coach Ford. It is just a fact of life.
 
but I strongly disagree - you'd think the writers at the PJS would at least say they are unbiased or fair - maybe even just pretend they are..
but they clearly are not - they were strongly biased against the last staff and strongly biased in favor of the current one...
and I try not to just expect you to take an opinion on that - I have given numerous links, examples, etc..

but honestly you need nothing more than KW's own soliloquy over on the other board where he admits he was biased against JL then "soured" on him in year-two and was against him thereafter...
remember, year two, JL had several leftovers who "mutinied" and declined to play his system - this was well known - and when those guys finished up Cellus was quoted as saying "now we're all on the same page"....and in 2 more years - Sweet Sixteen.
 
tornado said:
but I strongly disagree - you'd think the writers at the PJS would at least say they are unbiased or fair - maybe even just pretend they are..
but they clearly are not - they were strongly biased against the last staff and strongly biased in favor of the current one...
and I try not to just expect you to take an opinion on that - I have given numerous links, examples, etc..

but honestly you need nothing more than KW's own soliloquy over on the other board where he admits he was biased against JL then "soured" on him in year-two and was against him thereafter...
remember, year two, JL had several leftovers who "mutinied" and declined to play his system - this was well known - and when those guys finished up Cellus was quoted as saying "now we're all on the same page"....and in 2 more years - Sweet Sixteen.
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I was just talking about you saying Chico bringing up Les....he didn't...that's all. We know how you feel about the rest of it.
 
lefty said:
In fairness T??¦.Chico is talking in general??¦.in regards to staff and sportswriters
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T, you know I'm as big a Les fan as you are, but I meant no matter who the coach has been, Ozzie, Stowell, DV, Jim M, Stan, it's always glowing reports on recruits when BU signs them.
 
Chico said:
T, you know I'm as big a Les fan as you are, but I meant no matter who the coach has been, Ozzie, Stowell, DV, Jim M, Stan, it's always glowing reports on recruits when BU signs them.
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I'm sure new recruits would love to read right after they sign with BU how they're going to be undersized, can't score, are too slow, and will ride the bench for 2 years before they probably transfer. Good luck signing anyone if the press or a message board didn't hype up a guy based on his potential.
 
BUBalum05 said:
I'm sure new recruits would love to read right after they sign with BU how they're going to be undersized, can't score, are too slow, and will ride the bench for 2 years before they probably transfer. Good luck signing anyone if the press or a message board didn't hype up a guy based on his potential.
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Where did I say they shouldn't be hyped up?
 
Da Coach said:
6-2 Lamonte Bearden of Germantown, Wis.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/recruiting/player-Lamonte-Bearden-137402...
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tornado said:
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...verbals to Buffalo...
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tornado said:
Bearden is an enigma......
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tornado said:
Bearden is blowing up - he has risen to 4-STAR - nice get for Buffalo
http://thecoliseum.sportsblog.com/post/165146/bobby_hurley_lands_a_four.html
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LaMonte Bearden, who Bradley was once recruiting, now is leaving Buffalo after averaging 14 ppg, and over 4 assists.
... this is such a very unusual time to be leaving and so few schools would still have a 2016 scholarship open for him...
but there are endless rumors that he keeps failing drug tests, and was even suspended for failed tests...so I guess he reached the end of his rope.
(although there's a poss. someone at a bigger school likes his numbers and is "getting in his ear & recruiting him"
- be interesting to see where he lands - betcha Iowa State will be in the mix)
http://www.ubbullrun.com/buffalo-ba...tball-point-guard-lamonte-bearden-to-transfer
http://www.ubspectrum.com/article/2016/02/ub-bulls-suspend-lamonate-bearden

Back in 2012 & 2013, Brian Wardle was recruiting Bearden at Green Bay..
 
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6'3" sophomore point guard LaMonte Bearden is originally from Germantown, Wisconsin, where he had a great high school career, and lead his Germantown HS to back to back state championships.

He was recruited to Buffalo 2 years ago by former Buffalo head coach Bobby Hurley. As a freshman, he started 31 of 33 games and averaged 8.3 ppg. As a sophomore, he started 27 of 30 games and lead Buffalo with an average of 13.7 ppg.
http://www.ubbulls.com/sports/mbkb/2015-16/bios/bearden_lamonte_4en5

He was suspended last February by new Buffalo head coach Nate Oats for "conduct detrimental to the team", but it was publicly known that it was for testing positive for marijuana-
http://www.ubspectrum.com/article/2016/02/ub-bulls-suspend-lamonate-bearden
http://www.ubbullrun.com/buffalo-ba...arden-suspension-is-three-games-for-marijuana

There have been rumors of academic problems as well.

But here is why it might be significant- he was recruited by Brian Wardle at Wisconsin-Green Bay. Green Bay was one of his first offers back in April, 2013 in Bearden's junior year.
So, though Bearden is a talented player and he is well known to Wardle, with his issues (marijuana, academics) and with Bradley's lack of scholarships, I would not expect to see Bradley pursue him.
http://verbalcommits.com/players/lamonte-bearden
 
For him to suddenly be leaving in mid-July can really only mean one thing, same thing the Buffalo people suspect - that he is booted for repeated drug failure that violate his scholarship agreement and cannot be overridden any longer by any desire to keep him on the team....he had likely reached the "zero tolerance" point.
He was just a soph but was team leader in scoring, minutes played/gm, FT%, assists, Assists-to Turnovers, and steals...
They would have likely been many's preseason pick to win their conference with him returning.
 
Several sources are reporting that Lamonte Bearden has been released by Buffalo to 7 schools-
Miami, Texas A&M, TCU, Arizona, Wisconsin, Marquette, and Iowa State.

One has to think Iowa State is a good bet since they thrive on disgruntled transfers.
 
Da Coach said:
Several sources are reporting that Lamonte Bearden has been released by Buffalo to 7 schools-
Miami, Texas A&M, TCU, Arizona, Wisconsin, Marquette, and Iowa State.
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Buffalo leading scorer, Lamonte Bearden has decided to transfer to Western Kentucky.
As recently as yesterday, Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall thought he still had a good chance to lure him to Wichita State-
https://twitter.com/WisBBYearbook/status/760337006127820800
https://twitter.com/GoodmanESPN/status/755192978038226945
https://twitter.com/JonRothstein/status/755105028441042944
 
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