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Recruiting

I have heard Will, unlike Sammy, is doing great and is completely recovered. He should be 100% by next fall.
 
Old Coach said:
I hope so too.
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WE brings many good things to this team - and I think he'll be a good fit in Geno's system if he can stay out of foul trouble.
From what I've seen, he is very encouraging to his teammates on the sidelines or in the game - keeps a positive energy even when things are going bad. I think he will have a good senior season, wanting to make the most of the opportunity.
The knock vs. Will is he's been too soft and has lacked confidence often.
I never expected JP to go flat and lose almost all confidence like he did toward the end of the season. I would hate to see him or Will go through that next year, and we certainly can't afford them to do that if we want to make strides next season.
 
Here's an odd story...you can do twitter searches and find it...it's still a little on the remote-rumorish level....

Just yesterday a tweet appeared about a kid in an east coast recruiting article..a kid who has absolutely no connection to Bradley and was getting Big East and Pac 12 offers...

The tweet also says he is going to e mail the article to BU Coach Geno Ford...
"I will be sending this on to Geno Ford at Bradley"


Bradley isn't known to be involved at all with this kid - and that is confirmed again by a premium article that also came out today on the kid on JucoJunction.com....saying he just got an offer from Pitt...
http://jucojunction.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1342168

But based only on that small talk - now there seems to be a rumor (elsewhere) saying that Bradley is recruiting the kid...I guess we'll see......
The kid had trouble at So. Miss. getting eligible and never passed the NCAA Clearinghouse...so he left and went juso and has enough credits to get his Assoc. Degree this summer and be eligible in the fall.
He is the 4th leading scorer on the team, a 6-2 SG who shoots 40% from the floor and 35% from 3-pt.
 
tornado said:
I suspect there's too many bridges burned but....it wouldn't hurt if we got a few of the Yuba kids...
as always, Yuba had another tremendous season - narrowly losing their State Championship -- with the top jucos in California on par with those anywhere else in the Nation.
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/03/12/4329823/fresno-city-beats-yuba-for-mens.html
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Another nice article on Yuba College -- I hope we smooth over the situation and keep an eye on all the talent there...
http://www.advarsitysports.com/articles/game-3477-finally-accolades.html


One other thing - USA Today quotes Coach Geno Ford....
"Ford said the MVC probably was better than he imagined looking from the outside as the coach at Kent State
before coming to Peoria.
..."When I got here last April, I knew how important the program was to a lot of people. But I was a little naive.
It's on par with what you would find at a Kentucky or at an Indiana."
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/mvc/bradley/notes/40728832/1
 
Interesting in the article it mentions Shayok-Shayok would have been better served by redshirting:

"Shayok Shayok probably should have been redshirted, but was needed with a talent-thin roster. He must bulk up in the off season"

Given the outlook of the team in 2011-12, would it have made more sense to RS Shayok and get 4 productive years from him?
 
The Shayok Shayok note I see as unnecessary. Almost EVERY freshman would be better served redshirting one year. The fact was, we had a thin roster and he was one of the more talent players on it. We didn't have the luxury of redshirting him, especially since we were redshirting Nate.
 
Chibearsfan10125 said:
The Shayok Shayok note I see as unnecessary. Almost EVERY freshman would be better served redshirting one year. The fact was, we had a thin roster and he was one of the more talent players on it. We didn't have the luxury of redshirting him, especially since we were redshirting Nate.
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Chill out CBF, just askin!

Guess I should have asked you first if my post was necessary! ;-)
Most posts on this Forum aren't necessary IMHO! :lol:

FWIW....
Were BU's fortunes this season helped any with SS stat line:
18.5 min per game, 3.5 points per game (34.6% Avg; 48.6% FT Avg), and 3.1
RB per game?

Could have given these minutes to DH and MK who may both not be here next season and let SS develop? Would BU have finished 6-26 or 1-15 without SS?

Since the 2012-13 recruiting class was going to be thin on numbers anyway, why not push SS back to the 2012-13 class?

He could have always came back into play last season if needed due to injury.

Wouldn't have hurt anything with the 2011-12 season BU had....
 
I didn't mean for my post to come off as harsh. I was just stating a fact that most players are better when they are given an extra year to develop. It seemed unnecessary, to me, to include that point in the article.

That being said, I kind of see your point, but at the same time, I doubt Geno thought the team was going to be this bad. Some fans thought we might be, but not most people. No team ever thinks they're going to be the worst team in the conference. Why would we sacrifice this year if we thought we had a good chance of being competitive? Yes the future might be a little bit brighter, but if Shayok was good enough to start his freshman year, then why sacrifice this season for the future. Maybe the expectations for this season were unrealistically lofty, but they're was talent on this team.

Also, I'm sure that at the start of the year, Geno didn't plan on having any of the players leave after the season, besides the freshman. Why give extra minutes to players who have a good chance of leaving if you didn't expect them to leave? Maybe by the middle of the season he might have known, but I can't imagine him thinking that anyone but the seniors were going before the season.

I hope this doesn't across as a personal attack. It's not. You have a right to your opinion. I'm just stating why I believe otherwise.
 
Another nice article on Yuba College -- I hope we smooth over the situation and keep an eye on all the talent there...
http://www.advarsitysports.com/articles/game-3477-finally-accolades.html


One other thing - USA Today quotes Coach Geno Ford....
"Ford said the MVC probably was better than he imagined looking from the outside as the coach at Kent State
before coming to Peoria.
..."When I got here last April, I knew how important the program was to a lot of people. But I was a little naive.
It's on par with what you would find at a Kentucky or at an Indiana."
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/mvc/bradley/notes/40728832/1
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Speaking of Yuba....

after a great season in 2011-12, they are hopeful of another great season in 2012-13...here's an article on their expectations...
http://www.advarsitysports.com/articles/doug-3683-office-fresh.html
http://collegesportvideos.com/2012/07/yuba-college-basketball-a-fresh-start-new-beginning-appeal/


one other story on Yuba
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/03/14/4335553/ezeli-learned-basketball-at-yuba.html



BTW - a kid from Yuba that Bradley might have been interested in at one time - Spencer Butterfield, is now at Utah State..
here's a summer report on him as he was playing in scrimmage games.......
"Spencer Butterfield – Absolutely tore it up out there today. Dropped in 29 points. Hit 5 three pointers. I didn’t keep track of misses, but he didn’t miss many.
I’d say he shot over 60% from downtown and I don’t remember him missing many two pointers. He got to the hoop with ease several times. Played with toughness
and ran the floor. Played some solid defense. I was most impressed by him today. He also had 5 boards and 3 assists.

Sean Harris – DNP. He was there in basketball shorts and a nice pink Aggie shirt. :) He’s a pretty big kid. He took shots at times while the teams were on the other side of the court.
After the scrimmages he went out and did a little running and put up some shots. He is very adept at hitting the three point shot (at least in practice).
He was hitting them with consistency. Appears to be a good FT shooter as well."
http://www.usustats.com/blog/2012/06/29/ratball-analysis/


Utah State moves next year to the Mountain West - so they may be playing in a higher rated conference than we will.......
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/sports/54418932-77/state-utah-west-mountain.html.csp
 
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