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Sean Harris LOI is in

Great news. Interesting mix of size next year we get to play with. If Taylor's situation turns out to be nothing more than a false alarm, then we'll have a nice experienced front court along with some interesting newbies in Andrew Davis and Sean Harris.
 
ancona flash said:
I am encouraged by this class. The Wilkins incident is slowly fading...........
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It won't, wait till you see him play. He's gonna be a good one. I'm not saying Sean isn't going to be a player here. I'm tickled to death to get him. All I'm saying is JW is gonna be really good for ISU.
 
BradleyBrave said:
Gonna play devil's advocate here for a second -

1. How do we know the recruiting classes are getting better? Do we have anything to prove that they've been any better than any of JL's other recruiting classes?

2. Why would we start playing with 2 forwards and a center now when we haven't for the better part of a decade? Do you really think that there's going to be this massive philosophical shift all of the sudden? We had 'Cellus, Zach, and POB and didn't play that way. Do you think that we'll ever have 3 guys more suited to play those roles than those 3? We may NEVER have 3 guys more suited to play that style than those 3, and very rarely if ever were they on the court together.

Not going after you real fan, just wondering how you came to these conclusions.
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there really are no objective measures -- just opinions and subjective measures..

but I will say this -- both openly on this board and via private message...
the coach of the other Yuba kids that we've had here at BU (Boogie & Zach Andrews) said flatly that Sean Harris is the most talented kid he has had or coach during his entire time at Yuba, and I value his opinion........
 
Anyone know if he's able to work on his game while in Honduras? He may have to redshirt a year if eligible, just to get back into the flow of the game.

Jason
 
BradleyBrave said:
Gonna play devil's advocate here for a second -

1. How do we know the recruiting classes are getting better? Do we have anything to prove that they've been any better than any of JL's other recruiting classes?

2. Why would we start playing with 2 forwards and a center now when we haven't for the better part of a decade? Do you really think that there's going to be this massive philosophical shift all of the sudden? We had 'Cellus, Zach, and POB and didn't play that way. Do you think that we'll ever have 3 guys more suited to play those roles than those 3? We may NEVER have 3 guys more suited to play that style than those 3, and very rarely if ever were they on the court together.

Not going after you real fan, just wondering how you came to these conclusions.
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Wishful thinking
 
jasonpeoria911 said:
Anyone know if he's able to work on his game while in Honduras? He may have to redshirt a year if eligible, just to get back into the flow of the game.

Jason
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Sean Harris played at Yuba in 2007-2008...and has now already taken 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 off...
he will also be taking 2010-2011 off and will back in the US and enrolled at BU in fall of 2011.

Even if he is granted 2 years' exemption for his Mormon mission (and it's almost a certainty he will) -- he still may not be granted 3 years' exemption - although you can ask...as both the mission and the preparatory time are allowable "off the clock", just like military service is....
--but if he is only granted 2 years' exemption then he may have already used his redshirt year.
 
In case anyone missed it, the BU article includes this photo of Sean signing his papers-
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He looks good!
 
Da Coach said:
He looks good!
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He looks pretty happy too! As much as some have been wondering if he would still sign, maybe he was wondering if Bradley was still interested in him or if BU had found someone else to take his scholarship like some schools may have done.

Kudos to both Sean Harris and Bradley for sticking with this very long process!
 
BradleyBrave said:
Gonna play devil's advocate here for a second -

1. How do we know the recruiting classes are getting better? Do we have anything to prove that they've been any better than any of JL's other recruiting classes?

2. Why would we start playing with 2 forwards and a center now when we haven't for the better part of a decade? Do you really think that there's going to be this massive philosophical shift all of the sudden? We had 'Cellus, Zach, and POB and didn't play that way. Do you think that we'll ever have 3 guys more suited to play those roles than those 3? We may NEVER have 3 guys more suited to play that style than those 3, and very rarely if ever were they on the court together.

Not going after you real fan, just wondering how you came to these conclusions.
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We won't have much choice. Have you seen the roster for next year? It has eight bigs and 5 guards. If we are not playing 2 forwards and a center then it will have to be 3 forwards. There just wont be enough guards on the roster to play 3 guards very often.
If we play three guards we won't be two deep at each position. That would leave us four deep at both the bigs positions. The math says we have to have 3 bigs on the court more often than we have 3 guards next year.
Unless the roster changes you will see BU going big next year. We have no choice.
 
braveatheart said:
We won't have much choice. Have you seen the roster for next year? It has eight bigs and 5 guards. If we are not playing 2 forwards and a center then it will have to be 3 forwards. There just wont be enough guards on the roster to play 3 guards very often.
If we play three guards we won't be two deep at each position. That would leave us four deep at both the bigs positions. The math says we have to have 3 bigs on the court more often than we have 3 guards next year.
Unless the roster changes you will see BU going big next year. We have no choice.
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Agreed completely with this. We graduate 3 Guards, and are bringing in a center, a forward and 2 guards. Our 4th+ year players will be WE, AT, and TB next year. I suspect we will play a bigger line-up. We are effectively adding 3 bigs next year TB, AD, and Sean Harris. One of whom will be our best player (assuming TB is in a condition to play basketball),
 
braveatheart said:
We won't have much choice. Have you seen the roster for next year? It has eight bigs and 5 guards. If we are not playing 2 forwards and a center then it will have to be 3 forwards. There just wont be enough guards on the roster to play 3 guards very often.
If we play three guards we won't be two deep at each position. That would leave us four deep at both the bigs positions. The math says we have to have 3 bigs on the court more often than we have 3 guards next year.
Unless the roster changes you will see BU going big next year. We have no choice.
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I really want to believe this but somehow, someway I think we will still see some type of three guard line-up
 
braveatheart said:
We won't have much choice. Have you seen the roster for next year? It has eight bigs and 5 guards. If we are not playing 2 forwards and a center then it will have to be 3 forwards. There just wont be enough guards on the roster to play 3 guards very often.
If we play three guards we won't be two deep at each position. That would leave us four deep at both the bigs positions. The math says we have to have 3 bigs on the court more often than we have 3 guards next year.
Unless the roster changes you will see BU going big next year. We have no choice.
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We will have a lot of bigs next year as far as quantity is concerned...but outside of Egolf, Prosser, and Taylor Brown, I don't see any of them being threats to be big parts of the rotation...Harris could be a wild card depending on what kind of shape he is going to be able to get into before the season kicks off...but Wells, Davis, Thompson, and Knezevic, that is just a group of guys that look to me to be nothing more than redshirt candidates or borderline D-I players at this point.

We'll still have to play a bunch of guards if and when the depth doesn't materialize in the frontcourt...problem is that we won't have the depth in the backcourt next year that we have had for the last few years...so we really will be asking for a lot out of freshman Abell and Stewart...
 
ER3 said:
We will have a lot of bigs next year as far as quantity is concerned...but outside of Egolf, Prosser, and Taylor Brown, I don't see any of them being threats to be big parts of the rotation...Harris could be a wild card depending on what kind of shape he is going to be able to get into before the season kicks off...but Wells, Davis, Thompson, and Knezevic, that is just a group of guys that look to me to be nothing more than redshirt candidates or borderline D-I players at this point.

We'll still have to play a bunch of guards if and when the depth doesn't materialize in the frontcourt...problem is that we won't have the depth in the backcourt next year that we have had for the last few years...so we really will be asking for a lot out of freshman Abell and Stewart...
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Right, Stewart and Abell sound like good ones but they will still be only true freshmen. The four bigs you mention will be a senior, a junior, a juco transfer sophmore and either a redshirt freshman or a sophmore.

You could be right, but assuming true freshmen get significant minutes and the more experienced bigs sit for all but a couple of minutes a game seems a bit of a reach to me right now.

Even if the true freshman get significant minutes we still have to go big. How else do the numbers add up?
 
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