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kleinschmidt was a better ballhandler and rebounder.

You have to put that quote in context. Luke is by far Borgia's best athlete and the quote was from Luke's coach. Again, if you've seen Kirk Penney play, Luke is a comparable athlete. The closest comparison I can think of in Conference USA is former Marquette star Brian Wardle. In fact that might be a better comparison because Wardle didn't shoot the three ball as often as Penney did.

"He could get to the basket better than pretty much anyone on those teams" Those teams shot more three pointers than any Billiken squad in history. Saying that he was the best slasher on those teams is kinda like saying George Hendricks was the best power hitter on the early 80s Cardinal teams, which didn't hit many home runs.

Highmark liked to catch and shoot while Luke scores mostly off the dribble. He will bury a three if you leave him wide open but usually seeks higher percentage shots. I'm not sure where the Scott Highmark comparisons are coming from.

Something different from either. Scott Highmark was primarily a 6'3 shooter. Meyer is a 6'5 200 lb slasher/shooter who likes to play defense. If you've ever seen Wisconsin's Kirk Penney play, that's the closest comparison I can think of.

Summary: 18 ppg, 4 rpg, 3 apg, 46% 3PT, 88% FT http://prepsports3.stltoday.com/basketball.../overall21.shtm

Are you and pdiddy homeless? You guys spend a lot of time in the streets :-)

"During the same time, the ACC had 6 teams in the Final 4. To the non-BCS 2." That's misleading. North Carolina, Duke and Maryland accounted for the 6 berths. The other ACC teams didn't do jack.

It's impossible for the competition to fall to D2 levels. The same highly touted kids that are going to the BCS schools will still go there. But the next Marque Perry, Kent Williams or Jobey Thomas will still need a place to play ball. And those kids are high major D-1 players whether the BCS recognizes them or not.

"Look at the NCAA tournament. Last six years there has been one (1) Final Four team that was not BCS...Marquette." I think you missed Utah. So in addition to Marquette, Utah, Temple, Tulsa, Gonzaga and Kent St. have all made the Elite 8 in the last six years. I wouldn't exactly call that irrelevant.

Lots of powerful people in this country, who happen to be sports fans, did not attend a BCS school. They are not going to stand idly by while the BCS attempts to make their alma maters irrelevant.

Luke Meyer will visit SLU on Sept 5. Stanford is after a number of high profile players at his position but Luke says he wants to make a decision before the season. Matt Shaw visits SLU on Sept 19. Stanford is after a number of high profile players at Shaw's position as well and Creighton just got a commitment at the power forward position. That pretty much leaves SIU and SLU. Carlton Reed hasn't been offered by SLU but he does finally have an offer from Iowa, the school he claimed was his favorite all along. Most of the high majors have backed off Jamarcus Ellis because he chose not to play summer ball. It may not be SLU, but some school is going to benefit from this snub big time. Dayton just got a commitment from a player at Vince Humphrey's position and SLU hasn't offered. Vince didn't get invited to Nike Camp and played for a mediocre AAU team. That combination is really hurting his recruitment, IMO. Tommie Liddell will get another crack at the ACT at the end of the month. Nothing new on Draelon Burns.

If you believe, as I do, that Clemons would fail any real college course without help, then a 1.9 proves he did get help.

I'm guessing BRoy has seen these two match up at least 4 times over the past two years, if you include summer league games at the Family Sports Center.

The recruiting classes have been stronger in the Valley the last two year. Creighton, in particular, has been a formidable opponent for the Billikens. They beat us out for Tim Blackwell last year and are in the running for Matt Shaw, Draelon Burns and Carlton Reed this year.

After hearing that Ian has to sit out 10 games, I change my mind about Husak redshirting. Playing 10+ minutes a game for ten games would do more for his development as a college player than a redshirt year. What say you?

http://www.chicagohoops.com/articles/wolves16a.html The Wolves had some great individual performances this summer. Bryan Mullins (Downers Grove South), who was MVP of the TOC, also went for 15 points and 12 assists in a head-to-head match-up with Florida recruit Taurean Green. Bobby Frasor (Chicago Brother Rice) went for 21, 23, 19 and 22 points in four consecutive games at AAU Nationals. Sead Odzic (Niles West) outscored Top 10 Class of 2003 prospect Darius Washington 31-30 at Nationals. Mike Davis (Chicago Gordon Tech), who was an All-Tournament selection at the TOC, scored 15 points and grabbed 11 rebounds against the Alabama Challenge "Head coach Mike Mullins told Chicago Hoops that he thinks this team will have 7 or 8 Division I college basketball players when the November 2004 signing date rolls around. He went on to note that colleges have praised the entire team for their approach to the game both on and off of the court. The team has close to a 4.0 grade point average as a unit"

"does he rate them by who recruits them?" That appears to be the case. He certainly had Ivan Renko, a player from Bob Knight's imagination, ranked very highly. It may selfish thinking but I hope that Kevin Lisch continues to be underrecruited and underranked. We know how good he is.

Joe Higgins. Seriously doubt we'll be going after another 5'9 point guard next year, if we go after a point guard at all.

"we all believe and most agree that our top recruiting target is already academically challenged and stressed tommie liddell" We have been in agreement for some time that Tommie is best local junior but I never believed that he should be our top target because the odds of an East St. Louis athlete qualifying out of high school are extremely low. That's why I've been on the Matt Shaw bandwagon for so long. That's why I'm so pleased that Polk's recovery from injury is going so well. If Tommie qualifies, that's great. But it would be a pleasant surprise rather than an expectation. Draelon Burns, who is reportedly enrolling at the well-regarded prep school Laurinburg Institute, is a better bet to qualify.

The key is target players who are not academic risks early on so the staff does not waste 6 months worth of time and resources recruiting them. I'm not saying they need to have 3.6 GPAs like Polk or Shaw but if a kid is sporting a 2.5 GPA, we really shouldn't be recruiting him.

If we get upset at home, upset someone on the road ) and win all the other games we're favored in, 10-6 is not an unrealistic goal in conference play.

This may have nothing to do with P.E. classes. Private schools have always been more stringent about what juco classes will transfer, be they English, science classes, etc. That's why the vast majority of them don't make a practice of recruiting jucos.

Every school has its own requirements regarding juco courses. Just because all of a kid's credits transfer to Wisc-Green Bay, doesn't mean they will all transfer to a SLU or a Creighton or a Butler. A student may have to take an additional course or two to obtain enough transferrable credit.

I'm happy that the young man will not have his college basketball hopes dashed because of one juco class. The more I think about it, I wonder if Morris just had second thoughts and took the easy way out. If I learned I could go play basketball at another school that didn't require me to burn 8 weeks of my summer doing course work, I might stop going to class. Not saying that's definitely what happened but it's plausible.