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After watching a couple of workouts I thought I'd post a short report, especially for you out of town folks. I was very pleased with out JUCO center recruit-much more athletic than I expected. The Greek recruit was not intimidated as a freshman in a new country-he was willing to mix it up and should help this year although I wouldn't look for him to be an impact player as a freshman. The 7'1" freshman was a pleasant surprise-he moves much better than I had heard and while on the thin side, he would not be described as skinny. He had decent skills and could contribute this year if he had to although a redshirt would probably help. Darren Clarke was a big surprise-much better than I hoped-appears to be an excellent shooter and decent ballhandler-should really help this year. JJ has added some pounds but did not stand out-may be ok but not ready to be a star. AD looks really good and works harder than anyone else-his shot looks to be as good as at the end of last year if not better-he will get lots of minutes. Reggie looks like a good replacement for Perry's points-he can really score. Izak looks stronger and a bit more aggressive-still not strong enough to rebound against a big body. CS looks ready to have a very good final year-his shooting continues to look good like last year. Ross V looked better and should be able to play 10 minutes a game and give us something (I didn' say a lot, I said something) JF looks much the same as last year-played the point and took very few shots when I was there. Sorry if I forgot anyone but these are my quick impressions.

Roy, the NCAA doesn't say you need 12 football schools in a league to play in a BCS (championship) Bowl. It says you need 12 to have a league championship game like the Big 12, Pac 12 and SEC. The Big East is already a BCS bowl conf., with less than 10 football schools.

I like your setup with minor modifications. 1) Drop Fordham and the Bonnies for 6 teams in the East. 2) Add either Creighton or Butler to the West for 6 teams-I agree with xujoe that ND probably will stay with the BE football playing schools but if not take them instead of Creighton or Butler. This seems to make so much sense that I casn't imagine why it wouldn't happen.

What kid from Belleville are you talking about?

There are a lot of Bills fans on here at 4:15 p.m. !!

Thanks, Desmet,UNCA, and jjray for the clarification but now I have to wonder about Meyer and Tommie L playing the same role-the 2 or 3 spot-maybe we can use 2 of those in the same recruiting class.

He sounds from this thread like a Shaw clone so I presume that we will no longer be pursueing Shaw-seems like Brad probably told Meyer and Shaw that the first to commit gets the scholarship.

Can you spell Upchurch?

Steve, let me add my thanks-you did a great job and performed a service to the BB program. God help us if we relied on the official SLU site to learn anything about the program! Again, thanks and good luck at GWU. We'll miss seeing you at the games.