Basketball Jones

8 hours ago, &rew Bull said:

I don't think so. I suspect him receiving quite a bit of playing time last season means he doesn't have much of a case for a waiver for immediate eligibility.

He averaged 5 minutes per game in 23 games. In comparison, Jamir Chaplin averaged 4.5 minutes in 20 games. 

That's not much playing time imo.

4 hours ago, bcgruber said:

7/30/2020 - 2019 PF Luke Anderson (6-8, 215, 4★) has enrolled in school and been added to the official team roster.

Where is that from? Anderson has been enrolled at USF since late December. 

3 hours ago, Dave_Glaser said:

Bradley’s story was such a sad one. I remember sitting down and interviewing him on media day before his senior year and I came away thinking there was something wrong. He was poised to be the team leader, top returning player, etc. The interview was a typical one, but Bradley was very understated, quiet. In hindsight, we all know why. He already had his prognosis, but it hadn’t been made public yet. He knew there was going to be no senior season. I didn’t know he had a daughter. If she’s D-1 capable, it would be amazing to see her in Green & Gold one day.
 

https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/sports/2020/07/30/arianna-mosley-following-in-father-s-footsteps?cid=share_twitter

Wouldn't she have to leave the country and play in Europe for Jose Fernandez to recruit her? 

9 hours ago, bcgruber said:

how do you know, the only game so far is pretty good...against LSU

I was referring to home games. Games in the Yuengling Center.

I saw a list of games on the Rivals site earlier this month. It is behind a paywall though 

Conference only schedule makes it very difficult for teams not in the ACC, Big 10, Big 12, SEC, Pac 12 and Big East to get in the tournament. 

Side note: the home non conference schedule is terrible anyway. 

31 minutes ago, Jonesy Bull said:

Again, what are the rules for College Basketball practices and Coaching?

I thought this was only allowed after Midnight Madness or whatever the hell they call it now, in October.....have the rules changed?

That whole Oct. 15 being the first day of practice for every school ended years ago. 

IIRC "Practice" starts 45 days prior to a team's first game. 

"Workouts" with coaches on the court usually begin, in some form, in May or early June. Just for a couple of hours each week and continues when incoming freshmen and transfers arrive for Summer B. These workouts are usually done by position not the entire team at once.

Workouts end in August.

Practice, with the entire team in the gym working on plays, working on defense etc. begins in September. I think the first day of practice last season was September 24, 2019.

Hope that was helpful. 

2 hours ago, Jonesy Bull said:

Are they allowed to have Basketball practice this early, I thought it was the middle of October.  Or is this in "unofficial" practice?

Very excited about this team this year.

Workouts 

It is free to read the list of schools, which is why I posted the link, but you have to subscribe to read what he said about each school.  I hope I didn't violate a rule.

https://usf.rivals.com/news/usf-basketball-recruiting-four-star-wing-michael-james-has-usf-in-final-8

3 hours ago, NewEnglandBull said:

But was it the all star who was great or the strength and conditioning coach? 

The all-star was great so he could pick anyone to be his personal trainer and he picked this guy when he was 25 years old. And he caught the attention of the Raptors strength coach enough so that "Wallace helped play a role in assisting Toronto's head strength and conditioning coach in pre-draft workouts and the NBA Summer League."

I see this as nothing but a good thing. USF's players, who have all dreamed of playing in the NBA, will have a strength coach who trained a NBA all-star and knows what it takes to prepare your body to perform at a high level on the highest level.

On paper this seems like a good thing for USF. Hopefully it works out well.

Just now, NewEnglandBull said:

Well the good news is that strength and conditioning coaches are as common as fat people in a Walmart. 

 

Maybe not strength and conditioning coaches who were the personal trainer for a 4-time NBA All-Star.

6 hours ago, DELdaBull said:

So his last school basically said, "We don't want you."?

So that Tweet would have you believe. However, I was told that Prince Oduro was not run off and the Mississippi State coach was caught by surprise that he entered the transfer portal. Same person told me that Oduro was likely to get a waiver because of some things that went down at his first school (Siena) which ultimately led to sanctions and I think a show cause for the coach. Kids can transfer and play immediately when that happens but Oduro left the school before the NCAA investigation was completed. What I was told was that part of Oduro's waiver application would include being given immediate eligibility because of what happened at Siena and he already sat once.

Whatever it was I'm glad he got the Waiver. Kid can back up Yetna and in a smaller lineup he can back up Durr.

Did not know we had an opening. Then I read the article and we lost our strength coach to Tampa Prep?

I love Jaylen Martin's game but can't see him and Derrick Sharp's kid both coming to USF.

And since I really want Sharp to Run With The Bulls...

I'll be super impressed if Makur Maker enrolls at Howard.

On 6/29/2020 at 11:20 AM, DELdaBull said:

What I learned

Caleb has quickness

Caleb is not tall

Caleb is going to develop with hard work at another Florida university 

Read elsewhere that Caleb looks like he has grown some and might be legit 6'4 now

Good riddance to Connecticut 

https://usf.rivals.com/news/usf-bulls-basketball-breaking-down-usf-guard-caleb-murphy

1 hour ago, JTrue said:

I know they made a rule that if you hire a HS coach, you can't go after his players for a few years. Not sure on the parent thing.

Two years unless hired as one of the 3 assistant coaches.

I think the rule for this in basketball is slightly different from football.

On 6/17/2020 at 11:46 PM, bcgruber said:

cant do that anymore, against the rules

When did they change that rule?

All I could find was that as long as they're one of the three assistant coaches on the staff you can hire the parent of a recruit. In sharp case his father is a former professional basketball player who has coaching experience  at the High School level. So, he's qualified. 

On 5/31/2020 at 9:25 PM, CousinRicky said:

I don't see any USF @'s in that.   What did I miss?

You didn't miss anything. USF has offered that kid but clearly his handler is trying to get the attention of more successful basketball programs. 

On 5/29/2020 at 9:43 AM, Triple B said:

Not according to nationalletter.org if I'm reading that correctly....

If I get an NLI and get a complete release, can I sign another NLI in the same signing year?

No. NLI policy states a prospective student-athlete is only permitted to sign one valid NLI in an academic year. Therefore, if you sign an NLI during the early period and get a complete release by the institution or one of the NLI committees before the spring signing period ends, you are not permitted to sign a second NLI in the spring. You must wait until the next academic year to sign another NLI if you have not enrolled already at a four-year institution..

He doesn't have to sign a NLI if he doesn't want to. The NLI is a binding contract but it only binds the kid to the school. The school can recruit over the kid before he enrolls (like in Okpomo's case) or a kid could sign in November only to see the Coach get fired at the  end of the season or take a better job. Heck, a school could tell a kid that he/she should ask for a release from their NLI (**** move but a school could).

I'd never let my kid sign a NLI. Some schools **** around, especially when they fire a Coach, and delay granting the release because the school wants the incoming kids to wait and see who they hire and at least talk to that Coach, blah, blag, blah.

Okpomo can sign sign financial aid papers with the Wake Forest and he is good to go.

https://usf.rivals.com/news/usf-bulls-basketball-recruiting-new-usf-pf-offer-that-s-a-good-school-

11 hours ago, bcgruber said:

"O" was a projec...t his knees were a problem and it did'nt work out, thats what a program like usf has to take a chance on

Well, if you're going to recruit a kid who probably should have been at a Division 2 school, Heath could have at least recruited a kid from Florida and built a relationship with a Florida HS.

9 hours ago, WhoRUSF said:

I dont see the upside to USF playing LSU in Atlanta. Who's going to care about USF in Atlanta? Unless they already know there will be no fans

It is a MTE so USF/LSU is one of several games that day. 

On 6/23/2020 at 9:29 PM, Paisa el Toro said:

I think his knees were shot as soon as stepped foot on campus. This was a recruit that just didn't pan out for Antigua.

He was not an Antigua recruit. I always thought that Omogbehin was taken because it was going to help Stan get another kid, one who was actually good at basketball,  from Omogbehin's AAU team. 

Unfortunately my thinking was wrong.