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this is up-to-date to the best of my knowledge. so far, none of the 3 players or Wheeler/Walker have swayed one or the other. The players met the coach as a team today and will meet individually later on

I believe Lewis started to follow Dambrot on twitter after the announcement. A visit from Lebron may sway some interest...

 

Last edited by Ifky 07 (3/28/2017 1:55 pm)

Does anyone know if Castro and/or J-Rob are or will be eligible to grad transfer? 

Last edited by Brian (3/28/2017 2:00 pm)

I believe Kellon is a scholarship football player but counts as a walk-on for the basketball team.

Gents before you all go crazy over a rooster maybe you should think for a moment about "style of play". I know on several occasions ED and myself talked about a inability to properly evaluate players in Ferry's up tempo run and gun. IMHO that's not going to fly and a few of our guys who had NO interest in playing defense or not hoisting the 25 footers may not fit. Once again IMHO I don't see Dambrot pulling a Stallings.

Also the offers that we have added in the last 24 hours...they don't seem to have too much hype on youtube and the internet. Is that just because he was recruiting  for a school in the MAC? I am guessing down the line we will start getting the recruits the we are used to getting with JF.

Also what about Spencer Littleton...still think he will be good in his Jr. and Sen. seasons 

The Dome wrote:

Gents before you all go crazy over a rooster maybe you should think for a moment about "style of play". I know on several occasions ED and myself talked about a inability to properly evaluate players in Ferry's up tempo run and gun. IMHO that's not going to fly and a few of our guys who had NO interest in playing defense or not hoisting the 25 footers may not fit. Once again IMHO I don't see Dambrot pulling a Stallings.

I think the important thing to remember is no matter how talented one guy or another is, the reality is that one player won't make the difference at Duquesne. If this program is really going to turn around, it is going to require systematic changes from the top down of the whole department. Its not just players, or coaches, or harper, or the ad staff, it takes everyone moving together in the same direction to make this work.

All of the pieces have to be in place, another great quote from Harpers interview today, "we will be in a situation where we can check off every box any other program in this league can check off" we know that has not been the case for us in the past. You can at least see that momentum now.

That being said I hope we can keep our guys and recruits, it will make the revamp easier and likely happen quicker. I also truly believe Harper and Dambrot are the caliber of individuals who could talk them into buying into the "new du hoops" and everything that entails.

Did anyone check out Dylan Swingle? Could be the next coming of the big Gonzaga dude.

And he's what? 16-17 years old?

 

currentstudent wrote:

Also the offers that we have added in the last 24 hours...they don't seem to have too much hype on youtube and the internet. Is that just because he was recruiting  for a school in the MAC? I am guessing down the line we will start getting the recruits the we are used to getting with JF.

Also what about Spencer Littleton...still think he will be good in his Jr. and Sen. seasons 

I am not going to criticize dambrot for his recruiting practices because he has a fantastic record of finding and developing under the radar talent. However, I am confident that over time he will find that he has access to a different caliber of player in the Atlantic 10 than he did in the MAC.

Brian wrote:

Does anyone know if Castro and/or J-Rob are or will be eligible to grad transfer? 

Both will complete their fourth year of college in May so would think both are on target to graduate.Not sure how they could have maintained academic eligibility otherwise if they're not making such progress towards a degree. Though if not all of Castro's Butler credits transferred over or either guy changed his major/degree program somewhere along the line, then maybe that would change things, I really don't know. If they graduate, they will be eligible to graduate-transfer out and play somewhere else next year for their final seasons of college eligibility. The fact that we haven't heard that either was leaving makes me wonder if both have been waiting to see how everything shakes out with the new coach. I can't imagine either would have stuck around under Ferry if he was on target to graduate this year.

ED, I was talking about whether Jordan Robinson and Rene Castro may graduate-transfer out for next year.