Thanks for posting, CLK.  I love KD's comments in the prospectus on each one of the players. I thought they were very honest assessments.  Agreed, kcc173, can't wait until November 11th.

If you're a Duquesne alum, student, fan, follower, whatever, and you don't absolutely love what Keith Dambrot says, youuuuuuuuu might be a redneck. Or something.

​In a couple short months, he has cleansed the program.

I was valedictorian, homecoming king, and voted most likely to succeed. Not bad for someone who was homeschooled!

​Dambrot's player comments really jump out at you. He wants Smith to work at being the best defensive player in the country. He doesn't want Lewis to focus on personal accomplishments. He wants Verhoeven to play above a freshman level. He wants guys to add muscle, to show that they understand the game. 

Wow.

I'm looking forward to this season.

A lot of life is mental. If you can conceive it and believe it, you can achieve it. KD seems to know that and teach it along with the x's and o's.

In regards to the scholarships, in May we learned that there were 9 returning players/new recruits and 4 transfers on scholarship. Then a little over two months later, Frankie Hughes was announced as the latest addition to the program and was said to have signed a financial aid agreement, same wording as with the other four transfers. I suspect Frankie is receiving other forms of institutional financial aid, for this year anyway. This is allowed by the NCAA as long as the athlete is not considered "recruited." That means the coach cannot have in-person contact with the student-athlete off-campus, the student athlete cannot make an official visit to the school and the student athlete cannot sign a letter of intent or other athletic scholarship offer. Everything else is fair game. Given the prior relationship between Frankie Hughes and the coaching staff, there would have been no need to evaluate him in person or otherwise do much recruiting beyond phone calls. 

I know there's been some speculation that since Castro seemed to leave, then come back, that he's no longer on athletic scholarship, but the May roster announcement indicated that he was still on scholarship and I don't know that they could move a returning scholarship player to non-athletic financial aid without violating the "recruited" scholar athlete definition. You can read more about this HERE. 

Last edited by DennisC91 (8/09/2017 11:45 am)

Don't know how this team will end up this year, anything above a 500% record will be considered a success in some folks eyes.

Let's start to recover from the Ferry Failure Era , I tell you that guy sure knew how to get pay raises no matter how poorly he performed.

KD surely will bring the new approach to success, winning rather than whining,,

It sounds like, based on what DennisC wrote, that F. Hughes is on that special aid for one year only.  IF that is true, and I sure am wrong a lot (!), we have no more scholarships.  It would be hard to believe that the above scenario is anything but ONE year.  Just my take.

Yes that is true.  Still a bunch of offers for 18-19 still on verbal commits site.  Makes this recruiting stuff fun.  Nowadays cannot assume everyone stays