Re: FW: FW: pre-season polls

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If you lose confidence in what you're doing, it's hard to get it back.  I've
played and watched enough sports to know that it happens all the time.  In
basketball they call it "going cold", in golf it's the "yips" (that's all I
really care about), and I know that Chadd went from being one of the most
highly recruited players in the country to being a "pretty good" player
destined for high D-1 status, but not a super-recruit.  I also have read
enough about him to know he had problems with the transition to Oak Hills,
and managed to work them out.  I would loooovvvvvvve for him to be a great
player for U.C., but like I said I'm just making a prediction, and that's
all it is.

I'd be willing to put a lot of money that at least one of our four highly
regarded recruits this year will be a bust.  I mean, it's not like it's
never happened before, for example players just on this team alone such as
B.J. (7-foot monster), Flowers (the greatest high school rebounder Huggins
has ever seen?), Donald Little (uh, where do I start?), and also in years
past such as Dontonio Wingfield (the highest ranked recruit ever for
Huggins), Charles Williams (what a fiasco), Eugene Land (probably the most
intense recruitment ever for Huggs, X is looking pretty good right now),
Jerome Harper (somebody chime in with that story), Marko Wright our savior
at PG (practiced one day?), Satterfield (Mr. clutch and I'm too good for the
college game), etc. etc.....

By the way, if Hicks comes dressed as a cheerleader, I'll recant and make
him my bust, he came pretty close anyway.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Schroeder, Tom" <address@hidden>
To: "Bearcat Basketball Forum (E-mail)" <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 5:18 PM
Subject: [UC Basketball] FW: [UC Basketball] FW: [UC Basketball] pre-season
polls


> Well, as long as it's only a prediction, then it does make perfect sense
to
> me too.  Therefore, I predict that Hicks will show up at the first game
> dressed as a cheerleader!!  It makes perfect sense to me since it hasn't
> ever happened before and "logically" it's bound to happen sooner or
> later...just like Chadd having "had it and lost it"...and we all know that
> "it's awfully hard to get it back again"!!!  How do you know that all of
the
> recruits we get are "not going to pan out"??  Here's more great
logic..."I'm
> not willing to bestow the bust label on any of the other three, so he
> becomes my logical choice"...You must've taken logic at Xavier...not that
> there's anything wrong with that !!!(sigh)...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danny Spoonamore [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 4:43 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [UC Basketball] FW: [UC Basketball] pre-season polls
>
>
> It makes sense to me because it is just a prediction.  I will be the first
> one to eat my words if he turns out to be a great point guard, and love
> every minute of it.  I'm just looking at circumstances and taking into
> account situations like his that have occured in the past and making a
> prediction.  I know that not all the recruits we get are going to pan out,
> and I am not willing to bestow the bust label on any of the other three,
so
> he becomes my logical choice.  Think how disappointed we'd be (and how
much
> more flack I'd get on this forum) if I said that Hicks would be the bust.
> To me, Kirk will be the 4 year player from this class, and Bobbit has
> already proven himself somewhat at the JC level.  I'm not even going to
> consider Johnson, because he wasn't as highly regarded in the first place,
> so a bust by him (which is just as likely) would not be a surprise or
> disappointment to me.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Schroeder, Tom" <address@hidden>
> To: "Bearcat Basketball Forum (E-mail)" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 8:47 AM
> Subject: [UC Basketball] FW: [UC Basketball] pre-season polls
>
>
> > This part of the post makes no sense whatsoever.  Just because Chadd was
> > rated very high right before his sophomore year, means that many of the
> > players in his class hadn't been seen in high level competition or
hadn't
> > developed yet.  In Chadd's case, he played for a high school team that
> made
> > him the top dog and didn't necessarily show what he could do or how good
> he
> > may be. Very few of the "top" kids in the class in the early part of
their
> > recruitment end up being exactly in the same spot when they go to
college.
> > Chadd then took it upon himself to go to Oak Hills Academy to focus on
his
> > academics and to insert discipline into his life.  The transformation
was
> > great with Chadd.  He came onto the #1 High School team in America as
the
> > back-up point guard to Justin Gray (Wake Forest recruit?) and proceeded
to
> > work hard and earn the starting spot on the team.  This was primarily
due
> to
> > his diligence on defense.  He became the stopper for the team, much like
> > IMac was.  He can do all of the things a great point should be able to
do.
> > He may not be putting in 20-25 ppg but I'm not so sure that it is great
> for
> > a team to be led in scoring by their point.  Because if the other team
can
> > shut down your point from scoring, they have effectively shut down the
> > controls of the offense.
> >
> > "He's had it then lost it.  It's awfully hard to get it back
again"?!?!?!?
> > Where do you draw this knowledge from?  From all of your experiences as
a
> > top high school point guard??  Chadd has already done everything he can
to
> > prepare himself to play in the Huggs system.  Save the second guessing
> till
> > you've had a chance to see him play for a season or two.
> >
> >
> > <Chadd has the most potential of the new recruits to bust.  He's had it
> then
> > lost it.  It's awfully hard to get it back again.  If he does, he was at
> one
> > time considered the top player in his class.  Let's hope the Huggs
factor
> > plays in here again.>
> >
> >
> >
> >
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