Re: Pilgrim update

[Reber, Steven Edwin (Steve)]

Pappas:>>>Anyone have an idea when Mike Pilgrim will be ready to play? 

Somebody asked, I think it was on last week's Radio show (Reminder tonight
at 8pm) 
about redshirting BOTH Souleymane and Pilgrim and Huggins said that "I think
we have passed that point."
Seeming to say that they are both too far behind in learning (because of
injury and lack of full-assimilation English skills)
that barring a disaster, both probably would redshirt. 

So if Whaley and Max both return next year, that makes a front court of
(Whaley/Max/Hicks) with Pilgrim and Souley as 
redshirt-freshman, looking at major/starting minutes in their "sophomore"
year (05/06).  This does a LOT towards getting 
back to a full complement of 13 players, even if the disgusting 8/5 rule
does not get thrown out.  I think Kenny Satterfield's
mistake in leaving early was that he DOMINATED for only about 3-4 weeks at
the end of his last year, pro teams would like
to see a player have a whole dominant YEAR to be real comfortable drafting
them, since Max is undersized for pro PF he 
better be confident when he goes to the draft, and with Whaley's knee repair
the clock is ticking on having a full 
DOMINANT year.  Not that Max will not be a long time pro, or an upper tier
pro, eventually (Charles Barkley gets shorter all 
the time when people talk about non-prototype pro PFs).

I think the discussions of going to Big East next year have to wait until
all the football bowl bids are finalized, because 
they involve sharing the bowl payouts and early departure penalties, and the
financial realities that ADs deal with.    
So when each conference knows exactly how many bowl share dollars are
leaving and how many are entering they can 
discuss financial penalties. 

RMayer:>>>I heard the show on WLW. He seemed pleased about the play. Didn't
hear alot,
> > > didn't even realize it was on full court. So I missed a tv game as well!

Sorry, I mentioned last week that ESPN had revised the list, I should have
re-posted yesterday, anybody in Columbus who
wants to borrow the tape, let me know (You have two weeks to fill before the
next game anyway...) 

Steve in Columbus
sreber at lucent dot com (lets see the webcrawlers try and parse that and
generate spam).