More on Jalen, Remy, recruiting, and more including trivia...

Jalen Crawford is back in Michigan with his family and he has not yet made any other visits, although he did have a home visit in Michigan from a school out east.
Jalen's also been playing a little pick up ball with some friends...

http://is.gd/LpjByE

Some rumble of bad news that Remy Abell may be farther from coming to BU than was originally thought by some...but as you know, this blog and elsewhere clearly detailed how risky it was to count Remy in the fold after Coach Les was fired.
http://bubravesblogger.blogspot.com/2011/03/waiting-for-info-on-our-new-coach-and.html

Speaking of Remy -- I get a snicker out of the silly debate of who was the first to find that Coach Ford is going to Louisville to talk with Remy this week...but if you want to know the real answer to this puzzle, read here...
http://bubravesblogger.blogspot.com/2011/04/our-coaching-staff-nearing-completion.html

The Louisville Courier Journal's Jody Demling mentions the same thing yesterday -- so he comes in 2nd...
http://is.gd/nI0kxK


Most have forgotten there's yet one other piece of potential fallout...
There's a big guy who has a big D-I body ready to have a breakout year in 2011 as the starting center at Highland CC...he was fully committed to BU so much so that he came 8000 miles to be here and get qualified to play at Bradley in 2012...let's hope we can still keep him!

Andrew Davis is gone -- yet another piece of fallout -- not so much damaging to Bradley but damaging to Andrew's chances of a college basketball career. He's lost a year, he's lost his redshirt year, and now will transfer and lose another year if he wanted to go to D-I and play.
If you retrace the steps on how Andrew was brought in to Bradley then you see it really wasn't a well thought out scenario. I guess if you want to criticize Coach Les' recruiting, then you ought be able to do better with talent assessment and choices -- and that's not what happened here.


Anthony Thompson in his modeling debut...
http://plixi.com/p/93940002


Why the Pacers' Darren Collison is playing so hard against Derrick Rose (although coming up short)..
http://www.bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=228254#post228254


One of the potential candidates for Geno's assistant staff was Armon Gates, but now he's out of the picture and Porter Moser hired Gates as assistant at Loyola to help with Chicago recruiting. As is often the case, the great reporting staff of BradleyFans.com had this news up locally before anyone..
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=18477


Here's a little followup on UW-M's Rob Jeter...he is still a candidate as Miami dilly-dallies in their coaching hire process....
This Milwaukee sports writer and reporter says UW-M should pony up the MILLIONS of dollars it would take to outbid Miami!
Geez....didn't know they had Bradley-type-money to throw around!!
http://www.todaystmj4.com/bloggers/lanceallan/120172559.html


Bobby Knight still on the attack...he sure does hold grudges a long, long time...
He is on the speaking tour constantly hammering his old enemies and those he perceives as a threat to his manhood or his records..
this time he is ripping into John Calipari...as if Bobby has never crossed any lines into the unethical....
http://is.gd/HcR3TJ


Ex-Bradley recruit Vander Blue is in deep do-doo at Marquette...
Now a freshman at Marquette, he is being charged with assault in an incident from way last October -- looks like the local enforcement folks wanted to give the kid plenty of time to finish his season before risking any loss of playing time for the kid..
http://is.gd/QzdVbA


Bruce Pearl's top recruit at Tennessee has changed courses since Pearl's firing...Top 100, 4-Star Kevin Ware reneged his commitment to Tennessee and now is headed to Central Florida!! Wow - talk about a step down!
But recall -- UCF also just landed 4-Star Michael Chandler from Indianapolis...they are going to be tough next year!
http://is.gd/movutL

Sadly -- even though the SEC has had a ton of sleaze lately with Cam Newton, Calipari, etc....the SEC Commissioner was still sad to see cheater Bruce Pearl go -- I don't get it -- he's slimed the entire conference and this guy wants to hang on??
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=6384569


News this morning that Northwestern's John Shurna will enter the NBA draft -- but in a smart move, he is not hiring an agent, as I suspect he'll be back at Northwestern next year.


Trivia question....for the day....

What Valley team had TOP 20 draft picks in the NBA draft two consecutive seasons?
In fact, in those two seasons, this same team actually had FIVE players selected in the NAB drafts of those two consecutive years...

Answer....

In 1950 Paul Unruh was drafted 17th...
Then in 1951 Gene Melchiorre was drafted #1 overall, Billy Mann went #21 (right ahead of Morton's Ron Bontemps), then Bradley also had the #38 pick Elmer Behnke,
and Aaron Preece went #72!
No Valley team has ever before or since had that kind of draft success.....and one more thing...since the NBA was not paying all that well back then, and since some of the players drafted became ineligible...in the end none of those Bradley players played in the NBA.


The last quote comes from Winston Churchill...
"If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart,
if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain."
http://is.gd/LQ3S7h


and as we speak...132:12