Sean Harris immediately scooped up by perennial NCAA Tourney team without playing a game in three years

September 15, 2011, 8:00AM-

Not a whole lot of news in college basketball but some thoughts...

Ex-BU recruit Sean Harris - a kid who hasn't even played a college basketball game in three years - just verballed to Utah State.
He visited their campus last weekend - they were tremendously impressed, they offered and Sean accepted.

"Harris is described as a skilled and “relentless” power forward with a good jumper and three-point range. He recently returned from an LDS Church mission, and visited the Logan campus last weekend. That, along with Utah State’s tradition, was enough to get him to commit.

“He loves that Utah State is a top-25 team almost every year,” Cornelius told the Tribune. “He visited there, and he thought it was a great fit. He got along well with the guys and he loved it there. He’s a big forward, the ultimate four man. He’ll be about 220 pounds by the time he gets to Utah State. The fans there are going to love how hard he plays. He’s relentless.”
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/sports/52585507-77/season-harris-cornelius-forward.html.csp

If you read the whole article -- it notes that Utah State - a team that finished inside of the TOP 25 RPI rankings each of the past TWO seasons and who went to the NCAA both years, and who have WON their conference and gone to the NCAA each of the past THREE seasons and played somewhere in the post-season NINE years running....expects to start Sean at their 4-position next year!


So with that info and with news of how impressive Sean was that led to Utah State offering - we'd have to conclude he might well have been a starter here, something that doubters are not going to like to hear.

It appears that Sam Maniscalco is going to be a starter for Illinois, and at the same time the talk at Indiana is that Remy Abell has been so impressive thus far in the preseason that he is going to be a starter there for the Hoosiers.
Seriously - if we lost those two players who become starters for Big Ten teams, then obviously they would have both been starters here, it's a no brainer.
The other player lost, Sean Harris, is, of course, open to debate how much he would have played - but with the absence of Will Egolf, and with TWO other potential starters (TB & Prosser) both ending last season unable to play and their status currently is still not determined -- then it is actually quite likely that had we landed the older, talented, high scoring 6-8 juco forward Harris - that surely he'd have played an important role this season also. He may have actually had to be a starter by default as we will begin the season thin or hobbled in our front court.

And some claim they do not see any evidence of "fallout" from the coaching change -- duhh.....how absolutely blind does one have to be to not see we lost possible THREE starters!



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Golf - Tiger
Baseball - Babe Ruth
Basketball - Michael Jordan
Hockey - Wayne Gretzky
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But -- did you know there's a new, emerging all-time superstar in one sport that you may not have heard of.

In competitive bass fishing we have 20-year old Jacob Wheeler.
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http://fishing.outdoorzy.com/20-year-old-is-youngest-bass-fishing-champ/

http://jacobwheelerfishing.com/about-jacob

Pretty soon young kids will be wanting his rookie card and pretending to be Jacob Wheeler out in their back yards....I just hope superstardom doesn't negatively affect Jacob like it has to Barry Bonds, Tiger Woods, and Manny Ramirez!