No transfers in or out, new InSU verbal, and some media talk...

The window for players transferring from one D-I school to another in this mid-season has closed...
There were some "rumors" that Max Bielfeldt would be transferring - maybe even to Bradley --
there were also some statements made elsewhere that guys like Donivine Stewart and Devon Hodges had played so few games that they might just shut it down and not play then redshirt the rest of the year - which is, of course, ridiculous since you can't redshirt if you've played, and a "redshirt" is actually different than a "medical waiver" or medical redshirt".

So unless someone who has already completed their transfer has not yet been made known or publicized --
then it is clear that nobody will be leaving University of Michigan and nobody will be transferring here mid-season ..and it won't be happening anywhere else because they are now into the 2nd semester.

Now, if anyone leaves and transfers - from now 'til the end of the summer - they'd have to sit out a FULL year and then NOT be eligible until fall of 2013...

I simply can't imagine anyone currently redshirting would then also make a move that would require them to also MISS next season as well due to D-I transfer rules....

One other thing...
There are TWO players on our roster that had they been injured and unable to play the rest of the season - they would have qualified for a medical waiver (medical redshirt) this season...
DS has played only 8 games and DH only four.....(but even one game eliminates a standard redshirt - contrary to some of the uninformed opinions elsewhere...)

BUT -- since BOTH played in the Wichita State game on 1/13/12...they have now eliminated the possibility of even a medical redshirt should they get or have an injury...

The reason is because one requirement of medically redshirting is that you cannot play beyond the mid-point of the season -- even one minute of play at any time in the 2nd half of the season destroys any chance of a medical redshirt.

The Wichita game last week was our 18th game of the season well beyond the mid-point - so there will be no other redshirts than Wells...for any reason...
Sad....it's kind of a waste to give up a whole year of scholarship eligibility to play a handful of minutes only in just a few games of a bad season where there's essentially no hope of post-season play...


One other transfer followup...
Osamueda Egharevba is a 6-6 freshman forward from Wichita State who can play guard - and was a fairly highly regarded prep schooler..but he was apparently asked to redshirt by Gregg Marshall - stayed a little bit then left - reportedly because he didn't want to redshirt so he left..
He has now landed at Midland juco and will play there next year and will still be a freshman...



Indiana State Sycamores just landed a verbal from a junior college sophomore at nearby Wabash..Michael Samuels...
Listed some places at 6-11, and elsewhere as 6-10 center - originally from Pennsylvania, his current averages at juco..
6.1 ppg, 48% FG shooting, 62% FT shooting, 4.3 rpg, 0.9 bpg

Year before that he was at Vincennes...and averaged 2 ppg, 2 rpg..
here's a picture...

http://www.njcaa.org/schools/athleteimages/SamuelsForWeb.jpg

http://njcaa.org/colleges_college_player.cfm?sid=4&collegeid=1408&category=Roster&slid=2&teamid=105754&athleteid=314365



Regarding all this mushy stuff about Bradley being so much more open with the press and that some think the press is NOTreally all that negative or hostile towards anyone at BU or ever has been....
I can state with certainly and from many personal conversations with those involved...that every single coach, assistant, and Athletic Dept. personnel at Bradley (going back decades) has been of the opinion and been on constant guard - that the local press and sports writers are unfairly and aggressively negative -- going back at least all the way to the beginning of the Dick Versace era....and also into the Dick Lien era..

You can have any opinion you want - but you'd still have a hard time explaining why the very people closest to the situation - the very people most capable of seeing what's going on, and knowing the facts and the truth, literally every single BU basketball staff member has accepted it as a given that our local press goes overboard and beyond the call of duty to highlight the negative...
So..no matter what anyone else says - and even if I didn't see a hint of it myself - I'd still choose to believe that Versace, Albeck, Mo, Les, and all their staff have a better knowledge of this than anyone else and I'd believe them.



One other thing...

I keep reading and hearing people say...
"this staff is so much more open with the press, they are more honest, etc..."

Whoa....I wish I had a couple bridges to sell people who swallow that stuff....

I'd like for someone to show me how it's true....
Is Geno talking about what recruits he's going after?? Of course not -- is he revealing his game plan?? Nope..
What's more open than before...

Might I remind you some of the most fierce attacks leveled at Jim Les were because he didn't reveal what was going on behind the scenes, wouldn't say why certain players were suspended, wouldn't reveal his starters or explain why he made changes to the starting players, etc...

Duh.....did Geno ever say what Taylor Brown did to get suspended from the exhibition? Did he ever go into detail about why he made the change to the starting lineup - why Jake started the SIU game and DSE came off the bench??
If it was a foot injury as some had claimed - then does it surprise you DSE came immediately off the bench, played as much or more as other starters, and showed NO hint of injury as he was the Player of the Game and leading scorer and assist man..and nobody mentioned any injury in any of the game interviews?

Every coach maintains his secrets - it's no different now than ever but yet this staff has done a good job of buffaloing people into thinking they are doing things differently and some have gone for it...
I'm ok if they fool people into thinking things are way different or better - but Geno knows how to deal with the media and he's on guard 24/7