Some recruiting update....and more global warming talk...

Just a little recruiting update...

Here's the names we've been seeing and discussing...
who are yet to decide and still in play, although none are known to be leaning to BU...

Derek Cooke..Cloud County ...6.1 ppg, 8.2 rpg, 55% from the field, and 42% on FT

Anthony Fields..transfer from Wake...1 ppg, 0.5 rpg, 1-11 on 3-pt - also looking at Stanford & a "variety of interest from programs in the CAA, the Valley, the Big 12, and the Pac-12"
http://www.nbebasketball.com/w3/2012-0410/transfer-update-pg-anthony-fields/

Derrick Barden..Odessa College .. 19.7 ppg, 12 rpg, 37% on 3-pt, 69% FT

Tymell Murphy.. South Plains.. 9.9 ppg, 6.6 rpg, 57% FG, 71% FT - Rhode Island getting involved and Tymell is visiting there & Rutgers

Matt Stainbrook .. transfer from WMU ..his coach says "Lots of programs" are calling and showing interest -
https://twitter.com/#!/CoachAnsberry/status/189866534485770240

Davon Hayes .. Arkansas State decommit -
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=20548


Derek Cooke -
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=20832


Mislav Brzoja .. Traders Point -
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=20255

Matej Buovac .. La Lumiere -
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=20236

Akeem Springs . decommit from Mississippi Valley State

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=256184#post256184


Anthony Fields is visiting Friday - a guard, transferring from Wake Forest who would not be available until fall of 2013 -
check if you want the comments about him on the Wake Forest message boards - they are not very kind and many Wake fans have quite negative opinions and are happy to see him go.

Here are some stories...
http://www.bloggersodear.com/2012/3/26/2903959/amidst-transfers-jeff-bzdelik-and-wake-forest-is-struggling-to
http://www.bloggersodear.com/2012/3/23/2896978/wake-forest-basketball-anthony-fields-transfers


Here's some clips from stories out of Texas...
mentioning Tymell Murphy..they talk of the signing at Ole Miss of ex-Bradley recruit Marshall Henderson.
Henderson's signing makes THREE players from the South Plains juco team already signed, and they then say...
"Henderson is the third (South Plains) Texan to sign this year, joining Greg Gainey (UT-Arlington) and Stanton Kidd (North Carolina Central) who signed during the early signing period. The Texans are expected to announce additional signings in the coming weeks as sophomores Tymell Murphy, Deshaunt Walker, and Derrell Edwards are still in the process of making a decision."

and..
"sophomore .. forward Tymell Murphy(is) .. still considering offers."

http://klvtsports.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/texan-sharpshooter-inks-nli-with-ole-miss-rebels/
http://lubbockonline.com/sports/2012-04-12/local-sports-briefly


Here's a listing of the scholarship offers as noted by one good recruiting site - for Mislav Brzoja..
Marquette, Providence, Northwestern, Utah, Vanderbilt, Rhode Island, Ohio, and Bradley.


A few unsigned high school seniors that BU is looking at - specifically Akeem Springs - are mentioned in this article about an upcoming All Star game...
http://newssun.suntimes.com/sports/11832839-419/senior-stars-to-play-in-all-star-games-friday.html


Other recruits whose names have not been mentioned in a while, Fabyon Harris (Texas A&M), Marshall Henderson (Mississippi), Markus Crider, Nick Wiggins (Wichita State), Coty Clarke are either signing or clearly no longer involved with BU.


Ex-BU recruit Michael Ochereobia signs with Jim Molinari and WIU.
http://www.mcdonoughvoice.com/sports/x876163049/WIU-basketball-adds-JUCO-transfer-Ocherobia

Of course the PJS and the other Gatehouse papers got his name wrong again...
Poor guy -- but it's OCHEREOBIA not OCHEROBIA, and the WIU release makes that quite obvious.
http://www.goleathernecks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=49946&SPID=4947&DB_LANG=C&ATCLID=205411841&DB_OEM_ID=12000


Jim Les signs a couple good players at UC-Davis to go with several strong signees from last fall, and still has some spots to fill to get stronger...
Word is that Corey Hawkins who is sitting out this year is a ton and the best player in practice and is going to start right away.
He's getting it done there........
http://www.ucdavisaggies.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/041112aab.html?source=rss_teams_California_Davis_Aggies


One decent PG prospect, Mike LaTulip was going to walk on at Illinois next fall for Bruce Weber - but now he's got other thoughts -- he may be asking for a scholarship now to increase the sense of security that he would be wanted or ever have a chance of playing for the new staff.


More proof that AAU coaches get $$ from colleges to steer their best players -- and it opens up that talk of how Kentucky got Anthony Davis after the Sun Times reported there were plenty of people who knew he and his family were asking for $200K and got it from a UK booster.


Sounds now like Rick Majerus is saying "no" to SMU and staying at Saint Louis. But why would he even consider jumping from SLU to SMU -- since Saint Louis is a better team, at a non-football school, in a stronger conference, and a more storied history??
Majerus is either trying to get a raise and extension by "looking" elsewhere, or he really doesn't like something at SLU.


No word yet on what's going to happen to all the Illinois assistants who were under Bruce Weber ...Jay Price, Jerrance Howard, Gary Nottingham, Wayne McClain...
These guys have been spurned and re-spurned!!
First - when Weber was hired - the new AD elevated Jerrance Howard to the position of Interim Head Coach - jumping right over the other three guys who were far more experienced, and who had been there considerably longer!!

Then when the new head coach, John Groce, was hired - he was urged by EVERYONE to retain some of the previous staff - especially Jerrance Howard who gets all the credit as the real recruiter on the staff.
BUT - Groce sent them all packing and hired none of them!! Spurned again!
Then when Weber was hired at Kansas State, surely he'd grab all those guys he left behind at Illinois who were cut loose, right??
BUT -- as of this morning, Weber hasn't hired even one of them.
He apparently talked a little about possibly hiring Jerrance, and Price's name was also mentioned in this article - but the others are apparently still in limbo...
This will be interesting.........
http://cjonline.com/sports/2012-04-11/weber-hopes-complete-ksu-staff-week


Here's a new ranking of the high school kids, Class of 2012 in Indiana and it includes the La Lumiere kids...
Three La Lumiere kids make the Top 25 but Bobo Drummond and Matej Buovac did not and neither did Mislav Brzoja and Alex Olah (Northwestern University commit) from Traders Point HS.
So just how accurate can this list be - if the guys down around #20-25 are really obscure low-major guys (IUPUI, Detroit, Youngstown State, Ball State, etc..)?
http://blogs.courier-journal.com/jodydemling/2012/04/12/rankings-indiana-boys-class-of-2012/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JodyDemling-RecruitingBlog+%28Jody+Demling+-+Recruiting+blog%29



It's been warmer than usual - which is all it takes for people to go wild talking about global warming, but consider just a few facts...

First - note where the info comes from - it's government data - mostly from NASA & NOAA - which are both arms of the same agency....and they have an agenda and they have been wrong plenty of times before - really, really blatantly wrong - especially when acting out their agenda.
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Multi_Agency_Satellite_Begins_Climate_and_Weather_Studies_999.html
http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/nasa-wrong-again-space-weather-storm-fizzles?xg_source=activity

They were really way wrong when they rushed to the silly press conference claiming they had discovered a new form of life that had come from an alien source...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1335050/NASA-arsenic-Alien-biology-clue-scientists-discover-mysterious-bacteria.html

And they are have been cited to have the global-warming-agenda by several reputable experts and other sources...
http://junkscience.com/2012/04/12/nasa-rejects-claim-it-endorses-global-warming/


-Then they use known inaccurate data...which they selectively and intentionally choose to use to support their agenda...
http://www.oaoa.com/opinion/temperature-31890-stations-heat.html

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/050183-2009-05-13-89-of-us-measurement-stations-report-inaccurate-temperature.htm


-Then they manipulate the data even further and fight like crazy to hide and suppress any of the truth that would debunk them...remember the leaked e mails showing how hard the pro-warming guys laughed about falsifying and hiding the data??
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/nov/23/global-warming-leaked-email-climate-scientists


BUT -- if you still think it's way too hot so there must be global warming - then just listen to the warming people themselves who say this current stretch of warm cannot be blamed on global warming!!

Even in talking about the really warm March - despite some saying it IS global warming ..other experts say it is NOT....here's what they say...

"..Temperatures in the lower 48 states were .. higher than average for the first three months of the year..

Meteorologists say an unusual confluence of several weather patterns, including La Nina, was the direct cause of the warm start to 2012.
....events cannot be blamed on global warming, Crouch said
...It is important to note that this unusual winter heat is mostly a North America phenomenon.
Much of the rest of the Northern Hemisphere has been cold, said NOAA meteorologist Martin Hoerling."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gCL0PDmQyfe_QAo2qqi0nmJFmJVw?docId=88bd006640e04e8a9af0e2f2d418450c

..it doesn't take any time at all to show that much of the rest of the world is having a cooler March than usual...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/6714321/March-sunnier-but-cooler-than-usual

so this is just a regional trend and not proof of any worldwide trend - and even if it were - the frequency of bad reporting shines a light on how the data is manipulated to prove what people have already chosen to believe and want to prove...

...and this story from CNN with an honest admission of their deceit...
"Short-term weather patterns such as the one that affected the United States are poor indicators of global climate trends..
Parts of the world, most notably Eastern Europe, experienced below-average to extreme cold temperatures this winter.."
http://articles.cnn.com/2012-04-09/us/us_weather-record-warm-march_1_warmest-severe-weather-outbreak-severe-thunderstorms-and-tornadoes?_s=PM:US