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I guess we are not in the same class but we may be going after similar players as things settle. OSU desperately needs a PG and we do to. They maybe starting two freshmen next year. (and Kostas Koufas is no Oden and Diebler is no Conley or Cook. Welcome back to earth. We need to get another guy in the pros soon so my statement that BG has the same number of players as OSU in the NBA is still true. Nate Miller come on.....Otis you are likely our best option.)

Please, you can't be serious. Nate Miller or Otis Polk in the NBA? BG and OSU battling for the same recruits. Once again another one of your well thought out posts. I can't believe I am responding to this garbage.

Can you read? Seriously can you?

"I guess we are not in the same class but we may be going after similar players as things settle." OSU just added three new scholarships for next year. One of those will be a PG. A PG is a similar player to what we need here. LEts say there is a list of 5 quality PGs and we are now recruiting number 3. OSU enters the mix now and is going after one or 2. That means that maybe now we may have to recruit number 4 or 5 instead. And I did not say this was a sure thing. That is why there is a question in my subject line. Will it hurt us?

"Similar" does not = "the Same"

And as far as the NBA goes, I said they were our best chance, that does not mean they have a good chance.

BGfootballfan wrote:Please, you can't be serious. Nate Miller or Otis Polk in the NBA? BG and OSU battling for the same recruits. Once again another one of your well thought out posts. I can't believe I am responding to this garbage.

See Daniels, Antonio; Lewis, Ron;

I remember after we beat Ohio State in St. John arena with a sophomore point guard from Columbus leading the charge there was a pretty good article in the Dispatch the next day whining about how they let him get away to lil ole Bowling Green.

Globetrotter wrote:Can you read? Seriously can you?

"I guess we are not in the same class but we may be going after similar players as things settle." OSU just added three new scholarships for next year. One of those will be a PG. A PG is a similar player to what we need here. LEts say there is a list of 5 quality PGs and we are now recruiting number 3. OSU enters the mix now and is going after one or 2. That means that maybe now we may have to recruit number 4 or 5 instead. And I did not say this was a sure thing. That is why there is a question in my subject line. Will it hurt us?

"Similar" does not = "the Same"

And as far as the NBA goes, I said they were our best chance, that does not mean they have a good chance.

OK. How about this. I don't believe OSU looking for a point guard will have any impact at all on BG's ability to get a PG.

orangeandbrown wrote:

Globetrotter wrote:Can you read? Seriously can you?

"I guess we are not in the same class but we may be going after similar players as things settle." OSU just added three new scholarships for next year. One of those will be a PG. A PG is a similar player to what we need here. LEts say there is a list of 5 quality PGs and we are now recruiting number 3. OSU enters the mix now and is going after one or 2. That means that maybe now we may have to recruit number 4 or 5 instead. And I did not say this was a sure thing. That is why there is a question in my subject line. Will it hurt us?

"Similar" does not = "the Same"

And as far as the NBA goes, I said they were our best chance, that does not mean they have a good chance.

OK. How about this. I don't believe OSU looking for a point guard will have any impact at all on BG's ability to get a PG.

We have a winner...pay the man.

orangeandbrown wrote:

Globetrotter wrote:Can you read? Seriously can you?

"I guess we are not in the same class but we may be going after similar players as things settle." OSU just added three new scholarships for next year. One of those will be a PG. A PG is a similar player to what we need here. LEts say there is a list of 5 quality PGs and we are now recruiting number 3. OSU enters the mix now and is going after one or 2. That means that maybe now we may have to recruit number 4 or 5 instead. And I did not say this was a sure thing. That is why there is a question in my subject line. Will it hurt us?

"Similar" does not = "the Same"

And as far as the NBA goes, I said they were our best chance, that does not mean they have a good chance.

OK. How about this. I don't believe OSU looking for a point guard will have any impact at all on BG's ability to get a PG.

That is a direct response to the question at hand. Thanks. I would be curious as to why tho. They pickings are now very slim and they recruit the same area as we do...(Midwest) The only player outside of Ohio or Indiana on that roster this year was Hunter, next year they will be adding a guy from Virginia nad Illinois.

I don't think OSU would ever offer a scholarship to the types of kids that we will recruit. They're more likely to eat that scholarship and save it for next year.

I'm not saying that we can find diamonds in the rough who develop late and become stars (hell Ron Lewis fits that bill), but to think that we're competing with recruits with OSU is giving us way too much credit, IMO.

Dayons_Den wrote:

BGfootballfan wrote:Please, you can't be serious. Nate Miller or Otis Polk in the NBA? BG and OSU battling for the same recruits. Once again another one of your well thought out posts. I can't believe I am responding to this garbage.

See Daniels, Antonio; Lewis, Ron;

I remember after we beat Ohio State in St. John arena with a sophomore point guard from Columbus leading the charge there was a pretty good article in the Dispatch the next day whining about how they let him get away to lil ole Bowling Green.

Dayon gave me a bottle of coke after that game. But even more memorable... I sat right behind Antonio's mom and his brother Chris.

ZiggyZoomba wrote:

Dayons_Den wrote:

BGfootballfan wrote:Please, you can't be serious. Nate Miller or Otis Polk in the NBA? BG and OSU battling for the same recruits. Once again another one of your well thought out posts. I can't believe I am responding to this garbage.

See Daniels, Antonio; Lewis, Ron;

I remember after we beat Ohio State in St. John arena with a sophomore point guard from Columbus leading the charge there was a pretty good article in the Dispatch the next day whining about how they let him get away to lil ole Bowling Green.

Dayon gave me a bottle of coke after that game. But even more memorable... I sat right behind Antonio's mom and his brother Chris.

I never knew they actually bottled that stuff!!

BGfootballfan wrote:Please, you can't be serious. Nate Miller or Otis Polk in the NBA? BG and OSU battling for the same recruits. Once again another one of your well thought out posts. I can't believe I am responding to this garbage.

During a typical year, it actually would affect us, only indirectly. Hypothetically speaking, when an OSU needs a PG, they take a kid that some school like Xavier might have gotten. Because Xavier didn't get their first choice, they go after the top realistic choices of programs like ours. The more schools in the hunt for talent, the less there is to go around. When the big boy hit the market for a PG when we need one as well, it hurts us via trickle-down.

However, with this particular OSU regime, the effect is VERY indirect. OSU is now probably recruiting at a national level and can realistically recruit from coast to coast. Xavier and Cincinnati recruiting a PG hurts us much more.

Even worse when Miami, Kent and OU are recruiting a PG.

orangeandbrown wrote:Even worse when Miami, Kent and OU are recruiting a PG.

Are Miami, Kent and OU still looking to pick up recruits? Are they targeting point guards?

Coaching changes and early defections need to be taken into consideration

Globetrotter wrote:We need to get another guy in the pros soon so my statement that BG has the same number of players as OSU in the NBA is still true. Nate Miller come on.....Otis you are likely our best option.)

I would just let this go if I were you. This was the last year in a long, long time we'll have as many players in the NBA as OSU. To go along with their three guys this year going early, their '07 recruiting class has been rated as high as fifth and they already have five commits for '08, four of the five are rated as top 20 overall players which makes that class #1 in the country by far at this point.
As for will their recruiting affect us. It's a simple no. Thad Matta recruits top level talent. Only in a very, very indirect way would there be the slightest possibility of it trickling down to affect us.

Yeah, but for 15 sweet years we had just as many NBA players as OSU. How embarrassing for the "big boys" down south.