New player

theziggies · Post by **theziggies** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 5:45 pm

Guard Nate Miller from Springfield, Ohio, spent the first semester at UNC-Wilmington.

http://bgsufalcons.collegesports.com/sp ... 06aac.html

BGSU33 · Post by **BGSU33** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 5:57 pm

Now this is the kind of transfer news I enjoy hearing about! UNCW's website said he left for personal reasons, so I hope coming to BG will be a good fit for him and the program. I've been to UNCW a few times, or UNC-by-the-sea as some of them call it down there. Wilmington, N.C. is a cool place, UNCW was okay in my opinion. I did like their basketball arena Trask Coliseum, it's a pretty cool facility. And here's a little TV trivia you can use, much of the TV show Dawson's Creek was filmed in Wilmington and on UNCW's campus. They always tell you about it when you go down there.

Here's a link for UNCW's stats and for Miller: http://www.uncwsports.com/

BleedOrange · Post by **BleedOrange** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 7:00 pm

He saw the court in most of the games on a good, upper-classmen laden roster.

At 6-4 and 230, with comparision to Anthony Stacy, he's listed as a guard. Hmm. Maybe he's a Keonta Howell type.

Overall, there's a lack of physical strength on our roster, so he'll be a good complement in that regard.

This is our final scholarship commitment, assuming no other premature departures.

OptionQB · Post by **OptionQB** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 7:22 pm

Miller is certainly a welcome addition. I can tell you after seeing him in HS, the kid is one helluva of an athlete. He was a Steve Atwater-type hard hitting safety on the football team and has very good range in basketball. Maybe he can talk his buddy Luke Alexander back onto the football field.

Good pickup, but once again, come next January, where do all the shots come from?, we still play the game with one ball and that could be our short-coming with Moten, Samarco, Wright and now another gunslinger joining the fray.

I would love to see additional frontcourt help, but adding Miller and Sullivan next year will help.

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 7:28 pm

I don't see a problem...I'd like to have three decent scoring options on the floor at all times. Adding this guy gives you the bench depth to achieve that.

Germainfitch1 · Post by **Germainfitch1** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:46 pm

Flipper wrote:I don't see a problem...I'd like to have three decent scoring options on the floor at all times. Adding this guy gives you the bench depth to achieve that.

With all these guards we should run run run!

BGSU33 · Post by **BGSU33** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:05 pm

Germainfitch1 wrote:With all these guards we should run run run!

Like the 1996-97 team. They were a great team, one of the top scoring teams in the nation, and were fun as hell to watch play basketball.

BGDrew · Post by **BGDrew** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:17 pm

Someone leaves our team, he's a candy ass. Someone who leaves another team and comes here is a good thing?

BleedOrange · Post by **BleedOrange** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:23 pm

BGDrew wrote:Someone leaves our team, he's a candy ass. Someone who leaves another team and comes here is a good thing?

Depends on the reason now, doesn't it? Did anybody call Nick Wilson or Kris Wilson a candy ass?

Think!

BGSU33 · Post by **BGSU33** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:24 pm

FYI, Nate Miller was listed on the Ohio team with Erik Marschall this past summer in the Ohio-West Virginia Basketball Classic. I'm not sure if Miller played (Ohio had a few players pull out and he might have been one of them) and Marschall hurt his knee in the game.

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:47 pm

Scout.com had him as a *** player in 2005. I don't care if his ass is made out of gummi bears as long as he can shoot and play a little defense...

commonsense · Post by **commonsense** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 7:58 am

Nate Miller is a great pick up for the falcons. He took an official visit in the Fall of 2004 and chose UNCW. I know the program really wanted him back then. He jumps suprisingly well for how stocky he is.

hammb · Post by **hammb** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:38 am

Sounds like a good pickup. Sounds as though he's a 2/3 combo type player...Dan's setting the bar pretty high by saying he'll remind us of Stacey, he must really like him.

I don't care if he is a Candy-Ass we need athletic talent. Although I cannot imagine a candy-ass transferring IN to the Dakich regime.

transfer2BGSU · Post by **transfer2BGSU** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:41 am

BGSU33 wrote:I've been to UNCW a few times, or UNC-by-the-sea as some of them call it down there.

Don't forget "The Degree by the Sea"

BGSU33 wrote:And here's a little TV trivia you can use, much of the TV show Dawson's Creek was filmed in Wilmington and on UNCW's campus. They always tell you about it when you go down there.

ALso, many episodes of "Matlock" were filmed in Wilmington as well as the movie "I Know What You Did Last Summer"

BTW - what AZZ.com poster played the role of high school security in a few DC epsiodes?

Jacobs4Heisman · Post by **Jacobs4Heisman** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:52 am

transfer2BGSU wrote:
BTW - what AZZ.com poster played the role of high school security in a few DC epsiodes?

Katie Holmes?