Otis Polk Casts Large Shadow in BG

falconfan1 · Post by **falconfan1** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 9:37 pm

Orientation-Registration is completed at BG and incoming Detroit freshman post Otis Polk was a part of a closing group. Otis is in a word- BIG. Nice young man too. I cannot recall all the signing day info on Otis, but I seem to remember that he played at a fairly high weight at times in HS. I know he has been on campus and certainly looks to be in decent shape to me.

I am not sure what weight Otis and the coaches have targeted for him, but he looks to be headed in the right direction. He is a space eater kind of guy that is for sure. With a serious wing span too.

Good luck to Otis and the rest of our fledgling Falcons.

Go Falcons!

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 9:44 pm

OTIS MY MAN!

Thanks for the continuing updates as you stalk these young Falcons around campus this summer, FF1!!!

I'm very interested to see what Polk brings to the table (besides a knife and fork, obviously), a big man down low is one thing that's been on the wish list for years at BG, and hopefully we just filled it.

Globetrotter · Post by **Globetrotter** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:44 pm

TG1996 wrote:OTIS MY MAN!

Thanks for the continuing updates as you stalk these young Falcons around campus this summer, FF1!!! I'm very interested to see what Polk brings to the table (besides a knife and fork, obviously), a big man down low is one thing that's been on the wish list for years at BG, and hopefully we just filled it.

Really really funny. The first part. I think that every time I read one of his posts.

Post by **ZiggyZoomba** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 6:39 am

I'm more excited about Otis Polk than I have been about a basketball recruit in a long time!

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 7:38 am

We haven't had a decent big man that eats space in the paint since....since....Ed Colbert?

Post by **ZiggyZoomba** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:29 am

Flipper wrote:We haven't had a decent big man that eats space in the paint since....since....Ed Colbert?

Yeah, that's the last "big" big man I could come up with too. SKR was a great post player, but he wasn't the "Wide Body" Tommy Heinson always talked about.

I'm not sure we've EVER had someone with the size Otis seems to have. I'm excited to see what the young man can do on the court!

h2oville rocket · Post by **h2oville rocket** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:38 am

ZiggyZoomba wrote:I'm more excited about Otis Polk than I have been about a basketball recruit in a long time!

Even moreso than Jason Crump, the dominant offensive palyer in the MAC?

Post by **ZiggyZoomba** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:50 am

h2oville rocket wrote:
ZiggyZoomba wrote:I'm more excited about Otis Polk than I have been about a basketball recruit in a long time!
Even moreso than Jason Crump, the dominant offensive palyer in the MAC?

Now, who could have EVER said such a thing???

Redwingtom · Post by **Redwingtom** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:43 am

What about McDonald's HS All-American Dan Raup?

Serioiusly, my favorite BiG man of all time was John Flowers.

h2oville rocket · Post by **h2oville rocket** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 12:46 pm

Redwingtom wrote:What about McDonald's HS All-American Dan Raup?

Serioiusly, my favorite BiG man of all time was John Flowers.

I see him about every week. Not very tall but he's definitely big.

Post by **ZiggyZoomba** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 12:49 pm

Redwingtom wrote:What about McDonald's HS All-American Dan Raup?

Serioiusly, my favorite BiG man of all time was John Flowers.

I remember John Flowers. One of my earlier Falcon memories actually! Didn't he survive childhood polio? I think he drove either a firebird or a camaro too, and as an 11 or 12 year old, I thought he was SO cool because of that!

Dan Raupp and Scott Kalish were a dominant guard/big-man combo, weren't they?

factman · Post by **factman** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 1:25 pm

John Flowers survived a summer accident where he was working, that severely injured his leg and somewhat limited him throughout his career.

orangeandbrown · Post by **orangeandbrown** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 1:29 pm

Factman is right. He was a huge, huge high school prospect, and was injured by a forklift (I think). I think he was only 6'5".

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:41 pm

Flowers was the MAN. He was a Gar Heard/Charles Barkley type PF that used muscle to make up for a lack of height. Back in May of 1977 I saw Flowers, Magic, Jay Vincent and I think pro wrestler Kevin Nash (Nash might have been a no show) lead a team of HS all stars from Ohio and Michigan against a touring group of commies from the USSR (there was a 7foot kid on the Russian team either that year or the next named Sabonis, BTW).
Magic went bat s**t and scored 40 and had doubles in rebounds, assists and almost steals. Flowers was killing them inside....he just bulled those Russkie automatons around like they were puny little Uzbeks.

factman and orangeandbrown are right , he severly hurt his leg either that summer or the one after it (a forklift fell on him I think) but he still managed to play at BGSU.

Every time I see Matt Lefeld run the floor I think of Flowers. Matt's the toughest kid I've seen play here since John.

Post by **ZiggyZoomba** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:51 pm

If Otis Polk's middle name is Paul, Patrick, Peter, or even Petruchio, could we bring signs to Anderson that ask..... wait for it....

You down wit OPP???