Bison137
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03-28-17 01:38 PM - Post#228258
In response to Bison89
That being said, was Mike Muscala (6'-11") the last player that Bucknell signed who was taller than 6'-9", and why do the Bison seem to have a difficult time signing BIG guys?
In a way, Muscala was the last signee greater than 6-9. I say that because he was "only" 6-9 when they signed him but grew to 6-10 during his senior HS year and then to 6-11 at Bucknell. (Mike was listed at 6-10 his freshman year.)
Having said that, there aren't a lot of guys around who are 6-10 or bigger, and most of the ones in that category aren't any good. In the 28 years starting with the 1990 season, I believe that BU has had eight players who were taller than 6-9: Muscala, McNaughton, Linthicum, Davornin Skornick, Steve Leshinski, Tom Hauser, Terence Skyrm, and Bryan Eisert. And the latter three really didn't play.
Looking at the PL rosters over the past five years - which include eight years of recruits - only American has done well attracting 6-10 players, having rostered three this year: Mark Gasperini, Andrija Matic, and Matt Cimino. Matic is transferring out. They also had 7-0 Gabe Brown for two years, but he transferred out to a D2/D3 school last year after rarely playing. Prior to those guys, they also had Zach Elcano and Tony Wroblicky.
Other teams:
- Army - Kevin Ferguson, Kieffer Jordan, Zach Lord
- Boston - Dylan Haines, Blaise Mgbargorba,
- Colgate - Wyatt Hagerty, Ethan Jacobs, John Brandenburg
- Holy Cross: Matt Husek
- Lafayette: Ben Freeland, Billy Murphy, Nathaniel Musters
- Lehigh: Tim Kempton, Caleb Sedore, Jack Lieb, Josh Wolf
- Loyola: Dylan Gollihar.
- Navy: Jared Smoot
Excluding Bucknell, there are 24 players 6-10 or bigger. Three at some point made some level of All-PL (Wroblicky, Ferguson, and Kempton). Gasperini may have a shot, but it's way too early to tell. Of the rest, maybe 5-6 others were contributors, leaving about 15 who really didn't help much. Fitzpatrick or Sestina - both 6-6 - are better than the great majority of the above big men.
In recent years, more of the very good big men in the PL have been 6-8 or 6-9, e.g. Jared Mintz, Vlad, Stephen Lumpkins, Andrew Keister, Gabe Knutson, Dave Dudzinski, Daniel Trist. If the Bison can find a player as good as those guys for the final scholarship, I'd be very happy.
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