hoopsfan
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04-04-17 07:12 PM - Post#228531
In response to Columbia 37P6
This site indicates that our 3 Midwest recruits - Faulds, Bibbs and Hanson - rank in the top 100 in the Midwest (Il, Mn, In, Mo, Oh, Wi, Ia, Ks, and Neb). It is obvious that at least in this class we are much more active in the Midwest than we have been in the past http://www.northernexposurepreps.com/blog/?page_id...
On the JUCO question, I think we should allow for (admittedly a minority) cohort of students who are great academically but whose circumstance do not allow them to attend an Ivy at first. For example, Treg Duerksen was a good Juco player who played at Columbia. He came from a very rural and agricultural background where it was not possible to imagine attending an Ivy. But he always got straight A's and his game was also very good - he played at Neosho with guys like Jeremy Pargo who played in the league. A Columbia assistant at the time, Bill Johnson, was from Nebraska and himself had played a few years of Juco for similar reasons, and brought him to Columbia. And Treg is doing very well now. There are other kids - first generation kids, low income kids and others for whom Juco is the only real option. And if they end up eligible to play at an Ivy, more power to them.
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