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Well, the folks wanting some size inside should be happy! It's always questionable for me when a 7 footer is playing at the D2 level. In his case it seems he would have been a D1 player but for his injuries at WKU. Size like could certainly cause problems in our league. I'm happy to have him, and hope he can give us two injury free seasons.
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He only played basketball a couple of years before WKU. Harper was high on his work ethic and felt he was going to be a contributor before injured. Ar prep school he was 9 pts 9 rebounds per game.
Definite wide body and bruiser but can't shot the ball. Lay ups and jump hooks are his strength. FT % was atrocious last year. Hopefully Coach is teaching him free throws now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CSl...ature=youtu.be
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Originally posted by Looking For 9 View PostIf you look at verbal commits he had several offers. I can not find any reason for not signing him. He is worth the time and effort it will take. I do not think his coach used him enough last year.
I suspect our new coach and Ray should get a thank you.
I'm pretty confident we will NOT see redshirts for Dixon or Godwin. Probably not Urkis either. But it seems to me that at least 2-3 of the others will almost HAVE to redshirt.
The roster currently stands with 1 SR (Gilmer, promoted from the club team), 7 JR (including Arisha, whom they want to reclassify), 1 Soph and 7 Frosh. That's a total of 16 players. I'm not clear at all on how many you're allowed to dress/play. I always thought you could dress out 12 players, but we've had teams come into the sportscenter with 15 and 16 guys dressed and going through warmups (Salem, for example). So I was never really sure how that worked. But, say we keep 14 guys on the "active" roster, 2 will have to redshirt. Or 12 with 4 RS's. That will at least help us a little in balancing next year's Soph and Frosh. Coach mentioned on more than one occasion that his goal is to eventually have the roster balanced across class levels, but we're pretty far out of whack as of right now (understandably).
I guess the other option would be to maybe redshirt one or two of the Juniors. But I'm not sure if they'd want to do that.
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I would only redshirt if the player needs to get stronger, rehab from injury, help with school work. In my view few really get better by redshirting.
I like the idea of getting them reclassified.
Cooper was part of getting a Bell player 7 years so he should know how if AD goes along. Seems Smith, Hopewell and Bezold might could get an extra year.
I think Cooper plans to play a lot of players and may adjust roster game to game. I think it is important that the Ky. signees have a good experience.
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Originally posted by kdubnation View PostI'm not clear at all on how many you're allowed to dress/play. I always thought you could dress out 12 players, but we've had teams come into the sportscenter with 15 and 16 guys dressed and going through warmups (Salem, for example). So I was never really sure how that worked. But, say we keep 14 guys on the "active" roster, 2 will have to redshirt. Or 12 with 4 RS's. .
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Originally posted by kdubnation View PostLooks like we stole Scotty's Xavier exhibition this year ... I like that we have 3 solid D1 exhibitions which, even though they're likely to see us thumped pretty good, will be some good $ into the program.
KWC's schedule does look good, though, and I'm wishing Coach Coop the best.
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Originally posted by BellarmineGrad View PostXavier hasn't played Bellarmine since the Knights beat them in 2010-11 and very nearly won again the next season. Not sure they'll invite BU back for awhile.
KWC's schedule does look good, though, and I'm wishing Coach Coop the best.
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