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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 1060182, member: 27"] From what I have seen, players who verbal to SU often get a big bump in the ratings almost immediately. Take someone like Lydon, who was pretty much unknown and unrated before verballing to SU. But while it seems to me that a large number of our verbals get serious respect, especially after establishing themselves in major camps and tournaments, they often fall just short of burger boy respect. We seem to have a large percentage of our verbals fall just outside McDonald's AA team status. So SU players get a lot of respect but not that instant legitimacy a handful of other programs might get. On the other hand, it seems like SU players are rated higher by the NBA than many media experts expect and often also get drafted earlier than expected. In the grand scheme, it is probably better to be well regarded by NBA people than by college basketball's self appointed experts. [/QUOTE]