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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1704808, member: 40"]
Greg Davis... what a strange recruit he was.  That was during a timeframe in the late 90s where we were really struggling on the recruiting trail [precipitating a scathing article from the PS that Boeheim had a huge negative visceral reaction to].  Davis was from the same high school program as Etan, and I always got the impression that it was JB throwing a bone to that HS coach, hoping to catch lightning in a bottle twice.  Obviously, that didn't pan out.
 
He was one of those 6-7 guys who played the post in HS, but didn't have the capabilities to do that at the collegiate level, especially in the Big East.  His only noteworthy skill IMO was that he handled the ball in the open floor reasonably well for a guy that size.  Otherwise, he was too small, too light, too everything to play inside.
 
As I recall, he was part of a recruiting class that also included Mark McCarrol from NYC, who ended up not qualifying and then at Pitt instead.  McCarrol was no world beater, either, but a solid depth player who hurt us a couple of times in the early 2000s.  Which is why thinking about this particular recruiting class makes my head hurt...
 
 
EDIT:  here is some info about how the rest of Greg Davis's career unfolded:  [URL]http://www.orangehoops.org/GDavis.htm[/URL]
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