Wasn’t Huerter an issue with scholarship limits due to sanctions? IIRC we wanted him to prep for a year until we had an open scholarship but Maryland had room in his class.
You might be right. I may have been thinking about Brunson. All I know is Huerter was ours to lose. As was Brunson. Trying to remember what was posted here over the past several years.
I thought I read where JB didn’t recruit Rice, because we had someone (name escapes me).
Kid named Sherman Douglas.
Best story about Sheehy recruitment was from the UVa assistant (Jeff Jones?) who wrapped up a great home visit thinking Tom was in the bag, then got in his rental car, backed out of the Sheehys’ driveway and ran over the family dog. He wasn’t sure if he should call Terry Holland or just move to South America somewhere.
Tom Sheehey was a long shot from the jump. Highly unlikely. Remember, his older brother, Mike came to SU, did not play, grew disgruntled w JAB and transferred to Bonaventure. That was not forgotten.
I recall Boo was primary, then we got Sherm. Unsure. As we like to say in my house, if only there was a hand held device on which I could research these types of things.
That’s how I remember it too. Was living in Binghamton at the time. Once we signed Sherm it was UNC or Providence for King. He was much better in the open court with a running team so I thought Providence may have been a better fit for his skill set at the time but he ended up a solid three year starter at Carolina.
Pooh was a terrific player. Tenth overall selection.
This is very surprising
top100camp.com
The situation with Huerter was moronic. JB was being stupidly cautious in the wake of the sanctions. Everyone was predicting we would win the NCAA appeal and get 11 scholarships instead of 10, which would have given us room to bring in Huerter. Plus, players transfer EVERY single year. And with Huerter coming in, a guy like Kaleb Joseph or Frank or others would have transferred out. It was so so dumb. Huerter had a fantastic spring and summer and wanted to reclass (I believe move back to his original class), and we should have just pulled the trigger considering what a hot prospect he was. Instead we asked him to prep for a year even though he was getting major program offers from schools like Maryland. It infuriated me at the time. You never know how things are gonna shake out with rosters an entire season in advance. You don’t let a guy like this slip through the cracks. And lo and behold, the next spring, we had a bunch of transfers after the season, got one scholarship back, and would have had plenty of room for Huerter. This is the kind of poor decision-making and dithering that sunk the program to historic lows.
BTW 10 year anniversary of the FF run coming up this season!
In contrast, it truly was one shining moment.
That's why it shines so bright.... in the last decade.
#1 Wisc. player 6-7 Vaughn Karvala: runs the court very well, passes are crisp, hops that help him block shots, blocks shots well, goes to the basket well, not afraid to drive to basket, follow and put back his misses, decent % from deep, hits from either corner, good defender, nice stroke on 3 balls. Will be visiting in Sept OV. Hope we get him - needs S&C.
Don't we all?
