Post by Swede on May 3, 2005 14:20:42 GMT -5
Now that the recruiting for 2006 is complete, it’s time to talk about the REAL recruiting priority for 2007. We desperately need to recruit a hyphen. That’s right, you heard me, a hyphen.
We can trace the hyphen’s effect on Bonnie’s basketball back to the best of recent times (and, unfortunately, the worst of recent times). The lineage started when Nii Nelson-Richards set foot on campus in 1991. During his 4 years, we began our ascent and he finished on a team with the first NIT appearance in 1995 after a 12 year drought. Nelson-Richards graduated in 1995, but not before another hyphen was recruited to take his place in 1995. David Messiah-Capers grabbed the baton from Nelson-Richards and ran with it. Before his 5 year stint was up (remember he broke his arm and red-shirted in 1996), he would take us to another NIT and the first NCAA tournament appearance after a 25 year drought. The legend of the hyphen grew in the NCAA game when Messiah-Capers hit the 3 free throws with no time left to send the game into Double OT. [Editor’s Note: David didn’t add the hyphen until he had to get a passport for the team to travel overseas, but that is just a minor inconvenience to my story – still, Bonaventure’s greatest recent accomplishment came after he added the hyphen.] Messiah-Capers graduated in 2000, leaving us with a hyphen void until we quickly found his able-bodied replacement in Patrick Methot-Lottin. In his first year, Methot-Lottin tasted success with an NIT appearance. Inexplicably, Patrick dropped the hyphen. That’s when the Bonnies troubles began leading to an unfinished season, NCAA infractions and probation. Damn that hyphen.
For next year, I kindly suggest Patrick re-adopt (yes, re-hyphen-adopt) the hyphen and return us on our upward path. Lastly, I suggest that the staff start recruiting any of this nation’s hyphenated players that we can find. Unfortunately, I don’t see many goods one on the HS recruiting horizon, so we may have to rely on a transfer or two. We only have two to choose from - Jesse Pellot-Rosa from VCU, Whit Holcomb-Faye from Radford. We missed out on Nick Canter-Medley from Maryland, Brandon Fuss-Cheatham from Ohio State, Luke Spencer-Gardner from Oral Roberts, and Antonio Williams-Parker from Jackson State due to graduation.
Go get us a hyphen, Coach!
We can trace the hyphen’s effect on Bonnie’s basketball back to the best of recent times (and, unfortunately, the worst of recent times). The lineage started when Nii Nelson-Richards set foot on campus in 1991. During his 4 years, we began our ascent and he finished on a team with the first NIT appearance in 1995 after a 12 year drought. Nelson-Richards graduated in 1995, but not before another hyphen was recruited to take his place in 1995. David Messiah-Capers grabbed the baton from Nelson-Richards and ran with it. Before his 5 year stint was up (remember he broke his arm and red-shirted in 1996), he would take us to another NIT and the first NCAA tournament appearance after a 25 year drought. The legend of the hyphen grew in the NCAA game when Messiah-Capers hit the 3 free throws with no time left to send the game into Double OT. [Editor’s Note: David didn’t add the hyphen until he had to get a passport for the team to travel overseas, but that is just a minor inconvenience to my story – still, Bonaventure’s greatest recent accomplishment came after he added the hyphen.] Messiah-Capers graduated in 2000, leaving us with a hyphen void until we quickly found his able-bodied replacement in Patrick Methot-Lottin. In his first year, Methot-Lottin tasted success with an NIT appearance. Inexplicably, Patrick dropped the hyphen. That’s when the Bonnies troubles began leading to an unfinished season, NCAA infractions and probation. Damn that hyphen.
For next year, I kindly suggest Patrick re-adopt (yes, re-hyphen-adopt) the hyphen and return us on our upward path. Lastly, I suggest that the staff start recruiting any of this nation’s hyphenated players that we can find. Unfortunately, I don’t see many goods one on the HS recruiting horizon, so we may have to rely on a transfer or two. We only have two to choose from - Jesse Pellot-Rosa from VCU, Whit Holcomb-Faye from Radford. We missed out on Nick Canter-Medley from Maryland, Brandon Fuss-Cheatham from Ohio State, Luke Spencer-Gardner from Oral Roberts, and Antonio Williams-Parker from Jackson State due to graduation.
Go get us a hyphen, Coach!
