JAshaolu (no idea who this guy is, but he is linked to Jeff's Twitter page and this is his "tweet"


Congrats also my other li'l brothers, Christian Kabongo aka Ck, Renaldo Dixon aka Renzo to New Mexico State and Tramar Sutherland to UALR

(04-23-2010 10:09 PM)mjs Wrote:  JAshaolu (no idea who this guy is, but he is linked to Jeff's Twitter page and this is his "tweet"


Congrats also my other li'l brothers, Christian Kabongo aka Ck, Renaldo Dixon aka Renzo to New Mexico State and Tramar Sutherland to UALR

Sutherland averaged 10.1 points per game at South Plains. While Jeff says there's nothing official, it sounds to me like JAshaolu may know Sutherland personally and thus has some good inside info. Sutherland is originally from Canada, continuing the international trend in our recruiting.

(04-23-2010 10:15 PM)mjs Wrote:  

(04-23-2010 10:09 PM)mjs Wrote:  JAshaolu (no idea who this guy is, but he is linked to Jeff's Twitter page and this is his "tweet"


Congrats also my other li'l brothers, Christian Kabongo aka Ck, Renaldo Dixon aka Renzo to New Mexico State and Tramar Sutherland to UALR

Sutherland averaged 10.1 points per game at South Plains. While Jeff says there's nothing official, it sounds to me like JAshaolu may know Sutherland personally and thus has some good inside info. Sutherland is originally from Canada, continuing the international trend in our recruiting.

Well, Christian Kabongo and Renaldo Dixon are also from Canada and did commit to New Mexico State so I would think there is something to this tweet.

From the newspaper in Las Cruces, NM today-
04/23/2010 05:02:18 PM MDT
LAS CRUCES — New Mexico State has added two more Canadian-born players to its 2010-11 roster.

Christian Kabongo and Renaldo Dixon have verbally committed to play for the Aggies and head coach Marvin Menzies.

I would say there is a pretty good chance that Mr. Sutherland will be a Trojan.

That would be bad. His stats are not DI quality. 10 points a game? Only 13 3 point attempts? Why not just let him go to Hendrix and we keep Ricky and/or Nick?

I'm sure he's a great kid and I mean no offense, but why do we need this guy at the expense of someone we already have here?

(04-23-2010 10:53 PM)eh9198 Wrote:  That would be bad. His stats are not DI quality. 10 points a game? Only 13 3 point attempts? Why not just let him go to Hendrix and we keep Ricky and/or Nick?

I'm sure he's a great kid and I mean no offense, but why do we need this guy at the expense of someone we already have here?

I was kind of thinking the same thing the other day. Are the kids we are signing definitely better than kids we will be running off? Of course, it may not be that we are running off players. Some may want to leave. Some may not make grades. We really don't know what's going on. We just have to hope that the kids we are bringing in are better than who we are losing. Like you, I'd hate to lose Nick. Here's a little more on Sutherland-


WJCAC All-Conference Honorable Mention Name Class School Hometown
Melvin Baker SO Odessa Amarillo,TX
F Trevor Charles SO Western Texas Brooklyn, NY
Guard Marlon Ford FR Frank Phillips Mobile, Alabama
Guard Khaliq Gross FR South Plains Albany, New York
G Jeremy Jones FR Western Texas Riverdale, IL
Guard Guy Landry FR Midland Paris, France
Post Sedric Martin SO NMMI Austin, TX
Kevin Schaffartzik FR Odessa San Diago, CA
Guard Tramar Sutherland SO South Plains Toronto, Ontario
Nick Waddell SO New Mexico JC Chicago, IL

Is the WJCAC any good?

pg or sg? or combo guard?

(04-24-2010 08:22 AM)insideualr Wrote:  pg or sg? or combo guard?

I don't know. I assume combo, but he is certainly not stupid- (this is his bio before this season)

High School: Father Henry Carr Catholic School class of 2008
Accomplishments at Father Henry Carr: Averaged 21 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists per game for team that finished the season with a 37-4 record and won Toronto Catholic District Championship. Also named most valuable player for the team as well as athlete of the year for the school. Accomplishments at SPC: Played in all 31 games and started 14 of them. Averaged five points and five rebounds per game and had game highs of 17 points versus Midland January 15 and 12 rebounds against Scottsdale January 3. For his efforts Tramar was named Honorable Mention All-Conference. Academically, he earned two honor roll awards during the 2008-09 academic year. College Major: Engineering Hobbies: Fishing Personal: Born March 23, 1989 in Toronto, Ontario, Tramar is the son of Karlene and Cebert and he has three brothers and two sisters. Upon completion of his degree at South Plains College, Tramar hopes to continue his basketball career at a division I university. Favorite Athletes: Lebron James and Dwayne Wade

(04-24-2010 09:21 AM)mjs Wrote:  

(04-24-2010 08:22 AM)insideualr Wrote:  pg or sg? or combo guard?

I don't know. I assume combo, but he is certainly not stupid- (this is his bio before this season)

High School: Father Henry Carr Catholic School class of 2008
Accomplishments at Father Henry Carr: Averaged 21 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists per game for team that finished the season with a 37-4 record and won Toronto Catholic District Championship. Also named most valuable player for the team as well as athlete of the year for the school. Accomplishments at SPC: Played in all 31 games and started 14 of them. Averaged five points and five rebounds per game and had game highs of 17 points versus Midland January 15 and 12 rebounds against Scottsdale January 3. For his efforts Tramar was named Honorable Mention All-Conference. Academically, he earned two honor roll awards during the 2008-09 academic year. College Major: Engineering Hobbies: Fishing Personal: Born March 23, 1989 in Toronto, Ontario, Tramar is the son of Karlene and Cebert and he has three brothers and two sisters. Upon completion of his degree at South Plains College, Tramar hopes to continue his basketball career at a division I university. Favorite Athletes: Lebron James and Dwayne Wade

From the Reebok Summer Classic following his senior year in high school-

Grassroots Canada

Tramar Sutherland: The versatile perimeter player had a great all-around game, demonstrating solid ability at both ends of the floor. He plays the passing lanes very well, and picked up several steals leading to easy transition points for himself and his teammates. Sutherland is athletic and can get to the rim consistently. He can also handle the ball well, and is a solid passer with good vision.

Too bad we have all these guards and we [try] to play Big-10 style ball.

Please, please, please change the offensive philosophy.

Some of us have become skeptical about our recruiting. Maybe this will be a good one, law of averages you know someday it has to happen. On the surface, this seems to be just another "filler". Questions that come to my mind. Did our coaches actually see the young man play? It says he started about half the games. If he is D-1, why did he not start all the games? Who else was interested? Why did he not sign with New Mexico? Someone questioned the lack of scoring. When have we been interested in a high scoring player? Did we send out a fax requesting anyone unsigned, please call UALR?

(04-24-2010 09:49 AM)Scotto Wrote:  Too bad we have all these guards and we [try] to play Big-10 style ball.

Please, please, please change the offensive philosophy.

From the Hoops Jamfest in Pittsburgh (AAU tournament)-

2008

Open RESULTS

GOLD
Grass Roots Canada

GOLD RUNNER-UPS
DC Metro Prospects

OPEN ALL TOURNAMENT TEAM
MVP - Tramar Sutherland 6'3 2008 Grass Roots Canada

More pasta.

I get more baffled by Steve's recruiting with every spring signee.

Right now ya'll are 3 over the limit and counting. Let me help. I recommed Bails, Garcia-Mendoza and Bozeman to be gone.

Bozeman, Moozy and Gardoza.

(04-25-2010 08:45 PM)Scotto Wrote:  Bozeman, Moozy and Gardoza.

I am fairly certain that Mendoza and Marlo will be back. I think Bozeman and Courtney will be back. I don't have a clue after that.

I couple always go every year. Every kid wants to play and if it takes moving to another school or down to d2 they want to play.

The coaches want players that fit their system and will play together. I am through bashing either side in the turn over that happens every year in all d1 programs. I want to see some wins that add up to a strong finish inthe SBC tournament and a invite to one of the 4 tournaments at the end of the year.

I don't want to go to Hot Springs and be a Harp seal on the ice to be beaten to death like the USA game again. I want to go down there and finish strong even if we lose. We did that this year but we would have gotten smashed in the next game.

(04-26-2010 06:59 AM)insideualr Wrote:  I don't want to go to Hot Springs and be a Harp seal on the ice to be beaten to death like the USA game again.

But they're so cute..!!!