Since we have two - 1 year players on the team, I was wondering who you would consider to be our top 5 one year players (if we have had any)?
1 year players could be players that started as Freshmen & left due to injury, grades, etc. (Patrick Craft), or transferred in and played one year only. Without looking at any media guides, I cannot remember if players like Cliff Priutt & Will DeVaughn played 1 year or two. (Not that I would or would not place them on the list).
I know there will be a player from the real early years that will make the list.
Thanks.
Walter Sharpe was our best 12 game player.
Someone should wake him up and tell him.
I'm sorry. That was awful.
Keith McCord.
Cliff Pruitt was a one-year. I'd give him top 5 status just for the South Florida game: he kept the NCAA streak alive pretty much single-handed.
Not sure if Bill DeVaughn played one or two, but the redshirt year he spent beating the crap out of Alan Ogg in practice turned a project into a force.
I've never rated talent over character, so I can't count the assorted pieces of human garbage we've had for a year or less and kicked out. And there have been several.
I am not going to include any one year players on this year's team. Also, they had to play a full season, so Walter Sharpe or T-Rod does not get consideration either.
1. Keith McCord (79-80) - Hands down the greatest one year player ever. Averaged 18.2 points a game. Transferred from Alabama for his Senior year.
2. Cliff Pruitt - (1982-83) - The only Blazer to ever play in a Final Four. Transferred from UCLA and kept a team coming off an Elite 8 appearance from being a very bad team. Averaged 16.4 ppg and 5.8 rpg.
3. Darryl Braden (1978-79) - The best player on the very first team. Transferred to UAB from Baylor for his senior season to play for coach Bartow when he started the program. Avg 13.8 ppg and 6 rpg.
4. Reggie Huffman (2007-08) - I'm still mad at Davis for letting him get away. 7.7 ppg and 6.3 rpg.
5. Stan Rose (1990-91) A Junior college player who played one year and decided to go back to California. A strong hardnosed rebounder and scorer who would have really made UAB strong in his senior season had he stuck around. 9.6 ppg and 4.6 rpg.
The Predrags may have been one year players - at UAB as well.
Materic turned pro overseas I think. Savovic went to Hawaii.
"A Junior college player who played one year and decided to go back to California."
Utah. And he he did it for love - can't really hold it against him.
DeVaughn was a 1 year player as well. I would make him #6. Mark Kimbrough didn't play a full year because he was injured, but he was a good player as well.
(12-26-2009 09:53 PM)the_blazerman Wrote: [ -> ]The Predrags may have been one year players - at UAB as well.
Materic turned pro overseas I think. Savovic went to Hawaii.
Savovic was a horrible freshman for us and turned into a really good player at Hawaii. May have been all conference.
(12-26-2009 09:52 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: [ -> ]I am not going to include any one year players on this year's team. Also, they had to play a full season, so Walter Sharpe or T-Rod does not get consideration either.
1. Keith McCord (79-80) - Hands down the greatest one year player ever. Averaged 18.2 points a game. Transferred from Alabama for his Senior year.
2. Cliff Pruitt - (1982-83) - The only Blazer to ever play in a Final Four. Transferred from UCLA and kept a team coming off an Elite 8 appearance from being a very bad team. Averaged 16.4 ppg and 5.8 rpg.
3. Darryl Braden (1978-79) - The best player on the very first team. Transferred to UAB from Baylor for his senior season to play for coach Bartow when he started the program. Avg 13.8 ppg and 6 rpg.
4. Reggie Huffman (2007-08) - I'm still mad at Davis for letting him get away. 7.7 ppg and 6.3 rpg.
5. Stan Rose (1990-91) A Junior college player who played one year and decided to go back to California. A strong hardnosed rebounder and scorer who would have really made UAB strong in his senior season had he stuck around. 9.6 ppg and 4.6 rpg.
Rose played high school ball for the Leeds Green Wave. I think knee problems also were a factor in Stanley not playing his last year for UAB. By the time he got to UAB, his knee was heavily braced and he didn't have the explosiveness he showed in high school. I saw Stanley dominate Alan Ogg, Larry Howser (UNCW star) and a pretty talented Gardendale team in an Area Championship game back in the day. Rose looked like he would be the next superstar out of Alabama but the knees just couldn't take the pounding.
I think the loss of Reggie Huffman cost UAB an NCAA appearance last season. He would have fit in well on this team.
(12-26-2009 09:57 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: [ -> ] (12-26-2009 09:53 PM)the_blazerman Wrote: [ -> ]The Predrags may have been one year players - at UAB as well.
Materic turned pro overseas I think. Savovic went to Hawaii.
Savovic was a horrible freshman for us and turned into a really good player at Hawaii. May have been all conference.
I think he was drafted in the 2nd round as well.
Quote: 2. Cliff Pruitt - (1982-83) - The only Blazer to ever play in a Final Four.
Speaking of transfers and Final Fours and such, who is the only player (to my memory anyway) who transferred to UAB but would have won a national championship if he had stayed at the school he transferred from.
(12-26-2009 10:38 PM)BlazerGrad88 Wrote: [ -> ]Quote: 2. Cliff Pruitt - (1982-83) - The only Blazer to ever play in a Final Four.
Speaking of transfers and Final Fours and such, who is the only player (to my memory anyway) who transferred to UAB but would have won a national championship if he had stayed at the school he transferred from.
Tracy Foster and IU (87)?
(12-26-2009 10:52 PM)VulcansHammer Wrote: [ -> ] (12-26-2009 10:38 PM)BlazerGrad88 Wrote: [ -> ]Quote: 2. Cliff Pruitt - (1982-83) - The only Blazer to ever play in a Final Four.
Speaking of transfers and Final Fours and such, who is the only player (to my memory anyway) who transferred to UAB but would have won a national championship if he had stayed at the school he transferred from.
Tracy Foster and IU (87)?
That may be what he is thinking of, but I am not sure it is correct. Foster graduated from UAB in 1987. Had he not sat out his transfer year, he would have used up his eligiblity in 1986 and it was 1987 when Indiana won the national championship.
(12-26-2009 11:02 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: [ -> ] (12-26-2009 10:52 PM)VulcansHammer Wrote: [ -> ] (12-26-2009 10:38 PM)BlazerGrad88 Wrote: [ -> ]Quote: 2. Cliff Pruitt - (1982-83) - The only Blazer to ever play in a Final Four.
Speaking of transfers and Final Fours and such, who is the only player (to my memory anyway) who transferred to UAB but would have won a national championship if he had stayed at the school he transferred from.
Tracy Foster and IU (87)?
That may be what he is thinking of, but I am not sure it is correct. Foster graduated from UAB in 1987. Had he not sat out his transfer year, he would have used up his eligiblity in 1986 and it was 1987 when Indiana won the national championship.
Great guess, but not Tracy Foster for the reason stated by MB. You're close geographically, though.
You gave it away with the geography clue.
Willie Mitchell who was a UAB from 1997-99 and transferred from Michigan who won the NC in 1998.
I never realized that though. I guess it could be argued that had he stayed at Michigan they would not have won a national championship, since they would not have had the extra scholarship needed to create the Fab Five.
Right school. Wrong player. You've got the year wrong.
Yep, I inverted my year. 1989 rather than 1998 And the player would be Jack Kramer, the only other transfer from Michigan.
Ding ding ding. We have a winner. Jack was at Michigan for one year in 1986-87, transferred to UAB, and finished here in 1991. Michigan won the NC in 1989.
Again, they might not had enough scholarships to get the fab 5 if Jack haven't freed up a scholarship.