Classic Kelvin Sampson down at Houston

[thebigabd]

• Devonta Pollard (juco transfer)- Averaging 20 points and 6 rebounds per game.
• Ronnie Johnson (D1 transfer)- Averaging 18 points and 4 rebounds per game.
• Rob Gray (juco transfer)- Averaging 14.5 points per game
• Damyean Dotson (juco transfer)- Averaging 12 points and 5 rebounds
• Bert Nkali (juco transfer)- Averaging 6 points and 5 rebounds
• Kyle Meyer (juco transfer)- Averaging 5 points and 3 rebounds per game
• Xavier Dupree (juco transfer)- Averaging 3.5 points and 3.5 rebounds per game

 

[Seymore Cox]

Helps that he's in a league where that **** can work.

 

[bgrch1350]

• Devonta Pollard (juco transfer)- Averaging 20 points and 6 rebounds per game.
• Ronnie Johnson (D1 transfer)- Averaging 18 points and 4 rebounds per game.
• Rob Gray (juco transfer)- Averaging 14.5 points per game
• Damyean Dotson (juco transfer)- Averaging 12 points and 5 rebounds
• Bert Nkali (juco transfer)- Averaging 6 points and 5 rebounds
• Kyle Meyer (juco transfer)- Averaging 5 points and 3 rebounds per game
• Xavier Dupree (juco transfer)- Averaging 3.5 points and 3.5 rebounds per game

Haha. Pollard was a 5 star, top 25 high school recruit.
Dotson and Meyer were 3 star recruits.

 

[thebigabd]

Haha. Pollard was a 5 star, top 25 high school recruit.
Dotson and Meyer were 3 star recruits.

Still a juco transfer.

Hopefully Sampson can turn it around for Houston this year. They look like they have a nice team.

 

[usedtobe1]

Kelvin was hired too late to recruit last season, and his 2 best players transferred (e.g. TaShawn Thomas). He did what he had to do to get competitive this pseudonym. They didn't have the luxury of waiting for freshmen to mature.

I think he's done a pretty good job so far.

 

[MNsooner]

In general I think it is difficult to build up a program with juco players, but Kelvin's done it consistently. There isn't as much talent in the juco ranks as there used to be, but that hasn't changed Kelvin's ability to scout players at those levels and get the ready for D-1 basketball. For most coaches, jucos are a back-up plan, but as good as Kelvin is with them it's a serious rebuilding strategy for that program.

 

[bgrch1350]

Still a juco transfer.

Hopefully Sampson can turn it around for Houston this year. They look like they have a nice team.

He was also a McDonald's all American.

 

[sybarite]

I still like Kelvin.

 

[coolm]

I still like Kelvin.

I do too. I just also feel betrayed.

 

[pnkranger]

Wow:

Pollard, who was recently charged for his alleged participation in a kidnapping plot involving his mother, averaged 17.9 minutes, 3.9 points and 3.1 rebounds per game. He was one of just four Crimson Tide players to participate in every game last season.

Prosecutors claim that his mother, Jessie Mae Brown Pollard, kidnapped a 6-year-old girl and at one point demanded a $50,000 ransom.

The allegations, made by the FBI, claim that Pollard "knew that his mother planned to kidnap her cousin's daughter from a Mississippi elementary school in April and say that he gave a ride to a woman who later dropped the child off in rural Mississippi."

The girl was found unharmed a day later.

Pollard was one of seven people listed in the grand-jury indictment in Mississippi U.S. District Court. He and five other alleged accomplices face a maximum penalty of five years in jail and a $250,000 fine.

 

[SKSooner]

Sampson thinks they are going to be a good team by the end of the year. They still lack a good post player but are much better in that area than last year. The transfers have been huge. Last year's team was not good at all, but this one could beat some people in the American.

 

[j2d2]

I still like Kelvin.

He is a good coach. I have no idea what possessed him but that doesnt detract from his ability to coach basketball.

 

[BigTime]

I still like Kelvin.

I do too. He did great things for Oklahoma basketball. The good FAR outweighs the bad.