Kevin Parrom (Offer)

Then they will have the same number of scholarship players eligable to play as they did last year.

I don't like having extra unused scholarships, but I really don't like giving scholarships to guys that aren't very good just so that you don't leave scholarships on the table. That can hurt you over the long haul, I think, when you don't have a scholarship available for a quality player because you gave them out to scrubs so you didn't have unused scholarships for a year.

As for life without Parrom: Next year we can play Crawford, Jackson, or Walsh as a 2/3 so I think we will be ok next year without Kevin. It will be more of a 3 guard set, which also allows us to get playing time for all the good guards we have. Lyons and Holloway can split the point guard duties and we can platoon Redford, Walsh, Crawford, and Dante at the 2 and 3 guard spots. Love and Freaser have the 5 locked down. The 4 would be Brown and McClean assuming Brown stays. If Brown goes we are going to have problems at the PF position. That was likely to happen whether or not Parrom was here, though. We need to get some good PF's in here now!

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Originally Posted by boozehound

Then they will have the same number of scholarship players eligable to play as they did last year.

I don't like having extra unused scholarships, but I really don't like giving scholarships to guys that aren't very good just so that you don't leave scholarships on the table. That can hurt you over the long haul, I think, when you don't have a scholarship available for a quality player because you gave them out to scrubs so you didn't have unused scholarships for a year.

As for life without Parrom: Next year we can play Crawford, Jackson, or Walsh as a 2/3 so I think we will be ok next year without Kevin. It will be more of a 3 guard set, which also allows us to get playing time for all the good guards we have. Lyons and Holloway can split the point guard duties and we can platoon Redford, Walsh, Crawford, and Dante at the 2 and 3 guard spots. Love and Freaser have the 5 locked down. The 4 would be Brown and McClean assuming Brown stays. If Brown goes we are going to have problems at the PF position. That was likely to happen whether or not Parrom was here, though. We need to get some good PF's in here now!

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Might we go the JUCO route if Brown bolts? It would provide us w/ immediate help at the spot. I would guess the staff is working on this, should that scenario present itself.

I would think that they would definitely consider a Juco. The only question is whether or not they can find one worth giving a scholarship to. I was under the impression that Jarrid Famous was the last decent Juco out there and he is going to Arizona from what I understand.

The plus with a borderline talent from Juco is that he would only take up a scholarship for 2 years, so you could use him to bridge the gap and fill a roster spot until some of the 2010 recruits that we land have developed enough to play.

With the proliferation of prep schools the quality of talent in JUCO ball has suffered. There is not much to be had out there right now who could help us at the level we want to play at. Sure plenty of Obi Harris or Marcus Mason types, not so much on the Myles/Braggs end of things.

I feel they will pursue a big through D1 transfer avenues (ala Anderson or Thornton). I know we need to wait a year on them but those options are most likely more talented than anything we can land at this point. I think we bank the extra scholarship for the loaded 2010 class.

We can probably afford to have a transfer sit out for a year if Brown comes back. If he doesn't it could be very interesting...

This was posted about 12 hours ago. Didn't see anything on it here. Parrom is looking at Arizona now (this is nothing new) and Famous is expected to make an announcement soon. One thing that I'm curious about...the article says Miller stayed in contact with Parrom after accepting the job at Arizona. With Parrom still under the LOI at the time, could that constitute a recruiting violation? Seems like it would be to me, but I'm not an expert on NCAA rules and regulations.

Anyway, here's the link if you're interested:

Parrom, Famous, and a little more

I'll bet you that after he resigned, he had a window of time where he wasn't the coach of Arizona yet, and was able to make some calls as a coach that was not "officially" connected with any school.

This is such bullshit. As much as loved Miller when he was our coach, I am starting to really hate the man for what he is doing to our future.

If the University of Arizona is such a prominent program and a destination school, then why steal the recruits of little old Xavier?

Get bent Miller!

I think it's a bunch of BS for Miller to go after Xavier recruits. If the recruit said, "No way I'm coming to Xavier", then that would be one thing. But Parrom still has X on his list. The same goes for Witherspoon and Latham. If Miller wants to go after guys who he recruited but haven't yet committed to X, that's one thing. But to go after Parron etc. is BS. And I don't really care if other coaches do it. Miller was not supposed to be like other coaches, or so we were told.

Say what you want about Matta, but I don't recall him going after BJ or Brown after he left.

Miller confuses me. He sits in front of our microphone and says X can't win a NC but arizona can. Then he goes to arizona and sits in front of their microphone and further besmirches us by calling us "little old Xavier". Yet, he wants all of our recruits. That doesn't make any sense. Either these guys are good enough to win a NC, which means they can do it at X just as easily as they can at UA. Or they're only high calibre mid-major players, in which case (by Miller's thinking) they should remain at little old X.

Just goes to show that the move to arizona was about nothing but dollar bills. He can ramble on and on about the arizona tradition and all that other garbage, but he's cut from the same cloth as Calipari and Matta.

At this rate, the only recent coaches they're going to be showing in the highlight videos before games is Prosser, Gillen and Mack.