Friday, September 12, 2008

A young'un enters the basketball blogging world

Jakob Kagel has been on this earth just 15 years but he has a plan and his College Basketball 24/7 blog is just the beginning.

Jakob recently featured his 'sleepers' for 2008-2009 and LA TECH was included. Here's what he wrote (although the D.J. Wright portion is incorrect):

"Louisiana Tech-The Bulldogs are on the path back to the "glory days" of Karl Malone, P.J. Brown and even maybe the days of Paul Milsap (even though they were not the best) and what better way to do it than hiring the great himself, the mail man as part of your staff. The Bulldogs won only 6 games last year but the outlook is very positive for the team that finished last is the WAC behind even lowly San Jose St. and scored only 31 points in a early season contest win Texas Tech. The reason that the"Techsters" can do in this year, is the addition of 5 impact newcomers and the return of lead guard Kyle Gibson (16.5 ppg). The new players that could all see significant playing time are Kenneth Cooper(transfer Oklahoma St.), Magnum Rolle (LSU), Jamel White (Nebraska), Olu Ashalu (RS Freshman Rivals 150), and D.J. Wright (RS Freshman Rivals 150). There is no telling how well all of these transfers, and newcomers will be able to play together, but just consider that New Mexico St., under Reggie Theus had a similar turn around when in 05-06 they won only 15 games, and the following year the won the WAC tournament and got a berth in the NCAA tournament. All in all on a team that has 11 new comers overall Kerry Rupp had better make them gel fast because the Bulldogs have a Dec. 28 meeting with UCLA.
Prediction: NIT"

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