WAC Friday

Jay Drew is The Man. The Salt Lake City Tribune has obtained emails that deliciously fill in a large portion of the behind-the-scenes dealings involving the WAC and BYU. Fresno State's John Welty must have tremendous body control as his ability to do a 180 in tight space is impressive. Go here and enjoy.

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Travis Mason-Bushman tweets the whereabouts of former Vandal Mac Hopson -- go here.

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Jason Groves blogs about newcomer Remi Barry and a bit on New Mexico State's television game schedule here. The PAC-10 doesn't allow non-qualifiers to enroll so those two schools couldn't formally extend offers to Barry but we don't know the Big East (St. John's) bylaws pertaining to NQ's. Barry will certainly be the best Aggie talent next season but his scoring ability would be quite the boon for Coach Marvin Menzies if the NCAA clears the young man from France for this season.

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Chris Murray has the names of those trying out for the Reno Bighorns and there are a number of former WAC players among them -- go here. For you weekend warriors, put together $150, get to Oakland and have a story to tell your children and grandchildren although posterization is also always a possibility.

Thursday's WAC news and notes

Dave Reardon writes that the best -- no, make that -- the most acceptable of all moves now is for UH to put the WAC in its rear view mirror. But finding a suitor and a heck of a lot of independent football opponents may be Sisyphus-like tasks.

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Sam Wasson offers video of one Jonathan Tshibuy, out of Montreal, (the geographical area the Aggies just toured) -- aso will their be a November announcement pairing up Tshibuy and New Mexico State?

Remi Barry's hometown newspaper has a profile of the young man here.

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Chris Murray on has more on K.C. Ross-Miller 'See America' tour -- go here.

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The Quayles are now  in Belgium -- check out the photos (especially the waffle one) and updates here.

Remi Barry to Las Cruces

He's from France, played some in Florida, sat out last season at a high school in Sacramento and now is headed to Las Cruces.

Remi Barry has decided New Mexico State is his top choice as Adam Zagoria breaks the news:

Barry to New Mexico State
Adam Zagoria
ZagsBlog
August 18, 2010

Remi Barry has landed at New Mexico State.

A 6-foot-7 French native who was enrolled at Loomis (Calif.) Del Oro High, Barry chose that school because the WAC accepts non-qualifiers...

Go here for the remainder.

Barry is a major talent -- the sole question is when will he be eligible to play?

Here's a YouTube video on Barry.

Here's a background story on the young man.

Our sense is he goes elsewhere (UCLA, St. John's, Arizona State) if he was NCAA eligible but WAC teams can take non-qualifiers. This is a very good get for Marvin Menzies.

A pair of recruiting items

We keep hearing Coach Marvin Menzies has interest in Cal backcourter D.J. Seeley, who recently announced his coming departure from Cal. He is not alone.

PTW has no idea if the feeling is mutual but if MM can lure Seeley to Las Cruces then it will take on the patina -- at least to some degree -- to "bringing Mohammed to the mountain."

Berkeley and Cal to Las Cruces and New Mexico State -- no knocks towards any of these locations and schools -- will require Menzies to be on top of his spiel.

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Plus, here is an intriguing prospect -- we will try and find out more, specifically what actually is up with his recruitment.

Remi Barry’s hoops odyssey
Senior took a circuitous route to Del Oro, but will he play for the Eagles?
Eric J. Gourley
Auburn Journal
1/23/2010

Remi Barry’s route to the Gold Country wasn’t exactly direct.

His is a basketball odyssey that has stretched from France to Florida to France to California to the uncertainty of a pending administrative decision regarding his ability to play the game he loves...

...Barry may have already lost some college looks this winter, but he’s still drawn interest from Fresno State, Gonzaga, USC and North Carolina State, among others. Coaches from Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Nevada, Pacific, St. Mary’s and San Francisco also visited Del Oro to watch Barry practice during the fall...

Go here for the remainder.