Cuse Diagne

[biazza38]

M Diagne is going the Juco route and not to Cuse. Any chance we try to recruit him when he is done with Juco

 

[RUJMM78]

Its worth keeping in contact but somehow I figure high profile college schools or the NBA are in his future.

 

[knights1212]

This guy is pretty good. He just fell into Pope John's lap. They had a few foreign guys last year. I guess he never met the qualifying standards. I think this one bit them. The parochial schools get away with way too much. I don't think he ever really considered us.

 

[rufeelinit]

Must have one heck of a HS transcript if going to JUCO for 2 rather than Prep for 1.

 

[Mr_Twister]

FWIW ... A friend in Sparta who is a high school "sports official", questions Diagne's age. Says Diagne is older than his stated age, by a mile. Again, FWIW. My friend kiddingly referred to Diagne as "Danny Almonte Alloveragain".

 

[NJ4life]

Mr_Twister, that's the word on the streets in the BB community. I didn't want to post that, but I am hearing the same thing from several people.

 

[shields]

One less player for the Cuse. Anyone gets hurt they will be in trouble with small bench.

 

[michstfr]

Combination of things. Biggest issues are class he took at Senegal that the NCAA has not cleared yet combined with an August 20 date requiring him to be enrolled at a college or lose his Visa.

http://www.syracuse.com/orangebaske...urse_in_senegal.html#incart_river_mobileshort

 

[knights1212]

Pope John all of a sudden had a few foreign players fall into their lap. I sat at Roselle Catholic when Linden played Pope John. Several really nice Pope John fans who were about my age told me several foreign players just fell onto their doorstop and not many questions were asked. They seemed just happy with the winning. St. Pat's did this for years and now Roselle Catholic and it seems like even St. Joe's of Metuchen take almost every good player that comes along. When a player travels about 80 miles every day from Camden to Elizabeth or a number of players commute from NY every day or players transfer in from Montreal etc. you really begin to wonder if these parochial schools are playing by the same rules. The state should clamp down too on the number of out of state games that many of these teams are playing. Some are almost traveling as much as a college team.

 

[knightfan7]

I have no inside knowledge but if the same people are in charge that were when my kid played 3 sports at PJHS, I'm shocked to say the least. They were tough, hard nosed, by the book all the way.

Then again it's a different world these days with HS Sports.

 

[RU_DIO]

Pope John all of a sudden had a few foreign players fall into their lap. I sat at Roselle Catholic when Linden played Pope John. Several really nice Pope John fans who were about my age told me several foreign players just fell onto their doorstop and not many questions were asked. They seemed just happy with the winning. St. Pat's did this for years and now Roselle Catholic and it seems like even St. Joe's of Metuchen take almost every good player that comes along. When a player travels about 80 miles every day from Camden to Elizabeth or a number of players commute from NY every day or players transfer in from Montreal etc. you really begin to wonder if these parochial schools are playing by the same rules. The state should clamp down too on the number of out of state games that many of these teams are playing. Some are almost traveling as much as a college team.

Most of these kids live with a host family as far as I know.

 

[RUskoolie]

I will add to what the above two posters say. Someone mentioned this kid out of the blue last week that he is 25 years old...and was playing HS basketball.