Ishmael El-Amin

[Doheny]

Talked to him a year ago. Nice kid. I wish him well.

 

[CL82]

In their own time:

Corny Thompson
Chris Smith
Donyell Marshall
Rip Hamilton
Kahlid
KO getting Shabazz to stay

were all huge

Who will we be saying this about 10 years from now? DHam, JA, AG?

Everytime I think of Corny, I think that he really didn't improve under Dom Perno. I wonder what Calhoun would have done with him. Thompson and Mike McKay on the court at the same time on a Calhoun team? I suspect they would have done some damage in the post season.

 

[ktuck911]

Some would say Chris Smith was our most important receruit ever, but I think it was Khalid.

It was Chris Smith... without him and that run we had when I was on campus in the '89-'90 season there's no Khalid...

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

I disagree. Without Khalid, Ricky is your point guard. Khalid came along because Ricky was so shaky while running the show in 96-97. The fact that Khalid, on his recruiting visit, became the team's leader speaks volumes to what that team of very talented, young players needed. We all would agree that Khalid has been a once-in-a-lifetime personality/leader. In my opinion, he is the reason we went from being a good team with a coach could not win the big one to being arguably the most successful basketball school of the past 25 years. We had had players like Rip before, we had guys like Freeman and Jake etc. We had never had a Khalid.

The Pitt game sealed my fate in 5th grade. I went from yelling at the TV when my family did to being a diehard in an instant.