Did UConn ever play BCU in the HCC with Bagley on the team? I remember a game in Hew Haven. Very well in fact. Mike Adams threated to kick my buddy's ass while he was shooting free throws.
If the Olympic Games had had a 40 meter basketball dribbling race Adams would have won Gold.
As good a shot as anyone. Great sign that he's fully bought into PC culture
PC is assembling a great roster with the others in this class plus what they're bringing in this year. Carter being picked in the lottery helps but Harrell's comment about English being like his big brother has to be a major plus.
Adam's was sensational (and exceptionally quick) but I think he would have finished second to (Rocket) Rod Foster in that event.
Foster was definitely the more talented of the two but as far as keeping his dribble while beating defenders down the court, Adams who was 3 or 4 inches shorter than Foster was a well deserved All Star. I don’t know, but it definitely would’ve been close in a race.
I don’t know, but I knew Bagley and gotta say he was not a dumb dumb, he was very well spoken and had some nice ideas about what he wanted to do out in Chicago outside of basketball.
That's what I heard. But I remember a poster here insisting that it was just an excuse for not landing him. I can believe that.
Bagley was certainly overweight in college but nonetheless highly effective. Like Charles Barkley "the round mound of rebound". I don't see Nowell having anywhere need the build of Bagley. He looks like all muscle to me. He'll need that for the hammering he'll take when he drives to the hoop. With the S & C and nutrition programs in today's sports performance world those builds would have to undergo stringent changes or not even be selected by major D1 programs. It's a different world of competition today.
??? - Couldn't get into UCONN because of academic reasons but was accepted at BC?
Absolutely true.
Ya great schools like UNC and BC would never do such a thing
This was the late-70's, before BCU's big PR campaign.
Hey look I love UCONN but I guess that if he was accepted to Boston College and not UCONN with respect to continuing education, there is more to the story.
I was at the New Haven game, but I do believe they played BC in Hartford w Bagley
Hmmm, most schools have a different academic admissions standard for athletes vs the broader student body. I’d be surprised if this were true.
Who was the center for NCState this year. I think he is/was more overweight than Bagley. If you can play someone will find you. I have not researched but I think he did pretty well against us back then over weight or not.
Bagley wasn’t as overweight as he was stocky. Just a big dude.
The NC State guy was named Fat Albert
I never said he wasn't a great player in that era. He definitely was and so was Barkley. Barkley slimmed down quite a bit as a pro. The comparison was Nowell's body to Bagley and being somewhat flabby. I disagreed with that comparison; I said Nowell is way more muscular and simply said that being overweight or flabby pretty much wouldn't be tolerated in this era of S & C /Sports performance. The last comparable player who was like that whom I remember was Glen Davis who played for LSU.
