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He didn't do much at Ole Miss, but let's see what Groce & Co. can get out of him, because he had offers from Auburn, Arkansas, Colorado State, Kansas State, WKU & Oklahoma coming out of HS, so the coaches saw something in him. Maybe he just needs a change of scenery? I found this encouraging article from after he verballed to Ole Miss. (It also has a nice video where you can really see his skill set.) The article says his prep school played the North Carolina Tarheels and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish the summer before his senior year of high school where "he put on a show", scoring 20 points with 10 rebounds against North Carolina and scoring 19 points with 9 rebounds against Notre Dame.

Word on the street is that Murphy had surgery this offseason, so isn't participating in Spring Ball. He should be a T when he gets back, moving either Williams or Daniels back to G.

From Coach JoMoe in today's posted video, the starting front four are Victor Jones Curtis Harper Devon Robinson Julian Richardson

He mentioned those 1st Team DL as being Curtis Harper (Syracuse transfer), Victor Jones (Wyoming transfer), Devon Robinson (Miss. St./Memphis transfer), and Julian Richardson (Arth recruit).

6’9” STRETCH 4 🙏🙌🙏🙌 (😂)

On my phone but we just got a transfer from Ole Miss! Look for a retweet from Rob Fulford 💪💪

Well, at least it’s 16 more than last year.

Alanna Carter surprises me. She was a R-freshman who was beginning to get some playing time.

You’re probably right about that. Now tat I think about it, I doubt his feet are quick enough to keep up with a lot of switching. That’s one thing that was so nice about Ali, 6-8 & could guard on the perimeter.

I’d take him.

Greg Tribble also retweeted Ali's announcement. So our guys are sticking with him which is nice to see. They must understand the strictly business side of this better than I do. I think I'd be miffed (like I am) that we had such a potentially strong, young nucleus ready to return & Ali blew it up. Wouldn't you be upset at that if you were on the team?

Just going off pathos, not logos, to me Butler feels like a good fit for Ali. Haven't they struggled lately and are "rebuilding?" This is probably better for him than going to an established team & trying to fit in.

Still no movement on the Verbal Commits dot com front. 😕

Yesterday we beat WMU 10-6 🙂

^^That announcer sounds just like the RubberDuck's Jim Clark.

@catdaddyp, any ideas as to why our 3 stud HS OL we signed this year were still on the table during the late signing period? I figured they'd be hot commodities who would have most likely been signed in the early period.

Initial post updated w/ Thompson and Price.

Ali has heard from a lot of P-6 schools. Though Idk if that means they've offered. You'll just have to trust me that this is not sour grapes, but, as I posted a week ago, I think he's going to regret leaving. At Akron he's got a comfortable, familiar culture, great team chemistry, mastery of our offensive and defensive schemes, knows his role, has a spot in the starting 5, gets an abundance of PT, and has been granted an exceptionally long leash by the coaching staff. Good luck finding that wherever the next stop may be.

💯 I don't like it when good players leave. I want to see high level ball at the JAR. Having said that, after teams figured out how to guard Sears the guy stunk up the gym.

@Akron1, I didn't hear about it till after the fact on twitter 😕