Unheralded players that did well is subjective, but I’d throw Chester Frazier in that column. Until his senior year, he was treated brutally on this board.
Well until his senior year we were playing 4-on-5 on offense whenever he was in the game.
Now, it wasn't remotely his fault that the team was in that position, like so many other players who were seen as disappointments when they should have been stud supporting cast members (Randle, Pruitt, McCamey, Frazier, Tisdale, Richardson, Bertrand, Rice, Black, Egwu, Abrams, you could go on and on and on).
And now you have to love the irony that someone so symbolic of the recruiting failures of that era like Chet is now crushing it on the trail for us.
The entire Mike Davis recruitment lasted like 2 weeks. It was so fast that 247 has him enrolling before he committed...
That's essentially literally true. The public first heard anything about Mike Davis after he was in Champaign and enrolled and was already practicing.
The story was that he had decided to go to a 5th year prep school to try and generate more recruiting interest, but was academically eligible and when we reached out way after the signing period he just kinda showed up.
Brian Carlwell SDSU (Mountain West)
FR ILL 2ppg 1 rbg
SO ILL DNP
JR SDSU 5 ppg 3 rbg
SR SDSU 4 ppg 3 rbg
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I think I would have preferred Weber sign JaValle McGee
Javale McGee Nevada
FR 3ppg 2 rbg
SO 14 ppg 7 rbg
1st round NBA draft pick (18th) 14 year NBA career
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I mean, guys, we can't talk about Carlwell without making note of him being severely injured and nearly dying in the Jamar Smith incident.