I noticed Jerome Habel not on the San Diego St. roster for 2007-08.
He has to be out of options at this point to play D-I.
I believe he was listed as a Soph last season. Not sure how they figured that.

MuMu- I believe the last coach that was forced out was the coach at UMW prior to Coach Wood. As I recall he went to court over it.

Matt- I am to lazy to check but has there been any double digit losses between Catholic and SU in the last couple of years? Most games have been pretty close.

D-Mac- I couldn't believe how far Goucher's talent has fallen. It's hard to believe they had less talent last season. I see very little chance for improvement unlees they bring in a bunch of new players.

Matt- Why is Catholic out rebounding SU 46-39 impressive? SU only rebounder is 6'3 and he has to work his butt off. Catholic had a huge height
advantage. I wouldn't call it impressive since SU missed a number of shots (30%) the first half.

I guess SU may be one of those teams that no one will want to play in first round since they probably won't recieve a home game. Hopefully they will get everthing straight prior to CAC playoffs. They are talented enough to make a run.

d-mac: Menakaya decided to leave the team after the St. Marys game.  I believe he asked to come back prior to Catholic but Coach Holmes decided not to allow him. Prior to the Hood game he apologized to the team and asked to return. He was on the bench for Hood but did not play. Frank Gerald needed to work on school during winter term which just ended. He did not practice during this time so hard to say what type of shape he will be in.

The guard position for Catholic is average at best. If you can limit the inside game
you can cause some problems. I think that is why Hood matches up well with them. Hood does a nice job isolating their big man and he can step out to 10-12 feet.
Salisbury will have a hard time with Hood on Tue. Im sure they will try to double in the post but if SU not shooting well could be a fourth L in a row.
CAC is wide open. Still like MW only because they have four players that can score.
Need to defend better.

Menakaya is no longer playing for SU which is huge. He  was the only legit inside player for them and top rebounder. Without him it will probably force them to play more zone which they did against Catholic. This will cause a slower pace and limit their transistion game. I think this should help teams like Catholic, MW and York who are bigger but not as athletic. Frank Gerald who was playing well before break should be back next week.

MW appears to be  a stationary shooting team coming of high post screens and not a very athletic team. Only time they were really efective last night against Salisbury was when they spread the floor late hitting 4 of 5 late 3's to get back in the game. Were hurt on the offensive glass. Coach Wood appears to have calmed some and didn't show much emotion. Good win for SU after a recent two game slide.

If you go by his past track record he may not last his two years- which is to bad.
If I am not mistaken since he was not a qualifer out of HS he must have his 2 yr. degree to be eligible this season? I would like to see those transcripts. I think  a article was written on him while at St Marys that detailed his basketball history up to that point. As I recall he was attending the Marriott School in DC after Walt Whitman HS but it was found that the school didn't exist or the players weren't enrolled so the team folded?

Anyone aware Jerome Habel the one semester player at St. Mary's 2004-05
has signed with San Diego State and Steve Fischer. He was listed as the second
highest rated JUCO big man last season. Played for JC school in Cal. They list him as a Jr. I believe this has to be his fourth school not including Florida State were he first signed.