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Saturday Report

Two pieces of news today. First, I got around to looking on Scouts about Omar. Kiper has Omar ranked behind Croyle and Whitehurst, but Scouts as him ahead of both of those two guys and in the 2nd/3rd round range. I think he is making progress, because early on I think people though he might slip to the second day.

It will be interesting to see where he goes. The write up includes a couple excerpts I thought were interesting:

Can be too emotional at times and must learn to deal with failure better.

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Instead of returning for his senior season, Jacobs elected to take his chances in the 2006 draft -- a sizeable mistake in our opinion.

OK, then. The coaches here never let on that he dealt with failure poorly, but you could certainly see it on the field. He had a hard time turning things around when they started to go badly, and was unstoppable with positive momentum behind him. You can see that especially in the final drives against UT.

As for the second quote....well, time will tell.

The Sentinel writes today on the hoops team work in the off-season.

Coach says attitudes are great as the team tries to use weight lifting to improve its rebounding to improve on the abysmal rebounding. He feels experience and "more bodies" will improve the turnover situation. Fouls were due to inexperience and a lack of discipline.

I noticed (as did Similarly Uninformed Observers--SUOs) that we seemed to just not get in the air as quickly as our opponents did, in addition to being out muscled.

The article notes that at the end of the season, we were without five scholarship players we had counted on (Holland, Sullivan, Wilson, Wright and Dusan).

The article says that Clements, Moten, Dusan and Marschall are all "expected to return," which would be a great relief to a transfer weary program. The only other note on that front is that there is no mention of Patrick Phillips, who SUOs report will graduate in May and move on with his life.

Coach says Dusan has already gained 15 pounds. He's also looking forward to adding transfer Nate Miller (yes, an inbound transfer), along with two new recruits.

Finally, the quote:

"Dakich is entering the final year of his contract, but doesn't plan to change his approach.

'I'm going to work like a manic (sic) like we always have to make sure at this time next year we're in a better spot," he said at the end of the season. "I'm here and I'm going to work like crazy."

More power to him. As I have said before, I would love for him to succeed, yet you cannot hide from results. Let's hope we can win 20 next year, and rebuild this program.