In Reply to: Reading Miller's posts is always entertaining posted by MatterFact on April 15, 2025 at 02:58:08
In December 1999, MMiller wrote this:
I think as UCLA fans we do have a right to wonder why there aren't more post players on the team. The coaches have made the conscious decision not to recruit certain players, like David Bluthenthal for instance, who were practically begging to go to UCLA. Again, is that a firing offense? I don't think so. Not yet. David is going to average 13 ppg and 7 rpg for USC, of all people, this year and he should be in a blue and gold uniform instead and he would have kicked Jerome's butt by now, but that is ancient history. We can hope that the coaches have learned from their mistake and will gleefully sign a certain 6-10 player at Redondo Union High School named Andrew Zahn when he tells them, "Just show me where to sign" in April. Andrew cannot run and jump like Jerome Moiso and he never will have as much "potential" as Jerome. But Andrew is a very skilled and motivated young man and a team player who will likely get a lot of minutes next season in rotation with Dan at the C spot. IMHO, the coaches made a major mistake in recruiting last year when Marlon Parmer, a very quick and creative combo guard begged UCLA to sign him, and UCLA didn't sign him because he wasn't a highly-rated player by national recruiting services. IMO, they have already made another mistake, but only a small mistake, in recruiting this year in signing TJ Cummings instead of waiting for the Spring to put a fullcourt press on Travon Bryant, but Travon is probably going to sign with Kansas anyway and TJ will likely be a solid enough player while Travon will likely be an all-american, but if Jason and Ray and Earl all get 16 ppg next year, I'd just as soon have TJ getting his 6/5 off the bench as a role player. TJ wanted to sign with UCLA and that's always the best sign. Travon is sitting on the fence, so the coaches might have well have just let him slide anyway, I don't know. I'm not holding it against them.
Marlon Parmer
Three years at NM averaged 10ppg (29.4% threes). Quit team halfway thru junior year transferred to DII Kentucky Wesleyan.
"The coach suspended the team's second-leading scorer three times this season, including one time for a "team issue" in early January after a 95-90 loss to nationally ranked Gonzaga, in which Parmer scored 30 points. "Our kids, to a man, wanted to kick him off the team two weeks ago," Fraschilla told the Daily News yesterday from his office. "I had one of my freshmen, Jamaal Williams, come into my office and ask to be redshirted next season because he didn't want to play with him."
Andrew Zahn
Two years at Arizona. Scored a total of 15 points as a redshirt freshman.
"Zahn was a top-80 player who was ranked as high as 54 by one service. The 6-9 center redshirted in 2001 and then played in just 16 games as a redshirt freshman. He had the look of a player, big, strong post player who could step out and knock down the three. The Cats envisioned him as a player similar to Ray Owes or Ricky Anderson, but he never adjusted to the D-I game and often looked lost. Zahn eventually transferred to Biola University…an NAIA school. To make matters even worse, Zahn failed to make a huge impact at Biola, he was a solid performer for the school, but did not dominate at that lower level as a player with a D-I pedigree should. but did play one season in Japan."
Travon Bryant
Four years at Missouri. Averaged 3.0, 6.3, 8.9 and 10.6 ppg. Didn't make All-American.