sycamorestateofmind wrote:During conference play Odum is 7th in the nation in steals - good grief you guys give a kid no credit. The only stats you want to focus on is rebounds and points. That's really all you have to make your case on.
You can't make it on:
His leadership compared to Odum.
His value to his team compared to Odum
His overall game compared to Odum
I'm not going to get into too deep of a discussion with you here because you seem to be too emotionally invested to make a fair decision, but I'll say that you certainly can compare Doug to Odum in any of the above categories quite favorably. He is one of the leaders of the team, his overall game is very sound (he scores, he rebounds both offensively and defensively) and he makes his teammates better. Without him, the Jays would have easily lost many more games this year, so I'd place his value pretty high.
McDermott is almost a lock for a first team all-conference performer as a freshman. He would be the first such person to receive such recognition since the 1950's. For him to get such an award, yet not get FOY seems to be quite a stretch.
He's an argument that you might want to consider: Of the three freshmen, which one would start for the highest number of schools in the conference?
However it turns out, I think it is great that we have three top tier freshmen. As someone who has been concerned about the long-term prospects of the conference, this is a nice positive.
