Freshman, Newcomer, and Player of the Year Nominees

by **MVCfans** » October 8th, 2010, 8:40 am

I am taking nominees for the following awards:

Freshman of the Year
Newcomer of the Year
Player of the Year

Please post below.

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by **45otseoj** » October 8th, 2010, 10:00 am

FOY- Ray Rice
NOY- John Wilkins
POY- John Wilkins

by **TylerDurden** » October 8th, 2010, 11:29 am

Player of the Year should have a ton of nominees (and I'm sure I missed someone):
Maniscalco
Murry
Weems
Lawson
Ahelegbe
Kelly
Lathan
Warren
Brown
Ryan
Carmichael
Ricks
Koch
Teague
Durley
Stutz

by **MSUDuo** » October 9th, 2010, 1:46 am

POY- Weems, Ricks, Leonard
FOY- Scheer

by **CLAWINBALL** » October 10th, 2010, 6:59 am

POY-Kyle Weems
FOY- Nathan Scheer

by **DoubleJayAlum** » October 10th, 2010, 8:31 am

FOY: Doug McDermott (sorry UNI fans - rumor is that he's been killing it early on)
NOY: Gregory Echinique (I don't think this one will be close)

POY: I have no idea. Get back to me when we know the conference champ. Since this award rarely goes to the best player in the league, this award has lost most of its cache to me.

by **WSUbballer** » October 10th, 2010, 12:15 pm

Looks like fairly unbiased submissions so far.

by **DoubleJayAlum** » October 10th, 2010, 12:51 pm

WSUbballer wrote:Looks like fairly unbiased submissions so far.

I don't think that is really all that surprising for FOY and NOY. The fact of the matter is that most fans probably don't know much about newcomers on teams other than their own. Of all the categories, these two are probably the hardest to predict because nobody has seen these kids play in any MVC games (transfers at least have some experience at the D1 level) - everyone is just making a guess based on the limited information they have, which, not surprisingly, will tend to skew toward the team they support.

Having said that, I feel pretty good about the Echinique prediction. FOY, on the other hand, I truly have no idea....

by **MVCfans** » October 10th, 2010, 2:56 pm

WSUbballer wrote:Looks like fairly unbiased submissions so far.

Frankly, I don't know every freshman or newcomer from each team so I'd like for the respective fan bases to let me know who their school has and who we should watch for when the season begins.

by **WuDrWu** » October 10th, 2010, 8:24 pm

I realize that CU and UNI are going to sweep all the awards, and while the Jays and their new, below .500 in conference coach are 50/50 to win the NCAA Tournament, it appears the Panthers are only poised to make an Elite 8 run this year.....championships probably in the next 3 (if, that is, they can beat Creighton).

It is possible that since Echenique will win National Player of the Year, they just might consider bypassing him at the Valley level for individual awards.

Given that possibility, I will throw out Joe Ragland for NOY. The Shocks have no 1st year freshmen, so Joe is probably our only nominee.