Boston College Hoops Adds 6'6" Wing Patrick Heckmann To Complete 2011 Class
by EagleAboveTheRim on May 12, 2011 6:43 PM EDT
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According to EA's Eric Hoffses, Boston College has signed 2011 recruit Patrick Heckmann. He's a German who is 6-6, lanky, and can shoot. If I'm correct, BC used the scholarship that Reggie Jackson had and gave up because of his recent decision of staying in the NBA Draft. Hoffses says: "Boston College hoops has picked up a commitment from 2011 recruit Patrick Heckmann. More to come on EagleAction."
The Heights described Heckmann: "Donahue lands Patrick Heckmann, a lanky 6-6 German recruit who can shoot, has a good handle, and can play the 1, 2, and 3. H/T."
According to EagleOutsider.com forums, BC is rumored to be going after Corey Hawkins, who recently transferred from Arizona State. He is Arizona's all-time leading scorer in high school, but an ankle injury slowed his progress and he only averaged 2.0 points, 0.9 assists, and 1.7 rebounds. However, he can be a big-time scorer at times, so he would be a nice pickup for Donahue.
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I am loving Heckmann from what little I have read about him.
The first thing that popped up when I searched him was “My goal is to be in the NBA”
Love it. Now does he have the talent, that is a different story that we will find out over the next few years, but I love having a European who wants to come over and make the NBA. Means they have a lot of drive and will give all their effort.
Heckmann joins a long list of accomplished international hoops stars that played for BC ...
- Ludmil “Udo” Hadjisotirov – won an international tournament’s slam dunk contest
- Kirsten Zoellner – led his team to the NCAAs … so what if that team was the University of Albany
- Nate Doornekamp – was tall and was from Canada.
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will heckmann ever measure up
Nate “Nasty” Doornekamp- was always good for the Flagrant type foul, to let people know Canada is in the house.
Scholarships
How many does BC have? 10? 12? and after Heckmann’s signing, how many would Donahue have left? you have humphrey, moton (pretty sure Rubin is considered a walk-on), daniels (maybe?), odio, jackson, anderson, caudill, heckmann, and clifford…
im just wondering how many scholarships Donahue will have for 2012.
I get worried
about having no balance in our scholarship distribution. But we need players. If they can play, bring em in.
Does Donahue have a choice?
I’d prefer not to stock the roster with walk-ons that drain threes while playing pick-up games at the Plex.
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by Brian Favat on May 13, 2011 10:52 AM EDT up reply actions
No he doesn't
That’s why I said they have to bring in any players they can. Skinner’s 7 person class followed by bringing ZERO recruits the next year put us in a bind. Add in the transfers leaving and he was really put in a tough spot. Ideally it’d be a 3-4 recruits every year coming in every year. But as you said, the Captain really doesn’t have a choice but to bring in anyone he thinks can contribute at this level.
As 31southst mentioned, there will likely be class attrition so I don’t think we’ll be in the same tough spot in four years.
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by Brian Favat on May 13, 2011 11:41 AM EDT up reply actions
Yup
Obviously you would like seeing everything work out for everyone but attrition will undoubtedly happen.
If everyone comes back the following year for 2012-2013...
does Donahue have any scholarships available to give out? maybe one? but yes, i agree that BC obviously needs scholarship players on the team and not walk-ons, so i do like the huge freshmen class. This is also new for Donahue since Cornell (being an Ivy) didnt have athletics scholarships.
For 2012-2013 class?
We only have nine guys on scholarship – would have four available for next year’s class. It is the 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 classes where potentially be squeezed without attrition among the incoming seven.
Donahue for the win
Even with Reggie and gigantic senior class gone, this has to be one of the best recruiting classes BC ever had. I had timid expectations for BC next year, but with all these additions, I have a feeling they really could be the wild card team in the ACC. Next year is going to be a fun year for our BBall team.
how is this the best recruiting class
they haven’t played a single minute of ACC basketball.. Let’s wait on this to determine best recruiting clases BC ever had. Since i’ve followed BC basketball it’s been:
Craig Smith, Louis Hinnant (Probably the most valuable)
Jared Dudley, Sean Marshall, Steve Hailey
Biko Paris, Corey Raji and Rakim Sanders
Troy Bell, Uka Agbai
Ever the optimist
BCHysteria- “next year is going to be a fun year” You say that with such conviction, I’m thinking you know something we don’t know.
Hey going international is great, but another lanky player worries me. Maybe we should pocket that scholarship, talking about putting all our eggs in one basket. Would we gain any scholarships from graduation next year?
BCRaj
Yeah you’re right, maybe I should just say “next year is going to blow”, and be depressed about all this. Next year could go well, it might not as well, but you never know, with a team full of recruits.
You think I’m an optimist? Please, you obviously don’t read many of my tweets.
Clarification
Sorry I should clarify, after reading about 10 ACC blogs that all have BC winning 3 ACC games, I feel they are good enough for at least twice that next season. I just don’t see a team full of Donahue recruits, who hopefully buy into his system, being as bad as WF was this season. You’re right as well, I did sort of over generalize about the recruiting class, but I think there is a reason to be excited about this class, see what they are capable of. If they fall on their face for three years, please call me out on it.
2010-11 Wake Forest was a once in a generation team of suck.
Willing to bet large amounts of money that BC wins more than 1 ACC game next year.
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Scholarship distribution
I don’t love having 7 guys in one class but we need it this year and you have to assume a couple will be gone before their four years are up due to one of the normal attrition reasons (lack of playing time, personal issues, etc.).
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