Orupke and Marshall

Orupke and Marshall#84154

By bodoyle - May 14th, 2007, 11:54 am

- May 14th, 2007, 11:54 am #84154

Well, Coach Blood-pressure signed Orupke to Wichita State this morning. Any chance you guys could hire Buzz away from Conway? pretty please

#84155

By SuperJon - May 14th, 2007, 11:55 am

- May 14th, 2007, 11:55 am #84155

No.

#84157

By PAmedic - May 14th, 2007, 12:08 pm

- May 14th, 2007, 12:08 pm #84157

welcome aboard, Bob. What took you so long?

BTW- this thread will probably be moved to Non-LU Sports by the next time you come looking for it.

and we were talking about the whole Marshall/WSU/Orupke thing over there as well:

http://www.flamefans.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4435

Not to mention this entire thread:

http://www.flamefans.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4453

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#84158

By Cider Jim - May 14th, 2007, 12:08 pm

- May 14th, 2007, 12:08 pm #84158

Well, at least he won't be playing against us in the Big South (nor will GM be coaching against us in the BSC).

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#84215

By TDDance234 - May 14th, 2007, 8:04 pm

- May 14th, 2007, 8:04 pm #84215

Going to keep it here. It effects a scholarship player here.

At least he didn't go to Winthrop.

#84578

By SubGod22 - May 15th, 2007, 11:37 pm

- May 15th, 2007, 11:37 pm #84578

So how much is known of Orukpe? From what little I've been able to gather is that he can get up and down the court well and should be able to block a few shots and rebound. But he needs quite a bit of work offensively. Is this accurate from what you guys know? Marshall seems to think pretty highly of him but that's about all I've found. I don't know much of anything about the African league he's playing in so it's hard to judge how much 12 and 9 really means.

#84581

By TDDance234 - May 15th, 2007, 11:43 pm

- May 15th, 2007, 11:43 pm #84581

We don't have anything you don't. There was little information about him. He was a big coup for the Big South but moving up to a tougher conference may slow his development a tad. Marshall will get the best out of him.

#84615

By olldflame - May 16th, 2007, 9:14 am

- May 16th, 2007, 9:14 am #84615

Other than being long and athletic, we don't really know a lot about Orukpe. Dunton was certainly excited to have him coming. I think his numbers with his club team in Nigeria are deceptively good. The roster of that team includes no less than 7 players 6'9" or taller, and I believe he was the next to youngest of the bunch. Getting enough PT to average almost a double double shows he has some talent.