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Houston Chronicle Final Stats show that Derrick Roberts ended up leading Greater Houston Area in scoring with a 28.9 avg.

That is pretty impressive for an average. Let's hope he can actually drain some at Moody. Would he play the 2 spot?

http://www.texasroundball.com/profiles/ ... erts2.html

Probably! Jon Killen is a point guard so I am just guessing that Roberts would start out as a 2.

Yes, he will play the 2. I see next years starting lineup like this: Hop (1), Roberts or Isham (2), Simpson (3), Pearson (4), Castro (5). Unless Simpson or Isham step up and start scoring more, the coach (???) will be forced to play Roberts from day one because he can definitely put the ball in the hole.

LA, I agree where you are going with that. I thought for SMU to have a good year this year that the front line was going to need to be 3) Simpson 4) Castro and 5) Rack or something similar. Castro is just not a center to me. For us to be good, someone needs to step up in the middle defensively at least. We cannot continue to protect our big guys, its getting us killed sitting in that zone against decent teams.

I don't want to give up on Isham, but we need a scorer in the lineup. I would love to see a lineup next year of Hopkins, Roberts, Simpson, Pearson/Castro, and Rack. Isham would be my first guy off the bench perhaps with Castro. I know Rack does not look ready, but my point is he has to get ready for this team to be good. As we wind this season down, one of my objectives if I were coaching this team would be play Rack and get him ready for next year. He has the tools I think to be serviceable in the post. Hes a couple inches taller than Castro and gets off his feet quicker.

Can this kid change his mind if a new coach is announced?

More to the point...can he change his mind if there isn't a new coach.

Actually he can change his mind, but he is stuck...he signed the dotted line.

Good question, PF. I believe that when a recruit signs with a school he cant change his mind just because the coach leaves. The NCAA views it as he is committed to the school, not the coach. I think he can make an appeal to get out of the commitment but they are rarely successful.

And even better question, PK.

Interesting I asked this today: does anyone know the real scoop. I guess this kid can decide to change schools or what is the NCAA rules? LA, how sure are you about this?

If you have any questions regarding the national letter of intent below is the website that may help. The basic penalty for any student-athlete who wants to transfer without being at their orginial instution for one academic year is they lose one season of eligibility. Not many kids are going to be willing to do that.

http://www.national-letter.org/faq/

The school with the signed letter can also release the recruit from his/her letter of intent, but I don't think that will happen. An instance where it might happen would be: new coach picked, signed player says 'I am not playing for this guy and will sit out a year and then transfer'. New coach has recruit he really likes, but no scholarship. New coach says, Ok you can go, and gives scholarship to new recruit. Pretty much everyone wins, but it doesn't happen often.

Even if he got his release, he might still be ineligible depending on conference rules. Remember that the Big 12 had to agree to waive Big 12 conference rules in addition to the Baylor release to allow the Baylor transfers to play immediately.