Draft Weekend

What an incredible weekend!!!  I’m thrilled to get the guys we got.  I think they are all excellent players and guys with deep character that will be positive additions to the Island community.  It was an exciting process to go through.  We were a little mystified that when you watch a draft on TV, some guy is always on the phone.  We couldn’t think of any we should be calling so Billy was going to order a pizza J.

I’m also very pleased that Sherone Edwards from UPEI went in the second round.  He played really well at the combines and I was hoping to get him, but he’ll be great for Quebec.  This league will be ideal for someone like Sherone who can take the ball to the basket.

I have to admit that I was a little disappointed in the Canadian group at the combine.  Not that the session didn’t feature some great players.  It did.  But there are a ton of great Canadian players that didn’t show up.  Take the guys from X.  Will Silver and Charlie Spurr were there and both played really well and worked really hard so I don’t want to take anything away from them but they aren’t Christian Upshaw.  Christian, or more commonly T-Bear is a former conference MVP and one of the great players of the last few years in the AUS.  So where was he?  The list of guys that should have been there is long, and I know some like Joe Schow from Dal already committed overseas.  But I think that the fact that not a single Carleton guy was on the floor says something.

This is a problem we need to solve.  I think the league should have the requirement to have more than two Canadians per team.  We’re going to need some of our Canadians to step up and play well this year to make that case.  The Canadian Football League requires half of its roster to be Canadian.  The reason there are only two required on each roster this year is that teams needed as much flexibility as possible to get 12 players and be able to play at a high level.  But if we are going to be part of growing the game in Canada and provide opportunities to Canadian players, we need to figure out why the best Canada had to offer wasn’t in that gym on Sunday.