Sideline Scholars...Life after Ingram: The future of AU men's basketball

Now I would be remiss, and in fact a hypocrite, if I didn't note that AU does have two players with area ties, as Brian Gilmore and Travis Lay both played in the area. However, I would argue that while Gilmore and Lay are both solid players who give a decent effort every night, both are still hustle and boards guys, who are more suited to be role players than as the leader of a team.

Next year, it times for AU to use its "home field advantage" to find the next Andre Ingram. Otherwise, you won't even see this team even flirt with a .500 record next year.

Finally I want to note that I am not na've here, or one of those delusional fans who thinks that AU doesn't face any disadvantages when recruiting against other schools. As much as it hurts to say, AU will almost never get players who are also in line and heavily recruited by the big local powers of Georgetown, George Washington and Maryland. Telling a kid that your parents might be able to catch you on ESPNU twice a year, isn't the same as being told you'll be in the national spotlight.

So instead AU needs to find that guy who's been dissed and dismissed by the major schools, and use the local angle to land him. It's a hard task indeed, but that's why those guys get paid to do it, and why I, for absolutely no money, get to call them out when they don't.

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