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Future looks bright for BYU basketball recruit

Congratulation Charles. You have worked hard and it is paying off. Keep up the great attitude and work ethic at the next level. The sky is the limit for you and the Cougars. You are a great young man.

Sounds like another quality person has joined the Cougar basketball team. It's always a good thing when athletes have sterling characters since they become role models for many young people.

With recruits like this combined with all the experience we have potentially have comming back, if Plaisted and Cummard return, next season's squad will undoubtedly be the most talented team we have EVER had. We really should be a top ten team and Sweet 16 contender if everyone is back.

I think we will have to get some season tickets! Welcome Charles!

"next season" ya we should be up there but I am still waiting for BYU to win those big games (UNC), and beat unranked Wake Forest, and get past the first round.. Doing that is what qualifies you to be a legit top ten team.

IF Cummard and Plaisted return? Haha. You mean, WHEN they realize they don't have even half of what it takes to be in the NBA. They are going to be embarassed and regret even doing that. Stick with your team through your senior seasons and help them actually get past a 1st round NCAA tournament game. This team has come together and been great in the MWC but don't get all hotty totty and think they are ready for the NBA. Weight romm Cummard, and Free throws Plaistad.

There is a real chance both may not come back. Plaisted does not have an NBA offense. But a team may take him in the second round in hopes his offense will catch up with his NBA athleticism. Even if he doesn't stick more than a year he will make it overseas. Cummard won't even go in the second but he could have a nice career overseas. Both have given a lot to the Y, both will complete or are a few classes away from graduation. And both could make some decent money overseas - even more so after some NBA camp exposure they are getting right now. I'm not sure with the situation they are in I wouldn't advise a nice overseas contract if they were my sons. Would a nice senior season make there pro potential any better next season? Plaisted maybe but Cummard is probably is as good and highly regarded as he is going to get.

Welcome Charles. Sounds like you have the talent and work ethic to be the next MWC freshman of the year.

To all the jealous basketball playing wanabes: I think it's great that Cummard and Plaisted have enough confidence in themselves that they're testing the NBA waters before their senior years.

To Lee and Trent: If things work out for one or both of you in the NBA, then good luck and thanks for the memories. If you simply get a look see from the NBA scouts and then decide to return to BYU for an outstanding senior season, that's great too.

I think you mean "hoity toity," don't you? Hotty Totty would imply that Plaisted and Cummard are acting pre-schoolers who think they are really good looking.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Plaisted and Cummard testing to see where they stand and to see what they can improve on. Charles will get his chance too when he lives up to his potential.

Good luck beating UNLV...they have some meat in the post this year to go along with the athletes that so thoroughly worked the COUGS over last year. They have had some 7 footer from Cameroon who was a 4 star recruit from last year as well as a couple of 6-10 athletes who will get some time in the middle instead of some 6-7 guy defending the post.

I hope Charles does well though I don't expect it cause Stew didn't want him. Good luck.

I hope this recruit does well but it's unfortunate that BYU doesn't know how to interact with non-european minorities. So he'll probably feel ostracized just like the rest of the minority groups in BYU.

So why did USU pass on Abouo?

BYU? I've never been at a more diverse school in my life where people talk so many different languages, have lived in so many different countries, and have an appreciation for cultures all around the world. Everyday I heard people speaking different languages. I lived with roomates from Mexico, Brazil, Norway, and when married was close friends with people from Pakistan, and China. I am so grateful for the wonderful cultural experience BYU was. Each of these friends were welcomed at BYU, and had a very enjoyable experience.

So BYU is now picking up Utah State rejects. That sounds about right. Stew owns the state of Utah when it comes to college basketball. I know BYU fans all sit in their ivory tower and think that its impossible that anyone is better than them but it's true. The top bball program in this state is easily USU. BYU is the little brother, picking up the Aggies' scraps.

BYU now recruits USU rejects? Shhhhhh.. don't tell BYU fans.

Charles is going to have to be superman to overcome the quickness and intensity of UNLV. That has been the undoing of the COUGS both of the last two years and has seemingly carried over into the tournament.

Historically, BYU has not been very athletic and so when the intensity gets turned up for the NCAA tournamnet they seem to struggle to keep up.

Watch what Beas Hamga does to Plaisted in Provo this year...yikes.

Oh Taco guy. All I can say is bless your heart.

I know serving a mission is a personal decision, but I found it interesting and a glaring omission that it was not mentioned whether Abuou will be serving a mission before he starts playing for BYU. I hope that Coach Rose is not putting in these young kids' heads that a mission is of secondary importance to playing hoops for BYU. But it seems this might be the case, as the recent trend has been for BYU's best to either forego the mission entirely or else do the 4 month mission. Abuou is from a very active LDS family, and in high school had plans of a mission. I hope that the thought of "big time" ball at BYU hasn't ruined those plans. These kids need to go serve the Lord then come to BYU, they'll do much better as missionaries in the field than on the court.

I didn't even know Utah State had a basketball team! I guess I have been busy with things that really matter, like real life. Am I missing something really important here?