New 2011 Recruit: Ben Thomson

[sah67]

Big Red Puckhead (via Chris Heisenberg) is reporting that Ben Thomson, a 1993-born forward with St. Andrews College has committed to Cornell for 2011.

http://bigredpuckhead.blogspot.com/2008/12/power-forward-for-2011.html

[Cornell11]

15 years old??? a little premature?

[pfibiger]

[quote Cornell11]15 years old??? a little premature?[/quote]

His brother is a sophomore on the Lacrosse team, so I imagine he and his family have a pretty good idea of what it takes to get in.

His HS roster lists him at 6'3", 185lbs and not quite 16 years old. He's still growing!

Looking at all the players we have coming in over the next couple years, Schafer is clearing going back to big. Next year we bring in two 6'3"s, one 6'4" and one 6'5".

[Swampy]

[quote pfibiger][quote Cornell11]15 years old??? a little premature?[/quote]

His brother is a sophomore on the Lacrosse team, so I imagine he and his family have a pretty good idea of what it takes to get in.

His HS roster lists him at 6'3", 185lbs and not quite 16 years old. He's still growing!

Looking at all the players we have coming in over the next couple years, Schafer is clearing going back to big. Next year we bring in two 6'3"s, one 6'4" and one 6'5".[/quote]

If I recall correctly, a few years ago Schafer was generally recruiting only for the coming year, and he commented about how difficult it is to predict how a 15-year-old would be in college. But lots of top schools started recruiting young. Now he's recruiting 3 years ahead. So far, judging by this year's frosh, some of whom committed to Cornell about 2 years ago, it's working out OK.

[Swampy]

[quote pfibiger][quote Cornell11]15 years old??? a little premature?[/quote]

His brother is a sophomore on the Lacrosse team, so I imagine he and his family have a pretty good idea of what it takes to get in.

His HS roster lists him at 6'3", 185lbs and not quite 16 years old. He's still growing!

Looking at all the players we have coming in over the next couple years, Schafer is clearing going back to big. Next year we bring in two 6'3"s, one 6'4" and one 6'5".[/quote]

Correction: His team's web site lists him as being MUCH smaller. I bet Mike won't be happy to learn this. ::bang::

[Chris '03]

[quote Swampy][quote pfibiger][quote Cornell11]15 years old??? a little premature?[/quote]

His brother is a sophomore on the Lacrosse team, so I imagine he and his family have a pretty good idea of what it takes to get in.

His HS roster lists him at 6'3", 185lbs and not quite 16 years old. He's still growing!

Looking at all the players we have coming in over the next couple years, Schafer is clearing going back to big. Next year we bring in two 6'3"s, one 6'4" and one 6'5".[/quote]

Correction: His team's web site lists him as being MUCH smaller. I bet Mike won't be happy to learn this. ::bang::[/quote]

But I bet he's crazy fast and will draw a lot of CTH penalties. Then he'll get fed up with learning defense and bolt for the london knights or something.

[scoop85]

[quote Chris '03][quote Swampy][quote pfibiger][quote Cornell11]15 years old??? a little premature?[/quote]

His brother is a sophomore on the Lacrosse team, so I imagine he and his family have a pretty good idea of what it takes to get in.

His HS roster lists him at 6'3", 185lbs and not quite 16 years old. He's still growing!

Looking at all the players we have coming in over the next couple years, Schafer is clearing going back to big. Next year we bring in two 6'3"s, one 6'4" and one 6'5".[/quote]

Correction: His team's web site lists him as being MUCH smaller. I bet Mike won't be happy to learn this. ::bang::[/quote]

But I bet he's crazy fast and will draw a lot of CTH penalties. Then he'll get fed up with learning defense and bolt for the london knights or something.[/quote]

Well, he is playing for a midget team, after all :-}

[dragonfan]

That is funny!::doh::

[ugarte]

[quote Swampy][quote pfibiger][quote Cornell11]15 years old??? a little premature?[/quote]

His brother is a sophomore on the Lacrosse team, so I imagine he and his family have a pretty good idea of what it takes to get in.

His HS roster lists him at 6'3", 185lbs and not quite 16 years old. He's still growing!

Looking at all the players we have coming in over the next couple years, Schafer is clearing going back to big. Next year we bring in two 6'3"s, one 6'4" and one 6'5".[/quote]

Correction: His team's web site lists him as being MUCH smaller. I bet Mike won't be happy to learn this. ::bang::[/quote]
I'm going to guess that at least one person on the Cornell staff has seen him in person.

[pfibiger]

[quote ugarte][quote Swampy]
Correction: His team's web site lists him as being MUCH smaller. I bet Mike won't be happy to learn this. ::bang::[/quote]
I'm going to guess that at least one person on the Cornell staff has seen him in person.[/quote]

He was kidding. The roster lists every player on the team as 1'1" and 1lb.

[ugarte]

[quote pfibiger][quote ugarte][quote Swampy]
Correction: His team's web site lists him as being MUCH smaller. I bet Mike won't be happy to learn this. ::bang::[/quote]
I'm going to guess that at least one person on the Cornell staff has seen him in person.[/quote]

He was kidding. The roster lists every player on the team as 1'1" and 1lb.[/quote]
Vesce!

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

[quote ugarte][quote pfibiger][quote ugarte][quote Swampy]
Correction: His team's web site lists him as being MUCH smaller. I bet Mike won't be happy to learn this. ::bang::[/quote]
I'm going to guess that at least one person on the Cornell staff has seen him in person.[/quote]

He was kidding. The roster lists every player on the team as 1'1" and 1lb.[/quote]
Vesce![/quote]

Nah.  Topher.

Vesce had bulked up to 2 lbs by graduation.  :-}

[KeithK]

I wonder what the kid would think if he happened to read this thread.  Schafer can't exactly order 15 year old recruits to avoid the board.

[nr53]

I would hope he has a sense of humor... That is a decent question though, would the amount of traffic and discussion on this board help or just make them wonder if their every move is going to be scrutinized by random alumni with nothing better to do during meetings...::whistle::

[KeithK]

Yeah.  I hope a high school kid seeing this thread would be laughing with the midget jokes and pleased that we care enough to talk about him.  But I still wonder.