Comments on: MLS Combine Wrap Up

By: Buzz Carrick

Buzz Carrick — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:11:08 +0000

So it appears. I’ll ad him.

By: mikey

mikey — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:05:00 +0000

did you forget to rank patrick murray from furman?

By: rayclnz

rayclnz — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:16:33 +0000

very impressive and objective reports…thankyou for your time and effort

By: brunomarmos7

brunomarmos7 — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:01:35 +0000

Amazing work you did…. amazing. Thank you!

By: USvsIreland

USvsIreland — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:12:00 +0000

Did Jeff Harwell try out one of the back positions? I seem to recall him playing fullback with the Dallas Cup Super Group winning Texans side.

By: undrafted

undrafted — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:36:32 +0000

players not at the combine (injured): Ring, O’Brien White, Fucito, Bernstein
players currently looking at Europe (or recently signed): Tracy, Grella, Ricketts, Chris Brown

players from the 3rd and 4th tier I think will get drafted: Husidic, Maxwell, Curtis, Marshall, Zusi, Angus, Delagarza, Ogunbiyi, Jean Alexandre, Barklage (with Zusi and Barklage being far from certain).

Just some hunches and not necessarily players I personally like or think will do well. There are 26 players listed here in the top 2 tiers and most all will be drafted (a couple of goalkeepers might slip, MLS teams are random about that). Add in Ring & White, that’s 28 of 60 slots before adding in the 10 I listed above. So as of right now I feel comfortable projecting ~2/3 the draft picks.

Combine players without all-american, all-regional or full all-conference honors: Dufty (6′5″ Evansville keeper), Irwin (noone from pro-producing Portland made the 2008 1st or 2nd team) and the ACC contingent of Adams, Evan Brown, Gerstenberger, Poole. Of the lower division players, Maxwell is the only one not to make an all-american list.

By the way, Bryan Irwin played fullback his first 2 years at Portland. Minor side note – his father is the coach there.

By: OmahaFan

OmahaFan — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:21:52 +0000

I love that someone reminds you of Julian Nash, a guy who only played a handful of games in MLS but was great for us Creighton fans.

By: Buzz Carrick

Buzz Carrick — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:13:10 +0000

rough morning, i forgot to put them in alphabetical order. The order they were in was as I came across names on the lineup sheet from day three that I happened to have in front of me. There was no meaning to it beyond me forgetting.

By: Greg F

Greg F — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:12:02 +0000

Buzz,

Thanks for giving us your daily feedback on the combine. The MLS website is spotty and it looks like they are spinning their pre-combine favorites, especially the GAs. Pontius doesn’t get a mention today by Davis.

By the way, who were the top goal scorers at the combine?

Also, Did you accedentally list the players in your final list by overall player rating? It’s not alphabetical, at least not in English.

Thanks, again. Great work.

By: Curious

Curious — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:11:54 +0000

Thanks.

And, as always, tremendous job.