Mboup prepped at NBA Academy in Africa, and sources tell me that assistant Will Voigt spearheaded this recruitment. Voigt has global and NBA connections from his coaching past and was able to help BYU land Mboup, and he coached Mboup in the Basketball Africa League (BAL).
I have this kid playing behind Catchings, who will play behind Mawot Mag
This kid will likely—best case—get minutes like Tripple did last year—non conference blowouts and a couple minutes here and there in conference. But I like the signing—better to make your last guy a HS kid with upside who could be in Provo for a few years instead of a portal burnout
Agree with Larimer. Hopefully he sticks around a couple years at least. It looks like he knows how to do breakaway dunks but there is a lot more to the game of basketball.
I think the portal is going to be the hardest part, I am not a big fan of it. young people who play sports, especially the ones that are highly talented, want to play “right away” and if they don’t, they hit the portal.
I remember reading a story about how Saban when he was at Alabama, punished a 4-star QB for violating his team rules, the kid hit the portal the next week.
Hopefully Young and staff can help kids understand what it takes to get to the next level and how to be patient getting there.
good to see you posting, brotha. I know it’s summer but soooooo much to unwrap and I find myself wishing for Nov to be here today. Not ready for the train wreck of our QB corps and the beating BYU will take another year until AROD gets the boot/ and or Sitake. I love Sitake but he hangs on to old GFs too long.
This Mboup is a rare gem. Just watched his Video about his life, his family and how he got on our radar. Remember when I was bagging on Waterman? About the time he found his game at BYU, his life story was also released and I became a true fan of Noah W and to this day I root for him.
Well; Here is the Khadim Mboup life story Episode 4 – Discipline Meets Opportunity | NBA.com
The entriguing thing here is that Khadim was such a good football player (yes, soccor is called football in the entire world except in the USA) that kids would beg Khadim’s father to let him play. Great foot skills lead to greater athletes in any sport. Sr. Mboup was adamant that Khadim finish his homework before playtime.
He has BYU written all over it. He will thrive here, Young has to be smilin on this find.
Mboup would say, “Inshallah”
I don’t even know what happened to BYU basketball. It’s like Pope laid the foundation and now it has exploded to another level.
That kid is awesome honestly. He is exactly the kind of player BYU wants, if only for a year or two.
I can’t believe what is happening in Provo of all places. No more “best player on Timpanogas” going to BYU nonsense. I can’t even begin to comprehend what is going on there. I hope they come out this way to play a game or two.
Basketball is going to overtake football as the biggest sport/attraction at BYU.
When I was in HS back in the 60s and in my first years of college in the late 60s and early seventies basketball was king at BYU. After Stan Watts retired there were some lean years and by the mid seventies football was king as Lavell Edwards started to establish BYU as a football power in the west. Now we have come full circle and basketball appears to be king again. I remember when BYU played in the Smith Field House and you couldn’t get a ticket to a game and it held 10,000 fans which was a big capacity back in the day. They finally occupied the Marriott Center in 71-72 and it held about 21,000 until it got remodeled several years ago. The 2 years Cosic played in the Marriott it sold out nearly every game. Looks like things have reverted back to those days.
I am looking forward to the basketball season this coming year. There is hope BYU could challenge the blue bloods in a few years.
“It’s incredible that [Kevin Young] chose BYU because, after the movement we’ve seen in the NBA, he would definitely be in an NBA head coaching job,” Smith said to the KSL Sports Zone’s Hans & Scotty G.
The hiring of Young and his reported seven-year, $30 million contract has led many to wonder how involved Smith, who has a reported net worth of $2.2 billion, is in donating to BYU."
No LDS tithing was used. BYU athletics is run on revenue and donations from alumni.