James Quinn MDVarsity.com Magazine Staff Archbishop Spalding Coach Mike Glick does not believe in keeping freshmen on his Cavalier varsity, regardless of how talented they might be, so when the veteran coach from the Severn, Maryland, Catholic High School tells us that he has two ninth graders, "... who might be ACC players some day", we stand up and take notice. Coach Glick has had seven Spalding seniors sign NCAA Division-I Letters of Intent in the last three years. Two of the players, center Will Bowers at Maryland and forward Rudy Gay at Conneticut, signed with ACC and Big East programs. Last week after formal practices started for Baltimore Catholic League (BCL) schools, Coach Glick told MdVarsity.com that he felt he had two freshmen who had a chance of "... being really special players for Spalding down the road. Kevon Moore is a tremendous athlete and a very skilled, instinctive player. He is the best eighth grader I've ever had commit to Spalding and maybe the best freshman player I've ever had. Brad Bald is a big kid, about 6-5 1/2 and I think he can be a Kevin McHale-type of player, he could grow to 6-10 or 6-11 and he is really good, really tough. He has a chance to be a terrific big man for us. I'm telling you, these are kids who might be ACC players some day." Does that mean that Coach Glick will break with his tradition and policy and put these players on the Spalding varsity this season? "No, I don't believe in that. I don't like to put freshman on the varsity, no matter how good they are. Besides, I think we have a good group of seniors and juniors in our line-up and rotation. But, I'm telling you, these two kids are going to be very good." Marylandprephoops.com rates Kevon Moore, a 6-3 wing player, the top freshman small forward in the state of Maryland's Class of 2008. Moore was a heavily recruited player out of Bowie, Maryland, who helped lead Coach Gary Stein's Bethesda Magic to the AAU 14 & under national tournament in Florida last season. MdVarsity.com recently ran into Coach Stein at Bullis Prep and he told us, "Kevon is really an excellent player. He is very talented and very skilled. He just knows how to play. I like Mike (Glick), I think he is a heck of a coach, I think that Kevon will develop into a great player at Spalding." Although Brad Bald is not as well known or as highly rated as Kevon Moore at this point, Coach Click is very high on the young big man. "Brad is about 6-5 1/2", his father is a big guy, he played at (the University of) Georgia. Brad is from Millersville, but he played youth basketball at Chick Webb in Baltimore City and really faced top competition and got better. He wasn't that big of a name (coming out of the eighth grade), but he grew from like 6-1 to 6-5 1/2 in the last year and he really got bigger and better. He was kind of a 'sleeper'. He could wind up being a very good big man for us down the road." The Cavaliers will take some heavy graduation losses in 2005 and 2006, but is sounds like Coach Glick's talented freshman class will keep Archbishop Spalding near the top of the BCL for years to come.