Yep they are twins at SMU also in Dallas (most suspensions for cheating in the NCAA, SMU and most recently around basketball not the Johnson's) they have known the Bryan's since they were 10 and regularly hit with them!

Back to Cam who has had a cracking freshman year and is probably already considered to be one of if not the best player to attend TCU, although soon to be joined by an indigenous new recruit with a higher junior rank so perhaps that honour will be short lived. Given his recent form Liam may have a bit more to do than one might think.

I don't think the USTA will be watching the Sacremento challenger too hard praying for College to pro transition miracles. The present US crop of juniors I think are likely to impact the upper echelons of the pro tour pretty quickly and I would be surprised if any of them spend much if anytime in college. This group are for the most part too good.

I worry a little about the transitioning of the not so tall Noah Rubin to the top 50 and I see he was off to college at Wake Forest did well but still lost a few and now turned pro, I feel he will have a long road But would love to see him make it. 
The 98 ears Fritz, Mmoha, Paul have just gone for it and how many 6ft 11inch players are there struggling on the challenger tour (Reilly Opelka, who quite wisely has linked up with John Isners management team) 

Good post Spectator.  Clearly college isn't going to turn everyone into a good standard pro, but the strong schools / conferences do seem to turn out a reasonable pipeline.  Obviously, few of these will go on to be top top players but probably as many as come through other routes turn out to be good enough to earn a fair living.  There seems to have been an increase in UK  youngsters taking this route in the last 2 or 3 years and it will be interesting in the next 2 or 3 years to see if the graduates supplement Team GB in as positive a way as they are supplementing Team USA.  We many have had more, but so far I can think of Andrew Bettles, Joe Salisbury, Farris Gosea, Lloyd Glasspool, George Coupland, Chris Hellior and Mike Nott in recent years who have come through uni to then have a go on the pro tour. 

I think the role for GB may be a bit different from the role for the USA. In the US, some of the players who are going to university have very high CH ITF rankings: Giron was 18, McDonald was 12; Kwiatkowski was 13, just to pick three of the most recent. Alex Rybakov, Mr Norrie's future teammate, is another - very solid results as a junior and a CH of 16. So the fact that they're emerging as good players at the other end isn't a huge shock. What they seem to be doing is foregoing the stress of wandering around solo on the Futures circuit and instead maturing their game in the far more stable area of university (and, yes, getting an education alongside that!) But it does mean that the US will probably have a higher percentage of US ex-university players "making it" on Tour than we will, given that the LTA doesn't seem to encourage its better players to go to university.

[NB I understand the pressures to have the best players go straight on to the circuit. And for some, it makes sense. But I do wonder whether Mr Golding, for example, might have benefited from time at university - less pressure, a team around you, intellectual pursuits to give life balance, etc)

That said, there are also US players who weren't stellar juniors and who developed at university: eg James Blake (ITF UNR ; ATP CH 4), John Isner (ITF CH 93; ATP CH 9) and indeed Steve Johnson (ITF CH 660; ATP CH 37). And it may be that what the US university system can deliver is the counterbalance to the much-discussed over-narrowing in the LTA, whereby all eggs are put into a very few baskets among the juniors. If a few of our Blake/Isner/Johnson types get nurtured by the university system until they are ready to perform at Tour level, it would be all to the good. In a sense, that's what LSU did for the Skupskis and Virginia for Dom Inglot - both overlooked by the LTA, despite showing promise as juniors - and I suspect Mr Glasspool and Mr Salisbury, in particular, may fall into that category, too. And yes, CD, Mr Corrie hasn't done too badly either!