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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on May 4, 2020 9:15:54 GMT -5
I feel qualified to rank them since I haven't seen any of them play:
1) Sibley. Mainly because of his ranking and our desperate need for minutes at his position. 2) Beard. See above. We need him to be really good out of the gates since we don't have a PG coming back. 3) Harris. See Above. We need a PG. He is a PG. Ergo Harris needs to be a beast. 4) Clark. Also at a position of need. I am sensing a trend here.
It seems like all should be really good (hoya colored lenses) and nobody is likely a first year star. Our improvement is going to have to come from Mac & Wahab and I think Pickett was starting to put it together at seasons end so hopefully a bounce from him. It is going to be those three that make us sink or swim with the grad transfers filling in holes and this group of four above providing the light at the end of the tunnel hopefully. I think you could easily shuffle the deck on this entire group as there is not a clear cut top dog like there was in last years class of Wahab.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on May 1, 2020 12:48:29 GMT -5
Is there are ready list of our top '21 targets? I think I have seen:
Mutombo Collins Williams Hawkins Cisse Cornish
We have been mentioned with others but those are the names that keep popping up.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Apr 30, 2020 14:33:12 GMT -5
This would be the type of player. Get me him, Hawkins, McDaniel. That will get the local interest back up along with an influx of talent. Keep up with national recruits when you can but the tide is turning on one & done & G league so you are going to start to see the Duke, Kentucky, UNC crowd start to move down market. We gotta lock in the local seen from Bmore to Richmond and just be a constant presence for these kids.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Apr 30, 2020 14:29:29 GMT -5
I'm feeling like we get him and then he goes to the G league. It would fit with our also ran status.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Apr 29, 2020 9:19:33 GMT -5
We need to make hay on this player's being able to make money from their image thing. Let's designate a marketing class that players will be grouped up with other fellow students and work on local, regional and national image marketing. With the Gtown network, we gotta do something that is truly cutting edge.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Apr 27, 2020 15:25:15 GMT -5
Staff is scouting/recruiting tens of players at any given time, over a hundred targeted cases over the course of a year. You act like there isn’t enough energy to be spent on everyone... There's isn't enough energy for every recruit and who you spend the most time on matters a lot. We need to stop wasting that time on kids who will never come. Didn't we just latch onto Walton late anyways? I can't blame the staff for taking a swing late when all else seemed to not go our way. Right now, our biggest recruit is Mac. If he is back you greenlight him and let him take you where he can.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Apr 27, 2020 14:54:55 GMT -5
Yes. Any time spent on Chet Holmgren or Moussa Cisse or Frankie Collins is an absolute waste of time. Staff is scouting/recruiting tens of players at any given time, over a hundred targeted cases over the course of a year. You act like there isn’t enough energy to be spent on everyone... True, but we should probably prioritize the guys in closer proximity (especially now). I would camp out at Dematha & Paul VII for Hawkins & McDaniel.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Apr 27, 2020 14:40:44 GMT -5
Eligible immediately I presume? Guy will be on his fourth college if you count Juco. Good luck Chudier!
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Apr 20, 2020 13:59:06 GMT -5
I think it's Latavious Williams thread.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Apr 17, 2020 15:52:30 GMT -5
I watched the WCAC championship and didn't really know any of the players other than Timberlake, Roach, Kiels & Dickinson (hate that kids game and think he will stink). Hawkins stood out to me and I really little fast guard from Paul, McDaniel?. I hope we press on those two as they would be key foundational & local pieces. Your thoughts are exactly why the staff's recruiting has been questioned by more and more people since the season ended. Local. Talented. As far as I can tell, not an under-the-radar late-bloomer type. No concern as far as 1 and done goes. Where have we been? What is our local recruiter doing? Unrelated but Jay WRight was at that game, Roy Williams the night before, I saw Tony Skinn and Terrell Allen too. Wright is clearly pressing for Kiels but McDaniel & Hawkins are who we should have been pressing for and I hope we do.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Apr 17, 2020 8:25:33 GMT -5
Really good player (Ranked 62 on 247, 53 on Rivals). I've been hoping we'd offer for a long time and I'm glad we finally did. I just wish we hadn't let several of our conference mates (Xavier, Marquette, UConn) beat us to offering a kid in our own backyard. He's got good length for his position, solid athleticism, plays both ways and maybe most importantly, he can shoot. I've thought it was pretty clear he'd be a high major player since he was at Gaithersburg last season. Where have we been? Xavier offered him last September. In an interview two weeks ago he said that "Xavier, Seton Hall, George Washington, Marquette and Memphis" were some of the schools prioritizing him. There's still plenty of time for us to make up ground, but my confidence level that we'll actually be able to based on recent returns is waning. Hopefully he wants to stay home. I watched the WCAC championship and didn't really know any of the players other than Timberlake, Roach, Kiels & Dickinson (hate that kids game and think he will stink). Hawkins stood out to me and I really little fast guard from Paul, McDaniel?. I hope we press on those two as they would be key foundational & local pieces.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Apr 17, 2020 8:21:08 GMT -5
From that write up it sounds like one more year for sure would help Mac. My guess is if he does come back, coaches should be planning on him being done after one more and you can't discount Qudus falling into that category as well. Kids are going to keep going early (when they shouldn't) and transferring if not so the coaches should have a full time "transfer" recruiter and then a high school recruiter. Keep it geographically tight until we start hitting on more higher ranked kids.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Apr 16, 2020 15:26:26 GMT -5
I like the class we have coming in but one more freshman would be great. I think with the development of this new group it will take time and based on what everyone else is doing we are looking at a rough year. The grad transfer thing seems to be on pause and unless Mac takes things up a massive level along with Pickett, I think we will be looking at a bottom third return. We are pretty far behind Nova & Creighton & even Xavier & Marquette.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Apr 14, 2020 15:13:35 GMT -5
Agree he seemed to a be very good fit for us... With all of the recent commits, who are the transfers we are still in the running for? Pickings seem to be getting slim. We are going to trade down and stock up on future draft picks. That seems to be our approach.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Apr 14, 2020 15:11:51 GMT -5
I love this idea. As a season ticketholder I would gladly support this even if it means I have to stay home for a year.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Apr 14, 2020 8:02:12 GMT -5
Trey Murphy placed his name into the transfer portal last weekend and has seen his recruitment soar. In high school, the unknown 6-foot-5 wing picked Rice over Army, Furman, Navy and Rider. Now, the 6-foot-8 versatile wing/forward is hearing from practically every program in America, thanks to his shooting prowess and his size along the perimeter. After averaging 13.7 points, 5.5 rebounds and shooting 36.8% from three as a sophomore, Murphy’s next step is to cut his school list down before deciding. Slated to sit out next season with two years to play thereafter, Murphy is currently being pursued by Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Arizona State, Auburn, Cincinnati, Creighton, DePaul, Iowa State, Memphis, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Pitt, Stanford, Texas, UConn, Villanova, Wichita State and Xavier. basketballrecruiting.rivals.com/news/evans-seven-top-frontcourt-players-in-the-transfer-portalAm I the only one that thinks multiple "commitment" videos/announcements over the course of ones career is silly? You shouldn't get one for the high school you are going to. I'll give you 1 for college. That is all.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Apr 13, 2020 9:40:34 GMT -5
I thought the scheme really only had dirt on Miller & Wade. There is no way to misinterpret the context of the calls. The others who sat in on the meetings with the runner weren't a big deal to me. The offers that Wade referenced you just wonder where the money trail leads. If it's right out of the coaches pockets or boosters. They also weren't necessarily directing money to the players as much as they were to the families so I feel for the kids. At the end of the day we have to be above this stuff and figure out a way to put a good team on the court. We haven't done that in too long so it really just sounds like sour grapes on our collective part.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Apr 2, 2020 13:19:33 GMT -5
Seems like any shine object we are trying to get. Stinks of desperation a bit to be honest but it is a fact of life with as much turnover as we just experienced. Maybe some of these guys fit both into our system as well as the culture but we are relying on a lot of "diamond in the rough" types. We may hit on one or two but to expect almost an entire freshman class of diamonds in the rough is tricky. Talent wins most of the time.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Mar 23, 2020 8:13:52 GMT -5
The school he goes to is it shut down? Will he be able to complete his course load to be able to graduate early and reclass? I would think all of these schools have moved to online learning. He better have been on track though as you can't really catch up in this current situation as everyone is figuring things out on the fly.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Mar 6, 2020 12:08:36 GMT -5
During the Villanova game unfortunately. Also I wouldn't mind if the staff prioritized Frankie Collins and the other visitors this weekend. Has a head coach ever attended a recruits game vs. the teams game? Not saying you would ever do that but if you were looking at a major recruit and the season is a complete bust at this point, could be interesting.
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