2019-2020 Season

skyblade · 11-13-2019, 01:24 PM

Getting skilled freshmen bigs isn't going to happen often at UC. There is limited supply of bigs and more competition for them. Getting freshmen and spending a year or two developing them is pretty common at the AAC level.

Sure I'd rather have a high rated big, but if you rely purely on grad transfers it's going to be hard to convince a high rated big that you are good at developing big men. Grad transfer bigs also tend to be in short supply, we can probably always get below average big men like Sorolla and Vogt. But it's going to be hard to have much consistency with bigs using that strategy and if you miss on a grad transfer big one year, you are pretty screwed. Grad transfers should be the backup, not the plan.

Brannen also said that he prefers to be done with recruiting by the early signing period, so I doubt grad transfer are a big thing for him.

Eason would be great to get. It's hard to say what our chances are, we seem not to be targeting PF's lately, so maybe that indicates Brannen likes our chances with Eason. Eason is a bit of a odd case as he's waiting until mid-december to commit. Nigel John seems to be a recent target at center. I imagine we will have at least one freshman big added by the end of 2019.

11-13-2019, 01:24 PM	#30
skyblade Epic Member Join Date: Nov 2018 Posts: 1,790	Getting skilled freshmen bigs isn't going to happen often at UC. There is limited supply of bigs and more competition for them. Getting freshmen and spending a year or two developing them is pretty common at the AAC level. Sure I'd rather have a high rated big, but if you rely purely on grad transfers it's going to be hard to convince a high rated big that you are good at developing big men. Grad transfer bigs also tend to be in short supply, we can probably always get below average big men like Sorolla and Vogt. But it's going to be hard to have much consistency with bigs using that strategy and if you miss on a grad transfer big one year, you are pretty screwed. Grad transfers should be the backup, not the plan. Brannen also said that he prefers to be done with recruiting by the early signing period, so I doubt grad transfer are a big thing for him. Eason would be great to get. It's hard to say what our chances are, we seem not to be targeting PF's lately, so maybe that indicates Brannen likes our chances with Eason. Eason is a bit of a odd case as he's waiting until mid-december to commit. Nigel John seems to be a recent target at center. I imagine we will have at least one freshman big added by the end of 2019.