10-17-2019, 12:40 PM | #21 | |
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Here the thing. I give his recruiting to Supplement a roster with 3 returning stars an A+ But the 2020 class he needs to bring in stars of his Own. Harvey was a great start. But the reality is.. we need to start landing 4 stars. Houston and Memphis are landing them and if we want to keep up, we have to as well. |
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10-17-2019, 12:46 PM | #22 | |
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as it currently stands, this years class 44 next years class 37. the previous 3 years classes 61, 58, 63 looks to be moving in the right direction to me. |
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10-17-2019, 12:52 PM | #23 | |
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One of the posters on BCJ, says that the class average as it stands today would be lower than it ever has been ( or at least in the Cronin era) Mick usually landed one star every year. Troy Gary Jacob Jarron Keith Possibly Logan Johnson. Possibly Samari Curtis His philosophy won us a shit ton of games because it was based around defense. But winning above your recruiting rank is really tough. Hopefully Brannen can do what mick did if his recruiting never picks up |
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10-17-2019, 12:54 PM | #24 |
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Man, if you are underwhelmed by Brannen's recruiting because he only has gotten one top 150 recruit in his first 6 months on the job I hate to know how you felt about Mick's recruiting. Mick's last top 150 recruit was in 2017. His last top 50 recruit was, hell, not even sure, Jermaine Lawrence?
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10-17-2019, 12:59 PM | #25 | |
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the problem was after jarron it kinda fell off. Troy through Jarron was great and I thought we were really turning a corner and then it just kinda died off after that. All of those guys made immediate impacts as freshman. You get 1 of those a year and you're in a great place. LoJo didn't have that kind of impact. Curtis was a wait to see, but he looked like he could have made an impact as a freshman. |
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10-17-2019, 01:15 PM | #26 | |
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But its not unreasonable to expect John's First full class (the 2020 class) to be top 30. If you look at the 2019 Class rankings, 5 of the top 30 teams (memphis, Xavier, Louisville, Georgia, & UCONN) had new coaches who recruited their first full recruiting class, just like 2020 will be for CJB's. 2 of which are from our conference and one shares the city with us. We should and very much should expect a new more offensively focused staff, in a brand new Arena, with a sold out season ticket fan base and in a Conference that is getting other elite athletes, to land a top 30 class. WHY NOT US? I bitched about the Mick's recruiting and his inability to stack together high level players in a single class (something i feel is crucial to winning when it counts) and I'll do the same for CJB. I'm fairly certain that Mick Cronin's first full recruiting class was ranked #19 in the country and included 3 4-Star players. Its not unprecedented to ask for high level recruiting from a new staff with a whole lot to sell. So, at this very moment, Im not concerned. But the chances of landing a top 30 class get slimmer and slimmer by the day as the 2 bigs we spent so much time on, are seemingly getting less and less likely by the day. And we don't really hear us involved in a whole lot of other dudes besides another 300+ ranked big from England. The reality is... the guys on our current staff are now facing very stiff competition and none of them have the kind of experience of battling the big dogs. If the 2020 class turns out to be without a single 4 star, then I think CJB needs to look at trying to pull in a high level recruiter from another staff. He tried with Pettway, and he chose to stay at Alabama, but maybe another swing at him once were established Last edited by justinhub2003; 10-17-2019 at 01:21 PM. |
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10-17-2019, 02:00 PM | #27 |
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JB is getting guys into visit but can't seem to close the deal. We struck out on Loveday who choose Baylor, Kalkbrenner who committed to Creighton, Patrick Iriel who choose South Carolina. We are still in the running for John Hugley who would be a nice get and holds many offers from big schools but ultimately signs are pointing him signing with Pitt and then there's JJ Traynor who was at midnight madness, Louisville and Xavier are also in the mix with him. We also struck out on Charles Coleman in the 2019 class who had an offer from Duke but ultimately ended up signing at East Carolina.
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10-17-2019, 02:13 PM | #28 | |
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Just need to get one of these guys to buy into what we are selling. And if not, then CJB may need some new salesman on his staff. |
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10-17-2019, 02:39 PM | #29 | |
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I am happy with the guards we have so far but we will need some quality bigs to compete at a high level. I think Brannen will scour the Earth to come up with something for us. Whether that is a transfer or something else. Let's give it some time. |
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10-17-2019, 02:52 PM | #30 | |
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If we can keep getting guys in the Madsen and Saunders range our quality depth should be better and the potential for one or more of them to outshine their star ranking is greater than just recruiting a body. I am not saying I don't want the clearly more talented higher star guys because I do...but if we can get 2 high 3 star guys to put in place of that we can probably get one of them to perhaps give us 4 star production. |
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