11-13-2019, 01:24 PM | #181 |
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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. |
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11-13-2019, 03:24 PM | #183 | |
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All things considered I think we did pretty well with Vogt and Sorolla so if that's the floor we should be just fine. It's probably not a home run but we can get some avg play out of them. |
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Hopefully we real off the next 4 games with W's in the mean time |
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i read dec 21st is the birthday of an aunt of his that passed away, he wanted to honor her buy announcing on that day. |
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11-13-2019, 04:57 PM | #186 | |
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Stainbrook was an overweight tub before he lost his scholarship, transferred to X and then took charge bypassing two really athletic bigs in front of him, and pretty much was the leader on the team during his two years there. He's playing on a really strong pro team in Europe now. Brannen has little history for high school bigs who are looking to find a great team to join. It might take him a couple of years to earn a good reputation and land bigger recruits. We're gonna miss the Cumberlands next year for sure, but the newcomers this season seem like something to build on. The power conference structure in college hoops means UC is always going to have to scrap a bit. |
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