'18 OH SF Darius Bazley

[BearcatSpaniard513]

Darius Bazley ‏@BazleyDarius 1h1 hour ago
Blessed to say that I've received an offer from The University of Cincinnati#GOBEARCATS!! 🐾🙏🙏

247
http://247sports.com/Player/Darius-Bazley-94169

Transferring from Finneytown to Princeton
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/spor...eton/87883994/

Verbal Commits
http://www.verbalcommits.com/players/darius-bazley

Keep these local kids home Mick! Crystal balled to OSU. Hope we get him though..

[Bearcat_NTS]

Hope we're not too late on him. He's a top 50ish recruit...

[Bearcat_NTS]

Originally Posted by Bearcat_NTS

Hope we're not too late on him. He's a top 50ish recruit...

Corey Albertson ‏@Corey_Albertson 11m11 minutes ago
Word on street is that 2018's Darius Bazley (Cincy Princeton) & Justin Ahrens (Versailles) have both committed to Ohio State. Huge if true.

[UCalum08]

Originally Posted by Bearcat_NTS

Corey Albertson ‏@Corey_Albertson 11m11 minutes ago
Word on street is that 2018's Darius Bazley (Cincy Princeton) & Justin Ahrens (Versailles) have both committed to Ohio State. Huge if true.

That sucks if true. Bad. Losing out on in-city players to OSU in basketball is a brutal blow.

[Cincy0414]

Originally Posted by UCalum08

That sucks if true. Bad. Losing out on in-city players to OSU in basketball is a brutal blow.

That gives OSU 3 quality recruits just for the 2018 class. Dont want them becoming good at basketball again but it could only be a matter of time.

[Bearcat_NTS]

Originally Posted by Cincy0414

That gives OSU 3 quality recruits just for the 2018 class. Dont want them becoming good at basketball again but it could only be a matter of time.

Again? Are UC fans this delusional? In the last 11 years they've made 9 NCAA Tournaments, 5 Sweet 16's, 3 Elite 8's and 2 Final Fours. Not to mention 5 B1G regular season titles and 3 tournament titles. They passed us up while ago. Dumb post....

[GarradJ21]

You can't blame the staff. Unfortunately so many cincinnati people are so far up osu a$$ and think it's the best thing about Ohio so a kid like this knew where he was going from the jump. Good for him. Anyone that thinks OSU is the way to go I hope gets out of cincy as fast as possible

[david aka the TYZ]

UC definitely needs to be recruiting Ohio and more so Cincinnati better. Football and basketball. The one advantage any school naturally has in recruiting is geography and UC doesn't seem to want to take advantage of it. I will say one legitimate problem unique to Cincinnati is its kind of an island. You cross the river you're in Big Blue country, you head 15 miles west you're in Indiana and you go not too far north and people forget Cincinnati is part of Ohio. Simply put though UC can't use that as an excuse. You get in a kids living room and you sell his parents on how close we are to them and they can come to his games, etc. etc. and the rest goes out the window. UC is a good school, they compete at a high level so they shouldn't sell themselves short just assuming kids will go to OSU or other Big Ten schools. We need to get somebody on staff that has local ties to the recruiting scene and can sell UC to this area. I'm tired of trying to pluck kids out of NYC, DC and NC areas. You're at a disadvantage in every situation going in. Football even more so. Tubberville should be recruiting Cincinnati hard. If a kids good enough to go to OSU, I get it, but those next level players should want to come to UC. Make that happen.

[CrakkerBarrellsX]

Originally Posted by david aka the TYZ

UC definitely needs to be recruiting Ohio and more so Cincinnati better. Football and basketball. The one advantage any school naturally has in recruiting is geography and UC doesn't seem to want to take advantage of it. I will say one legitimate problem unique to Cincinnati is its kind of an island. You cross the river you're in Big Blue country, you head 15 miles west you're in Indiana and you go not too far north and people forget Cincinnati is part of Ohio. Simply put though UC can't use that as an excuse. You get in a kids living room and you sell his parents on how close we are to them and they can come to his games, etc. etc. and the rest goes out the window. UC is a good school, they compete at a high level so they shouldn't sell themselves short just assuming kids will go to OSU or other Big Ten schools. We need to get somebody on staff that has local ties to the recruiting scene and can sell UC to this area. I'm tired of trying to pluck kids out of NYC, DC and NC areas. You're at a disadvantage in every situation going in. Football even more so. Tubberville should be recruiting Cincinnati hard. If a kids good enough to go to OSU, I get it, but those next level players should want to come to UC. Make that happen.

UC canpus is 100x better than any other campus in a 100mile radius. We have everything we need as far as resources go. Its put up or shut up for both coaches. Zero excuses. 2 local kids in 10 yrs is an embarrassment. Not to mention this kid might be best to come out of Cincy since Mayo and we just now offering.

[david aka the TYZ]

Originally Posted by CrakkerBarrellsX

UC canpus is 100x better than any other campus in a 100mile radius. We have everything we need as far as resources go. Its put up or shut up for both coaches. Zero excuses. 2 local kids in 10 yrs is an embarrassment. Not to mention this kid might be best to come out of Cincy since Mayo and we just now offering.

Completely agree