Honest question, who schedules OV's? Is it the player or the coaching staff in terms of timing? As far as I read, Hinson is scheduled for 4/25 or that time frame. The Calloo OV came out of the blue. Both have other offers per 247 & new coach KD at Ole Miss is after both of them.
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Honest question, who schedules OV's? Is it the player or the coaching staff in terms of timing? As far as I read, Hinson is scheduled for 4/25 or that time frame. The Calloo OV came out of the blue. Both have other offers per 247 & new coach KD at Ole Miss is after both of them.
using other offers as an "evaluation tool" is for losers.
Thanks, must have missed that. Knew the MSU visit was unofficial. Will be curious if they offer him tomorrow/this week.
If you're a college basketball coach, yes. If you're a fan looking at it from the outside, that is the single best tool, better even than rankings, barring those rare kids who commit as underclassmen.
To be extremely blunt about Calloo, looking at his YouTube videos, he looks in worse shape the more recent you get.
college coaches do it all the time tho
This is so huge. I think it really helps when recruits have a history of playing together in high school and even before. I think that's what made the group of Frank Williams, Sergio McClain, and Marcus Griffin so good. Also, Dee & Deron played together on the US national team and established a rapport, and Dee also had played AAU ball with Augustine.
I think one of the toughest jobs for a college coach is getting a bunch of players who are used to being the star to play together as a team with established roles. Sometimes on a team, a collection of talent can be less than its parts, while in other cases (such as Loyola) a team can be greater than you would think based on the individual players.
Exactly, it was some people here that was down playing Trent Frazier after we got Mark Smith. And Mark Smith was a bust basically and Trent is the man.
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Senior, Alan Griffin @alangriffin_ on his official visit this weekend at the University of Illinois! Alan will sign his National Letter Of Intent on Wednesday, April 11th at Stepinac!
Photos: https://twitter.com/step_basketball/status/983133915857768448
Photos: https://twitter.com/step_basketball/status/983133915857768448
I think its clear by now that this board is enamored by stars and beating other programs for recruits. Little value is given by this board for finding a diamond that is a surprise.....mainly because we havent seen alot of development of guys "under radar". That type of trust in the staff will need to be earned.
With BU we are filling needs much better than JG did and I like the potential of this class. I honestly believe most on our commit list will have a much bigger long term impact on our program than Ben simmons and Michael Porter had for their respective schools.
Message for Illini team and recruits: develop individually, listen and trust your staff and gel as a team and the sky is the limit.
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Great. Congrats BU!
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Looks like a more agile and high-flying Finke.
Awesome! Anyone know if Alan's family came for the visit this weekend?
Three Crystal balls out there for him right now and all three are for Syracuse, so my money is on boeheim.
TownieMatt
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Golden looks pretty athletic. Not a ton of tape of him online, but he has a pretty good looking shooting stroke as well (not in this video).
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Strong pursuit of another HS big suggests to me that the fifth year market isn't shaping up to be all that fruitful. In the long run, that might not be such a bad thing. Unless we land one of Cunningham or Caroline (which is looking increasingly unlikely), the needle isn't going to move all that much next year. May be better in the long run to give these prospects a chance to develop next year.
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Strong pursuit of another HS big suggests to me that the fifth year market isn't shaping up to be all that fruitful. In the long run, that might not be such a bad thing. Unless we land one of Cunningham or Caroline (which is looking increasingly unlikely), the needle isn't going to move all that much next year. May be better in the long run to give these prospects a chance to develop next year.
Thanks. That’s a big clarification. I assume if the Hinson visit happens and is an official visit, then the staff prefers Hinson.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. But hard to see us avoiding a Creaning or two if we go into 2019 with one scholly.
I think "avant garde" would be a kind way to describe the roster management that has been practiced thusfar by Josh Whitman's two major hires.
Who can help me out. Feliz commits to South Florida, under the Antigua brothers, out of high school. Both brothers are fired under a cloud of academic fraud. Feliz ends up at Northwest Florida State which seems to be a junior college. Did the new South Florida coach not want him? Did he no longer want South Florida if there were no Antiguas? Were there no other schools that wanted him and he ended up at a junior college? Did he not qualify for South Florida due to academics and went the j.c. route? Was he part of the academic fraud? How did he end up at Northwest Florida State?
...and minor coaches Fahey and Tamas.
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:thumb: This thread is hilarious if you don't try to take it seriously.
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