Big East Recruiting during the 2014 cycle
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basketballjones
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Good to see that the Big East teams are getting it done. We, however, seem to have a "pull a rabbit out of the hat at the end" quality to the recruiting. Coach Lavin's strength is recruiting. We should be expecting 1 top 30 player every year at some point soon. The staff has whiffed on everybody so far this year. Delarosa seems like a nice prospect who might develop by his junior year. That's fine, but if he's all we're getting this year, we're gonna be the "youngest team in college basketball" again in 2015.
Front court rebounding and scoring has to improve dramatically for us to make it to the sweet 16 and beyond.
Front court rebounding and scoring has to improve dramatically for us to make it to the sweet 16 and beyond.
In addition to its successes in recruiting it is also noteworthy to point out that the Big East Conference has the third highest RPI as a conference behind only the Big Ten and Big Twelve but ahead of the ACC which reflects on the quality of basketball being played.
I too would like to see the staff getting the school on more lists of top rated recruits and do agree that the success rate for this year is lower than we've come to expect but let's remember that in theory STJ is returning top 50-60 players at every position next year andon the bench another one plus a guy who's averaged almost 30 mins per game for 3 years. While you can certainly make room for a great talent there is not the appearance of tremendous opportunity in the first year but certainly someone who's going to stay for a while can't help but see the chance to have a tremendous role years 2 and 3. For a Whitehead type that was obviously very important.
@AdamZagoria: Iowa asst Andrew Francis here in New Haven watching 2015 G @spidadmitchell of Brewster.
@AdamZagoria: Yale's staff is here in New Haven for 6-10 2014 commit Sem Kroon of NMH
@AdamZagoria: UCLA, Creighton, Iowa also here. Illinois is 2 deep for Josh Sharma.
@AdamZagoria: UCLA's David Grace here for 2014 pledge @Jonahbolden32 of Brewster. Part of a strong 4-man class.
@AdamZagoria: Creighton's Pat Sellers here. Bluejays have offered 2015 big s Josh Sharma and & Aaron Falzon of NMH and 2015 G @spidadmitchell of Brewster.
Where's [strike]Waldo[/strike] Lavin and staff????
redstorm80
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Have a feeling we are gonna be big time players for some transfers once the season ends
redstorm80
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That might not be an option. All 3 (If no one leaves) new comers wouldn't make an impact next year and it might be too late in the game to pick up a real impact player. Would you rather have the 3rd guy be a bench warming freshman project or an impactful transfer who could step in for 2015?
Otis- I know our staff comes off as very hands off and that can drive me crazy at times but they are not lazy. They've shown in the past that when there is mutual interest they will be relentless