Recruiting

[Harve74]

Uh.... maybe Kevin Love was that coming of HS.... but NOW... he is as I stated.... 6'10" and 251... according to ESPN which is talking about the Cleveland Cavs roster NOT players coming out of HS.

Zara, if you believe "program heights", I've got a great deal for you on a bridge in Brooklyn or some Florida swampland ...

Measurements given in programs for athletes are notoriously incorrect. One of your biggest mistsjes is taking what you read as gospel truth when mostly it is coach-speak and marketing spiel.

Blair is still listed at 6-7 in NBA programs but was measured at 6-5 1/4 in socks. Many guys are listed MUCH different from their true measurements.

 

[DC_Area_Panther]

Can I say something about our PG recruiting?

Sure, Kithcart may be a fine player one day.........but he pretty much needs to START next year. People, realize that we were selling a starting PG spot from Practice #1. Starting PG at a good ACC program right away. And we ended up with a fallback option.

I mean we talk about salesmanship all the time on this board. How about "hey, come and run the show from Day 1" for a sales pitch. That's a pitch that we've never had to make before and we still landed really good PGs. Now, when they can start right away, nobody wanted to come.

Say what? The reality is he will have to.beat out Damon Wilson and the new JUCO to be the starter. If he can do that he will start. Otherwise he will wait his turn.

Aside from that, your assumption he was promised he would start is not verifiable. You have no idea what he was or was not actually promised. Recruiting internet and social media talk is not reliable. I find it highly doubtful that he was actually promised more than the opportunity to earn the starting spot.

 

[Zaratoughda]

Can I say something about our PG recruiting?

Sure, Kithcart may be a fine player one day.........but he pretty much needs to START next year. People, realize that we were selling a starting PG spot from Practice #1. Starting PG at a good ACC program right away. And we ended up with a fallback option.

I mean we talk about salesmanship all the time on this board. How about "hey, come and run the show from Day 1" for a sales pitch. That's a pitch that we've never had to make before and we still landed really good PGs. Now, when they can start right away, nobody wanted to come.

Start at PG from day 1???

I don't think so. When Kithcart comes in next year he will have Wilson and Milligan ahead of him on the depth chart at PG. Good chance he will get RSed.

 

[magadog]

Thank you for your response - the Clark recruitment strikes me as one or two things and it sounds more like the first.

You remember the big kid $a stiff) that we signed who played at the basketball academy in the Netherlands? I believe we signed him when all our other choices at a big fell through and we knew we had to have another big on the roster. We eventually (strangely) parted with him and he ended up at Rutgers. I fear the Clark recruitment is similar. Nothing I have read/heard indicates we were on him as a prep or even as a JC. We came in late and beat out Oregon for him. Could he be nothing but a placeholder until what we see is available in the spring?

The other possibility is that his recruitment is similar to Levon Kendall's. (who I also had heard nothing about at the time) Dixon goes out to see Clark and falls in love with him. Clark goes on to be a multi year contributor. I hope this is how things turn out.

Doorson had eligibility issues. I believe that the issue related to whether he participated in a pro league through the basketball academy.
WDixon didn't wait to see if Doorson would be eligible & released him. Dixon spent the spring trying to recruit a post & ended up with Haughton. In hindsight, Dixon should have waited for Doorson to become eligible, since Haughton wasn't the answer.

 

[Harve74]

Doorson had eligibility issues. I believe that the issue related to whether he participated in a pro league through the basketball academy.
Dixon didn't wait to see if Doorson would be eligible & released him. Dixon spent the spring trying to recruit a post & ended up with Haughton. In hindsight, Dixon should have waited for Doorson to become eligible, since Haughton wasn't the answer.

At the time he was released, it looked like Doorson would NEVER become eligible, due to having been a professional before going to Canaris. Doorson was a long term project and did not do much at Rutgers. He probably would have been a decent developmental center here. He is big and strong but his videos show a slow, lumbering kid. I think Dixon had become disgusted with the baggage several of Slice's recruits were bringing and just cast them loose rather than continue to deal with the problems. I'm not sure Doorson was even the Canaris recruit we were originally supposed to be getting. There was another, higher upside name originally being mentioned and Doorson may have been a late substitute. The Mostella saga fiasco was well-discussed. Haughton was a real reach. Due to his failure to graduate in the Spring, by the time he got here to work out and it became clear how bad he was, he was too late to hook on elsewhere. We carried him on scholarship but redshirted him as a class move to allow Tyrone a chance to transfer and play two years elsewhere.

Just a lost year and a cautionary tale for those Slice fans who think an ace recruiter can come in and work miracles.

 

[NTOP]

Can I say something about our PG recruiting?

Sure, Kithcart may be a fine player one day.........but he pretty much needs to START next year. People, realize that we were selling a starting PG spot from Practice #1. Starting PG at a good ACC program right away. And we ended up with a fallback option.

I mean we talk about salesmanship all the time on this board. How about "hey, come and run the show from Day 1" for a sales pitch. That's a pitch that we've never had to make before and we still landed really good PGs. Now, when they can start right away, nobody wanted to come.

Wilson.