Wahab
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This is a big deal. Wahab and Cockburn are the last 2 primary targets that Capel is recruiting. He is in danger of going 0 for.
If we can't get at least 1 of these guys, I'd imagine Capel turns to 2020 big guys, trying to get them to reclassify but that doesn't seem to be a sustainable way to recruit.
This is the big one. Have to land him.
Georgetown is the only concern, but I think we’re in good shape. UConn checked in recently, but they’re primarily focused on Cockburn and Mitchell so I don’t think they’re a player here.
Wahab isn’t a finished product but he’d be a great fit with our 3 athletic Freshman going into next year. Between him and a further developing Brown, we’d have a nice rotation at the 5
Georgetown is the only concern, but I think we’re in good shape. UConn checked in recently, but they’re primarily focused on Cockburn and Mitchell so I don’t think they’re a player here.
Wahab isn’t a finished product but he’d be a great fit with our 3 athletic Freshman going into next year. Between him and a further developing Brown, we’d have a nice rotation at the 5
Does UConn have any scholarships left? I thought they were out, which is why Akok walked on.
You think Hurley has a deal with the football program where he uses a couple unused scholarships?
Yea, I think if we miss out on Wahab, we probably go hard after Coulibay, and then its scrambling in the spring, maybe looking to Juco and transfers, and maybe reclassifiyng.
The three kids Capel got after April last year still gives me confidence that even when in scramble mode, we'll be ok. But it would be nice to land a big fish now.
I believe they will have 5 next year and, assuming Akok stays, only have 3 commits for 2019 so they still have two open scholarships
I think I'll just sit back and see how Capel comes out of this a a couple of years.
Theoretically, I guess any coach is in danger of going 0 for prior to actually landing somebody.
I wouldn't worry about it, though.
Capel and Brown are visiting him today
Brown and Chukwuka are not ACC-level starters and probably never will be. They would be decent backups. I would be stunned if they are starting next season. Whether or not we get Wahab or someone else, I would assume Capel is going to bring in some grad transfers. Even a guy like Rafael Maia is significantly better than these two due to his rebounding. Hopefully we can get someone better though.
I think Capel hits the grad transfer market hard and also goes after kids who ask out of LOI's if the coach leaves or is fired due to NCAA stuff (Larranaga).
In many ways, perhaps the biggest reason we need to win 5-6 ACC games is to prove to the better grad transfers that we are just 1 player away from the NCAAT
I think you can. Football takes precedence over all sports, then basketball. So a basketball player who runs track counts against basketball, but a basketball player who plays football counts against football. At least that’s how I’ve always understood it.
But a basketball player only can't get a FB scholie.
Roger Kingdom was a track scholie at Pitt. Robert Haygood was a hoops scholie. Don't think you can award a track scholie to a kid you've recruited for FB.
I think not. He was the top track athlete in GA in high school....epic battle with Herschel Walker.
He played FB only one year, if I remember correctly. At RB, not WR. We were L-O-A-D-E-D.
"Born in Vienna, Georgia, an athlete of note Kingdom excelled at the high jump and discus in his formative years as well as being a noteworthy American footballplayer. He attended the University of Pittsburgh originally on a football scholarship but excelled on the school's track team winning the NCAA outdoor national championship in the 110 meter hurdles in 1983 and the NCAA indoor national championship in the 55 meter hurdles in 1984."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Kingdom
You can give him a different sport scholarship as long as fully plays that sport to
Back to Wahab, I love this kid.
I understand why Cockburn is higher ranked, but I think that we were in for another Akok situation there. Wahab is exactly the type of kid we should be after right now. Raw, but untapped potential with a big time ceiling. He’s athletic and will be able to run the floor with guys like XJ and McGowens. Good on Capel for recognizing where our current wheelhouse is and capitalizing (hopefully).
I understand why Cockburn is higher ranked, but I think that we were in for another Akok situation there. Wahab is exactly the type of kid we should be after right now. Raw, but untapped potential with a big time ceiling. He’s athletic and will be able to run the floor with guys like XJ and McGowens. Good on Capel for recognizing where our current wheelhouse is and capitalizing (hopefully).
It would be nice to get him on board and then swing for the fences with the final two ships in the spring, and maybe a grad transfer
Every Pitt coach going to see Wahab. I think they like this guy.
No, you can't. Because schools used to "hide" football and basketball players on track scholarships so they could get more scholarship football/basketball players. Miami did that all that time. You aren't allowed to do it any more. If you are a scholarship athlete and you play football, you count as a football scholarship. If you are a scholarship athlete and you play basketball, you count as a basketball scholarship unless the other sport is football.
I haven't been too disappointed with the bigs " misses" so far. I will be with Wahab. Fair?
Dixon may have led the country in Final 3's. You gotta close
The only thing that worries me about Wahab is it seems like our biggest competition is Georgetown. It must be awfully tempting for a big man to go play under Patrick Ewing. Not surprising that the staff are going all out. They're not getting desperate, but Georgetown are probably a bigger threat than you'd initially think.
How much do you charge Dixon for the space he rents in your brain?
He has plenty of vacancy
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