‘22 MI SF - Ty Rodgers (Illinois)

[ramster]

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[CTRamfan]

Congratulations on your 10,000 post.............much good reading over the years.

[ramster]

Congratulations on your 10,000 post.............much good reading over the years.

Ha ha. Do I win something?

[Rhody83]

Congratulations on your 10,000 post.............much good reading over the years.

Ha ha. Do I win something?

6th place. How many of the post were “placeholders”

[Billyboy78]

Congratulations on your 10,000 post.............much good reading over the years.

Ha ha. Do I win something?

Frank Keaney level, only 6 of us there. Rod is still #1.

[Rhody83]

Congratulations on your 10,000 post.............much good reading over the years.

Ha ha. Do I win something?

Frank Keaney level, only 6 of us there. Rod is still #1.

Billyboy is within reach.

[ramster]

We are the first to Offer the Class of 2022 Rogers. He is from Saginaw Michigan

http://www.verbalcommits.com/players/ty-rodgers

[sevegny7]

[hrstrat57]

Congratulations on your 10,000 post.............much good reading over the years.

+1

Hardest working poster on KeaneyBlue by a mile.

Thanks Ramster !

[reef]

Congrats to Ty on his URI offer and to Ramster for his milestone post

[ramster]

[ramster]

[CamsRams]

[Rhody74]

Damn, I love reading comments from high school coaches like that.

[CamsRams]

[URIRecruitingInfo]

“I would say that head coaches at Houston, Syracuse, Michigan, Rhode Island, and Missouri are all really recruiting him hard. There are others, but those five schools are definitely making it clear that they really want him.”

https://247sports.com/college/basketbal ... 154502955/

[rhodyblue12]

Looking at the videos available, a good player comp for Ty Rogers is Dillon Brooks (who we also recruited, I believe).

Let's keep that Michigan connection going at URI!

[CamsRams]

https://www.tiptonedits.com/post/q-a-wi ... ty-rodgers

[thatRamBand]

Let’s flash forward a few years. You get your first NBA paycheck. What’s the first three things you buy?
I’m gonna put half back in the bank, and majority of the rest I’m gonna invest in real estate.

Haha, smart guy.

[Jersey77]

Another big reach for us, probably stay in the Midwest or Great Lakes area.

[ramster]

[CamsRams]

[raminwarwick]

With that group it will be hard to get him but we may be setting up for the a transfer rebound in the future game.

[Rhody74]

Wow, is he built for a high school kid.

[Jersey77]

With that group it will be hard to get him but we may be setting up for the a transfer rebound in the future game.

Yes, which is why you never stop recruiting at the Prep/HS level, always keep those relationships and connections going, regardless of the new transfer rule.

[SGreenwell]

Didn't notice the name typo until now - whoops. Fixed it.

[ramster]

With that group it will be hard to get him but we may be setting up for the a transfer rebound in the future game.

Yes, which is why you never stop recruiting at the Prep/HS level, always keep those relationships and connections going, regardless of the new transfer rule.

TJ Buchanan is an excellent communicator and representative of the URI Basketball Program. Knows Michigan High School basketball very well. Never know, URI could surprise.

[ramster]

[STC]

This is the type of kid we see playing in the second weekend of the NCAA tournament a few years from now and bump the thread to remember when URI was briefly in on him.

[ace]

Early word continues to be that he won’t make it out of Michigan, but I think it’s fun when they’re in the mix with schools like this

[CamsRams]

[STC]

Would be pretty funny if this kid commits here and Cox uses it as leverage for an extension only for Rodgers to transfer later.

[DC_Rams]

Would be pretty funny if this kid commits here and Cox uses it as leverage for an extension only for Rodgers to transfer later.

Use it as leverage? The man still has to do his job no matter how thin or thick the ice is he is on…do you all think before you post?

[STC]

Actually, I give Cox a lot of credit for getting a kid as highly ranked as Rodgers on campus given our mid major status, trajectory of the program and Cox tenuous longterm job status.

Cox high school recruiting has always been one of his best attributes. The retention and development once they are on campus is what needs to be improved.

[Billyboy78]

Actually, I give Cox a lot of credit for getting a kid as highly ranked as Rodgers on campus given our mid major status, trajectory of the program and Cox tenuous longterm job status.

Cox high school recruiting has always been one of his best attributes. The retention and development once they are on campus is what needs to be improved.

You can give him credit, but this is obviously a TJ recruit. Cox's job is now the closer once he gets the recruit on campus, something Dan was great at. It seemed that once Dan got a guy on campus, he got him. Cox gets the credit for recruiting some of those kids like Dowtin.

[Jersey77]

I think it is pretty cool that we are able to get a top 50 recruit to visit, considering he has so many P6 offers and can only take 5 official visits.
247 has one of their experts on crystal ball predicting 100% Michigan
Rivals has him 40% Michigan State.

Not sure if he cancelled his visit to Xavier this past weekend. They do have commitments from 4* SF Tyrell Ward and 4* SG Kam Craft.

I think his other visits were to Michigan, Michigan State, Purdue, UConn, and now URI.

[Billyboy78]

It'll be cool if they get him...

[Jersey77]

It'll be cool if they get him...

Yes of course, but it's nice we are in the discussion.
He is a huge longshot for us, but at least we identified him early, give our staff credit for that.

[reef]

Impressive to be on that list of schools for sure

[Billyboy78]

It'll be cool if they get him...

Yes of course, but at least we are in the discussion.
He is a huge longshot for us, but at least we identified him early, give our staff credit for that.

I do give them credit. I'm happy he's visiting. I'll be thrilled if we get him. But as the old saying goes.....Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

[Jersey77]

It'll be cool if they get him...

Yes of course, but it's nice we are in the discussion.
He is a huge longshot for us, but at least we identified him early, give our staff credit for that.

I do give them credit. I'm happy he's visiting. I'll be thrilled if we get him. But as the old saying goes.....Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

Another thing to keep in mind, with all the player movement in the portal these days, it's nice to have a recruit like this showing strong interest in us.
He probably will commit to a P6 school, but if it doesn't work out for him there, we could be a good transfer destination for him.

[Billyboy78]

Yes of course, but it's nice we are in the discussion.
He is a huge longshot for us, but at least we identified him early, give our staff credit for that.

I do give them credit. I'm happy he's visiting. I'll be thrilled if we get him. But as the old saying goes.....Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

Another thing to keep in mind, with all the player movement in the portal these days, it's nice to have a recruit like this showing strong interest in us.
He probably will commit to a P6 school, but if it doesn't work out for him there, we could be a good transfer destination for him.

True.

[ramster]

It'll be cool if they get him...

Yes of course, but it's nice we are in the discussion.
He is a huge longshot for us, but at least we identified him early, give our staff credit for that.

77,
Where is your confidence? Rogers is better than a “huge long shot”. The staff needs to land players like Rogers just as the Hurley regime did.

Top 100 players we have landed in Hurley/Cox era:
Jordan Hare
EC Mathews
Iverson via transfer from Memphis
Robinson via transfer from Indiana
Jared Terrell
Jermaine Harris

URI has the TJ Buchanan connection to Michigan, plus the EC Mathews connection. Show tapes of how EC garnered early playing time, his success in Europe, how he continually improved his overall game and especially his shooting percentages.

Big fish in a small pond - Rogers can come in and quickly enter the starting line up.

Show examples of Top 100 players who languished on the benches of Big 10 teams, and/or who transferred because of lack of playing time or general unhappiness

Show examples of A10 players in the NBA now

Have Lamar Odom talk to him about how much he enjoyed URI and how much he enjoyed returning to URI later in life to clear his mind, relax and practice/workout.

We can land Rogers.

[Jersey77]

It'll be cool if they get him...

Yes of course, but it's nice we are in the discussion.
He is a huge longshot for us, but at least we identified him early, give our staff credit for that.

77,
Where is your confidence? Rogers is better than a “huge long shot”. The staff needs to land players like Rogers just as the Hurley regime did.

Top 100 players we have landed in Hurley/Cox era:
Jordan Hare
EC Mathews
Iverson via transfer from Memphis
Robinson via transfer from Indiana
Jared Terrell
Jermaine Harris

URI has the TJ Buchanan connection to Michigan, plus the EC Mathews connection. Show tapes of how EC garnered early playing time, his success in Europe, how he continually improved his overall game and especially his shooting percentages.

Big fish in a small pond - Rogers can come in and quickly enter the starting line up.

Show examples of Top 100 players who languished on the benches of Big 10 teams, and/or who transferred because of lack of playing time or general unhappiness

Show examples of A10 players in the NBA now

Have Lamar Odom talk to him about how much he enjoyed URI and how much he enjoyed returning to URI later in life to clear his mind, relax and practice/workout.

We can land Rogers.

I just have a feeling he will decide to stay close to home, especially under these current circumstances.
It will be difficult for him to pass up UM or MSU.
I don't believe EC was heavily recruited or even offered by them.
Besides when we got EC, Murphy was the lead recruiter, let's not put TJ in his class yet.

Believe me, I think it would be great if we can land him, but not over confident on this one

Again, I hope he proves me wrong.

[ramster]

Yes of course, but it's nice we are in the discussion.
He is a huge longshot for us, but at least we identified him early, give our staff credit for that.

77,
Where is your confidence? Rogers is better than a “huge long shot”. The staff needs to land players like Rogers just as the Hurley regime did.

Top 100 players we have landed in Hurley/Cox era:
Jordan Hare
EC Mathews
Iverson via transfer from Memphis
Robinson via transfer from Indiana
Jared Terrell
Jermaine Harris

URI has the TJ Buchanan connection to Michigan, plus the EC Mathews connection. Show tapes of how EC garnered early playing time, his success in Europe, how he continually improved his overall game and especially his shooting percentages.

Big fish in a small pond - Rogers can come in and quickly enter the starting line up.

Show examples of Top 100 players who languished on the benches of Big 10 teams, and/or who transferred because of lack of playing time or general unhappiness

Show examples of A10 players in the NBA now

Have Lamar Odom talk to him about how much he enjoyed URI and how much he enjoyed returning to URI later in life to clear his mind, relax and practice/workout.

We can land Rogers.

I just have a feeling he will decide to stay close to home, especially under these current circumstances.
It will be difficult for him to pass up UM or MSU.
I don't believe EC was heavily recruited or even offered by them.
Besides when we got EC, Murphy was the lead recruiter, let's not put TJ in his class yet.

Believe me, I think it would be great if we can land him, but not over confident on this one

Again, I hope he proves me wrong.

Murphy was an assistant but Hurley closed the deal on EC Mathews just like David Cox should close the deal on Rogers. If we lose Rogers I’d not point to TJ not being in Murphy’s class yet.

Cox needs to land some good Freshmen recruits here in his 4th season at the helm.

Hurley brought in EC Mathews and Hassan Martin early on and built around them. They were picked as 2 of the top 5 incoming freshmen to the A10. Need to see some exciting incoming freshmen recruits and/transfers.

Named by Dave Telep as one of the Top Five '13 recruits in the Atlantic 10:
EC Mathews
Hassan Martin
Josh Brown
JeQuan Lewis
Isaiah Watkins

[Jersey77]

77,
Where is your confidence? Rogers is better than a “huge long shot”. The staff needs to land players like Rogers just as the Hurley regime did.

Top 100 players we have landed in Hurley/Cox era:
Jordan Hare
EC Mathews
Iverson via transfer from Memphis
Robinson via transfer from Indiana
Jared Terrell
Jermaine Harris

URI has the TJ Buchanan connection to Michigan, plus the EC Mathews connection. Show tapes of how EC garnered early playing time, his success in Europe, how he continually improved his overall game and especially his shooting percentages.

Big fish in a small pond - Rogers can come in and quickly enter the starting line up.

Show examples of Top 100 players who languished on the benches of Big 10 teams, and/or who transferred because of lack of playing time or general unhappiness

Show examples of A10 players in the NBA now

Have Lamar Odom talk to him about how much he enjoyed URI and how much he enjoyed returning to URI later in life to clear his mind, relax and practice/workout.

We can land Rogers.

I just have a feeling he will decide to stay close to home, especially under these current circumstances.
It will be difficult for him to pass up UM or MSU.
I don't believe EC was heavily recruited or even offered by them.
Besides when we got EC, Murphy was the lead recruiter, let's not put TJ in his class yet.

Believe me, I think it would be great if we can land him, but not over confident on this one

Again, I hope he proves me wrong.

Murphy was an assistant but Hurley closed the deal on EC Mathews just like David Cox should close the deal on Rogers. If we lose Rogers I’d not point to TJ not being in Murphy’s class yet.

Cox needs to land some good Freshmen recruits here in his 4th season at the helm.

Hurley brought in EC Mathews and Hassan Martin early on and built around them. They were picked as 2 of the top 5 incoming freshmen to the A10. Need to see some exciting incoming freshmen recruits and/transfers.

Named by Dave Telep as one of the Top Five '13 recruits in the Atlantic 10:
EC Mathews
Hassan Martin
Josh Brown
JeQuan Lewis
Isaiah Watkins

Ramster, yes it was DH who closed the deal, he was the HC, but If it wasn't for Murphy it never would of happened with EC.
Cox still needs to prove himself here, like Hurley did. Hurley did have the name recognition and pedigree when he came here along with some previous HC experience.

Cox did land some some previously high ranking transfers such as Walker, the twins, and Carey who has yet to prove himself.

Let's hope he can build around Ish, and the twins like Hurley did with EC and Martin.
Hopefully Tres, Chance( next season), and Samb can also provide a good foundation going forward.

Getting Rodgers to commit here is a much tougher hill to climb than it was for Hurley with EC.
He is a top 50 recruit and you have to pry him away from 2 extremely powerful in-state programs.
Also Hurley did have Murphy as his point man.
I am actually pleasantly surprised we are one of his 5 official visits.

[Ramulous]

What will our NIL package offer look like and how does it compare to our competitors?

[Ramulous]

With today’s landscape in the NCAA would a Hassan, Jared, or EC even stay here without being poached?

[Rhody_NYCT]

With today’s landscape in the NCAA would a Hassan, Jared, or EC even stay here without being poached?

I think if they had a great relationship with their coach and a solid team, they wouldn't go anywhere.

[Billyboy78]

With today’s landscape in the NCAA would a Hassan, Jared, or EC even stay here without being poached?

I think if they had a great relationship with their coach and a solid team, they wouldn't go anywhere.

Except now there's money involved....lots of it.