General Recruiting Discussion/Comments 2022 and before

bressler3south · Post by **bressler3south** » 9 years ago

adam914 wrote:Everybody relax, its the beginning of April. They don't call this a "dead period" for nothing.

Yeah, I like that…...

ramster · Post by **ramster** » 9 years ago

Rhody15 wrote:We didn't hear that much about Four coming here, so I don't expect to hear many names linked to us until a recruit gives a verbal/ signs a LOI.

Actually we didn't hear anything about Four coming here. We also did not hear anything about Christion Thompson until the weekend of his visit and then he committed upon completion of his visit.

Rhody15 · Post by **Rhody15** » 9 years ago

ramster wrote:
Rhody15 wrote:We didn't hear that much about Four coming here, so I don't expect to hear many names linked to us until a recruit gives a verbal/ signs a LOI.
Actually we didn't hear anything about Four coming here. We also did not hear anything about Christion Thompson until the weekend of his visit and then he committed upon completion of his visit.

Exactly. No need to get worried about not hearing anything right now regarding recruits. They'll come.

Rhody74 · Post by **Rhody74** » 9 years ago

I think we're still suffering from PCFLSD ....

BFC · Post by **BFC** » 9 years ago

Definitely seems like there's an effort to keep things quiet. Carr had been on Kyle Meyer for a while but we were never on any of his public lists. Now JucoRecruiting.com says we were in his top 3, he would have been a big get but he chose Houston.

rambone 78 · Post by **rambone 78** » 9 years ago

We have to win a couple of these battles, and soon....

Close doesn't count....

Billyboy78 · Post by **Billyboy78** » 9 years ago

Losing out on guys like Silva, Gustys, etc. all came down to _______. He screwed everything up. He's gone (I hope). There's a clear path to a starting position for a big now.

runninrams5 · Post by **runninrams5** » 9 years ago

Session 1 of EYBL starts tommorow, alot of players we have been mentioned with are on EYBL rosters. I would assume someone from the staff will be down in VA recruiting.
2016 players:
Tyrique Jones Expressions Elite
Unique Mclean PSA Cardinals
Tone Carter and Lamar Stevens Team Final
Terrell Brown and Bruce Brown BABC
Devin Gage Chicago Meanstreets
KJ Santos Mac Irvin Fire
Rodney Miller NY Lightning
Demonte Buckingham Team Takeover
2017
Jermaine Samuels and Kimami Lawrence Expressions Elite

Billyboy78 · Post by **Billyboy78** » 9 years ago

Yes, evaluation period is underway. Where will the staff be this weekend?

Seawrightspostgame · Post by **Seawrightspostgame** » 9 years ago

Imagine coming on here one day and there being a guy signed that is tall.

bressler3south · Post by **bressler3south** » 9 years ago

Seawrightspostgame wrote: Imagine coming on here one day and there being a guy signed that is tall.

Tall --- okay…..TALENTED AND TALL!!!!!!!

P.S. I hope that makes sense to everyone.

If it does, thanks for your understanding.

Billyboy78 · Post by **Billyboy78** » 9 years ago

bressler3south wrote:
Seawrightspostgame wrote: Imagine coming on here one day and there being a guy signed that is tall.
Tall --- okay…..TALENTED AND TALL!!!!!!!

Yeah, Blake Vedder is tall.

Seawrightspostgame · Post by **Seawrightspostgame** » 9 years ago

Certainly. But Tall. We really need somebody TALL.

runninrams5 · Post by **runninrams5** » 9 years ago

Coaches from URI were present at the Expressions Elite game tonight in Hampton, VA at EYBL

bressler3south · Post by **bressler3south** » 9 years ago

Nike Hoop Summit: U.S. Jr. national Select Team vs. World Select Squad at halftime on ESPN2.
World leads 47-44.

rambone 78 · Post by **rambone 78** » 9 years ago

Expecting some good news in a few days.......

runninrams5 · Post by **runninrams5** » 9 years ago

Danny is currently watching E1T1 vs All Ohio Red at the EYBL

ramster · Post by **ramster** » 9 years ago

runninrams5 wrote:Danny is currently watching E1T1 vs All Ohio Red at the EYBL

Has he been there all 3 days? Any assistants go with him? Bobby on site? Both of these teams with be Peach Jam bound

CT Rhody · Post by **CT Rhody** » 9 years ago

Anybody know who the coaches at targetting with Expressions?

Billyboy78 · Post by **Billyboy78** » 9 years ago

CT Rhody wrote:Anybody know who the coaches at targetting with Expressions?

The ones we know about are Tyrique Jones, Kimani Lawrence and Jermaine Samuels.

eli#10 · Post by **eli#10** » 9 years ago

"Crickets" not good at this time of recruiting cycle.............. WTF is going on?

Ramulous · Post by **Ramulous** » 9 years ago

Lawrence may be best served by going to school a few hundred miles from Providence

Post by **TruePoint** » 9 years ago

eli#10 wrote:"Crickets" not good at this time of recruiting cycle.............. WTF is going on?

Yeah, what's going on is the coaches aren't feeding stuff to reporters. We know some of the places they've been, and we think we know some of the people they're after.

Billyboy78 · Post by **Billyboy78** » 9 years ago

Two of them got offers today...

Alex Kline ‏@TheRecruitScoop · 16m16 minutes ago
Florida State offered Tyrique Jones, a 2016 PF from Expressions Elite (MA).

Alex Kline ‏@TheRecruitScoop · 17m17 minutes ago
Villanova has offered 2017 wing Jermaine Samuels of Expressions Elite (MA).

CT Rhody · Post by **CT Rhody** » 9 years ago

At least we are chasing prospects that are wanted, now we have to beat out the competition for these guys.

reckless jake · Post by **reckless jake** » 9 years ago

What's bothersome is regardless of who you read; Kline, Rothstein, Zagoria, Goodman, Borzello, Verlin, Brazille, Winston, etc. I don't see the URI name mentioned anywhere. Period. What's beyond under the radar?

STC · Post by **STC** » 9 years ago

Relax folks. Dan Hurley can recruit. Just because URI doesn't get wall to wall coverage on twitter doesnt mean nothing is happening.

This isn't going to be dumpster diving for the Blake Vedder's and Levan Shengelia's of the world, Hurley is going to get talent.

PeterRamTime · Post by **PeterRamTime** » 9 years ago

Blake Vedder is an enigma. He's got about as much athleticism as you can get being 7'3 player, could shoot pretty well but in about 6 years of playing college basketball he could never get off the bench. I think he played in D3 some but he just played his last season with Kent State and they never played him.

Rhody15 · Post by **Rhody15** » 9 years ago

St Louis, along with UNC, Duke and Kentucky, are the final four schools for Jayson Tatum,
the best player in the class of 2016. Jayson's father played at SLU, and apprantly Jason absolutely loves the city of St Louis, and having all his family and friends at all his games.

Can you imagine if St Louis got him? That would be absolutely crazy!

Ramulous · Post by **Ramulous** » 9 years ago

Someday.....I will go to the Recruiting section and see that we have signed someone....anyone....small.....big.....I don't care which.....

rodfromcranston · Post by **rodfromcranston** » 9 years ago

Remember when Dan warned against spring signings,
saying they are mostly "reaches", born out of desperation?
I'm hoping we're not dumpster diving at this late date,
and whoever comes here, isn't a reach.
We'll find out soon enough, I guess.

runninrams5 · Post by **runninrams5** » 9 years ago

This late into the spring I think we will have to look at guys that have decommitted or JUCO guys. I know we were not involved with this guy in his original recruitment but Tony Anderson a 6'8" 235 pound PF just decomitted from Toledo. This is they type of guy we could look at. He originally had offers from West Virginia, Iowa Washington St he has to have some ability

Post by **SGreenwell** » 9 years ago

Ramulous wrote:Someday.....I will go to the Recruiting section and see that we have signed someone....anyone....small.....big.....I don't care which.....

It was a long, hard two weeks ago that they last announced a recruit.

Billyboy78 · Post by **Billyboy78** » 9 years ago

SGreenwell wrote:
Ramulous wrote:Someday.....I will go to the Recruiting section and see that we have signed someone....anyone....small.....big.....I don't care which.....
It was a long, hard two weeks ago that they last announced a recruit.

We also now have 3 openings to fill with the signing period 20 some hours away.

Post by **SGreenwell** » 9 years ago

Billyboy78 wrote:
SGreenwell wrote:
Ramulous wrote:Someday.....I will go to the Recruiting section and see that we have signed someone....anyone....small.....big.....I don't care which.....
It was a long, hard two weeks ago that they last announced a recruit.
We also now have 3 openings to fill with the signing period 20 some hours away.

Yeah, and I understand that with the signing period coming up, and three open scholarships, some people will get antsy. But outside of Terrell's recruitment, and the nature of it, there haven't been many leaks from the coaching staff and people close to the program about who they're actually interested in. I think some people mistakenly jump to the assumption that the staff isn't close with anyone, or working on filling them, whereas I'm more of the mindset that far less good information leaks out from this staff as compared to past ones.

McRam · Post by **McRam** » 9 years ago

runninrams5 wrote:This late into the spring I think we will have to look at guys that have decommitted or JUCO guys. I know we were not involved with this guy in his original recruitment but Tony Anderson a 6'8" 235 pound PF just decomitted from Toledo. This is they type of guy we could look at. He originally had offers from West Virginia, Iowa Washington St he has to have some ability

never saw him play scout has him as a 3 star 76 ranking. exactly the same as Butts

Da_Process_Survivor · Post by **Da_Process_Survivor** » 9 years ago

Billyboy78 wrote:
SGreenwell wrote:
Ramulous wrote:Someday.....I will go to the Recruiting section and see that we have signed someone....anyone....small.....big.....I don't care which.....
It was a long, hard two weeks ago that they last announced a recruit.
We also now have 3 openings to fill with the signing period 20 some hours away.

1. you do know how the recruiting cycle works, right? This isnt free agency, the players hold all the cards not the teams.

2. just because we arent privy to every detail along the way, doesnt mean their sitting there twittling their thumbs. Running a tight ship without leaks is their m.o.

Billyboy78 · Post by **Billyboy78** » 9 years ago

First of all, I know we will sign someone. You don't leave 3 open scholarships. I disagree that keeping things quiet has been our m.o. We first heard we were involved with Christion Thompson in Sept, two months before he signed. We first heard we were involved with Leroy Butts in June, 5 months before he signed. We were involved with Jarvis Garrett long before he signed, knew about several visits, and that he had it down to us and Marquette. We knew we were on the final lists of guys like Rokas Gustys, Chris Silva, Aflakpui, Steve Enoch. We knew Alex Murphy was either coming here or going to Florida. The only high schooler that came out of the blue was Butler. I'll give you that the transfers weren't reported in advance. But that's a totally different recruitment. Hey, it's fine if they want to keep things quiet. Hopefully we get some good players. But to say that has been our m.o. is false.

BFC · Post by **BFC** » 9 years ago

Billyboy78 wrote:First of all, I know we will sign someone. You don't leave 3 open scholarships. I disagree that keeping things quiet has been our m.o. We first heard we were involved with Christion Thompson in Sept, two months before he signed. We first heard we were involved with Leroy Butts in June, 5 months before he signed. We were involved with Jarvis Garrett long before he signed, knew about several visits, and that he had it down to us and Marquette. We knew we were on the final lists of guys like Rokas Gustys, Chris Silva, Aflakpui, Steve Enoch. We knew Alex Murphy was either coming here or going to Florida. The only high schooler that came out of the blue was Butler. I'll give you that the transfers weren't reported in advance. But that's a totally different recruitment. Hey, it's fine if they want to keep things quiet. Hopefully we get some good players. But to say that has been our m.o. is false.

I agree that keeping things quiet isn't this staff's M.O. but there's a lot of revised history here. We heard about Christion Thompson when he publicly announced he was visiting and then publicly announced he had verballed. He was never mentioned on this message board before then.
The other guys you mention, except Butts, debuted in our discussions after recruiting websites/analysts mentioned our involvement, its possible their info came from our staff but not likely. Butts is the one guy who we had a rumor before we had any media confirmations and that Alex Murphy statement, even if someone said that I don't believe it.

Billyboy78 · Post by **Billyboy78** » 9 years ago

Oh, I don't think the Alex Murphy thing was true either. Just saying that info was out there. I guess what I'm saying is that in the fairly recent past, info has leaked from one source or another. Now there seem to be zero leaks, especially regarding high school kids. Once again, there's nothing wrong with that. It's just different.

Post by **TruePoint** » 9 years ago

Billyboy78 wrote:I disagree that keeping things quiet has been our m.o. We first heard we were involved with Christion Thompson in Sept, two months before he signed. We first heard we were involved with Leroy Butts in June, 5 months before he signed.

It is very misleading to say we heard about these guys however long before they signed. They signed on signing day, but in both cases there was not a ton of lead time between when we learned we were involved and when they committed. Also, and I DON'T mean this as a slight to him at all, but Preston played the recruiting game differently than Dan does and was a source for people reporting recruiting news. That is not uncommon for coaches to do and it isn't a criticism, but it is a difference between Dan and Preston. So maybe people got used to a steady stream of information while Preston was on staff, but that isn't the case now.

rambone 78 · Post by **rambone 78** » 9 years ago

As long as it leads to results, not revealing info beforehand is fine.

Like you said, just different from what we are used to.

rodfromcranston · Post by **rodfromcranston** » 9 years ago

Carr talks a lot, but it seems to be not much more than
either purposeful misinformation, of just bad information.
I think Murray was a KGB agent in another life.
He's like, nobody knows what he's doing, but he's doing something.
Cox, you can tell by where the recruits are located, that he's the one on it.
Either that or someone he recruited at Rutgers.
Yes, I miss Preston. He didn't even have to get specific.
It was, "I'm at the airport, heading for______."

rambone 78 · Post by **rambone 78** » 9 years ago

Rod, it must have been nice being in the loop when it came to recruiting.

Now, lips are sealed.

Like I said, I'm OK with it, unless we get some stiff, or nobody at all.

Then we got problems.....

As for this signing period, this only applies to high school or prep kids.

Transfers, jucos, and 5th years can declare any time.

The question is right now, will we sign any 4 year players, or will it be all part timers?

We need at least one 4 year big. A 4 year PG can wait until next year, as long as Thompson can back up JG.

Seawrightspostgame · Post by **Seawrightspostgame** » 9 years ago

Im still surprised Biggie is gone. he caught alot of Flak but he had flashes of good. Seemed like a nice guy.

rodfromcranston · Post by **rodfromcranston** » 9 years ago

Maybe he read some of the game threads here......

Post by **TruePoint** » 9 years ago

rambone 78 wrote:
Like I said, I'm OK with it, unless we get some stiff, or nobody at all.

Then we got problems.....

I don't understand the logic here. Do you feel that divulging recruiting info to media outlets would result in better recruiting results? It seems like there are two distinct things here: recruiting, and information about recruiting. You can be pleased or displeased with either or both, but the two do not have anything to do with each other and should be thought of separately. It doesn't make sense to say you are OK with one dependent upon the other.

I will say that for me, personally, I prefer a more open flow of information. It is why there is a recruiting section of this site - fans love it and it is a good way to keep your fanbase engaged. However, I am fine with letting operate however they see fit. I will judge the classes ultimately by who is in them, not how much I knew about them ahead of time.

rambone 78 · Post by **rambone 78** » 9 years ago

TP, you read WAY too much into things.

Seriously, I was just making an observation, nothing more, nothing less.

Post by **TruePoint** » 9 years ago

Huh? I'm not reading into anything. I'm saying what you said is illogical.

rodfromcranston · Post by **rodfromcranston** » 9 years ago

OK, look at the added 2016 recruits.
Notice something missing?
Yup. Not one player over 6'6".
It would be nice to see us involved early with some size.