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FearLeon
5/10/2018 1:19 PM
If Dartis sits out 2018-2019....that is a massive problem at shooting guard position....massive.
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100%Cat
5/10/2018 2:14 PM
greencat wrote:expand_more
Jaelen Sanford had offers from six MAC schools including Toledo (and Ohio)...plus various other "mid-majors" (Robert Morris, UNC-G, etc)

Illinois State BTW is a 10 time conference champion program (6 regular season and 4 tournament) with 6 big dance appearances. That's not a chump offer.

La Tech is an 18 time conference champ (12 regular season / 6 tournament) with 5 big dances which is not chopped liver for a mid-major not named Wichita State or Creighton or VCU. Not a chump offer either.

There are people who don't want to know these facts. They want to have an echo chamber of "everything is great" and that's fine. Simply ignore my posts when you see them and the people who are interested can read them. A win-win.
Na, this is more entertaining.
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shabamon
5/11/2018 7:22 AM
FearLeon wrote:expand_more
If Dartis sits out 2018-2019....that is a massive problem at shooting guard position....massive.
Until I see so much as a tweet from Arkley, this Dartis thing is nothing more than internet people positing.
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100%Cat
5/11/2018 7:54 AM
OU_Country wrote:expand_more
Jaelen Sanford had offers from six MAC schools including Toledo (and Ohio)...plus various other "mid-majors" (Robert Morris, UNC-G, etc)

Illinois State BTW is a 10 time conference champion program (6 regular season and 4 tournament) with 6 big dance appearances. That's not a chump offer.

La Tech is an 18 time conference champ (12 regular season / 6 tournament) with 5 big dances which is not chopped liver for a mid-major not named Wichita State or Creighton or VCU. Not a chump offer either.

There are people who don't want to know these facts. They want to have an echo chamber of "everything is great" and that's fine. Simply ignore my posts when you see them and the people who are interested can read them. A win-win.
Still thinks he knows more than many people here,and has to defend his opinion by justifying how solid of a program Illinois State is in one recruit. You can skew facts from recruiting sites just like those who choose to support the current players and coaches do.

Despite what you believe, the echo chamber, and "everything is good" isn't what we all think. Rather, many of us choose to actually support the program and Ohio rather then denigrate every other or every third recruit the staff brings in when they don't have enough offers, or aren't transferring from a P5/P6 school.

I have a few frustrations about this staff, but none have to do with recruiting. As an alumnus, I'm good with the idea that no one under Saul has ended up in jail or in the law enforcement section of the paper. (unless I'm mistaken?) Can't say that about the two preceding coaching staff's teams.

Because, really, what good do we, as fans, in this board, get out of tearing down OUr coaching staff for recruiting a player none of us (in most cases) have ever seen before, short of a highlight video?

I anxiously await your insult calling me "Mrs Phillips", or something else tomorrow. ✌️
I wonder what he thought about Jordan Dartis' only other offer being from Kennesaw St when he signed with us?
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FearLeon
5/11/2018 6:03 PM
Ask yourself if Ohio today is ready to knock off Buffalo today? UB coach is a program builder and you can't ignore the caliber of recruits he is bringing in year in and year out.

http://buffalonews.com/2018/05/10/jerry-sullivan-oats-has... /
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Obc2
5/12/2018 7:45 AM
another commit.

that makes 6 for this year's class. I wish the team good health, I'll be a few games this season.
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GraffZ06
5/12/2018 11:19 AM
/ThreadDrift

Let me preface this with, I'm neither knocking this recruiting class, nor any individual student-athlete we're bringing in, but does anyone but me find it odd to see the locations of the guys we're bringing in?

Seems like the staff (for better or worse) is recruiting far and wide across the fruited plain to try and bring talent to Athens. Don't know if that's just because they like these guys better/have better ties to local coaches and AAU orgs in these areas(seems unlikely)/are finding it difficult to recruit in the friendly confines of the Buckeye state (hope that's not true).

Unless I'm mistaken our roster breakdown by year/location is -

Sr: Block (Illinois), Dartis (Ohio), Taylor (Ohio)
Jr: Gollon (Wisconsin), Cowart (Mississippi)
So: Carter (Ohio), Kirk (Illinois), Murrell (Iowa)
Fr: Vander Plas (Wisconsin), Springs (N Carolina), McMurray (Ohio), Preston (Tennessee), James (N Carolina)

Departed: Laster (Michigan), Mickle (NY/Florida), Butler (S Carolina), Dozier (Maryland), Gareri (Ohio)

By my count that's 18 student athletes associated with this program the last 2 years, of which only 5 hail from Ohio. Really recruiting the midwest (IL/WI/IA) hard - which makes sense given Saul and his staff's background, but what has me scratching my head is the SE USA bent we're seeing lately (NC/SC/TN/FL/MS).

Again, not complaining. Just an observation.

/EndThreadDrift
Last Edited: 5/12/2018 11:20:56 AM by GraffZ06
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greencat
5/13/2018 7:54 AM
GraffZ06 wrote:expand_more
/ThreadDrift

Let me preface this with, I'm neither knocking this recruiting class, nor any individual student-athlete we're bringing in, but does anyone but me find it odd to see the locations of the guys we're bringing in?

Seems like the staff (for better or worse) is recruiting far and wide across the fruited plain to try and bring talent to Athens. Don't know if that's just because they like these guys better/have better ties to local coaches and AAU orgs in these areas(seems unlikely)/are finding it difficult to recruit in the friendly confines of the Buckeye state (hope that's not true).

Unless I'm mistaken our roster breakdown by year/location is -

Sr: Block (Illinois), Dartis (Ohio), Taylor (Ohio)
Jr: Gollon (Wisconsin), Cowart (Mississippi)
So: Carter (Ohio), Kirk (Illinois), Murrell (Iowa)
Fr: Vander Plas (Wisconsin), Springs (N Carolina), McMurray (Ohio), Preston (Tennessee), James (N Carolina)

Departed: Laster (Michigan), Mickle (NY/Florida), Butler (S Carolina), Dozier (Maryland), Gareri (Ohio)

By my count that's 18 student athletes associated with this program the last 2 years, of which only 5 hail from Ohio. Really recruiting the midwest (IL/WI/IA) hard - which makes sense given Saul and his staff's background, but what has me scratching my head is the SE USA bent we're seeing lately (NC/SC/TN/FL/MS).

Again, not complaining. Just an observation.

/EndThreadDrift
Preston is really from the Orlando FL area (?) - just made a stop in TN.

There were better players from TN that were either
A)Not recruited by Saul
B)Not offered by Saul -or-
C)Decided to go elsewhere if they indeed were offered.

There was a 6-4 guard that was named mid-state MVP from a team that went 32-1 and had an offer from Arkansas State... still available. Maybe Ohio approached him, I don't know. But he can play either guard spot. Ranked the #256 h.s. player in America.
http://www.maxpreps.com/athlete/trent-gibson/PFp_s7yfEeS-...

Somebody is going to get a really good late signing in Gibson.
(late bloomer, still a work in progress, don't think he started until his last season in h.s. - ??)
Last Edited: 5/13/2018 8:01:56 AM by greencat
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FearLeon
5/13/2018 9:38 AM
When we start losing recruits consistently to D2 schools...then I'll start worrying about the recruiting philosophy of this staff. But we seem to be consistently holding off Longwood for recruits, so we've got that going for us. Meanwhile.....in Buffalo.......
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greencat
5/13/2018 11:59 AM
FearLeon wrote:expand_more
When we start losing recruits consistently to D2 schools...then I'll start worrying about the recruiting philosophy of this staff. But we seem to be consistently holding off Longwood for recruits, so we've got that going for us. Meanwhile.....in Buffalo.......
One thing that Longwood has in common with VMI and USC-Upstate and Kennesaw is that they were all exceedingly crappy last season.

Longwood was 7-26. The other 3 were almost as bad. It seems like you really have to make progress in the EARLY signing period or the pickings will be slim.
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100%Cat
5/14/2018 9:15 AM
FearLeon wrote:expand_more
Ask yourself if Ohio today is ready to knock off Buffalo today? UB coach is a program builder and you can't ignore the caliber of recruits he is bringing in year in and year out.

http://buffalonews.com/2018/05/10/jerry-sullivan-oats-has... /
Oh yea, man. I agree. Every MAC school should relieve their coaches of their positions because they can't beat Buffalo right now. All of them.
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greencat
5/14/2018 6:18 PM
Here is an example of mid-majors really trying to compete for top talent instead of settling for desperation signings...

https://247sports.com/player/jamal-johnson-77070

Jamal Johnson was the #159 ranked player in high school.
Offers included: Alabama, Georgia, Texas Tech, Florida, Vandy, Kansas State, Arkansas, Texas A&M, Auburn, Ole Miss, Wake Forest, Mississippi State, etc.
He's leaving the U of Memphis after one season, mostly as a starter.

The schools he has visited this time:

LaTech
UAB
MTSU

All mid-majors. Where has the mojo gone from Ohio's recruiting?
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bigtillyoopsupsideurhead
5/14/2018 6:38 PM
greencat wrote:expand_more
Here is an example of mid-majors really trying to compete for top talent instead of settling for desperation signings...

https://247sports.com/player/jamal-johnson-77070

Jamal Johnson was the #159 ranked player in high school.
Offers included: Alabama, Georgia, Texas Tech, Florida, Vandy, Kansas State, Arkansas, Texas A&M, Auburn, Ole Miss, Wake Forest, Mississippi State, etc.
He's leaving the U of Memphis after one season, mostly as a starter.

The schools he has visited this time:

LaTech
UAB
MTSU

All mid-majors. Where has the mojo gone from Ohio's recruiting?
Every situation is different, but Johnson is from Birmingham and right now he is only looking at Conference USA schools (including UAB). Not everyone wants to come to Athens, Ohio.
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TWT
5/14/2018 10:06 PM
greencat wrote:expand_more
Here is an example of mid-majors really trying to compete for top talent instead of settling for desperation signings...

https://247sports.com/player/jamal-johnson-77070

Jamal Johnson was the #159 ranked player in high school.
Offers included: Alabama, Georgia, Texas Tech, Florida, Vandy, Kansas State, Arkansas, Texas A&M, Auburn, Ole Miss, Wake Forest, Mississippi State, etc.
He's leaving the U of Memphis after one season, mostly as a starter.

The schools he has visited this time:

LaTech
UAB
MTSU

All mid-majors. Where has the mojo gone from Ohio's recruiting?
Thread drift but I can't help but notice all 3 of those programs are in CUSA. Would CUSA be more marketable for our basketball program? Easier to attract non-conference big name opponents playing out of CUSA? Travel I know is bad but the upside may be higher.
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GraffZ06
5/15/2018 9:47 AM
Short answer - no.

Long answer - hell no.

For every extra Jamal Johnson type recruit we "might" get and for every extra non-con road game against a P5 we might get (they still wouldn't come to Athens) we'd have exponential cost increases every season for road conference games.

It would be massive risk with minimal (albeit some) reward.


Also - when is MTSU just going to hire you to be their recruiting manager greencat? You love them and the CUSA so much. Plus, all it requires is looking at recruit rankings on scout.com and Verbal Commits plus watching some YouTube highlights. Get on it man!
Last Edited: 5/15/2018 9:48:55 AM by GraffZ06
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BillyTheCat
5/15/2018 11:32 PM
Uncle Wes wrote:expand_more
Here is an example of mid-majors really trying to compete for top talent instead of settling for desperation signings...

https://247sports.com/player/jamal-johnson-77070

Jamal Johnson was the #159 ranked player in high school.
Offers included: Alabama, Georgia, Texas Tech, Florida, Vandy, Kansas State, Arkansas, Texas A&M, Auburn, Ole Miss, Wake Forest, Mississippi State, etc.
He's leaving the U of Memphis after one season, mostly as a starter.

The schools he has visited this time:

LaTech
UAB
MTSU

All mid-majors. Where has the mojo gone from Ohio's recruiting?
Thread drift but I can't help but notice all 3 of those programs are in CUSA. Would CUSA be more marketable for our basketball program? Easier to attract non-conference big name opponents playing out of CUSA? Travel I know is bad but the upside may be higher.
I would say if we played more Tuesday’s and Friday night games on TV that our exposure would increase, as we would get more national mentions which is a million dollar investment
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Jeff McKinney
5/16/2018 12:34 AM
You kill me Billy! : )
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TWT
5/17/2018 12:21 AM
GraffZ06 wrote:expand_more
Short answer - no.

Long answer - hell no.

For every extra Jamal Johnson type recruit we "might" get and for every extra non-con road game against a P5 we might get (they still wouldn't come to Athens) we'd have exponential cost increases every season for road conference games.

It would be massive risk with minimal (albeit some) reward.
I tend to agree. It would need to be a situation where Ohio where it was a level up basketball conference. 3 to 4 NCAA qualifiers a year like the A10 or AAC to justify the travel.
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Bobcat1998
5/17/2018 12:59 AM
Let's be honest, many on here at this time last year were saying how awesome Butler was going to be vs. how crappy Kirk must be because he went to Drake and that was it. Who knows, this group could be a game changer. I certainly know that we are better than we were last year and we shocked some people. I would say that even if Dartis doesn't play, we have Gollon, Block, Cowart, Murrell and James all able to step in. Not as great as Dartis but last year he was a shell of himself anyways.
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OhioCatFan
5/17/2018 10:46 AM
Bobcat1998 wrote:expand_more
Let's be honest, many on here at this time last year were saying how awesome Butler was going to be vs. how crappy Kirk must be because he went to Drake and that was it. Who knows, this group could be a game changer. I certainly know that we are better than we were last year and we shocked some people. I would say that even if Dartis doesn't play, we have Gollon, Block, Cowart, Murrell and James all able to step in. Not as great as Dartis but last year he was a shell of himself anyways.
Yes, the recruiting analysis prowess on this board is not exactly D-1 caliber! ;-)
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FearLeon
5/17/2018 11:35 AM
Bobcat1998 wrote:expand_more
I certainly know that we are better than we were last year and we shocked some people.
I'm confused....who did we shock last year??? We lost in the first round of the MAC tournament to.....Miami.
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shabamon
5/17/2018 12:04 PM
Bobcat1998 wrote:expand_more
Let's be honest, many on here at this time last year were saying how awesome Butler was going to be vs. how crappy Kirk must be because he went to Drake and that was it. Who knows, this group could be a game changer. I certainly know that we are better than we were last year and we shocked some people. I would say that even if Dartis doesn't play, we have Gollon, Block, Cowart, Murrell and James all able to step in. Not as great as Dartis but last year he was a shell of himself anyways.
Who the hell said Kirk was crappy because he committed to Drake? Teyvion Kirk had like 20 offers from programs peer to Ohio.

And how do you think we are just fine without Dartis, a player who has a good shot at breaking Nick Kellogg's conference three point record? Gollon (improved over the year, but hasn't proven to be more than a role player) Block (role player, and got passed by Gollon) Cowart (good pickup, as long he's not too ball dominant as his JUCO stats would indicate) Murrell (could be good, but coming off injury) James (true freshman). I'm no FearLeon, but sometimes you sound like you think we'll be MAC champs just because we have warm bodies on our roster.
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FearLeon
5/17/2018 12:09 PM
shabamon wrote:expand_more
Let's be honest, many on here at this time last year were saying how awesome Butler was going to be vs. how crappy Kirk must be because he went to Drake and that was it. Who knows, this group could be a game changer. I certainly know that we are better than we were last year and we shocked some people. I would say that even if Dartis doesn't play, we have Gollon, Block, Cowart, Murrell and James all able to step in. Not as great as Dartis but last year he was a shell of himself anyways.
Who the hell said Kirk was crappy because he committed to Drake? Teyvion Kirk had like 20 offers from programs peer to Ohio.

And how do you think we are just fine without Dartis, a player who has a good shot at breaking Nick Kellogg's conference three point record? Gollon (improved over the year, but hasn't proven to be more than a role player) Block (role player, and got passed by Gollon) Cowart (good pickup, as long he's not too ball dominant as his JUCO stats would indicate) Murrell (could be good, but coming off injury) James (true freshman). I'm no FearLeon, but sometimes you sound like you think we'll be MAC champs just because we have warm bodies on our roster.
Shab...good insight and don't even mind the comment about me. People on this board just can't seem to handle the truth about where this program is right now. You get it.
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Bobcat1998
5/17/2018 12:35 PM
Western Kentucky, two Miami wins in the regular season, great games in the Diamondhead. Those were all shockers in my book considering our MASH unit.
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bobcatsquared
5/17/2018 12:43 PM
FearLeon wrote:expand_more
I certainly know that we are better than we were last year and we shocked some people.
I'm confused....who did we shock last year??? We lost in the first round of the MAC tournament to.....Miami.
Also confused.

We could be better, but you "certainly know we are better than we were last year"?
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