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Question for you NCAA followers-when is the next signing period? I assume we're past the early signing period.

GOt through the tapes and found some more. I like his frame. Listed as a SF but he handles the ball A LOT! SOlid handles going right and left. Finishes well left and right. Shot needs a few fine adjustments but I like the work ethic

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=397779970376505&vide...

He is solid and has some bulk. Will come into Ohio and get the full onslaught of the new strength coach. I like this pick up. Guys are gonna have to come in and compete. Not sure how you get graded out a 2* up there where no one can possibly see you.....but then again I can go through 2 stars that shined on bigger stages. They play in DIII pitting them against smaller schools but he played at Stevens Point his frosh year before transferring (which is actually a big deal). He is playing against weaker comp but he is crushing it...

http://www.centralwisconsinsports.net/2015/02/gollon-jami.../

Featured on local news in a nice piece http://www.wsaw.com/home/headlines/Pacellis-Gollon-Domina...

I like the pick up. Should be intersting comp with our guy from Lincoln right off the bat. Scoring wings drive the show. Pacelli BB has a FB page for anyone that wants to follow along

Love this commit. Perfect for the class Saul has coming in.

I think the one thing we can guarantee from this pick up is that Jordan Dartis is going to be handling the ball...a lot. Unless a late PG is brought in, I think we can safely assume Jordy is our guy for the future and Simmons will have to take him under his wing.

Does this pick up suggest Ryan Taylor, Dartis or someone else picking up point guard duties in addition to Simmons.

Correction: Saul won a Division III national title under Bo Ryan at UW Platteville, not Stevens Point.

Looking at film on all of them I am impressed with the skillsets and handles. james on Dartis both have decent handles and ball control. I think pure point guards are needed in Groce's, Bennet's and Holtmann's systems but I am not sure a pure point is going to be a necessity in Saul's. WIth BBIQ and ball movement I think having wings that are skilled and move the ball with the pass looking for that great open shot is more important. There will be a PG emerge out of this group.

I think James is a true 6'3 stretching to 6'4 guy. He has some size and should fill out to about Paul Baron size. I like guys like that. Jakubak from BG was a guy who gave us fits though he was not a fast, overly skilled guy....just understood the game and the angles...and how to make the offense run and wait till the ball came back to him in a position to score. IIRC Sauls teams at his last post had heady guards like that. He will win here and those players will be pretty good in the MAC if their defensive mind set is good. The offense looks like it will be on par. keep Tony getting better down low and stretching the floor. Grab another big and play ball. Things are on the right track

EDIT. wisconsin Playgound Warriors. Played out of Milwaukee. Long haul but a good program.

Love the work Ted does

Class of 18.

http://www.bobcatattack.com/basketball/recruiting.asp

W E A K.

go to a OHIO Division IV school and sit through a season. On every next night attend a Div I school and sit through a season. Wisconsin small school divisions are even weaker. Just looking at those clips was pretty amazing as to the disparity in numbers and quality/depth of athletes vs OHIO/Indiana/Illinois.Oddly enough though there are really good individuals around the state that are easily spotted (bo Ryan does a great job) and that fly Waaaaay under the radar.

I was watching those clips and thought what a 2* athlete looks like against weak comp. That is why I was relieved he played with an AAU club down in 'Waukee that travels nationally.

I read on Arkley's latest article about Gollon that Thomas and Wadley are both chances of opening up scholarships while Treg could graduate early and go elsewhere. I realize Chandler was brought in as a practice player and Wadley's time is non-existent (he would benefit from being a D-2 player in Florida) but if we lose Treg we are definitely having leadership issues next year. I really hope Treg stays, even if he graduates.

borna, I think you're right on about the work of identifying HS talent in the upper Midwest. Hockey takes so many of the better athletes during the basketball season. But there are diamonds there who can be identified even if they are going up against weak competition.

One of the best examples was Trevor Huffman of Petoskey, MI. Had a very good HS career but he didn't really receive any Div I offers until Kent State got in on him late. Kent's staff did a great job identifying Huffman's Div. I potential and then developing his abilities once he got to Kent. I'm sure that among Kent's fanbase, there were naysayers who questioned the fact that Huffman didn't have other Div. I offers. Huffman still is the leading scorer in Kent State history and has had a solid career in Europe. NOw he has a vision to teach the game to the next generation using the Euro model from an early age...

http://articles.petoskeynews.com/2012-07-18/petoskey-high...

Upper Michigan, upper Wisconsin and Minnesota have some kids like this if college coaches can identify them and make those long trips to recruit them.

Although he is from Oregon rather than the upper Midwest, Taylor Braun is an example of how Coach Phillips and this staff have a track record in identifying otherwise overlooked talent. Kid had no Div. I offers but ended up being Summit League POY and is now playing professionally.

Thanks Borna. Just a passionate Bobcat
fan who lives too far away to make it to many games but has Convinced his kids that Ohio State Is the Wal Mart of college athletics. (Nothing against Wal mart)