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We cannot land a big man to save our lives. It's frankly pathetic.
Miami lands four-star wing Christian Watson, talks decision
Christian Watson commits to Miami247sports.com
“I'm working on Favour Aire from McNamara and Adem Bona who has Miami in his top schools,” he said. “Mainly working on getting some big men to come. We have a lot of guards that are leaving but there will be some guards still there by next year so it's really about getting some bigs.”
Even Watson is talking about how badly we need bigs.
Bona is a 5 star C from California. We're in his top 7, along with Baylor, Kentucky, Kansas, UCLA, USC, and Arizona State. He already has several CB's to Kentucky.
I don't see that we've even offered Aire (a 4 star C from the DC area). On paper, it's not likely we'll land either of these guys. Striking out on Reneau was a colossal miss.
Listed at 6'6, 190At this rate, Watson will be playing the 5 spot for us next season.
We can put him in the same strength program that still has Deng Gak at 200 pounds in his 5th season and he should bulk up enough to be our center.Listed at 6'6, 190
IIRC, James Jones was about the same size out of HS as Watson. He later grew an inch or two, and added 25 pounds or so. I still consider Jones our best Florida recruiting get (over Stevie Edwards and Tim James). If Watson is half the player Jones became, we'll have a definite contributor.We can put him in the same strength program that still has Deng Gak at 200 pounds in his 5th season and he should bulk up enough to be our center.
Stevie Edwards.......those were the days. I remember Stevie and Doug in high school playing us and running their subs half the game and winning by 50. Then they had Davis....miami high was a machine.IIRC, James Jones was about the same size out of HS as Watson. He later grew an inch or two, and added 25 pounds or so. I still consider James our best Florida recruiting get (over Stevie Edwards and Tim James). If Watson is half the player Jones became, we'll have a definite contributor.
I guess Miami is out on Whitmore.