Dejon Jarraeu and Brison Gresham final two

[strauzer]

ACC is for sharks, not big fish looking to swim in a small pond. They likely did us a favor IMO.
Aiken and Carter are still on the board and just as good as Jarreau. Gresham was a project but still would've taken him, other better bigs still out there.

 

[strauzer]

Don't know. I don't really follow basketball recruiting as much as I do the team. From everything I've heard, Coach L was never a guy who got HUGE recruits. He got mid range recruits, and coached them up. I thought he'd be able to start landing much bigger names as the program improved, and he has, but not as consistently. I guess we have to win more consistently?

Not like UMass has won anything.

Starting to question this staff's recruiting ability.

With the limited slots we've had we brought in the top 150 kid, Lawrence then landed 3 * center Ubuku last minute and got Muhammad via transfer. We've got top 150 kid Miller committed at Center for 16 and a number of irons in the fire with other 4 -5 star kids.

 

[Problem2]

Don't know. I don't really follow basketball recruiting as much as I do the team. From everything I've heard, Coach L was never a guy who got HUGE recruits. He got mid range recruits, and coached them up. I thought he'd be able to start landing much bigger names as the program improved, and he has, but not as consistently. I guess we have to win more consistently?

Not like UMass has won anything.

Starting to question this staff's recruiting ability.

With the limited slots we've had we brought in the top 150 kid, Lawrence then landed 3 * center Ubuku last minute and got Muhammad via transfer. We've got top 150 kid Miller committed at Center for 16 and a number of irons in the fire with other 4 -5 star kids.

Fair enough. Can I freak out when/if we lose out on Huell?

 

[AustinCane86]

Don't know. I don't really follow basketball recruiting as much as I do the team. From everything I've heard, Coach L was never a guy who got HUGE recruits. He got mid range recruits, and coached them up. I thought he'd be able to start landing much bigger names as the program improved, and he has, but not as consistently. I guess we have to win more consistently?

Not like UMass has won anything.

Starting to question this staff's recruiting ability.

You really need to quit while you are behind. We aren't getting Huell either so I guess your *****ing will continue

Also, the star system for basketball is god awful.

 

[Fightinibis]

These guys arent program changers therefore no reason to get bent about it. Likely would have been end bench depth players 1st 2 years. I dont blame them for going to Umass. They wanna play right away and they obviously wanna play together. Best choice for them as a student athlete.

This strawman is so played out when we lose recruits. First, I didn't see anyone calling these kids program changers. Next, guys like gamble, Davon Scott and trey McKinney weren't program changers but were key parts in our acc title.

These two kids added with Rodney miller and the current kids on our roster build up our depth and make a nice core. It's fair for posters to be mad that we just lost a head to head with UMass.

UMass also is not like losing these kids to USF or something, there is basketball tradition there (despite having to vacate their late 90s final 4) and a young coach that spent 2 years under Larannaga at G. Mason.

They obviously had more of a recruiting relationship with the guy or something and maybe Miami caught fire later in the deal....who knows, but not the end of the world.

UM

 

[Notsince1985]

They both picked UMass...F CK. Can anything go right?

You honestly sound like a pre-pubescent girl

Ok, buddy

 

[TallyCane]

Don't know. I don't really follow basketball recruiting as much as I do the team. From everything I've heard, Coach L was never a guy who got HUGE recruits. He got mid range recruits, and coached them up. I thought he'd be able to start landing much bigger names as the program improved, and he has, but not as consistently. I guess we have to win more consistently?

Not like UMass has won anything.

Starting to question this staff's recruiting ability.

With the limited slots we've had we brought in the top 150 kid, Lawrence then landed 3 * center Ubuku last minute and got Muhammad via transfer. We've got top 150 kid Miller committed at Center for 16 and a number of irons in the fire with other 4 -5 star kids.

Fair enough. Can I freak out when/if we lose out on Huell?

Yes you can especially when he goes to FSU.