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Drake picked up another commitment Friday night, from Larry Wise, a 6'5" G/F from Waxahachie, TX.
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that's the sixth HS commit for next fall - there are gonna be very inexperienced in 2018 -Comment
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Ronnie Bell committed to Missouri State and signed his Letter of Intent to Missouri State in November....to play basketball in fall of 2018Originally posted by tornado View Post
However, he played football this fall for Park Hill HS, had a great season and started getting some offers to play football.
Yesterday, he committed to play football at MICHIGAN - so I suppose that leaves Missouri State with an extra open scholarship for next fall.
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Drake recently picked up their 7th pledge in this years's class....Matt Gray, 6'8" forward from Australia.Comment
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I see where he has tweeted that but there's been no official announcement yet...
Same with Larry Wise....https://twitter.com/WaxahachieHS/sta...62245366816769
are they both planning to sign in the spring?
That gives Drake seven incoming freshmen next fall!
2018
Bradley - (2 open scholarships)
Drake - Adam Thistlewood*, Kendle Moore*, James Moors*, Messiah Jones*, Montrell Horsey*, Larry Wise, Matt Gray (no scholarships)
Evansville - Aleks Novakovich*, Jomaru Brown* (3 scholarships)
Illinois State - Demontay Dixon*, Rey Idowu*, Zach Copeland (not playing 2017-18, should play 2018-19) (0 scholarships)
Indiana State - De'Avion Washington*, Blake Brinkmeyer*, Cooper Neese (transfer - eligible in 2018-19) (1 scholarships)
Loyola - Franklin Agunanne*, Isaiah Bujdoso*, Cooper Kaifes* (0 scholarships)
Missouri State - Kabir Mohammed* (juco), Ronnie Bell*, Grant Gelon* (juco), Jared Ridder (transfer not eligible until 2018 but won't sign a LOI) (0 or 1 scholarship)
UNI - AJ Green* (3 scholarships)
SIU - Darius Beane*, Sam Shafer*, Amadou Fall* (1 scholarships)
Valparaiso - Javon Freeman-Liberty* (1 scholarship)
2019
Bradley - Aristide Boya (6 open scholarships)
Illinois State - Chris Payton
UNI - James BetzComment
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Drake can't make any kind of announcement until they've signed....and they can't sign until April.Originally posted by tornado View PostI see where he has tweeted that but there's been no official announcement yet...
Same with Larry Wise....https://twitter.com/WaxahachieHS/sta...62245366816769
are they both planning to sign in the spring?
That gives Drake seven incoming freshmen next fall!Comment
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Bradley gets on the board for 2018
2018
Bradley - Armon Brummett (1 open scholarships)
Drake - Adam Thistlewood*, Kendle Moore*, James Moors*, Messiah Jones*, Montrell Horsey*, Larry Wise, Matt Gray (no scholarships)
Evansville - Aleks Novakovich*, Jomaru Brown* (3 scholarships)
Illinois State - Demontay Dixon*, Rey Idowu*, Zach Copeland (not playing 2017-18, should play 2018-19) (0 scholarships)
Indiana State - De'Avion Washington*, Blake Brinkmeyer*, Cooper Neese (transfer - eligible in 2018-19) (1 scholarships)
Loyola - Franklin Agunanne*, Isaiah Bujdoso*, Cooper Kaifes* (0 scholarships)
Missouri State - Kabir Mohammed* (juco), Ronnie Bell*, Grant Gelon* (juco), Jared Ridder (transfer not eligible until 2018 but won't sign a LOI) (0 or 1 scholarship)
UNI - AJ Green* (3 scholarships)
SIU - Darius Beane*, Sam Shafer*, Amadou Fall* (1 scholarships)
Valparaiso - Javon Freeman-Liberty* (1 scholarship)
2019
Bradley - Aristide Boya (6 open scholarships)
Illinois State - Chris Payton - has now reneged!!!!
UNI - James BetzLast edited by tornado; 01-23-2018, 04:02 PM.Comment
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occasionally I like to see how other teams' recruits are doing ....but i found something odd........Originally posted by tornado View Post
Missouri State has a signed, incoming recruit for 2018 named Grant Gelon,
Gelon was a high scoring sharpshooter from Indiana who spent his freshman season at IU playing for Tom Crean.
When Crean was fired, Gelon transferred to State Fair Community College (MO) and planned to play a year of juco ball and go thru the recruiting process again.
Which he was doing and he signed last fall with Missouri State.
Then in the first month or two of the season he was really good!
up thru early December - he was averaging about 20 ppg and hitting over 50% on 3's
One game he went off for 6-11 on 3-pt shots and another game he was 6-8 from the arc!!
then something happened and he started having games where he went 1-7, 2-10 and even a couple where he went SCORELESS!!
Suddenly he was a completely different player - shooting poorly and barely able to crack into the scoring column.
I cannot find a single mention anywhere as to what was happening but it sure isn't good for Missouri State
..now his average has dropped to just 11.5 ppg and then- suddenly he hasn't even played the last several games....
I can't find any reports of what's up - but he's not even on their roster any more.
That doesn't prove anything but I guess if he doesn't finish junior college that would put a hamper on whether he'd be at Missouri State next year.
This is a HUGE BLOW since one other of Missouri State's 2018 recruiting class has already reneged!Comment
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Valparaiso got a verbal commitment tonight from a 5'10" guard from Canada-
Daniel Sackey
He looks very flashy in that video, which is from 2016. He also can dunk the ball for a 5'10" kid....looks thin but athleticComment
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updated with Valpo's latest commit (those in maroon signed last fall, those in blue are eligible to sign this spring (or next fall if 2019 recruit), those in green are not eligible to sign)
2018
Bradley - Armon Brummett (1 open scholarship)
Drake - Adam Thistlewood*, Kendle Moore*, James Moors*, Messiah Jones*, Montrell Horsey*, Larry Wise, Matt Gray (no scholarships)
Evansville - Aleks Novakovich*, Jomaru Brown* (3 scholarships)
Illinois State - Demontay Dixon*, Rey Idowu*, Zach Copeland (not playing 2017-18, should play 2018-19) (0 scholarships)
Indiana State - De'Avion Washington*, Blake Brinkmeyer*, Cooper Neese (transfer - eligible in 2018-19) (1 scholarships)
Loyola - Franklin Agunanne*, Isaiah Bujdoso*, Cooper Kaifes* (0 scholarships)
Missouri State - Kabir Mohammed* (juco), Ronnie Bell* (has since decommitted), Grant Gelon* (juco - but has recently been dropped from his juco team's roster and appears to no longer be on the team), Jared Ridder (transfer not eligible until 2018 but won't sign a LOI) (0 or 1 scholarship)
UNI - AJ Green* (3 scholarships)
SIU - Darius Beane*, Sam Shafer*, Amadou Fall* (** has not played yet this year) (1 scholarships)
Valparaiso - Javon Freeman-Liberty*, Daniel Sackey (zero scholarships)
2019
Bradley - Aristide Boya (6 open scholarships)
Illinois State - Chris Payton - has now reneged!!!!
UNI - James BetzComment
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not much new to the list of commits for Valley teams, except ISU's 2019 commit, Chris Payton decommitted- so he's dropped off,
and Bradley has two more open scholarships....
This spring's SIGNING PERIOD for Letters of Intent starts in 30-days, April 11, 2018 and goes through May 16, 2018.
2018
Bradley - Armon Brummett (3 open scholarship- altho Aristide Boya may reclassify as 201
Drake - Adam Thistlewood*, Kendle Moore*, James Moors*, Messiah Jones*, Montrell Horsey*, Larry Wise, Matt Gray (no scholarships)
Evansville - Aleks Novakovich*, Jomaru Brown* (3 scholarships)
Illinois State - Demontay Dixon*, Rey Idowu*, Zach Copeland (not playing 2017-18, should play 2018-19) (0 scholarships)
Indiana State - De'Avion Washington*, Blake Brinkmeyer*, Cooper Neese (transfer - eligible in 2018-19) (1 scholarships)
Loyola - Franklin Agunanne*, Isaiah Bujdoso*, Cooper Kaifes* (0 scholarships)
Missouri State - Kabir Mohammed* (juco), Ronnie Bell* (has since decommitted), Grant Gelon* (juco - but has recently been dropped from his juco team's roster and appears to no longer be on the team), Jared Ridder (transfer not eligible until 2018 but won't sign a LOI) (0 or 1 scholarship)
UNI - AJ Green* (3 scholarships)
SIU - Darius Beane*, Sam Shafer*, Amadou Fall* (** has not played yet this year) (1 scholarships)
Valparaiso - Javon Freeman-Liberty*, Daniel Sackey (zero scholarships)
2019
Bradley - Aristide Boya (may reclassify as 2018- his team just finished in the Final Four at the National Prep Championships playing against all post-grad teams!) (7 open scholarships)
UNI - James Betz (Betz' co-op team, Garner-Hayfield-Ventura, got knocked out of their Regional and ends their season 20-5)Comment
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ISU lands a juco kid Josh Jefferson
from Lake Land - he's a juco sophomore - he would have two years of eligibility at ISU
Freshman stats 18.7 ppg, 3.5 rpg - averages 6 3-pt attempts per game
Sophomore stats 22. 8 ppg, and over 7 3-pt attempts per game
Lake land got knocked out of the NJCAA Nationals in their first game but Jefferson didn't play due to illness.
He is a 6-2 sophomore from New Albany IN
When they get this kid on the floor with Keyshawn Evans, Yarbrough, Bruninga, Williams, Copeland and/or Tinsley, there's gonna be some 3-balls launched!!
So- this pretty much confirms someone else is leaving because they don't seem to otherwise have a scholarshipComment
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He was just released from his NLI after an earlier commitment to Cal State Northridge. They just fired their head coach Reggie Theus.Originally posted by tornado View PostComment
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so who on their current roster isn't gonna be using a scholarship next year?
does Gassman go back to walk-on?...is Copeland qualified & eligible? ...is Romine or Hein a goner or Yarbrough going pro?Comment
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