BU commit- 2016- Koch Bar

[tornado]

...this is an OFFICIAL visit and a recruit can only take five such all-expense paid visits - so he must take the offer from Bradley pretty serious!...

Koch Bar now verbals to BRADLEY and says he was so impressed with the staff & facilities that he isn't going to take any further visits!

Great job Coach Wardle & staff!

http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=25455

[bradleyfan124]

Shouldn't we be excited about this? Josh Cunningham was a top-100 recruit. Dave Reynolds says Koch is ranked 79th by Scout.

[tornado]

I am not finding any ranking that has Koch bar ranked in the top 100
I wonder if he just misinterpreted what the ESPN "grade" means.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/player/_/id/207471/koch-bar

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/player/_/id/171097/ben-coupet

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/player/news/_/id/187125/joel-okafor

there is one ranking that has him just outside the Top 150..but it is still early...
and we have seen before that by verballing to Bradley, he will not move up in the ranking like he would if he verballed to a power-congerence school

[tornado]

it's been a long time since we had a recruit that verballed this early - before the 4th of July for the following season..
Can anyone recall the last time it happened?

[Da Coach]

As we posted last week, Koch (pronounced like scotch) Bar visited Bradley last Friday and Saturday on an official visit. He loved everything about Bradley, the coaches, and the program.
He plays AAU ball with the Indiana Elite, and Assistant Coach Drew Adams' strong past connection with the Indiana Elite program played a big part in getting close to Koch bar and his AAU coach and him to visit. Great work by the coaches.

http://www.scout.com/college/basketball/recruiting/story/1560535-bar-picks-bradley

[tornado]

...
by the way - Koch has a teammate named Chol Marial who is 7-3 and is just in 8th grade...and also goes to West Oaks Academy

https://twitter.com/koch_bar/status/608022890290782210

https://twitter.com/koch_bar/status/514937246819303425

https://twitter.com/DaSixFiVeiMp/status/614107607951740928

https://twitter.com/MarialChol

https://twitter.com/MarialChol/status/498911477965664256

Koch is on the left - Chol is on the right

Gotta think we might have an advantage for perhaps the tallest player ever to play in the MVC -


hey, check this out - the roster of West Oaks High School

http://www.maxpreps.com/high-schools/west-oaks-flame-(orlando,fl)/basketball/roster.htm

...seven players 6-5 and taller - FIVE are 6-8 and taller
One of the seniors is Dainius Chatkevicius, the kid who was verballed to Evansville but backed out

[Big Mike]

it's been a long time since we had a recruit that verballed this early - before the 4th of July for the following season..
Can anyone recall the last time it happened?

Jeremy Crouch?

[tornado]

Wow, Mike - nice shot - that's possibly as close as there is this millennium....
Jeremy is close but he verballed to BU July 8, 2003 - just after the 4th of July

http://247sports.com/Player/Jeremy-Crouch-67555/TimelineEvents

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/recruiting/player-Jeremy-Crouch-18651

[ihatetea]

I am not finding any ranking that has Koch bar ranked in the top 100
I wonder if he just misinterpreted what the ESPN "grade" means.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/player/_/id/207471/koch-bar

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/player/_/id/171097/ben-coupet

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/player/news/_/id/187125/joel-okafor

there is one ranking that has him just outside the Top 150..but it is still early...
and we have seen before that by verballing to Bradley, he will not move up in the ranking like he would if he verballed to a power-congerence school

http://www.maxpreps.com/athlete/koch-bar/0WJhyqY4EeS-8KA2nzwbTA/default.htm

maxpreps says he is number 73, but I couldn't find where he was ranked 79 by scout.com like Dave stated.


Edit: oops misread that, it was saying he played for the #73 high school team in the nation last year.

[tornado]

I'd almost rather he not be listed in the Top 100 - that didn't work out last time - and other schools would be trying like heck to interfere until we get the LOI
Let's just leave it at this - that he is unranked and a complete project...


btw- what a refreshing change - a tremendous emphasis on landing quality freshmen who can spend 4-5 years and dev elop...
instead of the past four years with the major emphasis on pursuing whatever juco kids were left over each spring...
then justifying that approach by saying it was what Wichita State had done to get so strong...

[tornado]

just for reference...
Koch Bar will be at the adidas Invitational in Indianapolis July 8-12, the Best of the Midwest event in Indy July 16-19 & adidas Hoosier Shootout July 24-26

Nate Kennell will be at the Chicago Summer Challenge (Riverside-Brookfield) July 9-12, the UnderArmour event in Atlanta July 15-18, then KC Hardwood Classic event July 22-26

[Da Coach]

Koch Bar continues to impress in AAU play-

https://twitter.com/AdamFinkelstein/status/618961988379652100

[Big Mike]

When is the earliest Koch can sign, the fall signing period?

[tornado]

Yes- He can sign this fall during the fall (early) signing period which goes from
Wednesday November 11, 2015 through midnight Wednesday November 18, 2015.

http://www.nationalletter.org/signingDates/index.html

if he chooses not to sign and says he will wait until the spring (April 2016) signing period then we know we have lost him to someone that tampered and lured him away from his verbal.

[Old Coach]

Koch Bar gets a nice mention here about creating a "buzz" in the gym, but no mention of his verbal to Bradley.

https://basketballrecruiting.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1781524