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Recruiting info for Dec. 2012

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Some recent recruit names from Dave Reynolds' article of 12/14/12-
6-foot-10 Isaac Kreuer of (Impact Academy, Las Vegas)- originally from Harrisonville, MO, he was home schooled through high school, so never got much recruiting attention. He played for a program in the Kansas City area for home schooled kids named the Metro Mavericks.

6-7 Dion Wade (Findlay Prep, Las Vegas)- from Belgium- has offers from Auburn, USC, UCLA, San Diego State, Bradley
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basket...Wade-143873;_ylt=As.HJX6xxwEvqRwB5T7U6OfXO5B4

6-9 Gavin Schilling (Findlay Prep, Las Vegas)- from Chicago De La Salle HS- he is a beast of a post man, and getting offers from numerous BCS programs, and several Big Ten schools.
This article from October he lists a top 5-
http://www.vuhoops.com/2012/10/26/3558248/gavin-schilling-lists-villanova-in-his-top-5
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/recruiting/player-Gavin-Schilling-131629

Other new recruits scouted recently-
6-6, 215 pounds, Chris Blake (Lee College, Baytown, Texas)- a transfer from Air Force, and originally from San Antonio, Texas. He is not highly recruited and according to Dave Reynolds, has an offer from Bradley.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basket...lake-145022;_ylt=Arsw62HH9D7x7y7biNBCzGLXO5B4
He averaged 7.3 ppg and 7.6 rpg last season at Lee. This year after 7 games, he is averaging 10.1 ppg and 6.7 rpg.

6-6 guard Elgin Cook (Northwest Florida State College) He is the son of ex-NBA splayer Alvin Robertson, currently averaging 15.9 points and 5.5 rebounds, has offers from New Mexico, TCU and Washington.
He is listed as a freshman this season, but he was also listed on their roster last year, though he did not play. Thus he might have 3 years of eligibility if he graduates this spring.
He signed with Iowa State when he was in high school at Milwaukee Hamilton HS, but he did not qualify academically. He left school early because of some social
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basket...Cook-142578;_ylt=AjPehUCaN7BkK7AHPvoM667XO5B4
His father's alma mater Arkansas is also recruiting him-
http://www.wholehogsports.com/news/2012/nov/23/cook-son-former-hog-could-be-next-hog-recruit/
 
Da Coach said:
6-9 Gavin Schilling (Findlay Prep, Las Vegas)- from Chicago De La Salle HS- he is a beast of a post man, and getting offers from numerous BCS programs, and several Big Ten schools.
This article from October he lists a top 5-
http://www.vuhoops.com/2012/10/26/3558248/gavin-schilling-lists-villanova-in-his-top-5
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/recruiting/player-Gavin-Schilling-131629
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Gavin Schilling now has offers from Michigan State and Ohio State.
https://twitter.com/jerrymeyer247/status/290646821825556481
 
Da Coach said:
6-6 guard Elgin Cook (Northwest Florida State College) He is the son of ex-NBA splayer Alvin Robertson, currently averaging 15.9 points and 5.5 rebounds, has offers from New Mexico, TCU and Washington.
He is listed as a freshman this season, but he was also listed on their roster last year, though he did not play. Thus he might have 3 years of eligibility if he graduates this spring...
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More on Elgin Cook and another 7-footer who is still available
http://jucojunction.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1467812
www.jucojunction.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1467809
 
Anyone have any idea who we are targeting for the two last scholarships and the likelihood of success? I'd love to see a list of players, their rating, our interest, their interests and likelihood percent of signing.
 
For success next season I hope there is a center or power forward in the class...right now we look very guard heavy IMO! :wink:
 
funny how the articles that mentioned names and had recruiting info have all but disappeared -
and the only few in the past several months have NO useful info whatsoever - like this one about Schilling or Cook -
seriously - they were already way, way higher than mid-major or MVC even before those columns were written...
Blake & Kreuer, tho, have both kinda fallen off the map...
might we headed towards the spring with two open rides and not a lot of top prospects -

Here's what was said back in early August when we still after Ben Moore & Sean O'Brien...

“We need a couple of wings who can come in and contribute with Dyricus (Simms-Edwards), Jake (Eastman) and Milos (Knezevic) graduating,”
Ford said. “We’ll need one big to replace Egolf. The fourth scholarship will be determined a little on the development of the guys who are here now.”

Ford anticipates signing two or three players this fall and holding one or two scholarships until the spring."
 
tornado said:
More on Elgin Cook and another 7-footer who is still available
http://jucojunction.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1467812
www.jucojunction.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1467809
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Elgin Cook is visiting Oregon & Gonzaga - they appear to be his two finalists

One other kid I had heard that we had looked at is named Jarekious Bradley (first name rhymes with Dyricus)
...who is having a great year at juco in Mississippi, 22.3 ppg & 44% from 3-pt
He is the fifth highest scoring juco player nationally and one of the top rated left unsigned...
Geno Ford actually had Jarekious Bradley signed - when he was at Kent State - will that give us some advantage?
http://www.recordpub.com/sports/2010/08/25/flashes-land-memphis-basketball-star-bradley

Tanner Neubold - Central Wyoming ...a Marshall Henderson-like SG whose brother is at Utah State...and
Joe Scott from Southeastern CC (IA)
are both prolific shooters and both take 4-5 3-pt attempts per game and hit over 50%...plus hit 80% on FTs...and yet unsigned, uncommitted 2014's
 
I know - the kid had some troubles but then so do a couple of our other current recruits....can a kid not pay his debt and be forgiven?
 
This is an update on the recruiting topic...

DR's column yesterday mentioned the top targets we are now after..
Hamilton, Swopshire, Blake, Delaney, and Devin Carter..
http://blogs.pjstar.com/pressrow/2013/03/12/building-from-the-bottom-this-time/

Last fall he said we have offers out to over 2 dozen kids for fall 2013 but we know some of those have now accepted offers elsewhere
...wonder who all the others are -
http://www.pjstar.com/bradleyhoops/x2095091861/Reynolds-Peeking-in-over-on-the-Hilltop?zc_p=1


In the current blog entry he also mentions Tucker & Zecevic - who we haven't heard much on...
Tucker has not been playing basketball since mid-December due to a falling out with his coach at QEA then his transfer back to Georgia
resulted in an action by their state association to rule him ineligible.


Zecevic is not catching this recruiting expert's eyes...
http://www.newenglandrecruitingreport.com/rankings/new_england.php
 
doug shank's crossover said:
This is scary! Looking at his prospect list, there are lots of kids commited to low-major schools and no mention of Zecevic. Hmmm.
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This is what some posters what people to believe...that the recruits signed by Geno are not as talented as first thought. Don't fall for it.

I put my trust and faith in Geno and his coaching staff to determine who the best recruits are for BU...not some arbitrary recruiting service, and certainly not the recruiting "experts" on this forum.
 
OrangeandBlack74 said:
This is what some posters what people to believe...that the recruits signed by Geno are not as talented as first thought. Don't fall for it.

I put my trust and faith in Geno and his coaching staff to determine who the best recruits are for BU...not some arbitrary recruiting service, and certainly not the recruiting "experts" on this forum.
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I didn't intend to make a broad statement about the talent of Geno's recruits. I simply pointed out that it's interesting that Zecevic isn't mentioned on a regional list of recruits, many of whom, are low-major caliber. That's all. Relax.
 
I agree - everyone relax - there's been talk of every recruit since message boards began and not one thing in any comment here references anyone's "talent" - except mine in post #8 above that are highly positive about some of the recruits' talent...
Everyone is entitled to imagine whatever talent they want for any player they want - but if there's a ranking of prep kids that includes several members of Zecevic's team - I certainly think that is relevant and speaks for itself ...
and yet we are sternly admonished to ignore the objective info & links and stop believing anything said about the recruits...

If you have more info on Zecevic's scoring average or his shooting percentage then please let us all know - there are a lot of people asking...
 
You cannot tell much about Zecevic as far as looking at his stats, these prep schools hardly play any team ball as I have seen several games and for the most part everyone wants to just shoot the ball, kind of like an all star game in that everyone is trying to be the star of the game. I think Stephan will be a fine player for Bradley.
 
Wasn't John Wilkins supposed to be a one and done player? Obviously Geno saw a reason to offer the kid and early.

Don't we always talk about how these recruiting services base their evaluation on what schools are recruiting a kid so why would we expect them to be talking about SZ?
 
There are a lot of factors that have messed up Wilkins and any ISU fan will tell you he wasted a lot of potential...

anyway - back to Zecevic - at one of the prep tournaments about a month ago - one of the recruiting experts did various rankings...and even tho there were not a whole lot of international players - Zecevic was ranked within the top ten international prospects....and the top 4 on that list have D-I offers...the rest from 5-9 do not..
http://netscoutsbasketball.com/blog...players-at-2013-npsi-basketball-times-column/
 
I don't know a lick about that guy, but I know what Geno did at KSU. Any joker can fire up a blog and claim to be an expert. Chances are there's a reason they blog and don't coach.

I'll trust Geno's judgement until proven otherwise.
 
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