Dajour Rucker
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6'5"ish big body high school sophomore, why would anyone on here have issues with us showing interest in this guy? By the way good chance that a 14 or 15 year old will grow a few more inches.
One open this year, three next year. If you can predict how many slots we will have open in 2019, that would really challenge your Kenpom stat predictor machine.
I would say we currently have one open spot this year / 4 next year, so I am confused about what two open spots SpiderHoops32 was talking about.
re: so I am confused about what two open spots SpiderHoops32 was talking about.
He is trying to lure into his buying a subscription to his "blog"
He is trying to lure into his buying a subscription to his "blog"
Based on the fact that we have extended offers to fill the last spot (though they haven't panned out) I would guess that Kirby's scholarship was a temporary one, but it will probably be renewed for this year at least.
Yes, 4 next year, you are right. We lose 6 to graduation but have 2 commits already. Agree that we are done this year as well. I'm sure we will still are actively looking for a piece this year, but the pool we are fishing in, has to be getting pretty minute at this point.
What is it, 32counter, that you gain by disparaging a high school sophomore? That you get to say "I told you so" 3 years from now? I support your right to post, but really want to know why so frickin negative on everything, including, evidently, extending a scholarship offer to a sophomore you've almost certainly never seen, spoken to, or heard of before this thread?
The kid just finished his freshman year in high school.He is entering his sophomore year.
I was NOT disparaging the kid,at all.To say that the kid "has a college ready body" is delusional of the poster.It's an absurd statement.
I have us as losing 5 to graduation (Cline, Jones, Wood, Bernard, and Abakah), and thus three more 'ships to fill for 2017 plus the one still open this year. Who am I missing?
that's accurate. so 5 will graduate next spring, 1 is still available now and likely to be carried over (that's 6), minus 2 already verballed ... 4 more next year.
I don't think we'll put 6 in a class, so hopefully 2 of those 4 (if we even use all 4) will be grad transfers. otherwise there's no slot for the 2018 B Golden class, and that won't happen.
Gospider I can see you're relatively new to this board. We have some posters that rank as some of
the most negative posters you're likely to run into. They get 4 and 5 stars in there ranking.
I think if next season we end up with adding 3 bigs to what we already know, including 2 grad transfers, mirroring this season, then we will have evened out the classes.
Agreed. Another recruit, yawn... at this point he just feels like the flavor of the day.
Thanks 32counter, understood. Sadly, you've been so negative on everything else I just assumed the worst. Maybe it's a new day!
Mooney gets grief for offering young guys that may or may not end up being blue chips. Mooney gets grief for offering blue chips that have better offers. That's life as a recruiter at a middle tier program with real admissions requirements: lots of grief.
A potential widebody as a PF.If he becomes 1/2 as good as Peter Woolfolk,the kid will be a winner.Hopefully,our coaching staff will continue to woo these Class of 2019 recruits.It takes a real smart,cultivating and consistent strategy.Winning is the best strategy to attract talent.
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Committed to Marshall, who won a game in the NCAA this year. What a freaking loser our coach is when it comes to recruiting.
So according to the anti-Mooney side this is someone we should have gotten. But also according to them if we would have gotten him the narrative would have been "the only teams interested in him were Marshall, Hampton, Old Dominion, and Norfolk State."
Gotta pick one side, can't flip-flop between arguments when it's convenient.
I reiterate, Ply, no reason to continue your support. We welcome you too. Bring your passion and enthusiasm to a good cause. You are of the Mooney era - this is not your fault, but Richmond basketball can be so much better. Do not let the little Mooney devil on your shoulder influence you.
Not only that, but this was posted when we first started recruiting him:
"Not very athletic, plays the role of a big man, but is shorter than Mooney. What are we doing?"
So, some on the anti Mooney side got on Mooney for recruiting him while others are mad at Mooney because we did not get him. Very predictable. It is as if they see a new thread and cannot wait to be negative, no matter what the thread is about.
So are so wrong man. This guy would've been a solid player for us and I don't think any of us would have said anything that we shouldn't want him because if his other offers. Those are better schools to be competing against than schools like Siena, quinippiac, NJIT, and some random D2 school. Mooney is a terrible talent evaluator. Let me go take over recruiting and I bet I bring in a better class every year than him.
VT. You can barely even string together coherent and grammatically correct sentences. Why would we want to let you take over recruiting. I had to un-mute you to respond to this but I'm just waiting for us to reach the win mark and you get your 1 year hiatus.
Bringing up a guy we haven't shown interest in in years... nothing like stirring the pot, is there 23?
No, I am not stirring the pot. I just feel like we cannot close on legit A10 talent, unless there is some odd circumstance.
