Petrie
Freshman
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Age: 70
Reg: 11-14-16
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05-12-17 04:22 PM - Post#229283
Is anyone else getting nervous ? I'm hoping there are offers out that haven't been made public, but to date I have seen zero offers made to 2018 recruits. Meanwhile, according to Verbal Commits, penn, Yale and Columbia have each offered to over ten kids, and Harvard, I think 4 or 5.
Also, after getting early commitments from Bell, and Stephens ( think there might have been others), I was hoping for another early, really good, get. Not so this year.
Has anyone heard anything promising ?
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Tiger69
Postdoc
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Reg: 11-23-04
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Re: 2018 Recruiting 05-13-17 04:11 AM - Post#229288
In response to Petrie
Silence is golden. Mitch does not mouth off. With this season past, lots of doors will be opening.ðŸ…
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Petrie
Freshman
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Age: 70
Reg: 11-14-16
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Re: 2018 Recruiting 05-13-17 05:56 PM - Post#229295
In response to Tiger69
I hope you're right. These days, with Twitter, FB, basketball blogs, et al, I would be surprised if an offer from a D1 team were kept secret.
In any event, can't believe I'm worrying over it. 2017 newcomers look very good.
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SRP
Postdoc
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Reg: 02-04-06
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05-13-17 06:59 PM - Post#229297
In response to Petrie
Our forward-looking program is going to use robotic players trained with Big Data in the future, saving lots of time and trouble in recruiting while providing ready-made jokes for all the haters of The System.
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1LotteryPick1969
Postdoc
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Age: 73
Loc: Sandy, Utah
Reg: 11-21-04
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Re: 2018 Recruiting 05-14-17 07:22 AM - Post#229301
In response to Tiger69
Silence is golden. Mitch does not mouth off. With this season past, lots of doors will be opening.ðŸ…
There is a rumor he is working the ShopRite circuit.
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Tiger81
Masters Student
Posts: 412
Loc: Montclair, NJ
Reg: 11-21-04
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05-26-17 06:37 AM - Post#229691
In response to 1LotteryPick1969
Had not seen this name previously: Charlie Bagin
PG for Don Bosco, NJ Non-Public A state champs who lost in finals of Tournament of Champions. First Team NJ All-Academic, second team All-Bergen County.
http://archive.northjersey.com/sports/h-s-boys-bas...
http://highschoolsports.nj.com/news/article/-44820...
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Tiger69
Postdoc
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Reg: 11-23-04
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05-26-17 11:02 AM - Post#229697
In response to Tiger81
Looks pretty far under the radar. Would be nice to get another Spencer Weisz to hold things together. I wonder how hard we recruited him.
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SRP
Postdoc
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Reg: 02-04-06
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05-26-17 01:26 PM - Post#229700
In response to Tiger69
He's pretty small and was a defensive specialist, not a combination that usually translates well at the D1 level absent blinding quickness. Not clear from the articles that he was a recruited athlete; if not, that makes him a heck of an impressive student with a great "oh, by the way my main extracurricular was being the starting PG on a championship team" part of his admissions profile.
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sparman
PhD Student
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Reg: 12-08-04
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2018 Recruiting 05-27-17 06:12 PM - Post#229707
In response to SRP
Article suggests, but does not say, that he was recruited. It would be a noticeable outlier to recruit a player who is not rated, however, much less rated under 2 stars. I'm dubious.
If I remember correctly, there were dozens of all-conference and even all-state players in intramural basketball.
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westphillywarrior
Sophomore
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Age: 43
Reg: 01-08-11
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Re: 2018 Recruiting 05-27-17 09:50 PM - Post#229708
In response to sparman
An AI recruit?
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SRP
Postdoc
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Reg: 02-04-06
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05-28-17 07:23 PM - Post#229716
In response to westphillywarrior
The B-league intramural league I briefly played in was tough enough with all those leather-lunged soccer players running us up and down the floor.
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sparman
PhD Student
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Reg: 12-08-04
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Re: 2018 Recruiting 05-29-17 07:51 AM - Post#229718
In response to westphillywarrior
I think that's only for high school JV players.
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westcoast
Senior
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Reg: 03-08-16
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07-24-17 06:02 PM - Post#231210
In response to sparman
Great pickup for Princeton with 4 Star point guard Jaelin Llewellyn. He was being recruited by many high majors, including Florida, Purdue, Virginia, and Stanford
https://t.co/nEMZRlMUBR
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mrjames
Professor
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Loc: Montclair, NJ
Reg: 11-21-04
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07-24-17 06:22 PM - Post#231211
In response to westcoast
An insanely good pick up. I like him better than Spencer Freedman, though both are incredible point guards in their own way.
This is not business as usual for this league. Even the recent business as usual. This is crazy.
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sparman
PhD Student
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Reg: 12-08-04
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07-24-17 06:41 PM - Post#231212
In response to westcoast
24/7 currently lists him as a 3-star, but the quality and number of major colleges who offered him is, frankly, amazing. If this is going to be any indication of this year's class......
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SRP
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07-25-17 02:27 AM - Post#231219
In response to sparman
MH strikes again with a big get late in the season after we're wondering why the silence. His recruiting has been really good.
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Tiger81
Masters Student
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Loc: Montclair, NJ
Reg: 11-21-04
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07-25-17 06:06 AM - Post#231221
In response to SRP
Isn't this an early-season get since Llewellyn is Princeton's first 2018 recruit?
In any case, kudos to the coaching staff! The PG spot will be wide-open after Amir Bell graduates so he will have an immediate opportunity to make an impact.
He may be the Tigers' highest-rated commit, although I can't remember how many stars were bestowed upon Ian Hummer. Bill Bradley and Brian Taylor would have been in the same strata back in the day, but that preceded the advent of the recruit-industrial complex.
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mrjames
Professor
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07-25-17 08:40 AM - Post#231229
In response to Tiger81
Llewellyn is a better recruit (not predicting a better outcome, just that the starting point is better) than Hummer was coming in. Hummer had excelled in a really tough basketball conference in high school, no doubt, but he was an undersized 4 who couldn't shoot it.
Jaelin has the right size and athleticism for his spot and could have played PG at any level on both ends of the floor. Who knows how things will turn out, but he's definitely a higher profile prospect coming in than Hummer.
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HARVARDDADGRAD
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07-25-17 09:16 AM - Post#231230
In response to mrjames
Bill Bradley Recruiting from Ivy@50:
But the greatest basketball player ever to play in the Ivy League almost didn't end up there. One of the most celebrated players in Missouri high school basketball history, Bradley received more than 70 scholarship offers before originally deciding on Duke. Soon after, he suffered a broken foot playing baseball, an injury that caused the high school senior to contemplate a life without the game that had come to consume his life.
"I thought to myself, 'Well, where would I go if I didn't play basketball?'"
"The Princeton freshman class was supposed to convene on a Monday and the Duke freshman class on a Wednesday," remembers Bradley. "On the previous Friday I came home from a date and I woke my parents up and told them I had changed my mind."
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Tiger69
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07-25-17 12:17 PM - Post#231256
In response to HARVARDDADGRAD
Two classy Canadians in two years. Has MH decided to focus on NJ and Canada for our future stars?
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