olldflame wrote:I don´t know if anyone else cares, but I am an admitted basketball recruiting geek, and I find it interesting how widely the approaches coaches take to making scholarship offers varies. Looking at the BSC, there are 3 schools who have taken what, for lack of a better word, I would call an ¨agressive¨approach. Radford and High Point each have made 22 offers to recruits in the class of 2016 and Winthrop has made 19.
At the other side of the spectrum is Presby, with only 4 offers and Liberty with 7.
Results? It´s early, but to date those 3 ¨agressive¨coaches have a total of 2 verbal commits, both to Mike Jones at Radford. That´s 2 for 63. Presby and LU, with a total of 11 offers, also have a total of 2 (one each). Winthrop has also offered 11 2017 prospects and is 0 for 30 so far. Cherry at HP has offered 7 in the 2017 class and is 0 for 29 . Gee at Longwood is tied for the most 2017 offers with 11. He is 1 for 20 overall with a 2016 verbal. Liberty has offered 4 for 2017 with the only commit in the conference coming from Jay Barber.
Now before anyone accuses me of bragging on McKay, I realize that early signing period is still almost 3 months away and our 2 verbals come from the brother of a current player and the son of our AD, which probably had something to do with their committing so early. At the end of the day all that matters is who you sign to NLIs and whether they can help you when they get on campus, but I did find the disparity intriguing.
That´s just the rinky-dink BSC of course. Some of the high major coaches make Cherry and Jones look like pikers. Buzz Williams at VT has 16 offers out for 1 schollie in 2016, 41 for 2017 and 10 for 2018.
I agree oldflame. It really is interesting to see the different approaches taken by D1 coaches. No doubt for some programs, including Liberty, it seems like an offer is a legitimate "we would sign you right now" offer. For other programs, offers today are like letters used to be. They are just a sign of serious interest. Throwing out 20 offers in a class where you may have 3 available scholarships seems crazy but it definitely is happening more and more. For smaller programs it seems like they are just targeting a lot of bigger fish, hoping one might end up taking it. For larger programs, it really is confusing, especially to the recruit. Tough to know where you stand with a program if they are "offering" so many guys.
Excited to see how the next week or two plays out for the Liberty staff. September 9th starts up the NCAA recruiting period where coaches can visit players at their school. Will be interesting to see where the staff travels. Hopefully we will hear of some official visits being scheduled to Lynchburg as well.
Top wing recruits Clayton Hughes and Brock Gardner have started taking official visits. Gardner took his first official visit to the Air Force last weekend and Hughes will be at Central Florida this weekend. Hope to get these guys on campus where Flames Nation can put on a show welcoming them and they can see the facilities first hand.
With that kind of length, being ¨only¨ 6´7¨or 6´8¨ is irrelevant. Long arms are what you want in the pack line defense.
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