Mon Sep 30, 2019 12:09 am
Chicagojayfan wrote:bluejayfan00 wrote:Our top 3 targets for 2021 were Sallis, Hepburn, and Mors, right? 0/2 thus far.
Sucks to lose both right off the bat, but better to lose out now and not at the end of the recruiting season -- and Are we sure they were our top 3? I think Sallis was very high. Mors they liked a lot and recruited from the beginning, but Hepburn is a guy we offered after everyone else (maybe part of how we lost Mors as well)
Believe Tamar Bates is visiting in October, and not sure just how much mutual interest yet, but Mason Miller feels like the kind of 4 we've wanted for a long time
Mon Sep 30, 2019 6:03 am
JacobPadilla wrote:Chicagojayfan wrote:bluejayfan00 wrote:Our top 3 targets for 2021 were Sallis, Hepburn, and Mors, right? 0/2 thus far.
Sucks to lose both right off the bat, but better to lose out now and not at the end of the recruiting season -- and Are we sure they were our top 3? I think Sallis was very high. Mors they liked a lot and recruited from the beginning, but Hepburn is a guy we offered after everyone else (maybe part of how we lost Mors as well)
Believe Tamar Bates is visiting in October, and not sure just how much mutual interest yet, but Mason Miller feels like the kind of 4 we've wanted for a long time
"Everyone else" is Nebraska, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Wisconsin, Minnesota and Creighton all offered in June. His other offers, which came after Creighton, were Valparaiso and Loyola-Chicago. Creighton's recruitment of and relationship with him went back much farther than Wisconsin's. It just seems like whatever they found up there this weekend matched what they were looking for.
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Mon Sep 30, 2019 3:03 pm
JayPak wrote:Everyone's takes are rational, but it feels like a gut punch to me to in one evening lose a local PG from the same school that produced Dotzler and Young, and a stretch 4 who we've had a relationship with since before seventh grade. Who else is left locally after Murrell and Hepburn besides Sallis? Murphy Jr. is gone. Jaren Marshall?
Mon Sep 30, 2019 4:10 pm
JayPak wrote:Everyone's takes are rational, but it feels like a gut punch to me to in one evening lose a local PG from the same school that produced Dotzler and Young, and a stretch 4 who we've had a relationship with since before seventh grade. Who else is left locally after Murrell and Hepburn besides Sallis? Murphy Jr. is gone. Jaren Marshall?
Mon Sep 30, 2019 4:18 pm
HaRdWoOd wrote:JayPak wrote:Everyone's takes are rational, but it feels like a gut punch to me to in one evening lose a local PG from the same school that produced Dotzler and Young, and a stretch 4 who we've had a relationship with since before seventh grade. Who else is left locally after Murrell and Hepburn besides Sallis? Murphy Jr. is gone. Jaren Marshall?
Locally? Jasen Green maybe. Still young.
Mon Sep 30, 2019 6:42 pm
Mon Sep 30, 2019 7:35 pm
mredle wrote:I asked this question over on the other site and I guess I'll paraphrase it slightly to more closely match the comments here. It has been suggested that CU is the premiere college basketball program in the state. It has been suggested that Chucky Hepburn and Matthew Mors are the premiere players their age and it was therefore critical that we sign them. But what if the "premiere" players in the state don't grade out as the "premiere" players on our list of recruits. Do we give them a geographic bump or go after players we believe are better suited to play in the Big East and that better suit our needs? And for the Mac haters out there, if we believe we should go local regardless, doesn't that mean we should Mac a pass when the local players don't produce?