From a talent evaluation standpoint they're very solid. I question their X's/O's and character judgement.
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Box score ratings are generally relative- the first order signal to use is where that player ranks on his team.
Like many people have told you, this isn’t the hill to die on with Gomez.
Recruiting is full of misses, reaches, and misfits. Gomez could be that. It’s also full of guys that end up successfully playing key roles though, and Gomez could be that!
There aren’t many immediate eligible guys out there with significantly better likelihood of impact, but we are in on a couple of them.
I trust our coaches in Plan A-C offensive talent evaluation.
Spring/contingency recruiting is about fit and putting the puzzle of incomplete players together to form a competent team. I don’t trust that. And I don’t trust their defense evaluations, or rather perhaps rather they value that enough overall. Sure, some guys can play the Georges role, but you need the Hogue types too!
Totally unfair. You don't know crap about his work ethic. It could just be that he was poorly evaluated. He blew up after one big weekend on the AAU circuit and got a lot of offers. He didn't pan out here, but neither you or I know anything about him personally.
Several of those closest to the program on here have said that Lewis and Griffin were disappointments on the intangible side more than anything else. Neither of them lacked size or athleticism... but neither of them had much of a feel for the game.
Rough year for Roy!
The takeaway here is only that it didn’t workout at UNC last year. Likely more inherent to a program like UNC needing to resort to GT than GTs.
Cremo was the 7th man on the Big East. Many are hoping for Gomez to be something like that (rotation or role player) on just a bubble team. Great example!
Aiken is basically the only guy left on our list I actually care about. Get him and I might change my expectations for next year. Don't, well meh.
You believe the same for Cordell Pemsl? Not on our team...OK, MAYBE if he promised to jack Connor in a game we would let him suit up for one...then, come to think of it...I'll pass.
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If those teams are interested there is no reason to even try to get him. We’re not beating out that list
I admire the confidence of Ohio and Illinois State
Could I be wrong? Absolutely. But results typically don't lie. There is a difference between working hard and thinking you're working hard.
Also, he had a work ethic in high school for sure. Go look up the stories of the work he put in to become a wing in the college game. I don't think that same work ethic translated to the college game.
Well let's see just how "meaningless" the individual box score stat is. I pulled the rating for each of our transfers the last few years the season prior to coming to Iowa State from Sports Reference:
Shayok: 4.8
Jacobson: 4.4
Weiler-Babb: 3.1
Burton: 2.0
Bolton: 1.1
Bowie: 0.7
Gomez: -0.2
Nixon: -1
Buggs: -1.1
Talley: -2.6
Holden: -3.4
Beverly: -3.6
Is it fair to say that this stat does in fact represent a fairly accurate prediction of how they will perform here?
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