COMMIT: Marcedus Leech, 2019 SF
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So if Leech was going to end up around 20th prior to the injury...
...does that mean he would have eclipsed Brackins, THT, Thomas, and Wigginton?
Obviously this does not really matter much, but I wonder how far up our upside play is here.
A lineup of something like...
Nixon
Horton-Tucker
Leech
Jacobson
Lard
...the year after next already sounds nice.
@peteypie
@CyTwins
So if Leech was going to end up around 20th prior to the injury...
...does that mean he would have eclipsed Brackins, THT, Thomas, and Wigginton?
Obviously this does not really matter much, but I wonder how far up our upside play is here.
A lineup of something like...
Nixon
Horton-Tucker
Leech
Jacobson
Lard
...the year after next already sounds nice.
I am reasonably sure that a composite #20 would qualify as “highest ever”.
I think Fizer was our highest ever at around 13-17 range.
Should be an early signee in November, which is before the start of high school basketball if I'm seeing that right. It's hard to imagine having some blue chips come calling if he's not playing much until after that. It's also going to be really hard to convince him to not only accept a late push by a team that hasn't been involved, but also to betray Coach Prohm's loyalty.
And when Wiggs decides to stay all 4 years....woooweee.
The 2019 Draft doesn't have a lot of good freshmen so Wigginton's best chance to go first round is probably after next year. I'd say he's gone. If THT has a great year he may be gone too. If those two leave early we probably had a really good year, which is what everyone wants. If we want to be a shade under blue blood elite we are going to have to start accepting one-(or two)-and-done's as a possibility.
It's hard to speculate, but if he ended up at 20, he would be above all but Brackins I believe.
No doubt about it he should go next year. Need to get Halliburton and Nixon ready, plus hopefully a good freshman in Tandy.
I'll use 247 to compare
MARCEDUS LEECH
Current: https://247sports.com/Player/Marcedus-Leech-93052
2106 rank Found this quote for him from his WSU offer "Marcedus comes in highly ranked by all of the recruiting services; Rivals #20, ESPN #20, Scout #21 and 247 Sports #26"
For this experiment Composite of #21.75.
Fizer (Pre Rankins) from Wiki "Fizer became the first (and only as of 2017-18) McDonald's All-American to play for the Cyclones" McD's rosters are 12X2. For this experiment we can assume Macus was one of the top 24 players in the nation.
*Royce White #26 https://247sports.com/Player/Royce-White-59552/high-school-103622
Backins #30 https://247sports.com/Player/Craig-Brackins-63112/high-school-110257
Wigginton #35 https://247sports.com/Player/Lindell-Wigginton-85578/high-school-148666
Matt Thomas #55 https://247sports.com/Player/Matt-Thomas-15550/high-school-18062
*Deonte Burton #50 https://247sports.com/Player/Deonte-Burton-13920/high-school-3070
Horton Tucker # 56 https://247sports.com/player/talen-horton-tucker-46035276
Georges Niang #71 https://247sports.com/Player/Georges-Niang-13778/high-school-3073
*Bryce Desean-Jones #73 http://www.verbalcommits.com/players/bryce-dejean-jones
Monte Morris #81 https://247sports.com/Player/Monte-Morris-20118/high-school-32282
Next years contributors
Terrence Lewis #119 https://247sports.com/Player/Terrence-Lewis-75455/high-school-129078
Zion Griffin #121 https://247sports.com/player/zion-griffin-46047721
Cam Lard #141 https://247sports.com/Player/Cameron-Lard-75132/high-school-128418
*Marial Shayok #166 https://247sports.com/Player/Marial-Shayok-29300/high-school-48210
*Nick Weller Babb #171 https://247sports.com/Player/Nick-Babb-32872/high-school-53238
Tyrese Haliburtion #171 https://247sports.com/player/tyrese-haliburton-84658
*Michael Jacobson #263 https://247sports.com/Player/Michael-Jacobson-59856/high-school-104159
Solomon Young #232 https://247sports.com/player/solomon-young-35849
George Conditt #327 https://247sports.com/player/george-conditt-46043276
Zoran Talley #NR https://247sports.com/Player/Zoran-Talley-38910/high-school-63791
[QUOTE="LLCoolJansma, post: 6236134, member: 9956
Zoran Talley #NR https://247sports.com/Player/Zoran-Talley-38910/high-school-63791[/QUOTE]
F'ing A... I keep forgetting Talley is back for next year. He's been at Iowa St for less than a year now, and he's still the "that guy is still playing" guy. And it's for our own team!!
Zoran Talley #NR https://247sports.com/Player/Zoran-Talley-38910/high-school-63791[/QUOTE]
F'ing A... I keep forgetting Talley is back for next year. He's been at Iowa St for less than a year now, and he's still the "that guy is still playing" guy. And it's for our own team!!
If he's anything like Peter Jok was his last two years we got a steal.
Minus the moped incidents
I appreciate the effort you put in. I spent some time looking for archived rankings from back then. All that I could find (aside from the above) was that he was a third team Parade All American—which, at ten men per team, would have put him somewhere in the twenties.
I do remember how Marcus rose through the listings, because at first no on knew about him. Even when he made the McD’s AA team, I thought he was right on the edge, and the difference maker was that they were announcing the game being in Ames the following year.
Thanks again for the work!
SIAP
Travis Hines makes a good point in this column about Leech's signing: he says that at a place like ISU, you need to take chances on high-risk / high-reward types of guys such as Lard and Leech. Link to his column:
http://www.amestrib.com/sports/2018...ent-exhibits-prohm8217s-pattern-of-smart-bets
Travis Hines makes a good point in this column about Leech's signing: he says that at a place like ISU, you need to take chances on high-risk / high-reward types of guys such as Lard and Leech. Link to his column:
http://www.amestrib.com/sports/2018...ent-exhibits-prohm8217s-pattern-of-smart-bets
