****Official Class of 2017 Recruiting Thread****
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15 years of experience. That means nothing. A guy sitting on a bench for four years has four years of experience.
C. Mark Gottfried- NC State
D. TJ Ford- OK State
E. Leonard Hamilton- Florida State
But of course let's all talk about how "concerned" we are about something that hasn't even had a chance to happen yet. I'll never understand why people care so much about bringing in HS kids, it's not 1991. If you aren't Duke, KU, UK, AZ, other blue blood we're better off being Transfer U and mining JUCO's.
Where the staff will be...
@AlexHalsted Iowa State coaches will also spend the bulk of this week in Las Vegas seeing McKinley Wright, Jericho Sims, Elijah Joiner and many others.
And I think it is fair to say Terrence Lewis it the staff's priority.
@AlexHalsted For the third consecutive weekend Iowa State will spend a lot of time watching Terrence Lewis. This time in Orlando.
@AlexHalsted Iowa State coaches will also spend the bulk of this week in Las Vegas seeing McKinley Wright, Jericho Sims, Elijah Joiner and many others.
And I think it is fair to say Terrence Lewis it the staff's priority.
@AlexHalsted For the third consecutive weekend Iowa State will spend a lot of time watching Terrence Lewis. This time in Orlando.
I would agree that these 4 seem to be the top priorities at this point.
I think we will land Joiner in late August when he visits. I hope that we can also land two of the other 3.
That would make for a decent class.
Not saying we can't keep making the transfer thing work, but its a lot harder to get good transfers than it was 3-4 years ago. We are now competing with the blue bloods for transfers just like high school kids. That wasn't the case when Hoiberg began doing it.
Completely agree. Hoiberg kinda started this surge of big transfer offseasons. I don't think we should expect to get unreal players every off season, but I think we have a solid enough reputation in the transfer market that we can be "in on" almost everyone if we wanted to.
Wright would be a solid PG pickup. He is not a crazy athlete but he seems like a really solid true PG who plays under control, can pass, play defense, and will be able to score some as well. I really like Lewis and Sims. Don't know much about Joiner at this point.
I also like Feazell but haven't heard much about him lately although it seems like you don't ever hear much about Small's recruiting.
Aamir Simms is another kid that I think looks pretty good that ISU should have a good shot with.
I see that Shaka is after Wright as well and he will be tough to beat as well as the home school although who knows if Pitino will still be there.
I also like Feazell but haven't heard much about him lately although it seems like you don't ever hear much about Small's recruiting.
Aamir Simms is another kid that I think looks pretty good that ISU should have a good shot with.
I see that Shaka is after Wright as well and he will be tough to beat as well as the home school although who knows if Pitino will still be there.
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Pitino has a $7.1M buyout, which goes down some each year over the life of the contract. Not absolutely un-fire-able, but I'd guess he's not going anywhere soon.
http://www.startribune.com/richard-...pite-troubles-on-and-off-the-court/371174971/
