RECRUITING UPDATE: Shakur Juiston, Race Thompson
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I agree if we don't land a couple guys like Juiston and Brown getting to 7 in a row will be tough.
But you McD era newbies need to get a grip. Missing next year doesn't mean unrecoverable tailspin. Much more likely it means a big year-over-year bump the following year when the redshirt transfers become eligible and join an vastly improved group.
Sucks having the #23 recruiting class based on adding no one.
No doubt we need the bigs, but this isn't anywhere close to the teams from the McDermott era. You point out Donovan's average, but that is based on 16 minutes per game...push him up to 35 of so and his point average is near 14...fairly competitive with other Big 12 guards. Let's get through the next few weeks before we declare the end of the world...doing so now only stampedes many here towards the cliff.
DJ has more game than he got to show last year. Babb has huge upside. Solomon could be a future star in the post and had a great freshman year once he got it going and got healthy. Long was a top 150 recruit and highly sought after, and has a year in the system. Lard will have almost a year with the team and was even more highly regarded. Kasongo is a wild card.
In short, we have some great pieces to build on, and Wigginton, Lewis and McNeil all look really talented. Yes, we need to add more, but we will.
In short, we have some great pieces to build on, and Wigginton, Lewis and McNeil all look really talented. Yes, we need to add more, but we will.
The only way the next two weeks determine the Prohm era is if we get a ton of great basketball players to make a run in the NCAA. To be honest I had written next year off as a rebuilding year. Which after what we lost is Ok. However, what he is doing now has me excited that we could be a really good team next year if we get some guys that we are after. So no if he don't get these players. We still have the 59th ranked kid in the country coming in and the 23rd ranked kid. BTW has any 59th ranked recruit ever had nobody talking about him on our board. IF we didn't get Lindell we would be talking about this kid daily.
A return to the NCAA tournament after what we lost would have Coach Prohm in consideration for Big 12 and National Coach of the Year awards. People are acting like that's an expectation, but it's not. He's done a great job so far, and I'm sure he'll finish this out well. Will it be enough? A lot of things have to fall right, and even if they do, it's not easy blending that many new players, however talented, into a team that can perform at a high level.
Who was the top 25 player on that 2008 team? I don't recall Mac pulling a 5 star top 25 kid.
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Brackins? Also had seniors in Jiri and Rashon, plus freshman DG and soph WJ
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Ah Brackins thats right. Always forget about him, given his short tenure. Never has a guy with so much talent and displayed it on the court, translated into so few wins.
The rest of of that class was pretty pedestrian based on the star rankings, DG turned out to be good.
Seems to me Mac's downfall was more about guys leaving early or transferring out, not in.
I've saved all your posts and will come back next March and give you a big **** you.
Back in my day, we used to make drunken booty calls to exes. It was a terrible idea, but it was still better than what you did.
Stand by my point that without added impact talent this spring, this is a 15 win team tops.
Brackins was at Iowa State for 3 years. Not all that short.
Brackins had a lot of talent. McDermott just wasn't a very good coach in putting all the pieces together at Iowa State. At Creighton, his teams have more talent than the competition. It is not as tough as the Big 12.
