Oso planning to go pro
You missed a few. We're out w/Moore and Young and Walker is reportedly a Pitt lean. What are we down to Plans C and D for recruits? Not good.
Jamail Jones is a helluva player at least according to the Xavier board and most of the other info I could get on him. I really think he' s being undersold because he's not local. That's my positive, we've got a great G/F in the bag and looking for more.
The silver lining is that most of the recruits Buzz has landed seemed to have "come from out of nowhere". We'll see if that happens again. Maybe he is in good with a recruit we don't even know about.
The problem with "come out of nowhere" recruits is that the league doesn't respect them, which leads to pre-season predictions of 12th or 13th place, which lead to no TV appearances, which lead to big-time recruits looking elsewhere. Then, to make matters worse, let's say these guys really are a 12th or 13th place team this year. What happens next year? We'll be a 13th place team that will lose its best player in Hayward and only experienced PG in Acker. Our new PG will be a redshirt freshman coming off a serious injury. We won't be reloading with instant-impact guys, but rather "come out of nowhere" unknowns. 13th place this year means we'll be a pre-season 14th to 16th place pick in 2010-11. Frankly, we needed a blockbuster recruit to come in next fall to give MU some ammunition when lobbying for our share of marquee TV matchups in the 2010-11 season. Of course, it might help if we had someone lobbying for that exposure. For some reason, when our previous coach worked to get MU on TV it was regarded as a character flaw under the specious argument that he ALSO got TV coverage. Well, now we're paying the price of Buzz's "brutal honesty." Making public statements that your team deserves to be picked 16th at the very time the league is determining the TV schedule gives the league a perfect excuse to give MU the barest minimum of coverage. I can just imagine the league discussions with ESPN. "How about Marquette/Notre Dame Big Monday game?" "Nah--not even Buzz Williams thinks they're better than last place. Give 'em their minimum 3 games." Frankly, my fear isn't for this year--we're already stuck without marquee TV coverage this season. My biggest fear is that next season we'll STILL be stuck with the same low pre-season expectations--driving the same lack of TV exposure--driving the same lack of success with top-level recruits.
I don't necessarily disagree, but if Buzz brings in talented players and wins, I don't care what the recruits were ranked. Obviously we'd all love to have a top recruiting class... but I don't want to freak out if some high school scout ranked a guy at #80 rather than #50. Chili, I thought playing great basketball won games. And yes, I realize you need to have talented players to do that... but let's not start chalking losses in 2012 in the fall of 09.
Well so far the one man class isn't going to win a ton of games. This was an issue the Bronze One had, Buzz needs to improve on it. This was also a time to start building on HS or Prep players instead of going into the JC well all the time so you can have kids on campus longer.
Maquette84 you truly are a fool....With our great coach doing all his wonderous marketing how many nationally televised and Big Monday games did we have 5 years ago when we were picked to finish 12th in the conference....answer about the same...you ding bat. We did get the game with Uconn, it did not hurt for that to be our first BE game and Ucon rated #1 in the country before the season. Wow conversely maybe Buzz was a great marketer last year and that is why we got somany antional games? or d you think there was a direct correlation to our prejcted finish and it really had little to nothing to do with the coach?!Also if you think MU will be picked for 13th next year you are really dumb....our newcomers will impress and the additon of two top 75 recruits in Jones and Junior will create some hype. Meanwhile your lover in Bloominton has a 2 star recruit signed up and a 3 star recruit that scored 7 points agame last year as a junior. and par for the course he not only whiffed on his only big time recruit he was dumped about as hard as one can be in this business. Told after his in home that Iu was not longer being considered. Only a jack ass like your boyfriend could do that.
You can effectively move Cadougan to the 2010 class now. I'm assuming he will be medically red shirted, so his eligibility begins along with Jamail Jones.That leaves a class of Maymon, Williams, DJO and Buycksfollowed by Cadougan, Jones, and ...One more top 100 for the 2010 class, and that will give MU a year with seven top 100 level players, followed by a year with six. The sky is not falling.
Too much bad news in the last week or so to remain positive:Bowen de-commitsClark becomes a big time rapistCadougan out for the yearDJO out for a whileCameron Clark announces for OUDeRosiers eliminates us?Acker will likely be a starter---OMGWe are picked about 12-13 in BEastIs there anything to be positive about?
Sweet Jebus!!!How many times do we have to say it, Juco's were part of the plan to help distribute the classes. Without class balance he'd be handcuffed for YEARS by needing to recruit 7 one year, then 1 or 2 the other 3.
Also if you think MU will be picked for 13th next year you are really dumb....our newcomers will impress and the additon of two top 75 recruits in Jones and Junior will create some hype.