[Cracked Sidewalks] A look back, Marquette's history with Top 100 recruits...Part Three, the 2000s

[bma725]

BMA, when did Hoopscoop rate Barro in its Top 40?  Must have been early, because Oooze did not play HS ball and sat out.  Hard to rank someone top 40 when they are out of view.  Agree with Ready2Fly.

Not sure what you mean by when, but it wasn't a ranking that they put up early and then stuck with if that's what you're talking about.  They saw him a couple of times in AAU tournaments in both 2002 and 2003, and his ranking changed a few times in 2002, 2003 and 2004. 

They have mentions of seeing Barro during the summer of 2002 at the Nike All American camp, and at that time they put him in their Top 100 for the Class of 2003 somewhere in the 80-90 range after calling him one of the best players at a camp loaded with top 100 prospects. 

The next time they saw him was during the summer of 2003 at the Five Star Camp, at which point they called him one of the top players in the camp...and that included guys like Drew Neitzel, Taurean Green, AJ Price, Dorrell Wright, Kyle Lowry, Sean Singletary, Russell Robinson, JR Smith, Goran Suton etc.  They also mentioned seeing him at another AAU event in late summer as well.  When that happened, they moved him from the 2003 class to the 2004 class and began ranking him on the edge of the Top 10 for 5th year players and he finished ranked 12th.  That particular ranking wasn't early, it came out June 29th 2004.

As far as the Top 40 ranking, the first mention of that came in their "Top Recruiting Classes to Date" which came out right after he committed in December 2003.  He was in their top 40 at that point, and stayed in their top 40 when the published their Final Ranking for the Class of 2004, which came out June 30th 2004.

[MilWarrior]

Wow. Obviously bma put quite a bit of time into this analysis. Way to piss all over his hard work. Ease up once in awhile.

[MR.HAYWARD]

oops i meant caron butler....not karon bradley

[Nukem2]

Wow. Obviously bma put quite a bit of time into this analysis. Way to piss all over his hard work. Ease up once in awhile.

Kudos to "bma" for a fine series of blogs on MU recruiting.  Some of us are just not in agreement with some of his points.  Makes for discussion on a message board during a quiet news period.  Nothing negative intedned.  We can't all agree on everything all of the time...???

[Tugg Speedman]

In other posts (and one good one by BMA) it has been noted what a crap shoot these rankings are.  Look no further than this list.  Who was the highest MU recruit this decade?  Answer Terry Sanders at #22.