MU future recruits

[nyg]

With Aaron Bowen decommiting and with Montreale Clark probably not going to make it, I believe MU has three scholarships left.  I checked the table, but with Acker's return, Roseboro's departure and Jone's commitment, and now Clark's situation, can't keep up with all the changes.

Clark was a bigman and will that lead to the staff to change direction and look for a bigman replacement, along with Roseboro's slot?  What about a point guard?  Everything is up in the air now.

Over the past week, numerous recruits, to include MU targets have been commiting, to include Trae Golden to Tenn and Jeremy Lamb to UCONN. Below is a list of the remaining highly ranked MU targets who have indicated significant interest, some of whom have MU in their final three.

Without any reference to academic issues, comparison to D. Wade, NBA ability, Brett Favre or a TC/Buzz recruiting takeover thread, which recruits do you believe the staff actually has a chance of signing and will fits MU's needs.

Carson Desrosiers - Center
Cameron Clark  - SF
Vander Blue - SG
Cory Joseph - PG
J.J. Moore - SF
Shane Southwell - SF
Maurice Walker - C

[kmwtrucks]

I think we are looking at a big from Florida international, I'm not sure if he would be a soph or Junior after 1 year at Miami Dade.  He averaged 14 and 9 as a freshman but wanted to leave after the Coach was fired and Thomas would not let him out of his LOI Which is awful.  Thomas ran out many player's and recruits he did not want but when his best player wanted to leave he said no.  He has to go to another school for a year and then transfer instead of sit out.  We are one of maybe 5 schools mentioned with him at least right now.  He would be a great pickup and would put another player in the Otule and DJO class.

[MR.HAYWARD]

" Monterale Clark probably not going to make it"  .....That should qualify as the understatement of the century.

I dont care if he used his penis, finger or nothing at all...the very fact that he was aware of what happened and did not stop it is more than enough reason for Buzz Williams to not even waste the 1 cell minute to call him and tell him he will never be associated with MU ever again. 

Please the JUCO=Bad loser posters now have people thinking we might stick with this kid?  My God people Buzz has so much higher standards than that.  We sign a few fully qualified JUCO's and the anti Buzz crowd wants to portray him as Tarkaninain or Huggins.  How many kids have we signed with previous arrest records?  Cause those guys signed guys like that all of the time.  Buzz might sign a few JUCO's but the University standards will not be lowered for them...even if Buzz wanted to, Wild and co. would never allow it.

[nyg]

" Monterale Clark probably not going to make it"  .....That should qualify as the understatement of the century.

I dont care if he used his penis, finger or nothing at all...the very fact that he was aware of what happened and did not stop it is more than enough reason for Buzz Williams to not even waste the 1 cell minute to call him and tell him he will never be associated with MU ever again. 

Please the JUCO=Bad loser posters now have people thinking we might stick with this kid?  My God people Buzz has so much higher standards than that.  We sign a few fully qualified JUCO's and the anti Buzz crowd wants to portray him as Tarkaninain or Huggins.  How many kids have we signed with previous arrest records?  Cause those guys signed guys like that all of the time.  Buzz might sign a few JUCO's but the University standards will not be lowered for them...even if Buzz wanted to, Wild and co. would never allow it.

Hayward,  I agree, but how does your answer relate to the topic of this thread/question.  Any thoughts on the listed recruits. 

[GOMU1104]

Over the past week, numerous recruits, to include MU targets have been commiting, to include Trae Golden to Tenn and Jeremy Lamb to UCONN. Below is a list of the remaining highly ranked MU targets who have indicated significant interest, some of whom have MU in their final three.

Without any reference to academic issues, comparison to D. Wade, NBA ability, Brett Favre or a TC/Buzz recruiting takeover thread, which recruits do you believe the staff actually has a chance of signing and will fits MU's needs.

Carson Desrosiers - Center
Cameron Clark  - SF
Vander Blue - SG
Cory Joseph - PG
J.J. Moore - SF
Shane Southwell - SF
Maurice Walker - C

Lamb and Golden werent MU targets anymore, and hadn't been for some time. 

I think Derosiers, C. Clark, Blue, and Moore are realistic options.

I think Joseph, and Walker are more of longshots.

[MU_Iceman]

I don't know that Walker is that unrealistic of an option...we signed McMorrow but due to health issues it didn't work out.  We signed Cadougan...Buzz clearly has some ties to Canadian basketball - my only fear for Walker is that we're competing with schools that have a track record of developing bigs.

They way I'd like to see it play out:

C - Maurice Walker
PF / C - Carson Derosier
G - Vander Blue

I really think we have a lot to offer bigs - in terms of playing time - that could set us apart from our competition.  With DJO having run the point in JUCO and Cadougan, I don't think we need to target another pg till '11.

The FIU kid is named Freddy Aspirilla...he'd be a 2011 recruit and would come in as a junior.  If we don't get Walker, I think Freddy needs to be a BIG focal point of our '11 class...the kid is a horse!

[dsfire]

The FIU kid is named Freddy Aspirilla...he'd be a 2011 recruit and would come in as a junior.  If we don't get Walker, I think Freddy needs to be a BIG focal point of our '11 class...the kid is a horse!

Looks like he'd be a 2010 recruit unless something has changed recently:

• Freshman (of the Year in the Sun Belt Conference) last season
• a year at Miami-Dade (juco) in 2009-10 since Thomas isn't giving the kid his release
• eligible to play at a new D1 school in fall of 2010 as a junior

[Ready2Fly]

If we get any of the following players I'll be ecstatic:

Walker
Desrosiers
Blue
C. Clark

Obviously the more the merrier, but it's hard to realistically expect Buzz to lock up three top 100's in one class the year after he did just that.  If he adds two of the above to the Jamail Jones commit, MU should be set for quite some time.

[downtown85]

I see Trae Golden just committed to Tennessee.  I know we haven't been involved with him for a while but I was still kind of hoping for a Golden/Blue backcourt.   

[Buzz4Prez]

In order, the three best players that we are involved with in my mind would be:

C. Clark - This kid is crazy good.
V. Blue - see above
C. Desroisers - talented big, but needs to muscle and needs to learn to bang inside.

[GOMU1104]

In order, the three best players that we are involved with in my mind would be:

C. Clark - This kid is crazy good.
V. Blue - see above
C. Desroisers - talented big, but needs to muscle and needs to learn to bang inside.

That would be the dream class.

Others to consider would include:
SF J.J. Moore
PG Brandon Young

[Buzz4Prez]

I agree that it is not likely that we add all 3 of those players, however I was just listing the best three in my mind. I really have no idea which 3 we will end up with, hell we may even take on 4 for this class.

I have a feeling in a month or two we will know a lot more about how this class shakes out though, with the early sigining period coming up, it seems like most of our prospects want to sign early. We will have an answer about Desroisers, Clark, and Blue by that time.

[bma725]

You can take Southwell off the list.  He's got a final three and we aren't a part of it, though I'd say it's more MU moving on than being eliminated.

[Buzz4Prez]

This will be a huge weekend for both Desroisers, and Clark. Desroisers is coming off his official to ASU and Clark is just getting back from OU. It could be possible that they both commit to those schools...

[Ben Golds Five]

From what I've read Desroisers seems pretty intent on taking all of his officials.  With MU being the last at Midnight Madness.  Or 10pm Madness now.  lol

[bma725]

Take Clark and Young off the list.  Clark committed to OU today, Young to DePaul.

[Buzz4Prez]

Desroisers is not visitng for MM, he is going to be coming this upcoming weekend. It was clark who was scheduled to visit for MM, obviously he will no longer be there.

[Rockmic87]

Bottomline is that I am starting to get nervous now about the future of the MU bball program. I am almost starting to question as to wether Buzz is the right guy? Maybe we should have tried harder to find a household name? Im sick of JUCO players, no offense to them. But, can we not get 4 and 5 star talent outta high school?

[GOMU1104]

Bottomline is that I am starting to get nervous now about the future of the MU bball program. I am almost starting to question as to wether Buzz is the right guy? Maybe we should have tried harder to find a household name? Im sick of JUCO players, no offense to them. But, can we not get 4 and 5 star talent outta high school?

Are you serious?

[nyg]

Bottomline is that I am starting to get nervous now about the future of the MU bball program. I am almost starting to question as to wether Buzz is the right guy? Maybe we should have tried harder to find a household name? Im sick of JUCO players, no offense to them. But, can we not get 4 and 5 star talent outta high school?

Cadougan an Maymon were both 4 star, top 100 recruits for 2009.

Jamail Jones will be a 4 star recruit for 2010.

This is Buzz's first year and he has 4 slots in his pocket. 

[Buzz4Prez]

Not to mention we are still in on at least 3 or 4 more 4 star players for 2010. I think you might be jumping ship just a little early here bud.

Think about how much talent we already have on this team, even if we only sign 1 more 4 star player for 2010 we still will have a pretty good team.

[pillardean]

I know Flavien Davis was big after his freshman year but trailed off.
Has MU looked ahead of him or what is the deal?

If someone has more info on him I'd like to hear.
Could always be a last resort signing if some of the others don't work out.

[bma725]

I know Flavien Davis was big after his freshman year but trailed off.
Has MU looked ahead of him or what is the deal?

If someone has more info on him I'd like to hear.
Could always be a last resort signing if some of the others don't work out.

Not a high major prospect at this point, only Oregon State is still after him among high major schools and they haven't offered.

Further, he's not really fit on this team in terms of position. 

[Golden Avalanche]

Bottomline is that I am starting to get nervous now about the future of the MU bball program. I am almost starting to question as to wether Buzz is the right guy? Maybe we should have tried harder to find a household name? Im sick of JUCO players, no offense to them. But, can we not get 4 and 5 star talent outta high school?

I don't think there's a question with Buzz attracting talent. The key we see in 2010 is whether he can back up a class of 4-5 star talent with a class of 4-5 star talent.

He's got Jones. Great start. If he can somehow steal Blue and finish off with Pinkston, Desrosiers, or Moore we know he can really, really recruit.

[Tugg Speedman]

Im sick of JUCO players

Buzz specifically addressed this in Chicago last week.  He had Seven spots to fill this year (DJ, Jer, Wes, Burke were all seniors, McMorrow cannot play anymore, Mbakwe ditched the first week of school last year and Hazel transferred).

If Buzz recruited seven freshman (on a team of 13), we would have been ridcolulsly imbalanced.  That would have meant a future year with either no recruits or one recruit. 

Buzz went out of his way to say he needed to balance out the classes.  He was 100% correct and you are 100% wrong.