Recruiting as of 4/15/25

[nyg]

MU out for Gus the Bus.

https://sports.yahoo.com/wisconsin-basketball-makes-top-four-175405106.html

[Its DJOver]

Who was HC when we offered, because I'm not sure how a 6'-8" 240 lb center would work in Shaka's system?

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

MU out for Gus the Bus.

https://sports.yahoo.com/wisconsin-basketball-makes-top-four-175405106.html

Gotta believe he's a future Badger

Who was HC when we offered, because I'm not sure how a 6'-8" 240 lb center would work in Shaka's system?

Shaka. Yalden shoots and moves pretty well for his size though his stock has dropped a ton in the past year

[nyg]

https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/2023/gus-yalden-255853#school-interests

One year ago was ranked #21 in class. Has taken a nose dive in last year. 

[BrewCity83]

Shaka cooled on him?

[jfp61]

Shaka cooled on him?

Shaka wasn't on him. He visited mid transition.

[WhiteTrash]

You can never have too many 6'8" centers. 

[Uncle Rico]

MU out for Gus the Bus.

https://sports.yahoo.com/wisconsin-basketball-makes-top-four-175405106.html

Kid looks like a Badger until he loses his love of the game

[Pakuni]

Shaka wasn't on him. He visited mid transition.

Shaka offered him in June.
Kind of weird to offer a scholarship to a kid you're not interested in.

[jfp61]

Shaka offered him in June.
Kind of weird to offer a scholarship to a kid you're not interested in.

February 2021.. it was a continuation recruitment of an old staff.

[Pakuni]

February 2021.. it was a continuation recruitment of an old staff.

Shaka offered him June 15. Whether it was a "continuation" - whatever that's supposed to mean - is irrelevant. Shaka wasn't bound by the old staff's offers. He didn't have to have the kid on campus for a visit three months after the old staff was fired. But he did, and he extended an offer to Yalden when he was here. In June.

https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2021/6/17/22535815/marquette-golden-eagles-mens-basketball-scholarship-offers-yalden-bowen-momcilovic-rice-swain

You know, it's OK to acknowledge when you lose a recruiting battle. Unless you're Duke, Kansas or  Kentucky, you're  going to lose more than you win.
Again, let's not be Buckyville.

[wadesworld]

He's going to be a standard solid big for the Badgers.

[The Equalizer]

Who was HC when we offered, because I'm not sure how a 6'-8" 240 lb center would work in Shaka's system?

Any worse than a 6'8' 290 pound forward in Buzz's system?

[jfp61]

Shaka offered him June 15. Whether it was a "continuation" - whatever that's supposed to mean - is irrelevant. Shaka wasn't bound by the old staff's offers. He didn't have to have the kid on campus for a visit three months after the old staff was fired. But he did, and he extended an offer to Yalden when he was here. In June.

https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2021/6/17/22535815/marquette-golden-eagles-mens-basketball-scholarship-offers-yalden-bowen-momcilovic-rice-swain

You know, it's OK to acknowledge when you lose a recruiting battle. Unless you're Duke, Kansas or  Kentucky, you're  going to lose more than you win.
Again, let's not be Buckyville.

Its only a lose if you continue recruiting. Sorry i don't think the recruit Shaka offered when he was on a visit scheduled by the old staff should count as a recruiting lose. Pretty sure Cam Moratta was on staff when that happened.

Shaka lost Leon Bond to Virgina. We'll probably lose Milan to a big time program. There is a chance we lose Roberts to Indiana. If Norman or ames both chose schools other than marquette than we will probably lose at least one of those recruiting battles.

This is not one of them.

[Uncle Rico]

Its only a lose if you continue recruiting. Sorry i don't think the recruit Shaka offered when he was on a visit scheduled by the old staff should count as a recruiting lose. Pretty sure Cam Moratta was on staff when that happened.

Shaka lost Leon Bond to Virgina. We'll probably lose Milan to a big time program. There is a chance we lose Roberts to Indiana. If Norman or ames both chose schools other than marquette than we will probably lose at least one of those recruiting battles.

This is not one of them.

He's crystal balled to UW.  This baby is over.  Green wieners all around

[Newsdreams]

He's crystal balled to UW.  This baby is over.  Green wieners all around

Unless his GPA tanks or his ACT isn't good enough.

[Its DJOver]

Any worse than a 6'8' 290 pound forward in Buzz's system?

You do know that Buzz and Shaka run different systems right?

[Its DJOver]

Shaka offered him June 15. Whether it was a "continuation" - whatever that's supposed to mean - is irrelevant. Shaka wasn't bound by the old staff's offers. He didn't have to have the kid on campus for a visit three months after the old staff was fired. But he did, and he extended an offer to Yalden when he was here. In June.

https://www.anonymouseagle.com/2021/6/17/22535815/marquette-golden-eagles-mens-basketball-scholarship-offers-yalden-bowen-momcilovic-rice-swain

You know, it's OK to acknowledge when you lose a recruiting battle. Unless you're Duke, Kansas or  Kentucky, you're  going to lose more than you win.
Again, let's not be Buckyville.

I think it's possible to both acknowledge that we lost this recruiting battle, and also question how hard Shaka was actually pursuing the player as of late, because it's not often that we get beat out by the College of Charleston for an in state player that ends up being a high major talent. 

Nobel Days comes to mind, local kid that we offered, but when his stock started dropping, we started to lose interest, and who knows if the offer would have remained on the table had he decided that he still wanted to come.  I remember on his "decision day" we had people cheering that we "lost out" on him.

[tower912]

How many openings?

[bilsu]

Its only a lose if you continue recruiting. Sorry i don't think the recruit Shaka offered when he was on a visit scheduled by the old staff should count as a recruiting lose. Pretty sure Cam Moratta was on staff when that happened.

Shaka lost Leon Bond to Virgina. We'll probably lose Milan to a big time program. There is a chance we lose Roberts to Indiana. If Norman or ames both chose schools other than marquette than we will probably lose at least one of those recruiting battles.

This is not one of them.

It is a loss, if we do not sign a better player.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Any worse than a 6'8' 290 pound forward in Buzz's system?

What system did Buzz run?

[Pakuni]

I think it's possible to both acknowledge that we lost this recruiting battle, and also question how hard Shaka was actually pursuing the player as of late, because it's not often that we get beat out by the College of Charleston for an in state player that ends up being a high major talent. 

Nobel Days comes to mind, local kid that we offered, but when his stock started dropping, we started to lose interest, and who knows if the offer would have remained on the table had he decided that he still wanted to come.  I remember on his "decision day" we had people cheering that we "lost out" on him.

This is rational (but I'm not sure it applies to Yalden).
Not rational is claiming that Shaka hosted and offered a scholarship to a player he never wanted because the previous staff was recruiting the kid.

[Its DJOver]

This is rational (but I'm not sure it applies to Yalden).

Fair.

Not rational is claiming that Shaka hosted and offered a scholarship to a player he never wanted because the previous staff was recruiting the kid.

100% agree, if Shaka wasn't interested at some point, he'd be stupid to waste his time.

The combination of people that know more than me/follow high school ball closer than me saying that his stock has been dropping recently, as well as him not appearing on any of the (admittedly incompletely and fan made) lists of priority targets has me not overly concerned about this miss, but if the offer was legit and came from Shaka (which I didn't know when I asked who was HC when he got his offer) it is a recruiting miss.

[The Sultan]

This is rational (but I'm not sure it applies to Yalden).

It might.  This is from back in February, and he names a lot of programs recruiting him hard.  Marquette is not mentioned.

https://www.on3.com/news/gus-yalden-2023-four-star-talks-official-visits-and-who-is-recruiting-hardest/

[JTJ3]

Offering Yalden last summer made a lot of sense, even if he isnt really a fit for what Shaka wants from his bigs.  At the time he was the highest ranked instate 2023 kid and was playing with Wisconsin PGC, so it would be important to get off to a good start with that program.  But once Yalden moved out of state again Shaka had an easy out on that recruitment.