Recruiting News: Never Too Early

From another thread......

DeanMurdoch wrote:Wonder if Jared is still planning on doing the two-year mission? That would mean he'd come in after the loss of Barker, Carr, vdM, and the Bailey brothers.

I guess we no longer care, in the short run.

But stuff can happen in the long run......

The Verbal Commits site is quite something.

It has Cohee's offer on there now, along with a new name - 2015 SG Jeremy Hemsley. Interesting assortment of offers to Hemsley, including UP, Pepperdine, New Mexico, and Boston College.

DeanMurdoch wrote:The Verbal Commits site is quite something.

It has Cohee's offer on there now, along with a new name - 2015 SG Jeremy Hemsley. Interesting assortment of offers to Hemsley, including UP, Pepperdine, New Mexico, and Boston College.

Cohee, from Langley, BC is atually getting quite a bit of attention from NW schools, including UW and GU....although I doubt they too have made an offer.

I believe the extended Barker family has a number of basketball contacts in the area....perhaps they can be of some help.

So 3/4 open scholarships for class of 2014. What do you suppose is coming in? One each of SF, PF, and C along with a guard?

Well, here's the box/chart imported from another thread:

DoubleDipper wrote:With all credit to DTLegend for the original "box," I've updated the roster as we believe it to be:

	2014	2015	2016	2017
pg				Wintering Zubizarreta
sg	Thieleke Riley	Carr Sharp	Pressley
sf		K. Bailey
pf	Nicholas	J. Bailey
c		van der Mars Barker

It's my belief that J. Bailey will NOT be on the roster after he graduates in May 2014....leaving UP with ZERO PFs on the roster from the current group.

Please, no more defections!!

If UP picks up a transferring PF this summer who's good through 2016, they will still need another PF in 2014 if J. Bailey leaves after graduation in 2014. The ideal situation would be a very good rebounding and scoring PF, creating less of a need for a dominate C.

The team can never have enough shooters/scorers, so for sure we'll see at least one SF and one Combo.

So, yup, looks like UP needs one of everything please.....

Oh, and I would love to see Oskars name appear in that box a year from now in the 2017 column......Zubi, Alec, and Oskars would make an impressive trio. #everhopeful

Since his breakout performance for his AAU team at the Pangos Sweet 16 Tournament last month, there has been quite a bit of interest in 6’8” PF Joe Furstinger, Class of 2014. He’s thought to be eying a PAC-12 school.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/player/_/id/165219/joe-furstinger

UC Irvine, Northern Colorado, Northern Arizona, Fresno State, Pilots...interesting that none of his listed offers are from the PAC-12 considering he seems to e a solid 3* recruit.

Gabe Vincent, playing for the Oakland Soldiers AAU team, but living in UOP's Stockton, is garnering quite a bit of attention for his ability to SCORE!!

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/player/evaluation/_/id/170843/gabriel-vincent

Via @davidvthompson:

Big news coming from the Bluff later today #WCC #PilotMBB #GettingBetterEveryday

Tease!

I have no idea where I saw it - and funny thing is that I wasn't even looking for anything remotely related - but the Pilots have apparently offered a 2014 SG out of Arizona. Ryan Richardson, I believe name was.

PurplePrideTrumpet wrote:Via @davidvthompson:

Big news coming from the Bluff later today #WCC #PilotMBB #GettingBetterEveryday

Tease!

Are they swapping out the Pokies for real M&M's?

PilotNut wrote:Are they swapping out the Pokies for real M&M's?

I'll guess that "swapping in the Hokies" would be more accurate in this case.

Edit: hey look, I'm a "Pilot Nation regular" now! Time to reevaluate life priorities

DeanMurdoch wrote:I have no idea where I saw it - and funny thing is that I wasn't even looking for anything remotely related - but the Pilots have apparently offered a 2014 SG out of Arizona. Ryan Richardson, I believe name was.

Yea, Ryan is part of a pipeline from Dobson HS in Mesa....maybe MesaPilot can steer Ryan to UP.

Richardson is versatile and a good shooter, but best of all IMO is his length. At 6'5" and still growing, he could be a tough matchup for some on the wing.

DeanMurdoch wrote:

Edit: hey look, I'm a "Pilot Nation regular" now! Time to reevaluate life priorities

Maybe better not to....

DeanMurdoch wrote:Edit: hey look, I'm a "Pilot Nation regular" now! Time to reevaluate life priorities

Congratulations, but if you keep up all the excellent posting you're going to create quite a problem for the administrators.....will they have to change the "All-American" category to "All-North American?"

DoubleDipper wrote:will they have to change the "All-American" category to "All-North American?"

Are you one of those Tea Party types trying to exclude South Americans?

PurpleGeezer wrote:Are you one of those Tea Party types trying to exclude South Americans?

No, Amigo. YOU are a South American legend; not an All-South American!!

Oh, great.

Now I have to reevaluate life priorities also.