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Post by WorcesterGray on Jul 14, 2016 17:08:17 GMT -5
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Post by WorcesterGray on Jul 14, 2016 19:51:43 GMT -5
Not sure who HC is specifically looking at. Its probably a South Jersey Jazz player: Baylor, Texas, Bama, Marquette, GA Tech, Memphis, Miami, Northwestern, Holy Cross, Kansas St, Nebraska watching @houdefenders vs @sjjazz A Jazz player we also may be watching is Anthony Mack, a 6-5 SG from Blair Academy. He's had offers from Lehigh, BU, Yale, and several AE schools. He had 29 points vs. Houston this morning and 16 in an afternoon contest, going 21-25 from the line in the two games. He also had 25 points in their opening tilt yesterday.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 14, 2016 20:18:45 GMT -5
Mack is an interesting case. This will be his 6th season of HS basketball. Played varsity starting in 8th grade for Catholic Central in Troy, NY. After four years of varsity there, he went to Blair and reclassified as a junior. He is surprisingly athletic.
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Post by hchoops on Jul 14, 2016 21:08:56 GMT -5
Mack is an interesting case. This will be his 6th season of HS basketball. Played varsity starting in 8th grade for Catholic Central in Troy, NY. After four years of varsity there, he went to Blair and reclassified as a junior. He is surprisingly athletic. Is this a similar situation to EG ?
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Post by bison137 on Jul 14, 2016 21:55:47 GMT -5
Mack is an interesting case. This will be his 6th season of HS basketball. Played varsity starting in 8th grade for Catholic Central in Troy, NY. After four years of varsity there, he went to Blair and reclassified as a junior. He is surprisingly athletic. Is this a similar situation to EG ? I don't think so, because one of those six seasons was pre-HS.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jul 14, 2016 21:56:32 GMT -5
Hoops--
Is that a MM report intended for the MM thread???
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Post by hchoops on Jul 15, 2016 5:56:45 GMT -5
Hoops-- Is that a MM report intended for the MM thread??? Thanks switched
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Post by hchoops on Jul 15, 2016 6:14:25 GMT -5
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jul 15, 2016 7:31:59 GMT -5
Sounds like Copeland has his heart set on an Ivy League education......
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Post by hchoops on Jul 15, 2016 8:05:18 GMT -5
Sounds like Copeland has his heart set on an Ivy League education...... If he qualifies
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Post by WorcesterGray on Jul 15, 2016 9:04:50 GMT -5
Per Hoop Group twitter, Holy Cross (CFO) watching the final day of the Elite event at Albright College. In addition to Copeland, some positive mention of F Nick Alikakos (HC interest, but no offer yet) hoopgroup.com/elite-blog/77215/
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Post by WorcesterGray on Jul 15, 2016 9:13:21 GMT -5
Sounds like Copeland has his heart set on an Ivy League education...... Speaking of which, NERR reports today that Yale was closely following SG Jalen Gabbidon (whom Holy Cross has offered) at the Big Apple Summer Showcase in New York yesterday. For all the bravado about recruiting kids who are "better than Patriot League players," we have a bigger, ongoing challenge competing with the Ivy League.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 15, 2016 9:16:01 GMT -5
Sounds like Copeland has his heart set on an Ivy League education...... From what he says, he was below the AI floor (the Ivy floor presumably, which is higher than the PL AI floor.) IMO, for an Ivy to recruit an athlete whose AI is just above the floor, he probably has to be *** or better. The 'problem' being the need to offset the athlete with the low AI, given the average AI of all recruited athletes must be within one standard deviation of the AI for the entire matriculating class that entered the previous year. Grossly oversimplifying, if a recruited athlete is 2.5 standard deviations below the school AI, then the AD has to find a recruited athlete whose AI is at the very top of all admitted students to offset.
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Post by WorcesterGray on Jul 15, 2016 9:29:16 GMT -5
Jahsim Floyd picked up an offer from Canisius late Wednesday, to add to those from Quinnipiac, NJIT, and (maybe) Rider.
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Post by bison137 on Jul 15, 2016 12:13:56 GMT -5
Sounds like Copeland has his heart set on an Ivy League education...... From what he says, he was below the AI floor (the Ivy floor presumably, which is higher than the PL AI floor.) IMO, for an Ivy to recruit an athlete whose AI is just above the floor, he probably has to be *** or better. The 'problem' being the need to offset the athlete with the low AI, given the average AI of all recruited athletes must be within one standard deviation of the AI for the entire matriculating class that entered the previous year. Grossly oversimplifying, if a recruited athlete is 2.5 standard deviations below the school AI, then the AD has to find a recruited athlete whose AI is at the very top of all admitted students to offset. Yes, but that is not as hard as it sounds since a basketball player with a poor AI can be offset by a recruit for squash or fencing or sailing etc. in the PL, you don't have that luxury.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 15, 2016 15:54:36 GMT -5
bison, exactly, BUT the recruited player with the low AI has to be seen as having more than passable athletic potential, --potential sufficient to 'sacrifice' a high AI squash player. when the squash player's AI might be put to better use toward a star, all-state QB. _________________________________
I often take a passing interest in basketball recruits from Jesuit high schools who end up at HYP rather than say, Holy Cross or Georgetown..
Here is the high school bio of an incoming Harvard recruit from Greater Los Angeles. Very likely, no AI concerns with him..
His brother is the 6'12" center that HC70 seeks in vain, and seems to be the better athlete (he put up 21 points and garnered 11 rebounds against the Caliparians).
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Post by bison137 on Jul 15, 2016 17:04:58 GMT -5
bison, exactly, BUT the recruited player with the low AI has to be seen as having more than passable athletic potential, --potential sufficient to 'sacrifice' a high AI squash player. when the squash player's AI might be put to better use toward a star, all-state QB. _________________________________ True, but they can almost always find a low AI basketball player worth the sacrifice of having a brilliant but mediocre squash player. The tradeoff normally will be for a basketball player because Ivy football has its own separate AI which applies only to that sport. Thus no potential for offsets against less important sports. The regular AI applies to all other sports.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jul 15, 2016 18:02:17 GMT -5
Isn't the whole notion of offsetting basketball, hockey, and football players with fencers and squash athletes just fantastic??? What a system the Ivies have built!!
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Post by bison137 on Jul 15, 2016 18:40:52 GMT -5
Isn't the whole notion of offsetting basketball, hockey, and football players with fencers and squash athletes just fantastic??? What a system the Ivies have built!! Only basketball and hockey. Football has its own AI, so they can't "cheat" in that sport.
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Post by WorcesterGray on Jul 15, 2016 20:17:43 GMT -5
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Post by breezy on Jul 17, 2016 4:55:27 GMT -5
From Twitter last night:
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Post by WorcesterGray on Jul 17, 2016 5:34:48 GMT -5
Butler is a 6-4 SG from Latrobe, PA, playing this weekend at the Hoop Group Summer Jam Fest - believe Carmody himself is watching the event Three of Butler's other four offers are from D2 schools.
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Post by HC92 on Jul 17, 2016 6:22:36 GMT -5
Butler is a 6-4 SG from Latrobe, PA, playing this weekend at the Hoop Group Summer Jam Fest - believe Carmody himself is watching the event Three of Butler's other four offers are from D2 schools. The D1 offer is from Navy.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jul 17, 2016 7:02:05 GMT -5
Austin Butler highlight video available on Hudl. Averaged 25 points per game on 52% shooting on twos, 42% on threes (!) and 74% from the line. Highlight video shows almost all his threes coming from 4-6 feet beyond the arc. Watched first 3-4 minutes of highlights, 95% was three point attempts. Did see a couple of dunks, but limited insights into other aspects of his game
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Post by hchoops on Jul 17, 2016 7:38:19 GMT -5
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