RYAN WADE is a CRUSADER !!

Not HS teammates, but as Grass Roots teammates, Ryan and cousin Drew Lowder, the last teammates to play for HC before that I can think of are Ronnie Perry and Mike Vicens at Catholic Memorial, 2 years apart.

Welcome Ryan.    I can see from the photo they posted today you're already larger than the first photo- keep the good work up!

For the record, Ryan had a slew of mid-major offers - a handful from the MAC and Detroit last year, and six more this past summer, including Air Force, San Diego, Robert Morris, North Dakota, and Lehigh.

It looks like all three of these guys can play some straight up man defense, too.

Would like to see the staff put together a couple if home and homes with those Michigan MAC schools.

FANTASTIC NEWS! welcome aboard, ryan.

judging by the number and quality of other scholarship offers - which is always the best (albeit still imperfect) metric for the quality of a recruiting class - this is our best class in years.

congrats to carmody and staff for landing a number of desired players who appear to be great fits for our program and school.

AB-approved . . .

Ryan is a great addition to our team!  Looking forward to seeing the Hart Center packed again for PL Championship games!!

I hope you guys are not putting too much pressure on this young man. It's not like we beat out UNC, Duke or Louisville for this recruit. 

Glad we got him but maybe lower the expectations a wee bit?

And- it's been lamented more than a couple of times that we get kids without any real offers. Well, the MAC, WCC (San Diego), and Mountain West (Air Force) are all leagues clearly ahead of the PL. Probably can say the same for the Horizon League (U of Detroit).

haven’t seen anything even remotely suggesting we beat out a top 10 program for wade, louder, or hargis.

we did, however, beat out a slew of mid-majors (19 confirmed scholarship offers across the three signees) to land this class. as such, it is not putting any undo pressure on the players to point out this fact that it is our best recruiting class on paper in a long time.

these guys aren’t babies and if they read this message forum at all, they aren’t the types that are going to fold under pressure of a few message board posters expressing their excitement over the class. these are d1 basketball players who, for the most part, are confident in themselves and optimistic for the success. just look at ab’s post about championships! i agree with him and i hope every player on the roster shares those expectations.

As the investment bankers say, “Past performance is no guarantee of future results.” However, in HC’s case, the past performance of Michiganders in the program (Grayson, Moulton, Tropf, Mashburn, Walker and Pegues [played his HS ball in Michigan], all of whom started for 2 or more years) gives me hope and reason for optimism that BV, DL and RW will have productive careers in the Purple.

All 3 players come from quality programs with histories of on court success and have played against quality competition in HS and in their respective AAU programs.

I’m looking forward to the next 4-5 years with them in the program.