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Post by Ignutz on Mar 17, 2022 11:16:03 GMT -5
Interesting that of the eight other shooting guards listed on Verbal Commit's HC depth chart, only one, Bubba, remains.
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Post by hchoops on Mar 17, 2022 11:28:01 GMT -5
Do you mean Bo Montgomery ?
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Post by hc99 on Mar 17, 2022 11:29:03 GMT -5
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Post by Ignutz on Mar 17, 2022 15:33:46 GMT -5
Do you mean Bo Humphrey ? Isn't in Bubba Humphrey and Bo Montgomery? At this point, I can't keep track of who's Bo and who's Bubba - not to mention who is still here, and who is gone/going. But one thing I do know is "Who's on first".
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Post by lou on Mar 17, 2022 15:48:34 GMT -5
Blame it on the Kevins who had all season to identify Bo & Bubba correctly but couldn't
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Post by classof83 on Mar 21, 2022 16:18:58 GMT -5
I will admit that I have not read through all 31 pages of this thread, so I apologize if this has been mentioned. With so many of the HC players going into the portal after 1 or 2 years with HC (and presumably after they have developed enough to contribute) it makes me wonder. Why wouldn't our recruiting strategy be to try to find kids with 1 year's experience in the portal?
As I understand it, if they were then to transfer again from HC, they would need to sit a out a year. Maybe that would be some level of deterrence from kids leaving the program. Granted we may only have them 3 years - but that may need to be our new reality.
Case in point would be Nolan Dorsey.
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Post by timholycross on Mar 21, 2022 16:26:13 GMT -5
I will admit that I have not read through all 31 pages of this thread, so I apologize if this has been mentioned. With so many of the HC players going into the portal after 1 or 2 years with HC (and presumably after they have developed enough to contribute) it makes me wonder. Why wouldn't our recruiting strategy be to try to find kids with 1 year's experience in the portal? As I understand it, if they were then to transfer again from HC, they would need to sit a out a year. Maybe that would be some level of deterrence from kids leaving the program. Granted we may only have them 3 years - but that may need to be our new reality. Case in point would be Nolan Dorsey. Up to now, transfer admissions to HC have been more difficult than admitting freshmen, and admitting freshmen is difficult enough.
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Post by crusader1970 on Mar 21, 2022 17:01:35 GMT -5
I will admit that I have not read through all 31 pages of this thread, so I apologize if this has been mentioned. With so many of the HC players going into the portal after 1 or 2 years with HC (and presumably after they have developed enough to contribute) it makes me wonder. Why wouldn't our recruiting strategy be to try to find kids with 1 year's experience in the portal? As I understand it, if they were then to transfer again from HC, they would need to sit a out a year. Maybe that would be some level of deterrence from kids leaving the program. Granted we may only have them 3 years - but that may need to be our new reality. Case in point would be Nolan Dorsey. Up to now, transfer admissions to HC have been more difficult than admitting freshmen, and admitting freshmen is difficult enough. You are absolutely correct and this needs to be adjusted, at least for a few athletes a year, in order for our teams to be competitive.
It's tough enough to compete when we have no grad school for our 5th year seniors or potential grad transfers.
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Post by mm67 on Mar 21, 2022 17:30:15 GMT -5
Holy Cross must improve its academic standing to b a landing spot for high caliber scholar-athletes. Is this a possiblity for a Catholic liberal arts college or is it a fantasy? Honestly, I do not know.
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Post by pcfriar on Mar 21, 2022 21:17:03 GMT -5
New President, New AD, New coach (sorry not yet) lets recruit from the northeast forget about Michigan, Tennessee….. also can we get a coach who has a heart beat. Thus far his recruits have not exactly worked out. I need to see some passion! Coaches are like CEOs they need to engage many constituents especially if they have a losing record!
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Post by crusader1970 on Mar 22, 2022 7:50:29 GMT -5
New President, New AD, New coach (sorry not yet) lets recruit from the northeast forget about Michigan, Tennessee….. also can we get a coach who has a heart beat. Thus far his recruits have not exactly worked out. I need to see some passion! Coaches are like CEOs they need to engage many constituents especially if they have a losing record! Keep wishing but it will never happen.
CBN is the polar opposite of Coach Chesney.
He keeps losing games and then, as they say, "hides under his desk".
One more year to get through....
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Post by Tom on Mar 22, 2022 8:20:17 GMT -5
New President, New AD, New coach (sorry not yet) lets recruit from the northeast forget about Michigan, Tennessee….. also can we get a coach who has a heart beat. Thus far his recruits have not exactly worked out. I need to see some passion! Coaches are like CEOs they need to engage many constituents especially if they have a losing record! Although I have been referring to this whole pandemic as a zombie apocalypse, I will say with 99 and 44/100 percent certainty that the next HC coach will in fact have a heart beat
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Post by trimster on Apr 2, 2022 18:13:59 GMT -5
Masud Stewart, a 2022 pg HC offered a year and a half ago, committed recently to Binghamton.
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Post by WorcesterGray on Apr 5, 2022 15:47:19 GMT -5
Another Orangeville Prep kid. Big.
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Post by WorcesterGray on Apr 5, 2022 15:49:33 GMT -5
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Post by trimster on Apr 5, 2022 17:43:24 GMT -5
Orangeville’s hoop program was on hold for 19 months due to Covid so my guess is Stewart and his teammates have definitely been flying under the radar. Having said that, while reading about Milevich, I read where Orangeville sent 7 or 8 kids to D1 on schollie a couple of years ago so they are a very high-profile program in Canada. Stewart was born in London.
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Post by renospalding on Apr 5, 2022 21:17:50 GMT -5
New President, New AD, New coach (sorry not yet) lets recruit from the northeast forget about Michigan, Tennessee….. also can we get a coach who has a heart beat. Thus far his recruits have not exactly worked out. I need to see some passion! Coaches are like CEOs they need to engage many constituents especially if they have a losing record! Keep wishing but it will never happen.
CBN is the polar opposite of Coach Chesney.
He keeps losing games and then, as they say, "hides under his desk".
One more year to get through....
Polar opposite is spot on! Too bad he can’t learn personality from Coach Chesney. He is a great guy and a great coach. CBN does not know how to relate to the players he recruits and that is a problem. They can’t get out fast enough!
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Post by trimster on Apr 7, 2022 6:49:50 GMT -5
Since we need a pg, we might take a look at Samuel Gibbs who was just named 1st team All Catholic, AA level, for the Greater NYC Area. He is 6’3”, plays for Stepinac and according to Recruit The Bronx, has at least a 3.75 GPA. He has offers from St. Peter’s and Manhattan according to VC.
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Post by trimster on Apr 7, 2022 7:14:32 GMT -5
Just watched a 90 second video on Gibbs. He has a 4.0 GPA and has been approached by Harvard and Penn along with getting offers from Manhattan and St. Peter’s. A kid like this from the NYC Catholic League’s top division and a nationally known team of late, just has to be on HC’s radar. If he isn’t, I have to seriously question our basketball program. Richard Maloney would not be happy.
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Post by hchoops on Apr 7, 2022 7:24:51 GMT -5
I do not know if we were tracking Gibbs. When I saw him, he did not play the point. Stepinac had an All American soph and a top freshman share those duties. He is very good. Remember that until very recently we thought our PG situation was in four good young hands.
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Post by HC92 on Apr 7, 2022 7:25:18 GMT -5
Any recruit can be on our radar. The question is whether we’ll be on their radar. It is a very tough sell as we sit here in April 2022 to convince an 18-20 year old to come to a floundering (to put it nicely) program with a coach who is almost certainly entering his final season. The only thing that helps us is that there are fewer open seats than people trying to fill them so we’ll probably be able to add some guys between now and the start of the next academic year.
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Post by mm67 on Apr 7, 2022 7:54:29 GMT -5
Stepinac has had some very good players recently - AJ Griffin, 5 star, is a starter at Duke; RJ Davis, 4 star, is a starter at UNC & all academic ACC. They had an interesting NCAA semi-finals. At one time lots of guys from the Stepinac honors classes attended HC. ( Ex.Billy Collins, Joe McGuinness & me with 6 classmates). The school has gone through a dramatic change for the better - more much needed diversity with students not only from Westchester but from NYC. Today, there is interest among the general student population in HC. Interest is in the Ivies, the little Ivies, Service Academies, SUNY, and in Villanova, Fordham, Providence, Manhattan, etc. Gibbs would be a tough Get. Admissions needs to reach out more to a wider array of high schools both private & public. HC has a great story to tell. The school needs to send out reps to tell the schools story. Coach Chesney on a macro scale.
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Post by trimster on Apr 7, 2022 8:05:57 GMT -5
I came across the All NYC CHSAA team info. on the Fairfield board this morning. Some of their followers were harkening back to the days of Joey Desantis of Tolentine HS and the fact FF recruits few players, at least successfully, from the CHSAA of NY. Obviously the same applies to HC which had a pipeline from NYC and NJ to Worcester. Times change.
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Post by trimster on Apr 10, 2022 4:51:18 GMT -5
According to the Bill and Mary board, Nick Martinelli, a 6’7” SF who had committed to Elon last fall, just decommitted. He had offers from half the PL and Rice and picked up a bunch of new ones yesterday.
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Post by Majestic Mapp on Apr 11, 2022 19:25:33 GMT -5
Since we need a pg, we might take a look at Samuel Gibbs who was just named 1st team All Catholic, AA level, for the Greater NYC Area. He is 6’3”, plays for Stepinac and according to Recruit The Bronx, has at least a 3.75 GPA. He has offers from St. Peter’s and Manhattan according to VC. Gibbs is coming to the Patriot League -- he just committed to Loyola. I've seen him play too. He plays with good poise and he has a sweet looking stroke. In a couple of years other coaches might be kicking themselves for not recruiting him harder. Gibbs will be joining his current Stepinac teammate, Isaiah Alexander, at Loyola next year. Also next year he will be facing one of his former teammates, BU's Malcolm Chimezie.
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