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Post by Retired Coach on May 2, 2024 7:14:31 GMT -5
Chase Forte is headed to South Dakota. Our rookie staff is getting their asses handed to them. Cast a small net of prospective options and move slowly on the ones we like... Ding ding ding. We have a winner. We only have 2 competent recruiters right now: Sargent and Bere. They are both kicking the tires on recruits when other teams are offering them scholarships and NIL money. You aren’t going to be competitive with a philosophy like this. Our rookie coaches are basically useless right now. They have never recruited before and have no shot competing with vet coaches recruiting the same player they are, especially with our kick the tires approach to recruiting the portal. Trice should have been let go with the coaching change. Keeping him and giving him a new title was asinine. Since the portal opened, he has completely wasted time and money recruiting kids that had no chance to ever contribute to a Raider team. A large portion of the kids he has contacted are ending up at the D2 level. The other large portion he has been contacting are high major transfers we have no chance at landing. They are ending up at other high major programs or major programs where they are probably getting more in NIL next year than he is going to make as one of our 2 associate head coaches. Anyone that inept at identifying a potential future member of this team needs replaced. We would be better served to go into next year down a coach and throw his salary into our NIL fund for players. The portal officially closed last night. The pool of recruits isn’t getting any bigger. The staff needs to get ultra focused and find at least 3 recruits that can play in the rotation next year or they might as well pack it in. We need a point guard and 2 bigs. Anything more than that will be a bonus. Anything less and next season could be the worst year we have had in the last 20 years. That won’t cut it here. The Sargent/Brown promotions will be very short lived if that is the case.
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Post by Dr J on May 2, 2024 11:31:52 GMT -5
Cast a small net of prospective options and move slowly on the ones we like... Ding ding ding. We have a winner. We only have 2 competent recruiters right now: Sargent and Bere. They are both kicking the tires on recruits when other teams are offering them scholarships and NIL money. You aren’t going to be competitive with a philosophy like this. Our rookie coaches are basically useless right now. They have never recruited before and have no shot competing with vet coaches recruiting the same player they are, especially with our kick the tires approach to recruiting the portal. Trice should have been let go with the coaching change. Keeping him and giving him a new title was asinine. Since the portal opened, he has completely wasted time and money recruiting kids that had no chance to ever contribute to a Raider team. A large portion of the kids he has contacted are ending up at the D2 level. The other large portion he has been contacting are high major transfers we have no chance at landing. They are ending up at other high major programs or major programs where they are probably getting more in NIL next year than he is going to make as one of our 2 associate head coaches. Anyone that inept at identifying a potential future member of this team needs replaced. We would be better served to go into next year down a coach and throw his salary into our NIL fund for players. The portal officially closed last night. The pool of recruits isn’t getting any bigger. The staff needs to get ultra focused and find at least 3 recruits that can play in the rotation next year or they might as well pack it in. We need a point guard and 2 bigs. Anything more than that will be a bonus. Anything less and next season could be the worst year we have had in the last 20 years. That won’t cut it here. The Sargent/Brown promotions will be very short lived if that is the case. I agree with most of this but I have been watching the portal and a lot of players could be looking for last minute openings. Many of these may go to a school and pay their own way without scholarship. Have you looked at the portal to see how many players are still available?
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Post by 86grad on May 2, 2024 11:42:54 GMT -5
There are around 1100 unsigned players still listed in the portal.
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Post by ohiopirate on May 2, 2024 12:05:17 GMT -5
Many (most?) of those players in the portal are "going to go pro in something other than basketball" as the old NCAA commercial used to say. If you catch my drift... That's the problem if we're waiting to fill our roster with the folks that are leftover.
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Post by raidergrad98 on May 2, 2024 12:36:43 GMT -5
Anyone know of or could point to a site analyzing transfer statistics? I'm sure I could google it, but I'd be curious if anyone here has come across a reputable means of data analysis. I'm especially curious about those that enter the portal and end up not getting picked up by another school, those who withdrawal from the portal and return to the same institution, etc.
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Post by OG Raiderfan on May 3, 2024 16:33:26 GMT -5
Big D just updated Peter Suder’s thread on the recruiting board. We recruited him out of high school. He put up decent numbers at Bellarmine except his 3 point shooting was horrendous. I’m not sure if he is a SG or SF or where he would fit in here. A PG and a couple of PFs seem to be more of a priority to me, but it’s nice to see our coaches are at least recruiting someone. wrightstate.proboards.com/thread/3538/bellarmine-transfer-peter-suder?page=1&scrollTo=115571
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Post by wsu97 on May 4, 2024 9:32:07 GMT -5
Trice started following JUCO PG Jaron Crews and Bellarmine PF Langdon Hatton. Hatton was a teammate of Peter Suder at Bellarmine. I heard Suder was on campus yesterday for a visit.
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Post by Ukraine Train on May 4, 2024 9:37:42 GMT -5
I’d be pretty excited if we landed Suder, Hatton, and Crews. Any word on what is going on with AJ Braun? I haven’t seen anything on his recruitment. It would be nice if our staff re-recruited him and we could get him back into the fold too.
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Post by Dr J on May 4, 2024 10:13:50 GMT -5
I’d be pretty excited if we landed Suder, Hatton, and Crews. Any word on what is going on with AJ Braun? I haven’t seen anything on his recruitment. It would be nice if our staff re-recruited him and we could get him back into the fold too. So far A J is still available. The only one committed KK, to a DII team.
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Post by wsuairstrike on May 4, 2024 11:32:57 GMT -5
Going after players from one of the worst D1 programs in 2023-2024 is certainly a strategy.
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Post by Big D on May 4, 2024 11:38:17 GMT -5
Going after players from one of the worst D1 programs in 2023-2024 is certainly a strategy. If those players upgrade your program you do. We have 5 open spots. Taking the best players from a bad team isn’t a bad strategy. We have had a lot of great players that played on some bad Wright State teams in the past that I would love to have next year. If these guys can contribute, I’m all in on adding them.
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Post by wsu97 on May 4, 2024 18:36:56 GMT -5
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Post by bearcatraider on May 4, 2024 19:14:44 GMT -5
AJ Braun's departure is curious. When he left so quickly, I thought for sure he already had a deal at another school.
Something must have fallen apart, right?
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Post by wsuwillie on May 5, 2024 8:19:20 GMT -5
Whatever is up with AJ, I hope Clint & Co are trying to re-recruit him.
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Post by Raider Gang on May 5, 2024 15:45:41 GMT -5
UMass fans seem pretty confident that they are signing AJ. I hope he is getting one hell of an NIL check because he is going to get eaten alive in that conference and by that fan base. Some of our fans get accused of being too critical of our coaches and players. Our worst fans are still night and day better than UMass fans. They are delusional beyond belief and think they should be a final 4 team every year.
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