Before some of you criticize me for inappropriate timing given the crisis with the football players who were shot, and the football team in general, is anyone else concerned about our basketball recruiting situation for 2016? We are losing Olsen (lost) Tucker, Taylor, Loveridge, most likely Poertl, and it is possible that some of the (30 second jumpers who get out there and jump around like they are playing for the last 30 seconds). Not sure who has scholarships but we need some talented players. We have Van Dyke back from his mission and perhaps he has grown and improved but he was not a PAC-12 guard when he left (sorry to his family who are very nice people). No idea if Miller will be able to play in the PAC-12.
I know we are looking at some kids and I know we have lost several that we expected to sign but lets fact it going against Kansas, NC, Stanford, and Cal are not easy sales to make. Guess we will field a team regardless since that only requires 5 players but it cannot be very good. Best play would be for one of these on the fence guys to actually pull the trigger and then we can build around him. We are recruiting too many followers who want to see who goes to Dookie before they decide to make an announcement.
Not too worried taht we are losing all the local kids this year. Jackson was a huge loss but it is hard to compete with Duke. Bailey could help us at some point but we are not lighting his fire. Baxter could help but he was signed and sealed for BYU long time ago. Not sure the state will ever have another class like the class of 2016 but if we do we better put ourselves in a position to sign some players.
I know we are looking at some kids and I know we have lost several that we expected to sign but lets fact it going against Kansas, NC, Stanford, and Cal are not easy sales to make. Guess we will field a team regardless since that only requires 5 players but it cannot be very good. Best play would be for one of these on the fence guys to actually pull the trigger and then we can build around him. We are recruiting too many followers who want to see who goes to Dookie before they decide to make an announcement.
Not too worried taht we are losing all the local kids this year. Jackson was a huge loss but it is hard to compete with Duke. Bailey could help us at some point but we are not lighting his fire. Baxter could help but he was signed and sealed for BYU long time ago. Not sure the state will ever have another class like the class of 2016 but if we do we better put ourselves in a position to sign some players.
