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Post by motorcitysam on Jul 14, 2022 21:07:50 GMT -5
Nobody asked me, but if I was recruiting for Titan basketball, right now I'd be hitting the JUCO ranks hard. Particularly, I'd be looking hard at Schoolcraft, Mott, Lansing CC, St. Clair County CC, Kellogg, Macomb, Muskegon, etc. We've seen some capable D1 players coming out of that group and I imagine that there are some good (not great) prospects there. See who we can convince to stay instate if we make them a serious offer and get them to lock in their spot in November, rather than holding out and waiting to be discovered by a high major. And I wouldn't limit it to Michigan JUCOs. I'd look at JUCOs nationally, but particularly in the Midwest, with the hopes of identifying capable players who are willing to commit early. If I am reading our depth chart correctly, we've got six scholarship players on board for 2023-24. And we aren't really devoting as much time to that class as we should because we are still working on the class of 2022. I'd rather not be in that position next summer. With seven spots open (and it will probably be more) for the class of 2023, I'd like to see us land as many good JUCO players as possible early to ease some of that Spring/Summer recruiting pressure. Even if we got four of those players early, we'd still have some spots available for transfers. And since we don't seem to be landing much in the way of impact transfers anyway, I'd just as soon try to land some hungry JUCOs. Time for us to find this eras versions of Minnerath, Dunking Doug, and "TK" Kennedy. Somebody on the Cleveland State staff had the same idea I had. The Vikings extended offers to at least 7 JUCO players over the past two days.
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Post by fan on Jul 15, 2022 7:40:05 GMT -5
At one time the U of D got some good looks from Mott players, I wonder what happened there.
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Post by larrytitan on Jul 15, 2022 7:52:28 GMT -5
Mike Davis is what happened there.
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Post by upbasketballfan on Jul 15, 2022 8:16:50 GMT -5
I agree that it'd be nice to see more JuCos coming in. Easier to predict than guess who is going to be transferring, but probably less of a chance they will qualify academically. If they had to go to a JC, they probably weren't honor roll students. As I scroll through the various recruiting threads on this board, we have made quite a few JuCO offers, but it's been rare lately to have a taker. It would be interesting to check with the guys who turned us down who, in the past, might've come to Detroit Mercy and find out why we didn't make the cut. Staff? Teammates? Can't get in? Facilities? (That last one is my guess. I expect that is how Kampe snatched Rocket Watts away from us.) Watts has 2 years left and went somewhere where he knew somewhat who he would be playing with as a senior. When he committed I’m not sure we had announced anyone yet.because at that point I think we didn’t know who was coming in. Kampe could show a fairly set roster for the next couple years. If you are a guard and you want to be a scorer who do you pick to play with, Moore and Bowman or Davis and McAdoo?
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Post by fan on Jul 15, 2022 9:32:20 GMT -5
TitanLarry, a really good point rarely talked about, again going back to Ray Sr and Ray Jr, it seems like Jr's "reputation" was used to bring players of "quality" to join and go along for the "ride".
That doesn't seem to be the case with AD, the team starts over every year.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2022 14:04:33 GMT -5
6'8" JUCO Stephen Byard
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2022 14:06:03 GMT -5
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Post by motorcitysam on Sept 19, 2022 21:46:10 GMT -5
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Post by motorcitysam on Sept 24, 2022 15:52:04 GMT -5
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Post by motorcitysam on Sept 25, 2022 22:02:39 GMT -5
I am hoping that as the Titans staff was locking in the class of 2022 they were also making progress with the class of 2023. It's September, so not time to panic, but I took a quick look at Verbal Commits to see how our conference competition was doing with 2023.
Cleveland State has one commitment for the class of 2023. Green Bay has three, all high school players from Wisconsin. IUPUI doesn't have any. Milwaukee doesn't have any. NKU has a couple of high school guards, one from Kentucky and one from North Carolina. Oakland has one, Detroiter Dre Polk, previously of CMU. Fort Wayne has two, a couple of high school guards from Ohio and Georgia. Robert Morris doesn't have any. Wright State has three high school guards, two from Ohio and one from Grand Rapids. Youngstown State landed a seven foot high school center from Kentucky and a high school guard from North Carolina.
So we're not the only HL team that has a lot of work to do. Of course, given the extra Covid year and the portal, it's hard to know for sure what our needs are going to be for 2023. But it would be nice to get some good news in the November signing period.
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Post by motorcitysam on Sept 29, 2022 15:28:02 GMT -5
We've offered. If there's a local guy in the class of '23 that is ready to/currently blowing up, this is it. I can't urge our staff enough to work hard for this guy (of course, when you've still got 6 open spots in the class of '22, and no publicly announced non conference games scheduled yet, and it's already into June, you've got more important things to do. I wish, just for once, we could be thinking ahead instead of playing catch up) Committed to Toledo.
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Post by motorcitysam on Oct 3, 2022 18:46:32 GMT -5
I've noticed this guy has gotten a bunch of offers in the past week James Flippin has committed to IUPUI.
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Post by upbasketballfan on Oct 8, 2022 12:32:55 GMT -5
I've noticed this guy has gotten a bunch of offers in the past week James Flippin has committed to IUPUI. This is the guy I was hoping we would get. Now we will get a first hand look at what he can do in the Horizon League.
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Post by calihanmole on Oct 8, 2022 13:00:09 GMT -5
We didn’t get him? That flippin sucks.
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Post by motorcitysam on Nov 9, 2022 12:14:27 GMT -5
As we enter the November signing period, does anyone think that the Titans will sign anyone? Or will it be Spring/Summer recruiting again? 🤔
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