ToledoRambler wrote:
Navigating the recruiting waters this year must be really hard for Moser. On one hand, you would have to think that our status has been elevated enough to take shots at getting higher rated players, but also, you don’t want to spend too much time, attention and effort on long shots and risk losing out on solid second tier talent that isn’t going to wait around to be your silver medal. Hopefully we don’t shoot for the stars and end up getting burned in this year’s recruitment.
Very true! Luckily I wouldn't say any one we're currently on is "shooting for the stars." We were in so early on all of these kids it's just been about good talent evaluation, rather than trying to get in late on a kid. Plus a good amount of them have fun subplots.
Braun has the high school/AAU connections + is friends with Kaifes based on their twitter
We were the first to offer Shannon before he exploded; someone mentioned he had a relationship with Corey Minfield, and has had some twitter interactions with Ingram (as has Dajuan Gordon)
Welch and Kennedy are teammates with Paxson Wojcik (Wojcik also would likely be getting higher offers based on the rest of his summer after committing)
Obviously we won't get them all but one or two of them would be really special gets. Personally I'm hoping for Gordon and Braun (Shannon obviously, but I'm not so sure that's in the cards anymore).