natetheskate wrote:
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1. Thanks for the update,,,,,lotta work...appreciated
2. In your rummaging around the world of basketball recruiting did you get a sense that any of these guys are serious about LU?
3. Interested that UW-Milwaukee was mentioned as often as it was....I think Dad and Son...the Baldwins are playing a little game. trying to get kids thinking that Pat Jr. is going to go to UWM....in hopes of grabbing a couple b4 he bolts for Duke or Dad and son bolt somewhere together....UWM is continually mentioned as one of his top 3......NU seems to have given up even though dad coached there.
4. I get it that players will go where they have a relationship with a coach,,,but was surprised to see the comment about CPS players heading to Western.....what a horrible facility ....remember going there to see the Ramblers in 04....and what a horrible gym...basically less than many high school gyms...and we lost by 15 scoring 18 points in the first half!!!!
Didn't do too much digging beyond the verbal commits page for most of them yesterday. had some time to do little more research this morning on some of the newer offers.
- Brandin Podziem -
Article from Rivals seems to highlight some of the high major offers he's recently received. Wouldn't count us out, as he talks about fit/playing time, so if we get him on campus could be a major factor.
- Marcus Randolph - Could not find anything on his recruitment process, other than his team (Archbishop Wood) is apparently favorite to win the Philly Catholic League and is a potential
top 25 team in the country.
- Isaiah Walker - Just a
short article on his influx of offers, but no mentions of any specific schools. Has the winning pedigree Porter always seems to go after (24-0 regular season last year) and his dad was Ohio Mr. Basketball, played 4 years at Xavier, and had a nearly decade long professional career in Poland.
- Ben Schwieger -
Recent article about him deciding to play volleyball instead of AAU basketball and how the June recruiting period would have helped him. Granted, the June recruiting period ended up being cancelled. There's a
Rivals article about him building a relationship with Wisconsin, but it's behind a paywall. To date they have not offered him.
- Garrett Johnson - Just some
general Q&A with him about basketball and the current recruiting process. No mention of any particular schools.
- Ty Johnson - Johnson retweeted some accounts saying
Tulane and
Virginia Tech have reached out to him.
- Will Richard- Apparently has a
few other schools who have reached out including Tulsa, James Madison, and Belmont and a
minor spotlight piece hereWould hope that Baldwin Sr. is being upfront with recruits about his chances of landing junior. Feel like most guys wouldn't commit, or at least sign their LOI, until junior signs his.
Will definitely be interesting to see how WIU develops. Hinton had offers from SLU, Boise State, and Grand Canyon. Watson had committed to Wake Forest before the coaching change. Tamell Pearson didn't ever really take off at UAB, but had some high major offers from Illinois and Oklahoma State along with various Valley/Horizon league level offers. That's a lot of talent for the Summit League. Keep up a pipeline like that and things will be interesting.