Serious question. Do you think the staff has an automatic info line that gets them these transfer happenings and they watch them daily waiting to see who we could still possibly pursue, or they have already designated their targets and its about putting the all-in efforts on them?
***Official 2017 Transfer Thread***
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6'10"? Check
Post moves? Check
Free Throws? Check
Decent Athlete? Check
Lefty? Check
Sounds like our guy, Plus he's already in the midwest so we wouldn't have to try and drag him away from either coast and the big time bball schools out there.
They get a heads up on most of the guys they have a shot at. A lot of these things are done deals before they announce they're leaving too
Someone let Prohm know. He has to get on this, baby or not. Kinda kidding, but I assume our best bet it to get a grad transfer like this from a smaller school that may want to 'up' his game/competition/exposure/etc. Not that it worked with Holden, but I feel it did with Bowie, especially if he could have played his more natural position or the light would have came on sooner.
Curious...how is it determined that its a "guy they have a shot at"? Also, the 'done deal' thing is kinda frustrating. I mean, don't some of them announce first because they want to be recruited again and have choices?
The whole thing is real shady. A lot of these guys have people put out feelers to see who's interested before they decide if they want to transfer or not.
There's a lot of back channels coaches can use. The players AAU or HS coach are a common means of communication before anything is official or NCAA legal.
According to Wiki, Kane was born on 06/10/1989.
He would have been 24 the entire season he played for the Clones.
We already have an elite athlete that isn't exactly great at basketball? Of course he's not great at basketball. Lanning wrestled in HS.
Not just the Midwest, he's in Wisconsin. That's like our home state for recruiting purposes.
7-2 and doesn't seem to be very athletic. Fran has a leg up on us with this one.
Please don't take it personally, but some of these type jokes don't cause me to even chuckle anymore. All I heard was how Bohannon and Pemsl weren't athletic enough. Bull. They are going to challenge for all-big 10 status some year and have good careers. Dislike the Hawks (mostly their put-down fans and how they treat us) as much as the next guy, but I think Fran has proven he can recruit well enough and coach them.