Well, I imagine we like him a lot more than the other options we have at this point in the recruiting process. I mean where the heck did this guy come from? It just seems like well Wilkins looks like a question mark, and so does clyburn so lets reach a little on someone. At least we know he will sign with us. I have a feeling a big 12 school even a bad one is better than playing for the others schools he has offers from.
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Well, I imagine we like him a lot more than the other options we have at this point in the recruiting process. I mean where the heck did this guy come from? It just seems like well Wilkins looks like a question mark, and so does clyburn so lets reach a little on someone. At least we know he will sign with us. I have a feeling a big 12 school even a bad one is better than playing for the others schools he has offers from.
How would any of us really know when we started recruiting him? It could be more late than early, but mostly due to having a scholarship that we hadn't anticipated. I doubt the first time his name came up amongst the coaching staff was in the past month, but I could be wrong.
true, but we didn't try to get him signed during the early signing period so we don't like him as much as ejim or phillips. I'm sure Barnes has been on Mac's radar that long but it seems to me that we are recruiting him harder as of late. He also wasn't asked to visit earlier, or even during the basketball season.
Again, how do you know all of this? And let's say that were the case do we know why? We didn't want him or maybe we didn't have a scholarship available?
We had one of those this year. His name was Craig Brackins. Unfortunately, no one told Brackins that he lacked the skill set to take over a game by himself, which was one of our biggest problems on the season. We'd get down and Brackins would start firing it up from everywhere, missing more often than not, and we'd fall farther behind.
they are assumptions, but i guess it just seems like we had every other signed recruit, or future recruits in for games this year, why would he be the only one who didn't.
Also, we hear about recruits more often than we don't and this guys name just popped up. I hope he is good, but i have my doubts.
That's fine, and who knows, you could turn out to be completely correct on how his recruitment has gone. I would just prefer to avoid making assumptions fact based on how well they fit our opinions.
I found out about Bo Barnes mid to late February...That was also the first time the staff saw him in person. Not sure when they started recruiting him.
yea i do understand none of us really know what was going on behind the scenes, but i am just assuming that he is another reach recruit just like the majority have been under mac.
Here at Iowa State we have plenty of scholarships that open up every year so I'm not too worried about "wasting" one.
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I agree for the most part. Staiger was one of those players who needed to be either less one-dimensional* or strictly one-dimensional. If his strength was 3-point shooting but he had little else, he would have worked best in 2 ways
1. as a good 6th/7th man who could come in and jack a few long-range bombs and rejuvenate the team.
2. as a pure SG on a team with a creative point guard and a couple of go-to scorers.
In either case, his defensive liabilities hurt with more than 20 minutes of playing time, on average.
* I know, "less than 1 dimensional" sounds like zero dimensions (or the empty set). I meant "multi-dimensional." You do the math.
Ugh. Not wanted I wanted to hear. We have tons of playing time available for a 3, so we really should be able to land one who is at MCC and knows ISU well.
Of course, Clyburn in the one who played with Buckley in high school, right? Buck transferring probably didn't help our chances. But still, St. Louis? We have to be able to beat them for recruits, especially from Iowa Jucos.
St. Louis actually has a good coach that has improved the team during his time there. ISU can not say that.
Early in the season. Which team is still playing now and which team ended with a winning record? Also, you are saying then that K-State has a worse program and worse coach than ISU, correct?
Great post though yours always make me laugh. What color socks is Coach McD wearing today?
