The Bluejay Underground: A Creighton Sports Message Board

Was looking at the ESPN 100 top recruits. Interesting to see how our new conference is doing -- in the future, we're going to need to start showing up onlists like these. Thank you, Doug, for making it more likely we'll get there soon.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/baske ... order/true

Big East recruits on Top 100:
Marquette - 3
Villanova - 2
Georgetown - 1
Depaul - 1
St. Johns - 1
Providence - 1
Xavier - 1
Seton Hall - 1
Butler - 0
Creighton - 0

We are definitely recruiting a few top 100 players in 2014 and 2015.

Well, we were hard recruiting 5 on this list ( Agau-75, Stevie Clark-68, Wes Clark-79, Kendall Harris-85, and Matt Thomas-51), not counting Conner Frankcamp, Luke Fischer, or Kyle Washington. So we were putting in the time and effort - given that we were recruiting from the MVC...we were swinging for the fences. Similar efforts moving ahead will bear good fruit, in our new conference. As another poster noted above, we are in on several top recruits for both 2014 and 2015. More notable recruits/recruiting is coming...Hopefully maintaining academic quality as well, rather than simply better athletes.

I'm well aware of how poopy ESPN's recruiting service is, but I thought this was interesting:

http://espn.go.com/colleges/basketball/ ... class/2013

Two ESPN 100 commits. A couple weeks ago, that number was one.I assumed it was bad ESPN work/ glitchy website issues, but the number has since grown to two. I don't know if this means ESPN values Brooks and Milliken as Top 100 talents, or if that's how all juco recruits work. Still, pretty cool to see that number there

Jaysker12 wrote:I'm well aware of how poopy ESPN's recruiting service is, but I thought this was interesting:

http://espn.go.com/colleges/basketball/ ... class/2013

Two ESPN 100 commits. A couple weeks ago, that number was one.I assumed it was bad ESPN work/ glitchy website issues, but the number has since grown to two. I don't know if this means ESPN values Brooks and Milliken as Top 100 talents, or if that's how all juco recruits work. Still, pretty cool to see that number there

Ah Jaysker, it means Hegner and Harris are rated as 3 star recruits.

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mredle wrote:

Jaysker12 wrote:I'm well aware of how poopy ESPN's recruiting service is, but I thought this was interesting:

http://espn.go.com/colleges/basketball/ ... class/2013

Two ESPN 100 commits. A couple weeks ago, that number was one.I assumed it was bad ESPN work/ glitchy website issues, but the number has since grown to two. I don't know if this means ESPN values Brooks and Milliken as Top 100 talents, or if that's how all juco recruits work. Still, pretty cool to see that number there

Ah Jaysker, it means Hegner and Harris are rated as 3 star recruits.

Hmm interesting. Harris is a 2 star and Hegner is a 3 star, but they certainly aren't top 100 kids. My only guess is that they value Brooks and Milliken as top 100 talents.

most interesting is hanson being unranked.

i see him as the most physically ready of the three incoming frosh.

shows how inexact recruiting "science" is...

cujaysfan wrote:most interesting is hanson being unranked.

i see him as the most physically ready of the three incoming frosh.

shows how inexact recruiting "science" is...

I think Hanson's lack of rating is more of an indication that he hasn't been evaluated rather than anything else. Dakota kids don't get any exposure.

Many times kids will be invited to various camps for scouting services to rate. He committed last year, will be coming to Omaha soon and might very well passed on going to these camps where his rating may have received a bump. I tend to follow the GM rating service. GM (Greg McDermott) doesn't seem to be looking too hard at 4s or 5s for next year. That tells me he thinks we're in pretty good shape. The only other big I've even heard the hint of interest in for next year was atransfer from Purdue and I've heard nothing to indicate we are actively pursuing him.

mredle wrote:Many times kids will be invited to various camps for scouting services to rate. He committed last year, will be coming to Omaha soon and might very well passed on going to these camps where his rating may have received a bump. I tend to follow the GM rating service. GM (Greg McDermott) doesn't seem to be looking too hard at 4s or 5s for next year. That tells me he thinks we're in pretty good shape. The only other big I've even heard the hint of interest in for next year was atransfer from Purdue and I've heard nothing to indicate we are actively pursuing him.

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