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WOW, the staff is really getting it done this year.

levon1975 wrote:

Good news!  Now they can concentrate on front court players.  Probably a power forward and a small forward to complete a nice class.

Now that you have two guards in the mix and two more scholarships, do you take a chance on another tall project like Lewis and hope he develops?

LETS GOOOOOOOOOO

ElDuque wrote:

Very, very impressive. He's bringing in next level talent to compete with the better talent he now has on his roster.

Good job, Coach Ferry. Let's build something special here.

I'm still not sold on his Xs and Os, but he's bringing in some solid talent, and not waiting until the spring when there's not much left. He's beginning to look like Penn State's coach, who didn't do much early, but has upped his recruiting enough to buy himself a little more time.
 

duq81 wrote:

ElDuque wrote:

Very, very impressive. He's bringing in next level talent to compete with the better talent he now has on his roster.

Good job, Coach Ferry. Let's build something special here.

I'm still not sold on his Xs and Os, but he's bringing in some solid talent, and not waiting until the spring when there's not much left. He's beginning to look like Penn State's coach, who didn't do much early, but has upped his recruiting enough to buy himself a little more time.
 

It's funny you say that, because I was thinking the same thing last night.  Pat Chambers is recruiting his butt off as of late to make Penn State into a legit B10 program.  He probably would have been fired, but with the incoming Philly recruits, that would have been a huge mistake.  I think Ferry is making the same type of case.  If he can show me a good season this year with development of the freshmen and juniors, then I will start to really buy in, especially if he can land a decent big man (Strong) and a good Sf (Ngalakulondi ).  Perhaps the situation at Duquesne requires patience (A LOT of Patience...  Like A LOT.)   

Isaiah Mike last year!

I'd say before Mike it was Saunders and Baldonado.(sp?)

Nice to see Coach Ferry going after and getting the good ones, recently discussed with Ray Goss his opinion of I. Mike, he saw him at the summer games and was impressed. That impresses me since Ray has seen and called play by play on them all.

Hope is eternal with we die hard fans , and remember it took Coach Ferry quite awhile to get it right at LIU, then he went NCAA.....

Two points
1.  We have two verbals from Banks and Wheeler.  Both players are good recruits.  We are in the running for two more--Strong and T Nga.  That would make four players when we only have three scholies to give--Lewis, Abramhamson and Blackman.  Did I do the math wrong?
2. I sense that Harper had a lot to do with the better recruiting.  When hired, he mentioned that the recruiting was antiquated.  Later, he talked about installing a plan that would help, not only JF, all future coaches. I wonder if that all happened?

Econ69 wrote:

Two points
1.  We have two verbals from Banks and Wheeler.  Both players are good recruits.  We are in the running for two more--Strong and T Nga.  That would make four players when we only have three scholies to give--Lewis, Abramhamson and Blackman.  Did I do the math wrong?
2. I sense that Harper had a lot to do with the better recruiting.  When hired, he mentioned that the recruiting was antiquated.  Later, he talked about installing a plan that would help, not only JF, all future coaches. I wonder if that all happened?

Econ 69, You forgot Jackson who left in August.


Simms, I thought last years class was was a solid A10 class, and this year is shaping up to be possibly better, I still have the concern on the need to have a winning season this year in the A10.  He has the talent, and now he has to show some movement up in the League this year to get any extension in my opinion.

PhoenixRising2 wrote:

Duques102 wrote:

[Any chance Brian Nash is down in Florida helping to pull some strings for us???? He has some clout in his position down there, wonder if he knew these kids. they and Nash both run in the same elite basketball circles down there, which probably aren't all that large.

PistolPete wrote:

D102 I was wondering the same thing about Nash, although he hasn't been in Fla that long yet.  Either way, these two commits are a big "get" for us from a recruiting pedigree at least.  I too hope we can finalize the class with the up front targets - possibly this week on T Naga.  Now we need some melding of all the new pieces on this year's roster to have a good season and make some noise in the A-10 tourney in our own backyard!!!

If you look at the Jason Strong video, you will see Brian Nash sitting in the top row when they pan over to the coaches.

Brian brought a lot of talent into Duquesne; I don't know who exactly he brought in - you might have a better handle on this, Steel city AJ.  I do know that he brought in Sanders, too.  Sometimes young guys with a lot of raw talent don't work hard or are head cases. It happens; i.e. Powell.  And sometimes it takes longer to figure things out - I'm hoping that's the case for Jordan Robinson. Watkins' injury derailed his opportunity. And whenever you bring in a JC transfer (especially a guard) or a 5th year senior, you're just patching a hole - it's a scramble by all of the coaching staff to get a warm and hopefully a productive body in place.
 

Ah ha! I thought it seemed like an unlikely coincidence that our associate head coach takes a job at one of the nationally elite sports academies down there and all of a sudden we get two highly rated recruits out of a state we otherwise almost never get guys from. Kudos to however they got it done but I wouldn't be surprised to find out Nash is heavily involved with the AAU circuit in addition to his duties at IMG, as most college coaches are in many sports.

He is also constantly evaluating talent at that age level because he himself is looking to recruit the best possible players to his school, IMG to in turn raise the profile of the high school/academy national profile. He could be a huge asset going forward, he may be down in Florida, but he's just a phone call away. He got Powell and Lewis from down there shortly before taking the job. Could be a new recruiting pipeline opening up in a very talented recruiting pool.