Gill moves closer to home.  Good luck

.Jon Rothstein ‏[/url]Duquesne transfer LG Gill has committed to Maryland, source told [url=https://twitter.com/CBSSports]@CBSSports. Immediately eligible for next season. Big get for Terps.

Last edited by CLK (5/09/2016 2:06 pm)

I don't necessarily agree with the "big get" comment either. The grad transfer period reminds me a lot of the end of the night at a college house party. You're desperately looking around to fill a need with a limited window of time remaining. The longer you don't lock somebody up the slimmer and slimmer the talent gets. Eventually, because it's all that's left and your still going to fill the need, you'll take just about anything, and usually someone you wouldn't normally take if you had more time (or less beer). I see LG this way, noit saying he isn't a very solid-good college player.

I stand by my feeling that if LG was a senior in high school and was where he is now developmentally, Maryland wouldn't have even sniffed him.

Last edited by Duques102 (5/09/2016 2:43 pm)

Yeah, but had Blackman been producing the way he was in college out of high school like I talked about with Gill we probably would have been all over him, especially with him being an NYC kid. With Abrahamson, we never would have had a chance recruiting him out of high school with him being offered by like, at least 5 or 6 power 5 conference schools. Maryland has a lot higher recruiting standards than us obviously, so I don't really see how you can compare the two situations.

Duques102 wrote:

Yeah, but had Blackman been producing the way he was in college out of high school like I talked about with Gill we probably would have been all over him, especially with him being an NYC kid. With Abrahamson, we never would have had a chance recruiting him out of high school with him being offered by like, at least 5 or 6 power 5 conference schools. Maryland has a lot higher recruiting standards than us obviously, so I don't really see how you can compare the two situations.

Illogical. Ferry is trying to infuse experience into his lineup. Ditto for Maryland. Talking about what players did in HS at this point doesn't make sense. Maryland having higher standards and them signing Gill aren't mutually exclusive, so that doesn't make sense. I think we're just taking needless jabs at Gill at this point. Wish the kid luck and let's move on. 

PS, Blackman was a DII recruit out of HS who followed his first coach to Niagara. Abrahamson is playing for his third NCAA team, largely because his last team benched him during the second half of last season.  We're still a long way from saying that we've traded up.


 
 

Duques102 wrote:

I . The grad transfer period reminds me a lot of the end of the night at a college house party. You're desperately looking around to fill a need with a limited window of time remaining. The longer you don't lock somebody up the slimmer and slimmer the talent gets..

Actually it was my view that the talent got "chunkier and chubbier" 
 

One of my first friends at Duquesne. Real good dude, hope he finds his grove in his final season. 

applecorps wrote:

Not seeing anything here to make me run for a "safe zone", but seriously: what are the last two posts about? 

This is the first time I've read posts on this board and have been unable to decipher who and/or what the posts were addressing. 

Obviously, El D's reference is not the same as currentstudent's.  Who are each of you talkin' about?  It seems Current is talking about L.G.

I'm sure you know my position that programs at our level are built by getting the best players we can, developing them, and having chemistry that carries over from year to year. Tejas Duke made an observation -- and an astute one -- that this stage of the recruiting process for the upcoming season is really about making the most of slim pickings, especially when you're caught off-guard by transfers. I used a real life example to point out that while beauty is in the eye of the beholder, well, sometimes things get stretched. Slim pickings may not be pickings at all.

Plus, I love to tell that story.

Duques102 wrote:

ElDuque wrote:

applecorps wrote:

Not seeing anything here to make me run for a "safe zone", but seriously: what are the last two posts about? 

This is the first time I've read posts on this board and have been unable to decipher who and/or what the posts were addressing. 

Obviously, El D's reference is not the same as currentstudent's.  Who are each of you talkin' about?  It seems Current is talking about L.G.

I'm sure you know my position that programs at our level are built by getting the best players we can, developing them, and having chemistry that carries over from year to year. Tejas Duke made an observation -- and an astute one -- that this stage of the recruiting process for the upcoming season is really about making the most of slim pickings, especially when you're caught off-guard by transfers. I used a real life example to point out that while beauty is in the eye of the beholder, well, sometimes things get stretched. Slim pickings may not be pickings at all.

Plus, I love to tell that story.

Pretty sure you just repeated my example, but who's keeping track. But that is definately a story worth telling.

I stand corrected, although it was Tejas' chubbier & chunkier reference that jarred the Lance Romance (as we used to call him) story. But you are correct, it was your original analogy, and it was a good'un.