Big East - General Recruiting Thread

[ChelseaFriar]

The NYC basketball coverage guys are a bunch of douche bags (and I live in NYC). A few of them were smearing the PC staff by floating rumors they were playing the race card on the Ponds recruitment (which, to be honest, I don't see a problem with saying "come play for staff filled with African Americans").

They come across as a bunch of 18 year old, disgruntled, cry baby fans.

[SJUBBALL]

The tweets were copy and pasted to Redmen before they were deleted. I have them here. It starts with Zach tweeting these two tweets:


"Think this is first time I've ever been blocked by an athlete @Iam_RawleAlkins. Doesn't like the qualifying rumors"

"It's a well known fact in recruiting circles @Iam_RawleAlkins is a major question mark to be eligible."


Then Zach tweets this:


"I wonder how @Iam_RawleAlkins got courtside seats to Knicks-Warriors at MSG recently for entire family? Wasn't from a college..



Here is Rawles cousin tweet;


Rodney L ‏@labossr1 · 19m19 minutes ago
People wonder why NY is in the state it's in...#nohometeamadvantage #thoughthomeiswheretheheartis #notthe1sttime smh

[DudeAnon]

The tweets were copy and pasted to Redmen before they were deleted. I have them here. It starts with Zach tweeting these two tweets:

"Think this is first time I've ever been blocked by an athlete @Iam_RawleAlkins. Doesn't like the qualifying rumors"
"It's a well known fact in recruiting circles @Iam_RawleAlkins is a major question mark to be eligible."

Then Zach tweets this:
"I wonder how @Iam_RawleAlkins got courtside seats to Knicks-Warriors at MSG recently for entire family? Wasn't from a college..

Here is Rawles cousin tweet;
Rodney L ‏@labossr1 · 19m19 minutes ago
People wonder why NY is in the state it's in...#nohometeamadvantage #thoughthomeiswheretheheartis #notthe1sttime smh

I am sorry, but this one is on Zach. He acted childish to being blocked. Then to accuse Rawle of getting improper benefits. Yeesh.

[NJRedman]

The NYC basketball coverage guys are a bunch of douche bags (and I live in NYC). A few of them were smearing the PC staff by floating rumors they were playing the race card on the Ponds recruitment (which, to be honest, I don't see a problem with saying "come play for staff filled with African Americans").

They come across as a bunch of 18 year old, disgruntled, cry baby fans.

Well saying it's bad that another team doesn't have as many black coaches as us is kind of a petty way to recruit.

[SJUBBALL]

The NYC basketball coverage guys are a bunch of douche bags (and I live in NYC). A few of them were smearing the PC staff by floating rumors they were playing the race card on the Ponds recruitment (which, to be honest, I don't see a problem with saying "come play for staff filled with African Americans").

They come across as a bunch of 18 year old, disgruntled, cry baby fans.

Well saying it's bad that another team doesn't have as many black coaches as us is kind of a petty way to recruit.

It wasn't a race thing. Providence's pitch to Shamorie was that Shamgod was a great point guard and he should come learn from him. Some "reporters" made it into a race thing.

[NJRedman]

The NYC basketball coverage guys are a bunch of douche bags (and I live in NYC). A few of them were smearing the PC staff by floating rumors they were playing the race card on the Ponds recruitment (which, to be honest, I don't see a problem with saying "come play for staff filled with African Americans").

They come across as a bunch of 18 year old, disgruntled, cry baby fans.

Well saying it's bad that another team doesn't have as many black coaches as us is kind of a petty way to recruit.

It wasn't a race thing. Providence's pitch to Shamorie was that Shamgod was a great point guard and he should come learn from him. Some "reporters" made it into a race thing.

He said she said who cares he's at st. john's.

The idea though that a recruit isn't coming to a school because of a few tweets from a beat writer is ridiculous. Whats he expect will happen when he turns pro?

[scoscox]

Xavier's got a pretty good class.

Quentin Goodin: 6'4" guard that a lot of people are saying is Kentucky's best prospect. He could be playing in college right now and contributing, very, very solid looking player.
Eddie Ekiyor: 6'9" Canadian power forward, athletic and at that size is usually a recipe for a very productive college player
Tyrique Jones: 6'7" power forward and looks to be hyper athletic and loves to bang. Both of these guys are the type of players I think can be very successful at the college level and I expect Xavier will be very strong in the years to come.

Class doesn't have quite the high end talent of Villanova's, but is still pretty solid. As a whole, I think the league needs to start recruiting better, though. While this class is solid, I think X is capable of going after and getting better guys or at least one big time name. Our 2014 class was huge and I expected that kind of success to continue as we got into the Big East, so I've been a little disappointed. Hopefully, recruiting will pick up collectively around the league.

[jfan]

I honestly think that some recruits may have been a little leery until they were sure the BE was going to remain a power conference after the split. Now that we are in our third year, I think that issue has been resolved as we have been in the top 5 of power rankings every year and the overall perception of the conference has improved (even with ESPN). I think recruiting will pick up as we move along. It would be nice to fix the one weakness in the conference resume!!

[NJRedman]

Xavier's got a pretty good class.

Quentin Goodin: 6'4" guard that a lot of people are saying is Kentucky's best prospect. He could be playing in college right now and contributing, very, very solid looking player.
Eddie Ekiyor: 6'9" Canadian power forward, athletic and at that size is usually a recipe for a very productive college player
Tyrique Jones: 6'7" power forward and looks to be hyper athletic and loves to bang. Both of these guys are the type of players I think can be very successful at the college level and I expect Xavier will be very strong in the years to come.

Class doesn't have quite the high end talent of Villanova's, but is still pretty solid. As a whole, I think the league needs to start recruiting better, though. While this class is solid, I think X is capable of going after and getting better guys or at least one big time name. Our 2014 class was huge and I expected that kind of success to continue as we got into the Big East, so I've been a little disappointed. Hopefully, recruiting will pick up collectively around the league.

X always have huge guys. haha

[Jet915]

Xavier's got a pretty good class.

Quentin Goodin: 6'4" guard that a lot of people are saying is Kentucky's best prospect. He could be playing in college right now and contributing, very, very solid looking player.
Eddie Ekiyor: 6'9" Canadian power forward, athletic and at that size is usually a recipe for a very productive college player
Tyrique Jones: 6'7" power forward and looks to be hyper athletic and loves to bang. Both of these guys are the type of players I think can be very successful at the college level and I expect Xavier will be very strong in the years to come.

Class doesn't have quite the high end talent of Villanova's, but is still pretty solid. As a whole, I think the league needs to start recruiting better, though. While this class is solid, I think X is capable of going after and getting better guys or at least one big time name. Our 2014 class was huge and I expected that kind of success to continue as we got into the Big East, so I've been a little disappointed. Hopefully, recruiting will pick up collectively around the league.

After this year, I would think X looks pretty to recruits and I would expect them to get all top 100 type guys.