is it time to relabel the more recent parts of this thread 2014 recruiting? Or Rhoades Recruiting? something for the moderators to consider...Anyway, here is a link to an article on Jordan Reed, one of the players listed as an early commit in the mency post above:

http://starlocalmedia.com/allenamerican/...963f4.html

Well the departures keep coming. Nizar Kapic now leaving too. I thought he or Bender might leave, but not both. I guess they figure they just can't play in the new system at all?

The good news is verbalcommits.com says we're back in the mix for Jackson Davis. He's meeting with Coach Rhoades tonight.

(04-21-2014 05:09 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  The good news is verbalcommits.com says we're back in the mix for Jackson Davis. He's meeting with Coach Rhoades tonight.

Looks like Carlin Hartman was recruiting him heavily to Columbia. Kind of an interesting angle on that assistant hire.

The first couple transfers disappointed me. Now I say good riddance. If they want to go sit out a year I dreading of helping build something here, their loss.

(04-21-2014 05:09 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  Well the departures keep coming. Nizar Kapic now leaving too. I thought he or Bender might leave, but not both. I guess they figure they just can't play in the new system at all?

Another scholly to allocate to someone hopefully more productive than Kapic.



Changed the thread title.

(04-21-2014 05:09 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  The good news is verbalcommits.com says we're back in the mix for Jackson Davis. He's meeting with Coach Rhoades tonight.

http://www.courier-journal.com/story/rec...e/7964679/

I imagine if Florida offers that's game over, but until then we probably have a fair shot.

(04-21-2014 06:06 PM)talon owl Wrote:  

(04-21-2014 05:09 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  The good news is verbalcommits.com says we're back in the mix for Jackson Davis. He's meeting with Coach Rhoades tonight.

http://www.courier-journal.com/story/rec...e/7964679/

I imagine if Florida offers that's game over, but until then we probably have a fair shot.

If we lose recruits to Florida and Michigan (plus transfers to Duke, Oregon, etc.) at least we're attracting some pretty good prospects. With coaching stability, hopefully we can sign and keep a handful of these players and make the postseason in a few years.

(04-21-2014 10:30 PM)Buho00 Wrote:  

(04-21-2014 06:06 PM)talon owl Wrote:  

(04-21-2014 05:09 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  The good news is verbalcommits.com says we're back in the mix for Jackson Davis. He's meeting with Coach Rhoades tonight.

http://www.courier-journal.com/story/rec...e/7964679/

I imagine if Florida offers that's game over, but until then we probably have a fair shot.

If we lose recruits to Florida and Michigan (plus transfers to Duke, Oregon, etc.) at least we're attracting some pretty good prospects. With coaching stability, hopefully we can sign and keep a handful of these players and make the postseason in a few years.

Except that if we don't have enough players to field a team (and this style, between conditioning and foul trouble, requires a full complement of effective personnel), how will we keep a nucleus? We're becoming a "prep" school for other teams to recruit whenever one of their players turns pro, which now is more a side effect of one and done than it is under our control.

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It goes without saying that in order to achieve our objectives, we will need eventually to field a team of scholarship players that is heavy on juniors and seniors.

That will happen in 2016-17 at the earliest. In the coming two seasons, I see priorities as follows

1. establish identity and style of play, enabled by multiple walk-ons if necessary.

2. Heavy focus this offseason and next on attracting transfers from other D1 programs

3. Cleansing the system FULLY of players who do not consider graduating from Rice to be their immediate life goal.

I think that the Ennis class demonstrated the recruiting appeal of immediate playing time, as well as the impact on quality of the product that skilled and/or athletic players could have. Without picking the scab of how badly that movie ended, we should have confidence that Rhoades will deliver a different ending.

6-7 point guard/shooting guard out of PA we came in on late, got a late Pitt offer and committed to Pitt.

At least we know these guys can identify talented guards/aren't afraid to throw hat in ring for coveted ones.

(04-22-2014 09:54 AM)talon owl Wrote:  6-7 point guard/shooting guard out of PA we came in on late, got a late Pitt offer and committed to Pitt.

At least we know these guys can identify talented guards/aren't afraid to throw hat in ring for coveted ones.

Interesting player too, guess he was a 6'3" guard getting some D1 interest. Then he hits a growth spurt and is all of a sudden a 6'7" guard who might still grow another inch or 2 and lots of teams love him.

(04-21-2014 01:02 PM)ExcitedOwl18 Wrote:  Here's the official release on Mency: http://www.riceowls.com/sports/m-baskbl/...14aaa.html

Hit 59% of his 3 point attempts as a junior.
That's the kind of talent you can build a program with.

We just received a commitment from 7-1 Nate Pollard of Las Vegas (he actually played high school ball in Bountiful, Utah but played an additional prep year this past season in Las Vegas). He's very tall and thin (7-1, 212) and is definitely raw from the videos I've seen, but I think the extra year probably has helped his body grow a bit stronger. I don't think he'll make us forget Obi right away, but if he can add some bulk to his frame, he will help us down the road.

http://instagram.com/p/nJYbOZpes8/#

(04-23-2014 07:03 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  We just received a commitment from 7-1 Nate Pollard of Las Vegas (he actually played high school ball in Bountiful, Utah but played an additional prep year this past season in Las Vegas). He's very tall and thin (7-1, 212) and is definitely raw from the videos I've seen, but I think the extra year probably has helped his body grow a bit stronger. I don't think he'll make us forget Obi right away, but if he can add some bulk to his frame, he will help us down the road.

http://instagram.com/p/nJYbOZpes8/#

Love the handle "@skinnywhiteshaq"

Maybe he can find the weight Drone lost when he got to campus. Looks to have decent vert for the frame, hopefully he doesn't lose too much of that with added mass.

Notable to me from the videos I watched was a good shooting touch from mid range. It's just a highlight video, so no way to know his consistency in that area, but I think that that is a very undervalued skill for bigs in the college game.

Yeah, someone else to hopefully rebound!

http://www.courier-journal.com/story/rec...e/8077525/

Jackson Davis has pared his final list to Alabama, Butler and Rice (interesting comments in the story too). If we can get him, that would be huge and probably would be the end to our recruiting for the year (they still may have two scholarships to give but I'd be surprised if we use them all on freshmen with just one scholarship senior next year). It's also possible that Dan Peera is placed on scholarship next year - he really needs to be if he hasn't been already.

(04-23-2014 07:03 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  We just received a commitment from 7-1 Nate Pollard of Las Vegas (he actually played high school ball in Bountiful, Utah but played an additional prep year this past season in Las Vegas). He's very tall and thin (7-1, 212) and is definitely raw from the videos I've seen, but I think the extra year probably has helped his body grow a bit stronger. I don't think he'll make us forget Obi right away, but if he can add some bulk to his frame, he will help us down the road.

http://instagram.com/p/nJYbOZpes8/#

Based on a GIS, looks like this guy went through a crazy growth spurt in the past couple years. Moves pretty well for a seven footer. Will need all the unlimited meals the NCAA will allow.

Intrigued by Pollard and glad to see Jackson Davis might stick with Rice after all. Davis might go to the SEC, but in the article it sounds like Rice is the favorite. Rhodes seems to be working hard.

(04-23-2014 09:52 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  http://www.courier-journal.com/story/rec...e/8077525/

Jackson Davis has pared his final list to Alabama, Butler and Rice (interesting comments in the story too). If we can get him, that would be huge...

That would be ridiculously huge, given the kind of interest he has been getting since re-opening his recruitment. Might be enough to have us saying "Obi who?" next season (though that is admittedly easier with Obi sitting out a year!).

Rhoades envisioning a Dirk Nowitzki kind of role for Pollard?