Recruiting - 2018

[jimbo]

http://nypost.com/2017/08/12/foolish-graphics-wasted-comments-soil-broadcasts/

 

Sort of has to do with this because of our recruiting of Aussie and out of state players.

 

If you scan down to the NJ-Rutgers heading you will see UA mentioned. Phil has frequently pointed out the number of out of state and out of country players on state university (tax payer funded) teams. I emailed

to disagree with his conclusion and he answered, pointing out that he has issues with tax payer funded universities making winning basketball games a priority. He also pointed out that his twin sister is a UA grad so he wasn't picking on us. The other 3 SUNY D-1 MBB teams have 8 NY players...and we have 3 NY Players.

[Dane96]

Phil has been and always will be a donkey. How many tax breaks, which affect NYS's bottom line, are given to out of state businesses with limited nys employment drivers?! Answer: many

[alum73]

As the state funds less than 20 % of the UA operating budget, sounds about right.

Edited August 13, 2017 by alum73

[UAalum72]

Plus athletic scholarships are not state-funded? Or does he mean that donations to athletics would otherwise go to the U's general budget, ignoring that without sports most of those donations wouldn't be made?

 

Nearly 80% of the athletics spending is from "external sources", the Student Athletic Fee covers more that 1/4 of the scholarship cost even using an out-of-state tuition number for every athlete.

[GreatDanes06]

I can't even explain how dumb I believe that article was...my goodness.

[Clickclack]

Melik Martin committed to Monmouth...uggh....

[UA'08]

We wouldn't have had room though. He committed to Monmouth for this coming year.

[Clickclack]

We wouldn't have had room though. He committed to Monmouth for this coming year.

He reclassed to 2017, was a 2018 kid.

[UA'08]

Ohh. Well then I'm sure he'll drop 20 on us come November lol.

Edited August 17, 2017 by UA'08

[godanesgo99]

The team definitely needs to focus on signing a couple of bigs at this point, and that should be their focus IMHO.

 

After this season, the team will be left with Conway, Hank, and Lulka. All 3 could be great players, but unless the team wants to go small, there wont be any depth

[Clickclack]

The team definitely needs to focus on signing a couple of bigs at this point, and that should be their focus IMHO.

 

After this season, the team will be left with Conway, Hank, and Lulka. All 3 could be great players, but unless the team wants to go small, there wont be any depth

 

I expect 3 more signings...a wing and two bigs (possibly JUCO's) to compliment the young bigs.

[Dane Pound]

 

We wouldn't have had room though. He committed to Monmouth for this coming year.

He reclassed to 2017, was a 2018 kid.

 

He had an interesting recruitment experience. He's a 2017 grad who had committed to a D2 school but a couple of D1 schools came knocking this spring and he was going to prep and then go D1 in 2018. I guess the Monmouth scholarship opened and he decided against prep school.

[Dane Pound]

Malachi de Sousa scheduled to visit the weekend of September 14.

[Eli]

I'm back from a long trip abroad and have updated my spreadsheet with the latest info from all ya'll:

 

See this updated post: http://bigpurplefans.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=8212&page=10&do=findComment&comment=106352

Edited February 8, 2018 by Eli

[Clickclack]

This much is obvious, need to recruit some bigs for next year and beyond...