Recruiting - 2014

[Dane96]

Very good to hear about the two rides. It also confirms Shengalia is done. My guess is he goes the JUCO route and / or a PG transfer one year player who is REALLY good. In this instance, it's appropriate.

[Phoenix]

Great to hear about the two scholarships available. By my count:

 

Returning Scholarship Players (6): Ede, Ennema, Haas, Hooley, Odunsi, S. Rowley

Returning New Scholarship Player (1): M. Rowley (thought I heard that he was paying his own way first year..either way he'll effectively use Jiggets' scholarship)

Departing Players Freeing Up Scholarships (6): Evans, Johnson, Puk, Devlin, Wiegmann, Shengelia (this presumes Levan is gone..only way to get two scholarships)

Confirmed Signees (4): Wells, Baker, McKay, Tywman

Reported Commits: Stire, Singletary (reports are Stire is paying own way first year..news on Singletary was from 2 months ago and haven't heard anything since)

Open Scholarships (2): Spring signing period begins 4/16..definitely a need for bigs..I like the one JUCO/Grad transfer and one freshman idea

[UA'08]

Great to hear about the two scholarships available. By my count:

 

Returning Scholarship Players (6): Ede, Ennema, Haas, Hooley, Odunsi, S. Rowley

Returning New Scholarship Player (1): M. Rowley (thought I heard that he was paying his own way first year..either way he'll effectively use Jiggets' scholarship)

Departing Players Freeing Up Scholarships (6): Evans, Johnson, Puk, Devlin, Wiegmann, Shengelia (this presumes Levan is gone..only way to get two scholarships)

Confirmed Signees (4): Wells, Baker, McKay, Tywman

Reported Commits: Stire, Singletary (reports are Stire is paying own way first year..news on Singletary was from 2 months ago and haven't heard anything since)

Open Scholarships (2): Spring signing period begins 4/16..definitely a need for bigs..I like the one JUCO/Grad transfer and one freshman idea

Any word on the status of Odunsi

[Dane Pound]

I'm curious about Odunsi also. I had high hopes for him this year.

 

Story from Australia about Geremy McKay.

[UAalum72]

Confirmed Signees (4): Wells, Baker, McKay, Tywman

Reported Commits: Stire, Singletary (reports are Stire is paying own way first year..news on Singletary was from 2 months ago and haven't heard anything since)

Open Scholarships (2): Spring signing period begins 4/16..definitely a need for bigs..I like the one JUCO/Grad transfer and one freshman idea

Today, Wilkin's end-of-season story says that for the point guard spot we have commitments from Baker and Wells and an oral from Singletary

[Phoenix]

Reports that we have interest in Brice Kofane. Will be a graduate transfer from Providence..so he can play immediately. 6'8" 210lb from Cameroon in West Africa. Played AAU ball for the Albany City Rocks. Playing time dwindled each season after averaging 15mpg in 29 games (7 starts) his freshman year. Seems to be mainly a shot blocker. 71 career blocks in 852 career minutes..translates to 3.3 blocks over 40 minutes.

[UA'08]

https://twitter.com/TheRecruitScoop/statuses/451366206058942464

[Clickclack]

He's defender/blocker and rebounder first and foremost. Lots of schools on him though...could be a very important get to stabilize the front line after some key departures.

[Dane Pound]

He sounds like the kind of player I was hoping for. We should have ample scoring from the other four positions on the floor so a shot-blocking and rebounding specialist would be welcome.

[UA'08]

Time for the staff to do some work bringing him back to the city of albany

[Phoenix]

On the women's side..looks like they received a commitment from a JUCO guard.

 

http://qconline.com/archives/qco/display.php?id=676002

[slickwilly]

Seems like exactly what this team needs. Hopefully they can make it happen.

[Clickclack]

Wonder if the local connection could really help out here...

[Dane Pound]

On the women's side..looks like they received a commitment from a JUCO guard.

 

http://qconline.com/...y.php?id=676002

 

You are killing it with the recruiting news!

[Clickclack]

Looks like Kofane is a business major and spoke in the bio video I saw of him about wanting to really make it to the NCAA tournament.