Recruiting

[xavierj]

App State is 6-13, with Canty not really playing against good competition as he missed the first 9 games. I'll take Justin Martin over him any day. He may have been a decent player at X, but I just think the talent we have now is much better.

Jay Canty has not played a minute this year. He was suspended earlier but never came back. I wonder what happened? He averaged 17 a game last year and 14 the year before.

[GIMMFD]

Hence the "recruited over" part. And bad team/competition or not, he's putting up some big numbers at an efficient rate and probably would have been have been a nice role player at X. Martin and Dez Wells, on the other hand, are impact players, and they both committed after him.

I always said that if you combined Canty's ability with Latham's position, you had a player that wouldn't have transferred.

I read that wrong, my apologies. I thought you were saying Canty should have stayed.

Jay Canty has not played a minute this year. He was suspended earlier but never came back. I wonder what happened? He averaged 17 a game last year and 14 the year before.

He's played 5 games this season: http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bask...1077/jay-canty

[Chalmers0]

Canty broke his hand last week and is out 4-6 weeks.

Before getting injured he was putting up really solid numbers, ORating of over 118 on KenPom. He is a really good player, just saw JMart and Dez playing the same position.

[paulxu]

Yesterday we had the #6 recruiting class in the US per ESPN.
Today we have the #17 class. We dropped 11 spots and Georgetown gained 8 to take over our slot.

Would one of you recruiting gurus explain to me what happened between yesterday and today to our class. Did 2 of them become ineligible?

http://insider.espn.go.com/college-s.../classrankings

[The_Mack_Pack]

Yesterday we had the #6 recruiting class in the US per ESPN.
Today we have the #17 class. We dropped 11 spots and Georgetown gained 8 to take over our slot.

Would one of you recruiting gurus explain to me what happened between yesterday and today to our class. Did 2 of them become ineligible?

http://insider.espn.go.com/college-s.../classrankings

ESPN updated their rankings.. Each recruit for next season are having great senior seasons but ESPN wisdom says to drop a recruit in the rankings as soon as they commit to Xavier. This literally happens every year.

As a side note, I still don't understand why Paul Biancardi of all people is ESPN's lead recruiting expert. That's the same guy who gave money to recruits while he coached under O'Brien at OSU.

[paulxu]

Nope, that doesn't work. All those people were committed to X before when we earned the #6 ranking.

[waggy]

global warming, god or gays.

[danaandvictory]

Nope, that doesn't work. All those people were committed to X before when we earned the #6 ranking.

My guess would be that a number of uncommitted Top 50 types committed to big schools, thus pushing them ahead of X.

Or it's a conspiracy.