You're right, we should only recruit players that other schools want. Like TMG, Gallon, Willis,......
A lot of high major schools are just now starting to look at juco players, and a lot of them get offers after this juco tournament in Hutchinson.
Thanks for the info.
Seems like this isn't the case for all JUCO's though, right? Or did Sampson usually find his juco players at this tourney? I can remember hearing a lot about Angelo Hamilton and his teammate (@ Connors; can't remember his name right now) who was going to change our program (but he didn't make his grades) before they enrolled at OU.
This is just one example...I'm sure I could come up with a few more.
One more question...does every JUCO team play in this tournament? If not, surely some of the teams who didn't play in the tournament have a player who is D1 material? How are they found?
He said Sam Houston State and Murray State are his two offers to go along with Southwestern Oklahoma State, which is close to Stringtown.
Southwestern is at Weatherford, OK which is in the western part of the State.
Southeastern is at Durant and is about 40 miles from Stringtown.
Willis committed early and had interest from schools in his area namely GTech and UGa, also had some interest shown my Maryland.
Chose Oklahoma over Central Florida, Oregon, Penn State and Temple
You do realize that Oregon and Temple are pretty solid offers to get, right?
I like what I've seen so far from Washington.
He's got four points and seven boards through the first 10 minutes. He's getting doubled and sometimes tripled when he touches it inside, which has been tough. Plays good position defense inside and contests lots of shots, then recovers to get the board. So far, so good.
This guard Mark Rutledge for Connors is also pretty impressive. Slashing, athletic 6-4 guard from Tulsa. Averages 14 a game for Connors and has 12 in the first half so far.
If John Chaney were still at Temple then yes that would be a solid offer, however, he wasn't and Temple has been a marginal program since he retired (or was fired; however you want to look at it).
Oregon is a decent program, but not on the level of Oklahoma, Marylan, or Ga Tech as he mentioned. They just fired their coach so he wasn't winning many games...maybe that was because of his recruiting.
I don't care how you candy coat it...Penn State and Central Florida are not top 64 programs.
I'm not candy coating anything, and I didn't mention Penn St or UCF. Temple is back in the tourney this year and Oregon will be also as soon as they hire a head coach that knows what he's doing. In fact, Oregon is poised to make a HUGE jump with a multi-million dollar new facility opening. But whatever. The main point is that it's not like Willis's other offers were Bacone and Sam Sausage State. Although after having watched him play they should have been.
Southwestern is at Weatherford, OK which is in the western part of the State.
Southeastern is at Durant and is about 40 miles from Stringtown.
On Mark I've heard he is interested in Coppin State.
There have been a couple of Tulsa area recruits who went to Coppin.
So 23, you think Washington is OU caliber?
So 23, you think Washington is OU caliber?