Top 100 high school kid (#75 by Rivals) from the DFW area who wanted to be a Sooner. Even came up to our camp and worked for an offer. Instead, but Capel had his head in the clouds and held out Doron Lamb, Ray McCallum etc, and now we are combing the juco ranks.
Scott is going to Arkansas and just dropped 27 points on a pretty talented Duncanville team. Also, Julian Washburn is back for Duncanville and scored 13 in that game.
I know a few of the guys from OUHoops watched him this summer (big time and I think soonersam). So for you guys or whoever else that has seen him, I know hindsight is 20/20 but what did you think of Scott's game compared to T.J. Taylors?
I think Rickey is a less polished version of T.J. Both have similar styles but from what I've seen T.J. does it better than Rickey. Because of that I really am not sure given this teams current needs if a lesser version of T.J. Taylor is what they need or would have an impact next season. If Rickey was a true PG that could immediately step in as a back up PG and tall enough to also play with TMG off the ball I would love to have him.
I am not Capel so I can't say the real reason why he didn't make a bigger effort to sign Rickey but given current roster needs and the way recruiting has gone this season this would my guesses/assumptions/arm chair point guard talk/whatever you wish to call it.
Ray McCallum fit the need of a true back up Point Guard that could also play together with TMG without making our backcourt look like spawn Okie State (see Penn and Page, which is what K.C. Ross-Miller and TMG would be). McCallum was also skilled enough he would have had a chance to beat T.J./Pledger/Willis out at the 2 slot unlike Rickey Scott. Then Doron Lamb is a very talented guard that we had an "in" with in the form of Tiny and given Capel's recruiting style of going after the big fish it isn't surprising he went after him. Then the one juco guard we have heard a firm report on is a bigger one similar to the McCallum mold, but given as little as we really know on the current juco targets it is hard to speculate too much on Capel's current targets. Of course the rumors of Todd Mayo being a target kind of does blow a hole in my Rickey Scott doesn't fit in with other targets OU missed out on hypothesis. Rickey is most likely more polished then Todd, and given what little I know about Todd I would assume Rickey is a harder worker. As Rickey seems like a good kid willing to work hard with a similar talent level, although it is most likely unfair to Todd to have a negative view just because of some of his elder brother's issues. If we end up bringing in Todd to finish out our recruiting class or some other juco wild card who doesn't seem like an instant contributor I think the missing out of Rickey Scott will be noticeable and questioned.
Right now if you look at the options we have for our 3 guards slots, I am not sure unless we have an instant contributor coming in if we really need another.
PG. TMG/T.J. Taylor
SG Cade Davis/Steven Pledger
SF Cameron Clark/Ray Willis
That is a relatively young group (2 freshman, 2 sophomores, 1 junior and 1 senior) but it is the same amount of backcourt players we have this year. Also based on this year you already know you have two kids who can play 35+ minutes if we really have to. Of course some of this is a knee jerk reaction to Ray starting and giving some really solid time vs ISU, which gave me new hope for him to be a contributor. Also this is based on Pledger's three point shot being returned by those space jam aliens that stole it from him in Alaska
. So unless there is a juco guard/wing who can really push Cade/Cameron for a starting line up spot, or be the number one option off the bench over two kids already on campus or a talented hard worker like T.J. I am not sure if another guard is really in the cards for recruiting. Of course as I look at it a juco PG similar to Omar, good fundamental guy, maybe a little taller than Omar though
wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.
Really if we're playing the "what if/one who got away" game I would say Tobi Oyedeji over Rickey Scott. With the more present need for post players missing out on Tobi seems more harmful than Rickey at this point. I kind of believe Tobi was slow played somewhat similar to how Rickey as well so it seems to be a similar situation. Of course if we are able to pull in Ndiaye for CSI then that lessens the blow of this but really in hindsight a class of
SF Cameron Clark (top 30 kid)
Combo Guard T.J. Taylor (top 100 kid)
PF Tobi Oyedeji (top 100 kid)
C Aziz Ndiaye (quality juco)
SF/PF Terrance Jones (huge huge if, as I think it is a long shot at this point).
That class is actually pretty solid and fits the needs as we fill in the two perimeter players we lost (Willie and Crocker) and really bolsters our depth down low. Even if you remove the if of Terrance Jones from it, the class is still a good class and most likely top 20 in the nation.
Kind of rambled, but in one sentence. I do not think missing out on Rickey Scott is that big of deal given what we already have on the roster and committed.
