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Georgetown Hoyas
Who they have: The Hoyas are off to a great start on the front line, landing center Jessie Govan, center Noah Dickerson and power forward Marcus Derrickson. Govan, who will provide great size, runs the floor well, has a nice touch in and around the lane, will challenge shots at the rim and has great upside. Dickerson brings the ability to score with his back to the basket and be a dependable in-area rebounder for coach John Thompson III. Add the sweet midrange shooting touch of Derrickson and the Hoyas have scoring inside and out along with a rim protector in this early recruiting haul.

Who they want: Wing scoring seems to be a priority for the Hoyas. Small forward Dwayne Bacon has great size, the ability to hit contested shots and range from behind the 3-point arc. Ray Smith is another long, athletic small forward who is an excellent slasher and offensive rebounder, while shooting guard Jalen Coleman can hit the open 3, has a nice midrange pullup and is a crafty finisher when he gets deep in the lane. -- Reggie Rankin

stever20 wrote:So far Big East with 4 recruits. 5th best behind ACC(7), B10(7), SEC(5), and P12(5). So far 32 recruits signed. 14 of the top 50.

One thing that will be interesting to watch with 2015 is the NBA. If they do the 2 and done rule, that is going to change a ton with recruiting.

stever20 wrote:So far Big East with 4 recruits. 5th best behind ACC(7), B10(7), SEC(5), and P12(5). So far 32 recruits signed. 14 of the top 50.

One thing that will be interesting to watch with 2015 is the NBA. If they do the 2 and done rule, that is going to change a ton with recruiting.

GumbyDamnit! wrote:

stever20 wrote:So far Big East with 4 recruits. 5th best behind ACC(7), B10(7), SEC(5), and P12(5). So far 32 recruits signed. 14 of the top 50.

One thing that will be interesting to watch with 2015 is the NBA. If they do the 2 and done rule, that is going to change a ton with recruiting.

You have to look at recruits per team not per conference. Using the numbers you provided:

ACC 7/15 = .47 / team
B1G 7/15 = .50 / team
SEC 5/14 = .36 / team
P12 5/12 = .42 / team
BE 4/10 = .40 / team

All comparable at this point with the exception of maybe comparing the B1G with the SEC. I don't think anyone should be concerned with the ability of the BE coaches to recruit. It seems apparent that many of the schools will continue to get very good players. Tim Delaney who signed with Nova fell out of the ESPN Top 100 recently but shows up in Scout at 102. So the BE very easily could be equal to the B1G with a .50 per team average. I wouldn't characterize them as "5th best" as Mr. Glass-is-half-empty did, but rather use these numbers to demonstrate that the BE is still one of the power conferences as it relates to attracting talent.

ljay wrote:CU named by 17 of the Top 100 as a school of interest.

A negative to the geographic outlier is you have to get kids here on a paid-for official as cost to a family is likely prohibitive for an unofficial for most.

Thus, IMO it is unlikely that CU will get many uber-early commitments over the years.

All that said CU is getting unofficials over the next couple weekends but the kids are from Chicago (Glynn Watson) and a kid from KC whose name escapes me.

Another phenomenon is kids sometimes unofficially visit CU and UN-Lincoln over the same weekend as Watson is doing. Leon Gilmore who signed this year did the same thing when he came up from Houston.