Pistol Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 Class updates: New Orleans offered Kevin Easley (for some reason) while they also offered his teammates Antwaan Cushingberry (another SLU recruit) and 2019 player Dexter Shouse. Easley is already way beyond UNO's level; he's the #2 2018 prospect in Indiana and took his most recent visit to Michigan State. It was Cushingberry's first offer despite a lot of interest in the small PG. Tim Finke took an unofficial visit to nearby Illinois. He will start alongside his brother at Champaign Central this season. Courtney Ramey had Creighton out to see him this month and tagged along on Nate Morris' official visit to Ole Miss (unofficial for Ramey; Ole Miss has offered). Jericole Hellems is beginning to show up in some 150 rankings heading into the season and has a couple new mixtapes available, but still very little chatter about what schools are paying attention in the early going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billikenswin Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 Spoke to his father at the game. He was impressed with the campus and facilities. Seemed like a level headed gentleman. I am very curious--what did you say to the father of a recruit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetorch Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 I am very curious--what did you say to the father of a recruit? Not much. He started the conversation with me. Asked about the arena and facilities. I asked who his kid was and where they were from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BACKHANDtheRICAN Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 Class updates: New Orleans offered Kevin Easley (for some reason) while they also offered his teammates Antwaan Cushingberry (another SLU recruit) and 2019 player Dexter Shouse. Easley is already way beyond UNO's level; he's the #2 2018 prospect in Indiana and took his most recent visit to Michigan State. It was Cushingberry's first offer despite a lot of interest in the small PG. Tim Finke took an unofficial visit to nearby Illinois. He will start alongside his brother at Champaign Central this season. Courtney Ramey had Creighton out to see him this month and tagged along on Nate Morris' official visit to Ole Miss (unofficial for Ramey; Ole Miss has offered). Jericole Hellems is beginning to show up in some 150 rankings heading into the season and has a couple new mixtapes available, but still very little chatter about what schools are paying attention in the early going. Sooooo we won't land any of these guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbizzle09 Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 NM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeseman Posted November 22, 2015 Share Posted November 22, 2015 When a recruit is 'offered a scholarship' what exactly is exchanged? Is it a verbal offer or something in writing? Can an assistant offer a scholarship, or only a head coach? It seems to me that something solid would need to be exchanged, or confusion might reign a year or two down the line. Normally the head coach makes the final decision. An offer means nothing really - it simply means that you have an interest in them coming but the school is not held to it. They can change their minds anytime and really do not even have to tell the kid. The simply does not get a schollie to sign. This is why all this worry about when a kid is offered is kind of silly. Schools offer more kids then they have slots so you know it doesn't really mean anything this early. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3star_recruit Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Calbert Cheaney taking in Courtney Ramey and Webster Groves vs Hazelwood West tonight. Going to be hard for Ramey to rack up many assists this year. Supporting cast is kinda pedestrian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BACKHANDtheRICAN Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Calbert Cheaney taking in Courtney Ramey and Webster Groves vs Hazelwood West tonight. Going to be hard for Ramey to rack up many assists this year. Supporting cast is kinda pedestrian.Is he good? If so, wasting our time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianstl Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Crews was at the Chaminade/CBC game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwayne's_World Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Crews was at the Chaminade/CBC game. Why would any of those players want to play for Crews? He'll be gone by the end of the season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3star_recruit Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 I stand corrected about Webster Groves. The supporting cast is only above average but their defense is stout. Put on a clinic in turning defense into offense in the two games I saw. Ramey's assist numbers will be just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 2018 class updates: Easley remains a stud with high-level attention. Most recent recruiting news is behind a pay wall, but Maryland is coming on strong lately. Monmouth is his most recent offer, but like the UNO offer before it, they're late to the party. Illinois remains the primary suitor for local stud Tim Finke but plenty of others are involved. DePaul was out to see him recently. He suffered a concussion in mid-December but is playing again. Gordon will be playing in the Highland Shootout - everyone should go see that event if you can, by the way - along with other 2018 names like Caleb Frederking (Noah's younger brother), Jericole Hellems, Jontay Porter, and Cardell McGee. Illinois coaches Groce and Walker were out to see Courtney Ramey practice this week; Mizzou was out the week before. He had a very good visit to Illinois, as well. Mizzou HC Kim Anderson and K-State assistant Chris Lowery were out to watch Watson last week. Watson scored 33 in front of K-State HC Bruce Weber over Thanksgiving weekend. Jericole Hellems is showing up in the 100-150 range in some recruiting rankings. Drew Peterson from Libertyville is having a breakout sophomore season; he's hearing from SLU, NIU, Illinois State, Bradley, Western Illinois, and Loyola-Chicago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheChosenOne Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Jericole Hellems is showing up in the 100-150 range in some recruiting rankings. No kidding? He definitely looks improved from last season. He is one of those kids who currently seems to lack the true athleticism to be a top 100 type recruit, but I wonder if he is still kind of growing into his body. Not relevant to his potential (just odd), he rolls his shorts up making them almost look like soccer shorts (looks rather gay). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 No kidding? He definitely looks improved from last season. He is one of those kids who currently seems to lack the true athleticism to be a top 100 type recruit, but I wonder if he is still kind of growing into his body. Not relevant to his potential (just odd), he rolls his shorts up making them almost look like soccer shorts (looks rather gay). Hey, it worked for Chris Obekpa when he was at St. John's. Hellems was 146th on one list and fringe-100 on another I saw. Of course I can't find them now; they weren't the bigger services. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Notable names on the Future150 2018 rankings: 28. Carte'Are Gordon 48. Tim Finke 54. Kevin Easley 76. Courtney Ramey 92. Torrence Watson Jontay Porter is 60th but he's already committed to Washington. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheChosenOne Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Hey, it worked for Chris Obekpa when he was at St. John's. I did not know that name, but some interesting Google images of the guy. Hellems only rolls up the waistband I am assuming (unless they ordered him really short shorts), it looks like in some images of Obekpa he kind of tucked the legs of the shorts into his compression shorts or something (making it look like he was wearing a diaper almost). I guess some guys want to bring back the short shorts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BACKHANDtheRICAN Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Notable names on the Future150 2018 rankings: 28. Carte'Are Gordon 48. Tim Finke 54. Kevin Easley 76. Courtney Ramey 92. Torrence Watson Jontay Porter is 60th but he's already committed to Washington. %s of landing each player: 28. Carte'Are Gordon - 0% 48. Tim Finke - 0% 54. Kevin Easley - 0% 76. Courtney Ramey - 0% 92. Torrence Watson - 0% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 More than 0%, less than 100%. If I were the new coach, I'd pitch them as SLU's Fab Five. Stay home (or close to home), start right away, you won't compete with each other for minutes because you're already a pretty natural lineup, and be the heroes that resurrect this program. Boom. How's that for a pipe dream? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soderball Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 More than 0%, less than 100%. If I were the new coach, I'd pitch them as SLU's Fab Five. Stay home (or close to home), start right away, you won't compete with each other for minutes because you're already a pretty natural lineup, and be the heroes that resurrect this program. Boom. How's that for a pipe dream? Jim Crews' chance of landing these guys? 1% Why come here to overreact to upsets of the thousand-seat-arena club when you can be smashing face with Tony Bennett and competing for the final four? We need an exciting coach to get back on the radar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetorch Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 More than 0%, less than 100%. If I were the new coach, I'd pitch them as SLU's Fab Five. Stay home (or close to home), start right away, you won't compete with each other for minutes because you're already a pretty natural lineup, and be the heroes that resurrect this program. Boom. How's that for a pipe dream? I remember when Soderberg tried this. It didn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taj79 Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 We had the Fab two --- Douglas and Gray. Then we had our Fab Four ---- Claggett, Highmark, Winfield, and Bickel. Then our Fab Legend & Company --- Hughes,Baniak,Tatum, Heinrich and Redden. All of these were St. Louis-centric classes. We've had some sort of group. Again, sustainability was fleeting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 I remember when Soderberg tried this. It didn't work. I said if I were the coach - not Crews or Sodie. (Also, just a pipe dream. But the point is that we should set our sights high for this group and whoever is hired in spring should make them very high priorities.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheChosenOne Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 David Kvidahl ✒️ ☎️ @DavidSTLhss 1h1 hour ago Can confirm Carte'Are Gordon quit the Vianney basketball program today. #stlpreps #mopreps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMM28 Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 David Kvidahl ✒️ ☎️ @DavidSTLhss 1h1 hour ago Can confirm Carte'Are Gordon quit the Vianney basketball program today. #stlpreps #mopreps That's always a positive sign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 -I took a look at Verbal Commits to see what schools were listed as showning interest in Gordon and it's a good list - KSt, Mizzou, Illinois, Iowa, UNLV, Cinn, SLU, Purdue and KU - interesting development - does this have anything to do with the Webster talk from the summer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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