AJ Tarpley..
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Was he a part of last year's class? Guy from my school played in the HS all-star game and was telling me a kid on his team got a scholarship to Stanford.
Tarpley committed in May after his Junior season to Stanford. It's hard to make a case that Brewster "passed" on him when he commits that early. That was the Seantrel Henderson class and Tarpley ended up being the 4th rated Minnesota behind Henderson, Gjere, and Edwards. If it wasn't for Papa Henderson's rap career...
He is a RS-FR this year. So he would have graduated in 10....i think.
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He was talking about Anthony Hayes, a DT from St. Thomas Academy who went to Stanford (brother of U recruit Isaac Hayes).
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The elite players in the state usually have an offer by that time. Nelson and Williams committed by February of their JR years (and a slew of them committed by the summer after their JR years).
Brew was really never interested in Tarpley and he never offered him. That is strange for a program like ours with a kid like Tarpley.
I wonder if the Lake Conference fans are going to post on here how the Gophers always overlook Lake Conference kids...I keed, I keed.
Anthony Hayes (STA/Stanford) and Athey (EP / West Virginia) were never offered either....
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lake conference fan here, of course Brew overlooked the Lake. Would be hard not to when your view is from a helicopter.
Sometimes you strike out with the highly rated guys you get in Hasan Lipscomb, Michael Carter and Hayo Carpenter, and sometimes you don't get the lake conference guys you do offer (guys like beau allen and laurinaitis). I'm just happy to have a coach that I trust a bit more in the recruiting department, I'm not going to nitpick every offer/non-offer.
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Laurinitis was a whiff by Mason. It's been quite awhile since we've done well out of the Lake Conference.
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I was just kidding about the U ignoring the Lake Conference.
But I think there is a reason why we haven't had the best of luck out of the Lake and that is because the best players from the Lake are usually the really heavily recruited kids who we have a hard time with. You hear the same argument with "Cretin kids don't go to the U". The problem isn't Cretin kids or Lake Conference kids, it's just the U hasn't done great at landing the heavily recruited kids from anywhere in the state.
It looks like we might miss out on another good one from the Lake conference this year in Andre McDonald. But we got the Rallis bros, Ryan Grant, Grayson Levine, the Christenson kid (WO) is supposed to be decent, and I think we'll add either Ford or Larson (both Lake kids) and possibly Michaelson.
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I don't think we've ignored the Lake. We just haven't done well there. We've worked a lot of kids hard out there, but have come up short on some of the top drawer kids.
You're a Cretin guy, so you probably know how Mason couldn't seem to get traction there. Brewster worked Cretin, but still missed on the big guys.
You're a Cretin guy, so you probably know how Mason couldn't seem to get traction there. Brewster worked Cretin, but still missed on the big guys.
He was set to go to the U until osu swooped in with a late offer. Not a Mason apologist by I can't fault him too much for that one.
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You are correct sir. My comment probably came off too much as anti-Mason when it was more that OSU came in late and snapped him up. I don't think it was a lack of effort by Mason or Brewster. They just couldn't seem to close the deal with a lot of the kids in that part of town.
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Mason's problem with Cretin was that he didn't build up any relationship with the coaches. It is really a strange thing because Ray Hitchcock is such a Cretin/Gopher homer and he is close with the Cretin staff (was OL coach for awhile), but there was just never any connection. Cretin coaches would tell the U about certain kids to keep an eye on who were younger, and Mason wouldn't come around until too late. There was never any of the "hey, this kid's good" and the U ever really believing them. That is why CDH became a hotbed for Iowa and Wisconsin.
It's not really to rip on Mason or anything, but they just didn't seem to build a relationship where Mason would trust the Cretin coaches to look at certain players and in turn the Cretin coaches didn't really push the U at all.