Scholarship Slot for PG Going into the Bank?

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No Joseph or McCallum might mean only two sign in the early period. Maybe a stellar PG slips into the late period and we come on late, especially if we have a top 3 finish and win a couple of games in March.

If not, who is the PG I think plays at Central that caught the staff's attention? Also, is Alipate a Big Ten prospect? Maybe we roll in two years with a frosh, Cobbs, and maybe Devoe covering the 1.

Regardless, the state not producing a 3 or 4 star player in 2010 really hurts. Hopefully 2011 will a typical MN HS crop.
 

You're probably thinking of Estan Tyler who plays at Johnson. I think last year was a real high point for MN high school ball with 6 kids who were high major types (I'm including Jordair Jett). As to 2011, I don't see Alipate as a Big 10 kid. When looking at that class, I see up to 4 kids playing at a high level but all of those kids have legit questions to address before they make it there.
 

akgopher said:
Regardless, the state not producing a 3 or 4 star player in 2010 really hurts. Hopefully 2011 will a typical MN HS crop.
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Exactly. With Tubby here we'll presumably always get the top in-state guys -- the Royce Whites, Cole Aldrich's etc. -- and will apparently get good prospects (but not 5* types) from out of state. If the state produces a 5* player about every other year we could be a championship caliber team, but where is that talent in the pipeline?

Especially strange because Iowa had the #1 recruit this year, and Wisconsin has a top-5 player next year. I'd like to say we could help ourselves to the top player in Iowa or Wisconsin as well, but apparently that's not the case (yet).
 

WanderingGopher said:
Exactly. With Tubby here we'll presumably always get the top in-state guys -- the Royce Whites, Cole Aldrich's etc. -- and will apparently get good prospects (but not 5* types) from out of state. If the state produces a 5* player about every other year we could be a championship caliber team, but where is that talent in the pipeline?

Especially strange because Iowa had the #1 recruit this year, and Wisconsin has a top-5 player next year. I'd like to say we could help ourselves to the top player in Iowa or Wisconsin as well, but apparently that's not the case (yet).
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Harrison Barnes was going to be tough to get, but you'd think we'd be able to steal a Vander Blue considering how boring it would be to play Bo ball. Wisky and Chicago are going to be especially tough, even with a Tubby Smith, because of the revitalization of Marquette during the past 6 or so years. We're going to get Izzo's leftovers in Michigan, Crean and Painter will lockdown Indiana making the upper midwest a brutal area to recruit. Minnesota is going to have to produce top talent and keep them here to be a legit conference team.
 

How about going over sea to recruit. Has this been tried?
 



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