The list of adidas schools is honestly pretty unimpressive. Miami is their biggest brand standing, after that it’s either Nebraska (a formerly huge brand that’s damn near dead now IMO) aggy, Mississippi st., Washington or Louisville.
Louis Brown, he was a DE/OLB. If I’m remembering correctly, he was actually committed to us when he made that OV, Strong kicked him out and then he decommitted.
Rice shot better than 35% from 3 his sophomore and junior year before it took a bit of a dip his last year at NMSU. He’s probably the best bet to get over it again this upcoming year.
But overall, yeah, shooting is the biggest concern to me, even more so than being undersized.
Foster also clearly quit in the middle of the season and kept playing. I don’t know anyone who wasn’t bothered by that.
It took until the last game of the season to finally pull him.
The core of that argument is that BJ Foster started over all of them and now he’s at Sam Houston State. Cite FEI all you want, SMU and Tech are not worse landing spots than Sam Houston.
Iowa State and Tech fans were also doing a lot of wishcasting on Morris leaving. It was all bitter fans from other Big 12 teams. I never saw any real evidence.
SOC has like 10 kids committed to D1 schools in this class already and that’s not including Malik Muhammad who is their highest rated recruit. Team is loaded.
I mean probably, but I’m not sure that matters much anymore in basketball. A top 10 national basketball recruit is going to get paid A LOT by somebody no matter where he goes. Basketball stars are generally way more marketable and recognizable than their football counterparts.
I hope Marion makes a big difference here, but we say this all the time until we miss out on almost all of the top WRs and end up signing guys like Casey Cain and Savion Red.
There’s definitely going to be some sort of market correction, whether that be through officially written rules or unofficially. I don’t expect things to be this wild long term, the first couple of years of this were always going to be rough because the NCAA never bothered to prepare for it even though it was inevitable to anyone with half a brain.
It also should be no surprise that Miami is handling this in the dumbest fashion imaginable. This Ruiz dude seems like a moron, which is on par for Miami boosters.
Now this is beyond free agency. About to be a whole lot of pearl clutching, even more than there already is.
But on another note, it was totally stupid for this Ruiz dude to be so public about what he gave Nigel Pack to transfer there. This was a super predictable outcome.