Quentin Chevious to Tenn.

[JHHawk]

Iowa recruited Chevious out of Niles ND(Chicago) earlier in the year,but never offered. He went to Tenn last weekend without an offer but got one by the end of the weekend and accepted today. He is a 6'5'' shooting guard who had a solid senior year. Cuonzo Martin is playing catchup as he must have lost some committed recruits. Washpun and Chevious are not top tier recruits,but with NCAA violations looming...not bad.

Saw that Maryland commit,Sterling Gibbs,younger brother of Pitt's Ashton Gibbs, de-committed from Maryland due to the resignation of Gary Williams. Gibbs is a solid pg recruit,and had a lot of schools,including Pitt,IU ect after him. Not sure what his options are now,but I suspect some Big East institution will find a scholly. Way back when, SA recruited Ashton Gibbs as a junior,but he opted for Pitt...and turned out to be a real stud. They are out of NJ....Fran knows NJ...wish we could get in on this young man,but highly doubtful.

 

[Ronco]

I'm glad to see Fran shaking bushes and messin up leaves all over, but I'm a firm believer that we need to make hay from within 5 to 7 hours of IC. I know there's a lot of talent out east and that is Fran's stompin' grounds, but in the end we're going to appeal more to those kids a days drive from here.

I'm sure Fran knows what he's doing more than I. Right now he's trying to infuse talent anyway and anyplace he can do it.

 

[hawkeye12345]

I'm glad to see Fran shaking bushes and messin up leaves all over, but I'm a firm believer that we need to make hay from within 5 to 7 hours of IC. I know there's a lot of talent out east and that is Fran's stompin' grounds, but in the end we're going to appeal more to those kids a days drive from here.

I'm sure Fran knows what he's doing more than I. Right now he's trying to infuse talent anyway and anyplace he can do it.

I think you are about as wrong as you could possibly be.

 

[Thawki]

Wrong Ronco, kind of.

I guess you are correct that maybe we will APPEAL to kids closer to IC than those further away. However, that doesn't mean that a good coach that works hard at recruiting can't get players outside of the "local" area to come play for him to take the program to the next level.

Duke recruits nationally and has national championships. So do UNC, Arizona and KU, among others. Why would someone be satisfied with recruiting locally when we have no regular season conference championships since 1980 to show for it? It seems obvious we have to do more than that to succeed beyond being in the top half of the conference.

This type of recruiting is one reason I was hoping SA would get the MU job when he said they were interested in him while he was at Iowa, because I thought at that time we would then go after Mike Anderson, who would recruit outside of Iowa if he had gotten that job and would also bring an exciting brand of basketball to Iowa.

We have the national recruiting and exciting brand of ball now, just one or two coaches too late for my liking. But, better late than never, I guess.