Bull94 Posted March 16, 2017 Group: Member Topic Count: 22 Content Count: 8,722 Reputation: 992 Days Won: 23 Joined: 02/02/2005 Share Posted March 16, 2017 57 minutes ago, Bourbon Bull said: Because that hasn't worked out for WBB. foreign players are pretty common in women's basketball. http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaw/2015/12/23/foreign-players-bolstering-womens-college-hoops/77838404/ Villanova players averages just 81 miles from campus to hometown. they have no foreign born players. 10 of their players are from penn, NJ, MD, or NY. furthest is from Illinois Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triple B Posted March 16, 2017 Group: Moderator Topic Count: 1,612 Content Count: 74,584 Reputation: 10,850 Days Won: 423 Joined: 11/25/2005 Share Posted March 16, 2017 1 hour ago, Bourbon Bull said: Because that hasn't worked out for WBB. 2 minutes ago, Brad said: At risk of full board rebuke and rejection, it's lazy and inefficient. I'd rather we do the work to find athletes in the region. Don't know how you can call it lazy to scour the world for recruits. Inefficient I can understand from an economical standpoint but bottom line is you go where you think you can get the players. The best year in the history of the program had 1 scholarship player from Florida. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ionbull Posted March 16, 2017 Group: Member Topic Count: 8 Content Count: 2,610 Reputation: 635 Days Won: 3 Joined: 12/17/2015 Share Posted March 16, 2017 It doesn't matter where you recruit, it's getting them into the program, eligible and successful while HERE. The problem with xCOA is his players never made it to to campus; and when they did some had eligibility problems or team rule violations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CousinRicky Posted March 16, 2017 Group: TBP Subscriber III Topic Count: 582 Content Count: 22,685 Reputation: 5,820 Days Won: 108 Joined: 09/13/2007 Share Posted March 16, 2017 22 minutes ago, Bull94 said: foreign players are pretty common in women's basketball. http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaw/2015/12/23/foreign-players-bolstering-womens-college-hoops/77838404/ Villanova players averages just 81 miles from campus to hometown. they have no foreign born players. 10 of their players are from penn, NJ, MD, or NY. furthest is from Illinois I've been a 'nova fan pretty much all my life. They are Villanova, not USF. They've recruited against the Big 5 Schools all that time. Why can't Univ of Penn, LaSalle and St Joe's get those same recruits? Temple does pretty well vs 'nova in recruiting. Univ of Miami has 2 FL players on its roster and 2 international. http://www.hurricanesports.com/SportSelect.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=28700&SPID=103777&SPSID=658436 Gators have 4 from FL and 2 international http://floridagators.com/roster.aspx?path=basketball-men& FSU has 5 from FL and 4 from outside the country. http://www.seminoles.com/SportSelect.dbml?SPID=157128&SPSID=917092&DB_OEM_ID=32900 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roaming Bull Posted March 16, 2017 Group: Member Topic Count: 64 Content Count: 9,756 Reputation: 2,174 Days Won: 25 Joined: 09/20/2014 Share Posted March 16, 2017 When do we trade names and men's b-ball teams with fgc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted March 16, 2017 Group: Admin Topic Count: 13,332 Content Count: 97,018 Reputation: 10,817 Days Won: 469 Joined: 05/19/2000 Share Posted March 16, 2017 38 minutes ago, Triple B said: Don't know how you can call it lazy to scour the world for recruits. Inefficient I can understand from an economical standpoint but bottom line is you go where you think you can get the players. The best year in the history of the program had 1 scholarship player from Florida. I doubt there's any scouring of the world. It's being aware of their top club or league players. This can be done on internet. If we are basically going to act like a pro team some will be attracted to it Others will turn off to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bull94 Posted March 16, 2017 Group: Member Topic Count: 22 Content Count: 8,722 Reputation: 992 Days Won: 23 Joined: 02/02/2005 Share Posted March 16, 2017 (edited) 22 minutes ago, Bourbon Bull said: I've been a 'nova fan pretty much all my life. They are Villanova, not USF. They've recruited against the Big 5 Schools all that time. Why can't Univ of Penn, LaSalle and St Joe's get those same recruits? Temple does pretty well vs 'nova in recruiting. Univ of Miami has 2 FL players on its roster and 2 international. http://www.hurricanesports.com/SportSelect.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=28700&SPID=103777&SPSID=658436 Gators have 4 from FL and 2 international http://floridagators.com/roster.aspx?path=basketball-men& FSU has 5 from FL and 4 from outside the country. http://www.seminoles.com/SportSelect.dbml?SPID=157128&SPSID=917092&DB_OEM_ID=32900 fgcu has 11 from florida. 4 of their top 5 scorers are from Florida..1 foreign. I'd say we are closer to them then we are FSU or UF. http://www.fgcuathletics.com/roster.aspx?path=mbball I'm not opposed to foreign players, I just don't think they should be our primary focus. I understand we won't get the top recruits in our area like Villanova does but we are not competing against Villanova. We are competing against UCF who has 9 FL players on their roster. 3 of their top 4 scorers are from Orlando http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/roster/_/id/2116/ucf-knights Edited March 16, 2017 by Bull94 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CousinRicky Posted March 16, 2017 Group: TBP Subscriber III Topic Count: 582 Content Count: 22,685 Reputation: 5,820 Days Won: 108 Joined: 09/13/2007 Share Posted March 16, 2017 6 minutes ago, Bull94 said: fgcu has 11 from florida. 4 of their top 5 scorers are from Florida..1 foreign. I'd say we are closer to them then we are FSU or UF. http://www.fgcuathletics.com/roster.aspx?path=mbball I'm not opposed to foreign players, I just don't think they should be our primary focus. I understand we won't get the top recruits in our area like Villanova does but we are not competing against Villanova. We are competing against UCF who has 9 FL players on their roster. 3 of their top 4 scorers are from Orlando http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/team/roster/_/id/2116/ucf-knights Hopefully the new guy can start to do that. I'm doubting it but fingers are crossed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bull94 Posted March 16, 2017 Group: Member Topic Count: 22 Content Count: 8,722 Reputation: 992 Days Won: 23 Joined: 02/02/2005 Share Posted March 16, 2017 5 minutes ago, Bourbon Bull said: Hopefully the new guy can start to do that. I'm doubting it but fingers are crossed. good news is GTech has 3 of top 4 scorers and 7 overall from their state this year as well as 9 overall with all top 5 scorers from their state last year. shows he likes to recruit locals personally I think that is the best way to build a program such as ours. keep it local and get a group of guys that grow together and maybe make a run as juniors/seniors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CousinRicky Posted March 16, 2017 Group: TBP Subscriber III Topic Count: 582 Content Count: 22,685 Reputation: 5,820 Days Won: 108 Joined: 09/13/2007 Share Posted March 16, 2017 1 hour ago, Triple B said: Don't know how you can call it lazy to scour the world for recruits. Inefficient I can understand from an economical standpoint but bottom line is you go where you think you can get the players. The best year in the history of the program had 1 scholarship player from Florida. Looks like you are closing in on 50k posts. Time to get a real job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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