Kennedy, N.Moore and Tolbert Were All 3 Stars

[Stallion]

there are a couple of guys that keep talking about how SMU is doomed because they can't sign top 50 recruits yet SMU's team has not been built on Top 50 players any way. Frazier and Semi (in the future) yes but not the rest. We have a solid group of young players to keep the program competitive if we can get a couple of good big man prospects. Some of these kids in the Junior through Freshman classes will continue to develop as have most players under Larry Brown-even guys we were ready to run out of town. We take them for granted because they were complementary players in the past but I feel the Junior Class could be outstanding once they are the leaders of the team with 3-4 years of experience

[Rebel10]

Let's get a couple of really good 3 star recruits hopefully with P5 offers like Tolbert and Kennedy. But weren't a good amount of UCF players 3 star too?

[SMUstangs22]

I still think with all of the playing time we can offer we should at least be able to sign a highly rated post player or two.

[PonyTime]

Great points.

And getting a couple of three stars into the nba (perhaps highly drafted) will be a far better recruiting tool than a sweet 16 run...

[OhioBrownFan]

Moore would've easily been top 100 and mid-high 4* if he had any size. And Kennedy was overweight or he would've probably been higher. The two stars had deficiencies in high school that limited their ceilings. Kennedy overhauled his body and Nic proved all the analysts wrong by doing what he's been doing since he was in HS. I get your point OP but it's not the way to build a perennial top 25 team either.

[Crong]

Nic was runner up Mr. Basketball in Indiana behind Cody Zeller fwiw

[Rebel10]

Great points.

And getting a couple of three stars into the nba (perhaps highly drafted) will be a far better recruiting tool than a sweet 16 run...

And a sweet 16 run as well as them getting into the NBA would be even better. I think OBF would agree that a sweet 16 run would mean a lot more that you think in regards to recruiting.

[hoopmanx]

sweet 16's are great, but my squads have been to a ton and never saw an appreciable uptick in recruiting the following year. After you win a natty, yes.

The biggest mistake I see around here is that people think this year is our best chance of being great, pretty much ever. I find that sad, cause a program is a cross-section of era's, coaches, players etc. One year means nothing. This may be the most balanced LB squad, but their is room for improvement in terms of how the roster is compiled. Acquiring particular skill sets for the system as opposed to best availabe athlete, length etc.

[SMU 86]

sweet 16's are great, but my squads have been to a ton and never saw an appreciable uptick in recruiting the following year. After you win a natty, yes.

The biggest mistake I see around here is that people think this year is our best chance of being great, pretty much ever. I find that sad, cause a program is a cross-section of era's, coaches, players etc. One year means nothing. This may be the most balanced LB squad, but their is room for improvement in terms of how the roster is compiled. Acquiring particular skill sets for the system as opposed to best availabe athlete, length etc.

Maybe a team that has not been to the sweet sixteen in a while would get a nice boost in recruiting.

[SMU 86]

I think one thing that might be getting overlooked is how are we going to get the good players we need in the 2016 class while the coaches are on recruiting restrictions for the next 12 months?

[whitwiki]

$$$$

[gostangs]

hey, we could just take some tests for them….oh wait….never mind

[The Falcon]

- and we got all of them from other schools: Kennedy from Villanova, Nic from Ill.State,
and Tolbert from Texas Tech. There seems to be more and more of this type of
transferring going on in college basketball.

Maybe LB will be able to attract a center and a 4 for 2016.

I was looking at the team that we are going to have in 2016 even if we did not recruit
or get another player and it looks like the type that Larry said he loves to coach -
quick, smart, fast and aggressive with some length. Take a look at our team -
Sed (Soph) 6-2; Sterling (Sr) 6-6; Emelogu (Jr) 6-6; Foster (Soph) 6-5; Frazier (Sr.) 6-5;
Shake (Soph) 6-5; Moore (Sr) 6-8; Semi (Jr) 6-8.

If we got a big transfer or two, we might be real bAaaaaad!

[sadderbudweiser]

Recently all of our transferring has been "in."

Hopefully we don't see any transferring "out."

We've been very successful with the transfer portion of our recruiting….it jump-started the LB era and hopefully it kick-starts the LB probation era.

[Rebel10]

LB has had his successful transfers and unsuccessful transfers. It's about 50/50.