2024/2025 recruiting

[roos34]

The Roos have 20+ offers out to high school kids for 2024 & 2025. I am not sure how I feel about recruiting High School players. There is certainly more high school talent available to schools like KC now, but there is a lot of investment that goes into kids that may only stay 1-2 years without much impact. Perhaps we are top heavy and it makes sense to go young, but it would seem difficult to justify more than 2 Freshman scholarship players on a roster. In the current state of college basketball, I think it makes more sense to recruit JUCO players, portal transfers, and foreigners.

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[perry c]

I like recruiting h.s. guys, for the sake of building regional contacts with coaches. Gotta be legit D-I prospects, however.

[bigroobluefan]

Get the best players possible! The majority of teams are focused on transfer portal and getting experienced players. I am fan of Juco players because many of them were D1 players and transferred to Juco after their freshman season. Others are 2 year players who are ready to play D1 basketball immediately. It would be nice to get some KC area kids that are 3-4 year players. I want to see a top 3 Summit League team every year that makes a NCAA tournament. Coach Menzies and Coach E are bringing in better talent!🎯

[roos34]

Recruiting the best players that can play right away works. However, the days that you can recruit HS kids and expect to build a program around them is likely over. Unless we get some serious NIL money to our athletes, those that play at a higher level will likely move on. That’s just the reality of the college landscape. Our roster is already actively and unethically recruited by other schools while under scholarship.

[section28]

or try to get them as their 3rd school with 2 years to play... and can't have any more free transfers...