Recruiting

January 18, 2012 – Allen Moll If you didn’t already know it, #1 rated HS player in the 2012 Class, Shabazz Muhammed is really, really good. The nation’s consensus top rated prospect took full advantage on live television to showcase his immense offensive skills to ESPN’s worldwide audience and those in attendance at Springfield’s 2012 [...]

January 9, 2012 – Allen Moll Perhaps no player other than current Washington Wizards point guard John Wall have been given such a boost in recruiting and national following through social media than that of 5‘6 Aquille Carr. After all, his extensive library of YouTube mixtapes and highlight videos have received millions of hits to [...]

October 13, 2011 – Allen Moll With the University of Connecticut currently short on scholarships because of some prior recruiting violations and failing to meet the NCAA’s Academic Performance Rating, [...]

October 10, 2011 – Allen Moll The University of Texas Longhorns have had the luxury of having some of the most talented point guards in all of college basketball at their disposal over the past 15 years. First it was National POY TJ Ford in ‘02-’03, to DJ Augustin(‘07-’08) who fed the rock to Kevin [...]

September 21, 2011 – Allen Moll Getting a commit from consensus Top 5 rated recruit Kyle Anderson, a player that Bruin fans hope is the 2nd coming of NBA Hall of Fame PG Magic Johnson, has to feel good for UCLA Bruins head coach Ben Howland. After all, while it doesn’t seem that long, the [...]

September 20, 2011 – Allen Moll It seems that Coach Boeheim and staff just has a way of getting commitments from some of the nation’s best big men. From Rony Seikaly, to Derrick Coleman, and more recently Fab Melo and Rakeem Christmas, the Syracuse Orange have always had the services of a dominating big man. [...]

August 4, 2011 – Allen Moll When current St John’s head coach Steve Lavin left ESPN to be the Red Storm’s new head man prior to last season, he hit the ground running on the recruiting front, securing the#3 rated recruiting class in the country heading into next season. In flexing his recruiting muscle, Lavin [...]

June 9, 2011 – Allen Moll As the collegiate game continues to be a one-and-done type affair, nothing means more to a program than recruiting. More than X’s and O’s, a school’s head coach better be able to recruit top notch high school talent or be left wondering why their squad didn’t make the final [...]

June 8, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Did the Miami Heat not learn anything from the Dallas Mavericks loss in the 2006 NBA Finals? You don’t do something publicly that could give your opponent the motivation to overachieve. And specifically in the case of the 2006 Finals, you don’t start counting your chickens before they [...]

September 7, 2010 – Allen Moll I wouldn’t be the first to tell you that college basketball recruiting at the present time is way out of control. Every top coach in America is traveling cross-country in search of the next big thing to help bring their program back to national prominence(or keep it there). Seemingly [...]