Ok so lets see if new recruiting thread
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Yup Dotson is your boy! I’m high on him as well. I’ve been on the Dotson/Grimes duo for a while. That has been my prediction since the spring. We’ll see whether we get both or not.
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From a 247 article
Moses Brown, the No. 2 ranked center in the 2018 class by the 247Sports Composite, appears focused on Louisville, Maryland and Kansas and the No. 2 rated center in the 247Sports Composite has official visits scheduled with the Cardinals and Terps next month.
A five-star center from New York, Brown is scheduled to make his visit official visit to Louisville September 1-2, his coach, Mike McCleary, told InsideTheVille Wednesday.
“I assume since they offered him a visit so early the like him a lot,” McCleary said. “It’s his first visit so I think that means a lot. For him it was difficult to decide who he wanted to visit.”
Brown also has an official visit set with Maryland for Sept. 28.
“Coach Bino (Ranson) has been the most consistent and worked the hardest when it came to recruiting him,” said McCleary. “He’s stayed close to him (Brown) the whole time and I know that meant a lot to Moses.”
“I don’t have a feel which way he’s leaning,” McCleary said. “It’s really up to the visits to figure out which place he fits in best.”
McCleary said he thinks Brown will also set up a visit to Kansas.
“Past that I’m not sure (if he’ll visit other programs),” McCleary said.
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BeddieKU23 said:
FarmerJayhawk said:
@BeddieKU23 I’d almost be surprised if he visits anywhere else. More time for him to work on Zion! Who I think is a UK/KU battle right now. Duke seems to have moved to Reddish (lock) and Barrett, who’s pretty open to any school with a check mark.
I agree, especially if the info that Dotson to KU has been a done deal for weeks now. It’s also important that he didn’t schedule any other visits after KU’s either like the Florida trip that has been mentioned so often. I get the feeling this one is a wrap!
His dad is saying the right things publicly but if the UF visit never happens, that’s great.
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@BeddieKU23 Fingers crossed for both - - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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Well if we follow the visits for Brown and quotes doesn’t sound like KU has much of a chance here…
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BeddieKU23 said:
Well if he follow the visits for Brown and quotes doesn’t sound like KU has much of a chance here…
Hopefully he visits.
Weird recruitment. I think he was hoping for a UK offer.
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BShark said:
BeddieKU23 said:
Well if he follow the visits for Brown and quotes doesn’t sound like KU has much of a chance here…
Hopefully he visits.
Weird recruitment. I think he was hoping for a UK offer.
From the sounds of it he wanted Duke as well.
I think the media wanted to make him better then he is. He’s got a lot of potential that a College team could untap, the big question mark being how motivated he’ll be to develop and how long he’ll stay.
For KU I’d take McCormack over him because he’s really improved a ton in the last year and David will come into College ready physically to hold up in the post. The work Oak Hill’s coach has done with him is a big reason he’s now pushing the upper echelon of 4 star status.
Regardless I hope Moses visits as well. never hurts to get a top big on campus in a class that has limited options in the post.
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Well and the trend just keeps rolling. Which is a good thing for us I hope. - -Saw where we just picked up another CB for Zion Williamson about an hour ago a guy named Ted Hyman now takes us to 43% to Kentucky 29% keep your fingers crossed guys, maybe Zion will be the latest of the mega studs to come follow Wiggs, & Jackson would be great. - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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Just some more information tidbits. Really funny UK board starting to panic some now about Williamson, and of course coming out with the shots: - - - Why ANYONE would choose KU over UK, and then you have this - - -poster says if Williamson chooses to come to KU over UK he needs his head examined, and another poster responded - more like check mama’s bank account instead of his head. Of course saying we will be fine talking about there is other players Cal wants more or their are better, you gotta love it. - -Paranoia starting to sit in.
Also mentioned this made me have to go check and yes turned out they were right, and yes I like all others know or most should know, but anyways Quickley has cut his list to three Schools Kentucky - - -KU - - & Miami. - -again I’m not that naïve but just throwing this out for conversation IF - -IF - -IF Quickley chose KU and there has also been a lot of talk about Williamson and Quickly wanting to play together, but IF he chose , we all know that NO way all three end up here Quickley - - Grimes - - Dotson, so question is would we rather take Grimes/Dotson dual and Quickley not commit here? I say YES I will take the combo of Grimes?Dotson and then - -I feel we have as good of shot landing Williamson with Dotson as we would with Quickley and Williamson which is probably happening anyways Quickley goes to Kentucky, I’ll take my chances with Dotson pulling Williamson, although Quickley was seen wearing an Adidas shirt.
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Boy just full of it today guys. read about McCormack’s visit to KU: - he said It’s a great environment , and that he really enjoyed myself there, KU told him that KU was probably going to be losing their top 6 players , saying Preston would be gone, Graham would be gone, McCormack said he hadn’t set any officials yet and doesn’t know how many he was going to take.
He said even though he hadn’t set up any visits that there is a lot about KU that appeals to him. " History " - -McCormack said it’s literally the history of Basketball, with James Naismith the creator of Basketball, that KU has had the 1st great Basketball coach at Ku.
Saying KU has a legendary program, KU has done well at developing players at his position, KU is a winning program, Getting to play Allen Fieldhouse, and KU winning 13 straight Big 12 titles that produces pro’s.
McCormack says that KU - - Duke - -Xavier - -G’Town - -UCLA - -NC State - -Georgia Tech - -& Texas are the schools recruiting him the hardest.
Asked what he was looking for in a School he said he relationship with the Coach, Being able to play through mistakes, and being able to develop his game, He says conditioning and Development is important as well as his major, he wants to major in Communications or Journalism, he wants to go into sports broadcasting.
He said History also plays into it as far as the Coach being a good Coach and how the School develops players. Guys the more I’m starting to see, I think this could shape up to be a pretty good year for us if things play out right. - -Sounds like this kid is pretty smart kid, knows his stuff, knows what he wants. - Sounds like he is really interested. He says he has no timetable for his commitment but does want to cut his list, hoping to do so soon. I think our chances may be better then some think - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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2018 Big Silvio de Sousa is on a visit to KU now. Haven’t heard KU linked with him much, though we did offer him in May. He’s going to be a really, really good college big. Huge frame and a great athlete.
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@FarmerJayhawk Fascinating. I’ve not really seen him mentioned with KU either and he is believed to be a Maryland lean. So, he is visiting with Dotson then? That can’t be bad for KU…
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Does Maryland have room for him if they take Moses Brown? Food for thought.
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@FarmerJayhawk He’s got Bill Self big written all over him. 6’8 in shoes with a 6’10 wingspan. Doesn’t remind us of anyone in particular at all…
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@BShark I’m not sure if it’s an official or not. I think they probably can take them both, but would be very un-Maryland like to get two top 30 big men. Him visiting KU before Maryland is a good sign though.
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Seems like it’s an official visit. Also even if he doesn’t come to KU, this was great just for what it’s doing to the Maryland 247 board right now.
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@BShark this is true. I think KU broke their fans with Josh Jackson and Billy Preston.
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Lol @bshark poor turgeon.
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@approxinfinity Love that little guy. he was a GREAT player for KU.
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@BShark That link doesn’t open without signing up. Thumbnail sketch of what it says about Turg?
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Jalen Hoard to Wake Forest
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Good for Danny. Really good pickup.
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@wissox Just Maryland fans melting down about De Sousa even visiting KU.
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@BShark The Turtles are shell shocked.
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Sounds like Self hosted Dotson and De Souza at his home at some point yesterday. Haven’t heard many other details of the visit yet though.
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RockkChalkk said:
Sounds like Self hosted Dotson and De Souza at his home at some point yesterday. Haven’t heard many other details of the visit yet though.
Yep, Zags put this out there.
Linky: https://twitter.com/AdamZagoria/status/901639958510919680
Dotson is still in Lawrence on a visit that started Friday so it’s probably going quite well. Felt like a confirmation visit going in to hopefully that’s the case and he commits to KU w/o taking another visit.
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Ok, so now I have questions. This Silvio De Souza has kind of caught me by surprise as I’m sure has many others. So ya I know probably not that big of deal, no reason to try and make more out of it then what it is right? - - Understand, BUT I still have questions , or thoughts. Did Dotson talk him into coming along? Some say this is an official - -some say it’s an un official . Question is did Coach get sneaky, slide this one in under the microscope? Coming out of left field? - -Hadn’t really heard much talk about him, didn’t think we were anywhere in the picture on his recruitment - - or ARE we?
So what do we really know about him? - Well we know he is like # 31? - off 247 site - -listed as a 6’9 power forward - - -thing is like I said Just haven’t heard hardly any scuttlebutt concerning him. - - So don’t trip about his visit? - -OR is this a kid we should start paying more attention too? - -What’s his game like? - - Who has anyone heard who his school’s of interest are-? - -Again just haven’t heard much if anything at all ads far as we go anyways - - yet if you look at the Schools of interest off 247 it list the ever so popular warmer warm status and it shows ONLY KU & Maryland as the two teams of that kind of interest. - -So if we truly aren’t on his radar and serious consideration then why is Maryland having baby cows about us ?
Ok having said that let’s play the what if game once again - -What if we land Zion Williamson as a Small forward - - -Land Silvio De Souza as a Power Forward- - - -Quinton Grimes to play a shooting guard - - & Devon Dotson to run the point, if that came to play I would have to say that would be a pretty dam good recruiting season - -So fill me in whz up with this visit? - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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De Sousa’s recruitment is very, very quiet so it’s not a surprise this didn’t leak beforehand. There are two factors working for Maryland here. First is the IMG/Under Armour connection. Second is his close relationship with Terp freshman Bruno Fernando. Both are Angolan and would love to play together. De Sousa is a physical specimen. Large frame, and great athlete. T-Rob isn’t a bad comp at the same age. What I don’t know is how much KU is actually in it. Like I said, this is a very quiet recruitment and not a lot is going to get out.
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Interesting visit. De Sousa was a bit higher in the rankings earlier this year but from what I saw and read he didn’t have the greatest summer. He’s still a talent that any program would be happy to have but wonder if he plateau’d a bit in his development because he was a 5 star prospect for a long time.
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I’m going to need for you to sign on the dotted line, sir. Enough teasing- I need some commits.
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Finally something on Dotson. Maybe someone can post the link, i’m not very good with that stuff but the article I read said he thought the visit went well. He and Silvio watched the boxing fight at Self’s house with some of the players on the team. Biggest highlights of the article:
- Self told him that he thinks he is the best PG in the nation and he is their priority.
- Dotson and De Sousa were talking about possibly teaming up and playing together next year and thought it would be fun.
- Sadly, Dotson has a new visit scheduled, going to Univ. of Florida on Sept. 8th weekend.
- Expects to make a decision prior to basketball season.
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Well guys, not really sure how to take this, I find it a little un settling maybe, Devon Dotson talked about his visit to KU & future plans:
Dotson says they watched the fight at Coach’s house with De Souza & some of the current team. Dotson said he talked with De Souza saying he is a great player and were talking about teaming up, just playing together would be fun to play with him.
As far as KU Dotson says Coach Self has made me a priority, wants to put the ball in my hands, just be in attack mode & run the show, Coach Self thinks I’m the top point guard in the Nation, so he believes in me a lot.
Now the little bit of un-settling part - - -Florida. Dotson says about Florida: Their need for a point guard & great relationship they have been talking since fresh year & the relationship & trust the belief in me.
Then on top of that even more a little disturbing was that he hasn’t set up any more visits but might take some, kind of frustrating because I thought this was pretty much a two team race - - not so sure now.
UCLA has recently gotten involved sayin their freshman Jaylen Hands could follow Lonzo Balls steps. Dotson saying that UCLA’S producing a ton of point guards that is definitely is appealing to him. Alford trying to set up a date for an in home and then Dotson says might take an official there.
Then there is Clemson, who he says is in the mix - -Clemson? - - Clemson? - - maybe take an official visit, gotta figure out the dates. Hopes to decide before the basketball season. - -was hoping for a little better outcome from his visit. - Now really don’t know what to think. - -I’m not worried about Clemson BUT Florida? - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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McCormack has his final 6: Xavier - - KU - - -Okla St- - - -UCLA - - -NC State - - -& Duke.
Had to say about his visit to KU: - -Great environment at KU, really enjoyed himself there, told probably KU would be losing their top 6 , so McCormack will be able to play inside and out. - - KU would be able to take advantage of what I can do. - -we shall see , ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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Dotson to HCBS, “Coach I want to commit, but I’ve got some free vacations lined up on the coasts…”
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Jumpin Jee Hossa Fits have some faith!
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Sucks he’ll take another visit but it shows good character as well to follow through with what you say. Florida has recruited him a long time and they probably feel obligated to visit and give them a chance seems how they have invested a ton of time recruiting Devon as well. As far as UCLA its all part of the recruiting game.
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His dad had been adamant that he wouldn’t commit on or shortly after the visit. Looks like they are sticking too that. I still think KU is very well positioned.
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McCormack is coming back for an official on Late Night.
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@BeddieKU23 Lmao, for sure buddy keep those fingers crossed. - -In all reality your right I mean if I’m the athlete no matter who I thought or where I seriously thought I was going to commit to - -why not take ALL FIVE official visits enjoy the process , ya know. - -Even if I really thought I was committing to KU I’d still probably take my other visits, and then if be some weird happening what if I did like one of my other visits better. In the End run I deep down still feel he commits here, even though never say never to Florida. - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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Well, read where Louis King has us in his final 6. Ranked # 14 by 247 small forward out of Hudson New Jersey, 6’8
His final 6 are: Maryland, Seton Hall, U Conn, Oregon, Syracuse, Purdue, NC State & KU. - -Even though Kentucky had been recruiting him he was never offered Looks like Oregon might have become the team to beat out for him now. - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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The biggest development with King is that he wanted UK, played for Cal during Team USA ball and didn’t get an offer. So now he goes to his other options. I don’t think KU is seriously in it for him at this point. Zion is the priority
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BShark said:
McCormack is coming back for an official on Late Night.
Some very positive news there. Seems KU has become a much bigger option for him then we might have thought. The Duke interest seems to be lukewarm at best right now and other then Oklahoma St hiring his AAU coach to lure him aboard KU has gotten the unofficial and now will get the official coming up.
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Hmmm, this might have people guessing what it is. Read off UK Board, the thread was Huge Recruiting News Coming? Poster showed where " Fran Frischilla , stated Hearing something seismic on the recruiting front coming, but I’m not a story breaker. Going to sit back & see what happens Seismic.
With that said very interesting what UK people were guessing, but the two most popular Was Bagley not being cleared to play at Duke this year - -then we have talk of package deal to announce commitment - - Bagley probably not right cause as was brought up Fran said on the recruiting front - - Bagley is not a recruit any longer.
Then gets interesting UK fans wetting all over themselves lol. -Some saying a lot of hoopla from Fran for single recruit being Seismic. Then the talk became pretty popular responses - -Zion Williamson to KU in one form/shape or another. By himself - - -Package - - -Multi package lol. A lot of people talking hearing all the KU rumors/rumblings.
Talk about Zion trigger finger been itching & with Fran being in the loop has a KU feel. How Fran has his nose so far up Coach Self’s butt lol. Then talking about how Adidas bringing Devon onto Zion’s AAU team and how they fit together - - -helping KU - -then there was talk about how Adidas had given Zion’s father an AAU team, & they had sunk a lot of money into that team, so saying you don’t think they would want Zion and his father to go an Adidas school after that?
Just multiple - -multiple people saying they think it has to do with Zion committing to KU in some form or another, probably package.
Then the topper was they even had a multi package deal, saying Zion Williamson - - Devon Dotson - - Quinton Grimes - -&Romeo Langford - -ALL Adidas kids and committing to KU lmao.
Well gives us something to ponder, so has anyone heard anything about something HUGE coming on the recruiting front for anybody? - -Fran made this statement last night at 6:48 - -ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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I think Langford ends up in Louisville.
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@BShark Oh I do to, hve felt that for some time, but was just mentioning the things these people ad to say. - -They wetting themselves at the thought of Zion coming to KU - -which in reality I could se him and Dotson as a package to KU - -and possibly Grimes - -ya I think you would call that Seismic ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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Wow can’t believe how deathly quiet it is in here right now - -Have we been invaded? lol Am I the last Jayhawk standing? - - -Jumpin - - -Gee - - Hossa - -Fats - -this old wrinkled up old man bored to tears, just recovering from my surgery - -AGAIN - -yet another lol , and all my brothern - - GONE - -did ol squeaky down the road snatch everyone lol? - -was so bored trolling other schools boards, read off Duke they were commenting on Frans post also about something Huge in recruiting may be coming - -got me really curious as to what? - -Duke also thinks it could be Zion coming to KU - -even thought that would be sweet, him by himself ehhhh maybe not so much - -thinking like most are possible package commit - -ANYONE got any inside poop on this? - - - ROCK CHALK ALL DAY LONG BABY
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@BShark Really depends on how much Adidas is willing to spend to win a ring I suppose, right?
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@jayballer54 Still here and still checking in, just hasn’t been much to talk about lately. Seems like this recruiting season has dragged on a bit. Once KU lands its first commitment there will be a lot more chatter going on I hope.
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This class does look like it could be one of the best Self has ever had. Some of that is due to how much we are losing at season’s end but this is a class the staff did its homework early to get a leg up on some elite kids.
Dotson and Grimes- They are locks until anything is said otherwise. Both dynamic guards.
Zion & Zion- Williamson is a legitimate option for KU, Griffin will take his last visit to KU and that one seems ours to lose from his comments. I think we are good shape to land at least 1-Zion.
Big Dave McCormack. Getting him to unofficial on his own then getting him back a month later for an official is huge. Billy Preston is probably a big reason he’s looking at us having been a former teammate of his at Oak Hill.
As @RockkChalkk said we just need the first domino to come off the board.
