Just finished talking with Dalonte Hill. I always like my conversations with him as it’s easy to see why he’s so effective as a recruiter.
Anyway, I asked him if the perception of Mike Beasley leaving for the NBA was helping or hindering recruiting:
“Most guys assume he’s leaving. But that wasn’t the biggest question about us. It was, could we coach? I think 20 wins, third in the Big 12 answers that… Nobody realized how young we were. Look at Syracuse, Florida… We’ve always been able to coach. Check with anyone who knows us.
“We’ve proven people wrong. People are starting to believe that we’re going to have success.”
Then he said something remarkable - at least to me.
“We’ve been getting e-mails from people who want to play for us,” said Hill, adding they were unsolicited but also from kids off the staff’s radar. “After the A&M loss, we must have gotten at least 20 e-mails from people who want to play our style, play for us.”
He credited exposure in the Big 12 Tournament as well as the new Nike uniforms.
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Exposure from the Big 12 tournament?
Were Friday’s games broadcast anywhere but around the Big 12? I guess that includes Texas.
Still, cool info.
great comments. shows how valuable the new uniforms are. we can only hope some old idiots don’t force the coaches to put the team in purples for the majority of next year’s road games.
thank god we get the blacks for usc. it’s great to be an 11!
What recruit worth a damn would watch the A&M game and say “I want to play that style of ball”?
yeah, the new unis are sweet.
are any of those 20 recruits even DI material? i agree w/ zacker.
Good. Dalonte got my email.
It’s gotta be da shoes.
russell makes a great point about your hollow guarantee, ‘zacker.
sys should consider checking his ouinsider pm’s imo.
We can discuss why 99% of KSU fans seem to be complete and utter retards (in private).
The guarantee was really just a jab at Rusty.
Try knowing you were in the same fraternity with him. Ugh.
So was the request for backing it up.
You can’t see a KSU game with a telescope in North Carolina, fwiw. I’m really looking forward to Duke-Belmont on Thursday, btw. Maybe Vitale and Greg Paulus will finally consumate their relationship (I know, Vitale’s not on CBS).
Despise the black unis, btw. Can’t decide if we look more like Colorado or WSU. Love the home whites.
“…from kids off the staff’s radar.” = “regional recruits who we won’t offer now but are watching to see if they develop”
Still good news.
you’re right, yosh. The fact that out-of-the-ordinary attention is being received is an excellent sign, overall.
“…from kids on the staff’s radar.” = No recruiting trips to the Ivory Coast for Frank. The money saved there makes the athletic department happy.
Agree with yosh & Rusty: just because KSU gets a glut of emails from players interested doesn’t mean they will necessarily sign them, but there’s no way that can be construed as bad news.
Recruits think the uni’s are sweet — Oregon effect. Excellent.
This isn’t a slam on you Jeff, but these recruiting updates suck. Essentially, its the samething, “we’re still recruiting and 08 looks great.”
We have 2 obvious spots, Blake and Clent, and yet we still don’t have anyone close to being signed… outside of Witherspoon, obviously.
Give me something with substance, but that probably won’t come for another couple weeks.
zac,
stewart and young’s ’ships are spoken for (samuels and academic penalty). ‘08 recruiting is to fill beasley, hoskins, and walker’s ships.
Sys is correct. We won’t see any commitments for 08 until Beasley hires an agent. However, we know we have at least one more for 09 (academic penalty ’ship) and probably another because Hoskins won’t have any definitive word until mid summer at the earliest. I think over the off season we’ll only see one 08 recruit and probably three more for 09.
is the academic loss due to bennett and is that a sure thing?
Jeff have you ever been out getting crunk with Delonte?
Is Jaquan Barnes one of the off-the-radar recruits?
http://www.kansas.com/news/local/story/344653.html
I ain’t hip like you kids, but lemme say this — I’m proud to read your words because most of you have a lotta purple running thru your veins. The team likes the black suits, so I think they’re kinda neat (sweet?). But, don’t laugh, they had a lotta success in their (in)famous “two-tone traveling purple” ‘way back in the last century.