2022 Fall Recruiting Thread: Gertrude Watch, Tony on the Road, and the 2024s

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https://medium.com/@alex.walulik/aaron-clark-early-career-scouting-report-8b30b3aece6

Slight bouncier Woldo with more playmaking ability. And wiggle. A more versatile scorer for sure.

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If this was our 2014 roster, a developed trio of Silas Demary, Cameron Carr, and Aaron Clark would have been nasty in the packline.

My eyes are just bright with all the possible targets in 2024. Something about appreciating what you can actually have or something like that.

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Did we know that Kon’s mother played at UW-Green Bay?

And that her brother / Kon’s uncle Jeff Nordgaard played at UW-Green Bay as well? If I’m looking at the timeline right, he missed playing with Tony by a season but did play for Dick Bennett for a few.

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Believe she’s the all time leading scorer on the womens side at Green Bay.

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I saw that reference but wasn’t sure if it was still current.

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@HoozGotNext are kids like Silas Demary, Aaron Clark, and Cameron Carr still being available a product of schools planning to use or prioritizing the transfer portal? Feels like these kids, who are all really solid, still being available wasn’t a thing at this time in years past. I mean kids do become available after the anticipated decommits that happen

Or maybe they were available and Im just new to this as a UVA fan who isn’t used to senior fall recruiting LOL.

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Watching more of what @Richan34 shared Aaron Clark plays a lot like Dontaie Allen, that Kentucky transfer we briefly showed interest in. Quick release and quick but mostly a spot up shooter with some good vision.

Caleb Williams is taller by an inch and more of a forward. Aaron Clark is more guard and quicker.

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With Aaron Clark the main schools involved are St Johns, Seton Hall, BYU, and Iowa. Also saw Wake forest has their whole staff following him LOL they need a guard bad. His most recent follower is the assistant head coach at Texas so maybe other schools lurking.

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No there’s always guys like this, but I guess it’s true that everybody is being recruited less because of transfers. Most coaches are just taking fewer high school players.

Usually they’re special situations. Like Clark missed all summer with an injury. Carr didn’t post big stats, so I think it’s taken coaches a little while to catch on to his potential. And well if there was any assurance of Keatts being around past next season at NCSU, DeMary would be committed there already.

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This transfer portal situation has drastically changed recruiting. I have friends who have kids who are low to mid major recruits who are getting very few offers and are being told it is because schools have to leave x spots open for the kids coming through the portal. Hearing the same from the hs and aau guys…a lot fewer offers out to the high mid to low d1 kids. And the frustration from the parents and coaches is real.

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I want to see Kon Knueppel season soon.
His junior and senior are highly anticipated.

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It essentially means recruiting never stops for them. They’ll need to take whatever offers they get, and continue auditioning to upgrade to better programs.

One thing I could see happening is a cap on how many transfers a program can take over a given time period. This isn’t a direct restriction on the student’s freedom of movement, but does have an indirect effect since it just limits the amount of slots available. So this could cool down the impact of transfers (esp NIL-driven transfers) we’re seeing right now.

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I haven’t seen it yet in this mini discussion, I don’t think, so worth pointing out that the numbers crunch isn’t coming from transfers (theoretically, no sit out should mean guys work through the system faster, right?); it’s coming from the Covid 5th year.

So the decision to favor the Covid 5th year guys was also a decision to DISfavor non top 100 guys in this and the next class or two.

Edit - there was speculation about coaches giving out fewer schollies, but I don’t know to what extent that’s actually happened.

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Good point. This is the last year for that? Or do we have one more year? Things may get better for those types of students after that’s done.

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This year, and 2 more, I think. Through Reece’s class. Reece is a junior, so has his senior year and covid senior year left, eligibility wise.

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Yeah, IIRC, the ‘25s are the first class that won’t have to deal with it, meaning it’ll actually be a moderate benefit for their recruiting since more guys will exhaust their eligibility than normal.

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Thanks all. Me bad at mathing.

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After sleeping on it I think Aaron Clark would be better for us

  1. Looks like he might be legit legit before the injury took him out for the summer. Had a lot of big schools after him that filled up over the summer and he was the leading scorer in group phase at FIBA 19 last year (including Jaden Ivey on US and that Victor Wembvjkdhkjfsk kid on France. Clark played for Puerto Rico).

  2. Size and 3pt shooting. And fits with Gertrude. Carr overlaps too much.

  3. Might just be a Northeast thing but Clark seems tougher mentally and physically

  4. Continue building that Northeast pipeline. Didn’t Vandross himself play at Brewster Academy? Also doing a quick instagram scan, it looks like Aaron Clark is Reid Ducharme’s room-mate. Life comes full circle.

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Marco Anthony 2.0, with that stupid hitch jumpshot. LOL.
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Curious how many of those offers are actually committable. If they are were, you’d think he’d be off the board by now

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