The recruiting period isn’t a weekend thing. It’s open from now until April with a few brief breaks. Coaches make the most of it before they get swamped with their own teams. Somebody will make it to Sunrise eventually. 2023 recruiting is the main focus for UVA, where TB will spend most if not all his time.
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He’s already here wtf? I thought it was like Friday evening through the weekend lol. Guess Tony won’t be on the road today.
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With the early game tomorrow it makes sense. Guess they got it last night, maybe late dinner. Do all the tour, pick up games, meetings today. Game and exit meetings tomorrow maybe?
Edit. Hang on, is that JWilly talking about how he cant play anymore in the background lol
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Wait today’s friday…oh boy.
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I think it was Coach O. He was the lead guy for Dunn.
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Bunch of new vids on the Official IG.
Look in the background and tell me that isn’t Kadin and Igor looking the exact same height lol
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Do we take Ryan Dunn to the game tomorrow? I mean of course but also not the best game to bring him to. 11am tip off/ it will be a ghost town. But it means more time to chat him up about UVA basketball.
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I’ll be there! 
still expecting a bit of a ghost town though being that early start time.
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His dad, Jarod, was a good player (and all-around fantastic dude) for UR back in the late 90s. Looks like he’s coaching his son’s team now.
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What’d I’d do for a double gus right now.
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I think it’s a safer bet Leon Bond as a redshirt or the addition of Dunn to the roster take that 2023 spot we may have used on a hunter type small forward.
Do you really believe that they will redshirt anyone if the roster has just ten or eleven scholarship players? Admittedly, the transfer portal might change the thinking come spring, but, for now, a redshirt doesn’t seem that likely to me. Of course, I have been wrong quite often, but…
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Yes I believe that is the plan. According to what @HoozGotNext has said in several other threads. Of course things can change, but I don’t think they would look to add Dunn if Bond wasn’t a redshirt candidate/would probably look to add someone in 2022.
Bond has an extremely high ceiling (super excited about what he can be) but he is also extremely raw offensively.
I just don’t follow the logic for RSing a guard/wing (or even a small ball 4). Body development / maturity seems to me a fine reason to RS. Injuries are a fine reason to RS. Getting used to US hoops or US academic life or US in general may be a fine reason to RS, in some circumstances.
But being raw offensively? Not IMO. How would the cure for being offensively raw to sit and watch for a year?
I really hoped that last year and the portal developments would curtail our use of the RS. 4 years is the right model. If we think Dunn and/or Bond is good enough to play here, then we should have them come play. And if turns out they don’t crack the rotation their first year, then they don’t crack the rotation their first year. But they can still play spot minutes and play some vs mid-majors and at least get in at the end of blowouts. But I don’t see what the planned RS accomplishes…
I kind of feel like this is similar (though inverse) to my frustration with the 2-foul rule. It’s fine as a tendency, but damaging as a “rule” (nearly a rule). RSing a guard/wing every now and again is maybe a fine idea. If the circumstances are correct. But having it as part of our ordinary planning doesn’t seem to make sense.
If a guy isn’t eager to get out of your program and move on after 4 years and a degree, that might not be the best sign…
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you definitely dont punt on 4th down do you?
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Love Tony. Hate the 2 foul rule.
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To be fair: redshirts, regardless of what caused them to occur in the first place, have been extremely productive for us. He’s raw offensively and needs to fill his frame out some.
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I’d say that Dre was very productive after his RS year, but I’m not sure I’d agree that he was productive BECAUSE OF the RS year. I saw video with very my own eyes of him dominating future NBA players before the RS.
Players tend to get better as they get older and more mature. But that’s true for players that RS and don’t RS. But by RS’ing, you risk a downside of losing a year of eligibility (like Dre) and now you risk the portal, too. Because no matter what a 17-year old kid tells a staff when he’s being recruited, he will not like sitting on the bench with no chance of playing, no matter what he agreed to ahead of time.
(To be fair here, I think the Dre sich and and the Mikal bridges sich and the Devon Hall sich are equally rare: either the RS who turns out to be awesome and you miss out on a year, or the RS who really needed that 5th year to become awesome. So maybe this isn’t the most impactful decision…)
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