London Johnson Post-Mortem [Recruiting Meta]

[brogdonfanpage]

I believe it was $2m over 2 yeah

[haney]

Thanks. 1 mn is still a lot, but I guess they’re just matching the market with Scoot.

[AnonymooseHoo]

Ahem…

London Goneson

Elmarko Jacksgone

Freddie Diligone

JaiMD Kaiser

Blake Buchangone

Elijah Gonetrude

Trey Gone

TJ Goner

[Serum114]

@AnonymooseHoo

Ahem…

Wonder if she has a brother we could recruit and not get?

[ElliottHoo]

Milwaukee! Is she a lefty?

[AnonymooseHoo]

Bungling green and LJ this cycle is borderline malpractice

[htraylor]

@AnonymooseHoo - You need to put a or something on that post because you really can’t be serious with “borderline malpractice”.

[Hoohoohoo]

LJ was handled borderline malpractice. Green was handled poorly.

I’m still in awe that we never offered Trimble in the ‘22 class. And that we have yet to offer Janowski in ‘24.

[jphat007]

LOL how was LJ malpractice? He committed to us and then changed his mind. How is that the staff’s fault?

[Wahooblue]

so the alternative is that they offer a player at a position that they already have someone committed?

[Hooandtrue]

@Hoohoohoo

we never offered Trimble in the ‘22 class.

Forgone conclusion he was going to UNC if they offered and Michigan if UNC didn’t offer. Also not a pure pg and also not a strong shooter. Freak athlete though.

@Hoohoohoo

And that we have yet to offer Janowski in ‘24.

Gonna bring back this HGN quote

@Hooandtrue

“I wouldn’t make too much of those players being offered ahead of others. They were offered now because they visited. All of them are doing mini tours this week with multiple stops. We’ll find out next month when coaches visit schools which 2024 recruits will be priority targets.”

[Hoohoohoo]

Writing was on the wall by January. To not have a plan for the Spring was malpractice in my mind.

[Hooandtrue]

To be fair though if there was someone they really liked they would have offered by then. We were looking for two guards anyways. None of the guards in 2023 we offered outside trey green post LJ were pure pgs. We already offered Caleb Foster and LJ, the only two pure pgs worth a damn that UVA fit with. Who else could they have gone after? No one they liked.

They tried to find someone this summer but no new pg offers outside Trey Green who skyrocketed cause they weren’t blown away. PG is a spot we have to hit on/can’t just be a filler.

I am of the belief given what HGN has shared that Tony is all in on Ty Davis and even if we somehow got ElMarko or Taison we are still going hard after that kid.

[Hoohoohoo]

@Hooandtrue

Forgone conclusion he was going to UNC if they offered and Michigan if UNC didn’t offer.

Bad business. You don’t have a chance with some of these guys if you don’t offer. Maybe he decommits. Maybe he transfers after a year. Maybe a coach leaves. Maybe he’s overrecruited.

@Hooandtrue

To be fair though if there was someone they really liked they would have offered by then.

Sure, but by all accounts you need to have a better plan.

This is how you end up in October with a consolation prize of a Top 3 for Taison or Elmarko and an international recruit or a guy in the 300s (yes, Kihei worked out in that one game…no, let’s not discuss this further).

[mac9r]

Trimble’s half-brother played at UNC. That would have been a hard pull.

[Wahooblue]

Honestly, the level of point guard in today’s nil environment who is willing to sit behind reece and not get that much run next to him with imac coming in is probably not the point guard you’d want for the next four years.

Plan seems to be try to find a top flight pg and if not punt to 24 when you can offer them an opportunity to win a starting job on a potentially elite team

[jphat007]

You can’t say stupid stuff like “it worked out in that one game” and then say let’s not discuss it further. Kihei was really solid his entire freshman year, especially for a freshman, and was critical in several other NCAA games.

Then he was All-ACC his second year.

He’s not perfect and definitely has some deficiencies, but your statement is just ignorance (and being a bit of an ass to the guy that saved our natty).

[norfolk_hoo]

Brace yourselves, 50 post Kihei digression incoming

[DMo_Hoos45]

Definitely need more of this type of athleticism in blue & orange.

[73CAV]

@jphat007

You can’t say stupid stuff like “it worked out in that one game” and then say let’s not discuss it further. Kihei was really solid his entire freshman year, especially for a freshman, and was critical in several other NCAA games.

Then he was All-ACC his second year.

He’s not perfect and definitely has some deficiencies, but your statement is just ignorance (and being a bit of an ass to the guy that saved our natty).

It’s worth remembering that there were at least two games in 2019 in which Clark sat for the greater part of the second half. In both the UNC and Syracuse games, he struggled in the second half and was replaced. Since 2019, there have been other games, or portions of other games, in which he should have probably been on the bench, but the staff had no real options. It is also worth noting that he has improved each year. He still has lapses in judgement, but they are far fewer than they were earlier in his career. Regardless, I am hopeful that the staff will have other options this coming season. There are times and/or situations where he is outstanding. There are other times when he is a serious liability. Hopefully, the staff has the tools at hand to deal with the latter.