Agreed. This looks winnable on paper.
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Heās Belgian as wellā¦
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Belgium is the new Wisconsin
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We need a waffle emoji.
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Jayden Hodge: Im a big fan. Heās like Kon and Jerome. Kon being the best 3pt shooter of the three, Jerome being the best pg of the three, and Hodge being the best athlete/defender of the three (but also the worst shooter of the three by a big margin).
Like different flavors of Pringles: All of them big guards who grew up in basketball households and you can tell by their play on the court with their savviness and how they use their body and how they read the floor.
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Also:
Does Jayden Hodge count as an international recruit if heās played the last two years of HS ball in New Jersey and is going to be at Montverde this upcoming season?
- Yes International
- No not an international
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Does Jayden Hodge count as an instate kid with him having family in the state and his dad currently living in VA?
- Yes instate
- No not instate
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This is the all-time stay with me hooandtrue twister to get to his point, which is valid. Heās a high IQ guy, great feel, all those backhanded compliment hoops phrases.
Yeahā¦big margin. He was in the low 20s in AAUā¦I was hoping that was just a small sample quirk. But he backed it up by going 3-18 in the FIBA thing recently.
I think heās a talented guy with good upside but thereās a reason his list is what it is. His stock has taken a hit this summer because of the poor shooting.
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On the flip side if his shooting was legit we wouldnāt even have a chance with him with him being good at everything else. There was a point where Kansas was seriously recruiting him and hosted him on a visit. We can NOAH him
And we seem to be in the market for a guard who is more of an attacker and slasher to surround with shooting.
Hodge, Foster, Peck, < Forward yet to be named > (Gimme Boulefaa and then Sadiq White or Cam Ward in the portal)
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Would argue for Morillo over Hodge in that archetype
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Think anybodyās starting to make offers with bonuses or escalations attached if some positive measurable increases during their senior HS season - shooting, rebounding, steals, blocks, assists, whatever? Something like: hereās 250K to commit now plus another 10K for each percentage point your shooting goes up during the upcoming year?
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Why? Tie it to their performance in college instead.
Questions we now have to ask in this day and age
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I just have less than zero sweat about this hs class.
I wouldnāt want to sustain a program without a quality HS pipeline - but the on court product this year is going to set the tone one way or another. This next offseason is probably going to have to be another heavy portal season either way.
Really nothing on the hs recruiting side is going to move the needle for me until after we have a completed season.
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Iām sweating a little bit. But I also agree with you. Mitigating factors for me:
- Itās still early! Odom and Griff and staff wound up doing a great roster build even when early returns were a little slow (kept the faith on Malik waiver and TDR eligibility)
- going forward momentum will depend on this season
- Two top 100 in-state (commonwealth) guys in year 0 class
- GrĆ¼nloh and TDR both have runway to come back (Iād set O/U at one of them)
- Thomas, Tillis, Hall, and Jacari will all definitely be gone, but Mallory, Gertrude, and Lewis all poised to take a jump in 26-27. And maybe Barksdale? Thatād be niceā¦
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It all just depends on how much we think recruits 1) care about team performance, and 2) how much one season will impact their perception of overall performance.
In my view weād have to be top 25 this season, and win at minimum 1 tourney game (but probably more like 2) to make a sizable enough impact on that perception where weād start landing targets because of it. Otherwise, itās just the level that Odomās teams have performed at already.
I donāt think we are going to pull in a ton of guys because of Odomās charisma and connection with players. So we need things like performance, style of play, program resources, and being in ACC to do the trick.
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They care about it a lot! With notable outliers, the best recruits tend to go to the best programs.
I think this is one of a few areas where the reverse CW started to take hold among us UVa hoops fans.
Typically, NCAA tourney success is correlated with regular season success and typically, the best programs recruit the best.
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Most programs win the natty and see a recruiting bump
Most coaches donāt retire in October.
Should I go on? 
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well yeah! Main question is the one year of success piece of the equation. There hasnāt been much traction at all right now, so that variable would have to do a lot of heavy lifting, and do it fairly quickly. (With the caveat that this may all be premature given how Odom does his recruiting stuff - as was discussed earlier in the thread)
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