It has happened again....and I have touched on this issue many times before...
Numerous coaches spend time recruiting middle schoolers, offering them scholarships, the having the kids either fizzle out, reneg their commitments, or simply not pan out and end up being less than worth of such an early offer.
Ryan Boatright, Jordan Dykstra, Dakota Euton, and now Wesley Staten....are all recent cases of kids who were a total waste of time for the coaches recruiting them, since they ended up never going where they pledged.
But there have been many, many more.......
and Greg McDermott has been the Babe Ruth of the early offers to 14 and 15-year old kids who never do him any good because they reneg, fizzle out, or never play or contribute for the guy.
It's not like I haven't predicted this before either...McDermott's been doing it since he offered numerous kids way early at UNI and most never panned out or never even made it to UNI.
Here are just a few threads about all those offers......
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=35662#post35662
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=35407#post35407
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=134344#post134344
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?p=135822#post135822
Here's the link to the current decommit by Wesley Staten who went on to average 18 ppg and 5 rpg as a freshman.
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=13350
Only certain programs seem to do this, and Illinois lately is one of them....several offers to kids (Thomas Hamilton, Jabari Parker, etc...) who haven't even played a high school game yet.
Other coaches were McDermott, Gillispie, Tim Floyd, and a few others...and oddly, you really can't find even ONE example of one of those really early offers and commitments paying off for a coach who is successful!!
Gillispie and Floyd have bombed out, and McD and Weber, have yet to really show any success with their youngsters. Most of the really early offers at Northern Iowa (Dunham, Young, Raffington, Polakovic, and even Eglseder) likely would have been thrilled to get a UNI offer even if it was held back until they were seniors! Why were they worthy of such early offers...many of which tied up the scholarship all those years then never made it to play at UNI.
Even Eglseder has been oft injured and a 4-year project...not exactly in the same mold as Jabari Parker.
I find it interesting that so much time is spent on such a minimally beneficial endeavor.....
coaches need to recruit the players who are locks to show up and contribute. Sure every coach misses on one once in a while, but only a few seem to make a continuous habit of chasing the 14-year olds, and I have yet to see any evidence it has paid off for McDermott or for anyone!
I think McD is a good coach, I think he's barking up the wrong tree with the wrong technique. He needs good players and he needs them now, not five years from now....his seat is getting warmer.
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and where is McClain County? Or do people who live in Bloomington really not know the name of their own county?
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