Recruiting frenzy begins right about....now...

Coaches might see their seasons slipping away and want to go for someone to fill a need next year. Coaches might have players defecting, leaving, being booted, or flunking out and find an open scholarship, new players might just suddenly arise on the recruiting scene as they leave & look to transfer...kids can blow up, and almost always, teams are looking for that diamond in the rough like a blossoming BIG MAN...

Regardless, we see lots of evidence of coaches getting more desperation and going more and more after kids who just recently had few if any offers...

Max Bielfeldt is one example - -he played his cards right and did not commit to Valpo or Central Michigan. Now he's got the big time offers rolling in as guys like Bruce Weber realize he just doesn't have anyone with experience to replace big man Mike Tisdale.
this is the time of year that even some of the most obscure big men like Tijan jobe, Bawa Muniru, etc...get big time offers....


The consider the example of an ex-Bradley recruit, Abdel Nader...
he was getting recruited mostly by mid-majors then jumped and committed when Steve Alford gave him an offer from New Mexico.
BUT -- Abdel Nader possibly thought he could do better - so he didn't sign with New Mexico...
Anyway -- he's not even doing all that well this year as a senior in high school...but he decided to play an extra year at prep school next year - so that makes him more desirable and guess what......
Now Nader has picked up offers from Marquette, DePaul, and Oklahoma State with interest coming in from Michigan State, Baylor, Xavier, and others.


But this is the time of year that even big men who average single digits start getting offers...

Washington offers and lands a juco kid named Kevin Davis from Tacoma CC, who is averaging just 8.8 ppg & 7.3 rpg.

Indiana -- always desperate for a big...is going after 6-8 Demario Hines at Trinity Valley CC....(also was at John A. Logan last year) who averages just 12 ppg...

Utah State just landed a guy so obscure that nobody even had him listed as a recruit.
Igor Premasunac a Croatian center, averages 9 ppg, 5 rpg for Lon Morris CC...
Shang Ping's numbers would have dwarfed this guy's!!

Watch for more of the obscure guys going late to schools desperate to fill those empty scholarships....sadly so many of these guys jump at the ride never realizing that they aren't likely to play at these schools.
Example -- as desperate as DePaul is for talent -- guys like Mario Stula, Devin Hill, and Krys Faber are still siting the bench!