2016 Recruiting

[CHRISTOPHER JAMES JOLLAY]

Indiana sophomore guard Stanford Robinson will transfer to another school in hopes of finding more playing time.
Coach Tom Crean made the announcement Wednesday, less than a week after the Hoosiers' season ended with a loss to Wichita State in their NCAA tournament opener.
The 6-foot-4 Robinson says he also wants to play closer to his Maryland home.

Might be a nice get. Meow.

Get on it, Kreider!

 

[gmujim92]

Indiana sophomore guard Stanford Robinson will transfer to another school in hopes of finding more playing time.
Coach Tom Crean made the announcement Wednesday, less than a week after the Hoosiers' season ended with a loss to Wichita State in their NCAA tournament opener.
The 6-foot-4 Robinson says he also wants to play closer to his Maryland home.

Perfect fit, although I'm sure GW will be on him like white on rice given Lonergan's proclivity toward transfers ... and they currently have a complete staff in place.

Maybe, while he's looking for a new coach and trying to keep our current players/recruits from leaving, Edwards can also go recruiting and land us a new 2-guard.

 

[Raider_SPE]

He played with Holloway at P6, but it looks like he is a year younger. Guess that might have helped but Holloway will be gone by the time he is able play on game day.

There is also this - (ESPN article) In two seasons with the Hoosiers, Robinson averaged 4.7 points. He played 11.4 minutes per game this past season after averaging 16.9 minutes as a freshman. Robinson also was suspended for the first four games, including two exhibition games, after failing an offseason drug test.

 

[masonnatswiz]

He had at least one on campus visit his jr year at PVI. I think it was the lamar game and coach wells was doing most of the recruiting.

 

[gmujim92]

Paulsen's first Mason offer goes to 6-10, 220-pound PF Dylan Painter out of Hershey, Pa.

Skilled player, can score around basket with both hands, range out to 3-point line, runs floor well for his size.

Painter already holds offers from Penn State, La Salle and seven other schools.

 

[Patriotsince81]

I like the change to recruiting players with skill rather than those that are athletic.

 

[Patriotsince81]

Dylan Painter :
Scouting Report
He plays extremely hard and runs the floor very well for a post player. Painter has shown the ability to step out and make a 3-pointer, which makes him a tough matchup for other post players. He is a decent athlete that blocks a lot of shots but gets a lot of his rebounds with good positioning down low. Painter is also a very smart basketball player that usually makes the right decision on the court. He can finish with both hands around the basket and is a good passer as well. He will need to continue to work on developing some post moves and get stronger as he gets closer to college.

 

[mkaufman1]

He sounds like an stretch 4? I also like that it says

"Painter is also a very smart basketball player that usually makes the right decision on the court".

Smart sounds good to me.

 

[Quentin Daniels]

He looks deceptively athletic in the photo of him I saw.

 

[GMU84fanman]

The verbal commits site includes a video. Gotta like the fact that he is already making some offers. http://www.verbalcommits.com/players/dylan-painter

 

[GSII]

St. Johns Guard offered by GMU. 6'3 Jeff Dowtin. ALso offered when Paulsen was at Bucknell.

 

[p8triotfan4life]

this is nuts. Paulsen wasn't even here a day and he's got all of these offers out already.

 

[disgruntled]

Seems he is committed to his system and knows what type of player will thrive in it. I actually like this approach...there is a methodology. I wonder what the first practice will look like to the guys who have only ever been under Hewiit's 'system'?

 

[Nick]

this is nuts. Paulsen wasn't even here a day and he's got all of these offers out already.

Looking at Dowtin's other offers... maybe Paulsen should take his time. He's recruiting for an A10 program now. Going after Patriot League talent is going to assure us a spot in the lower half of the conference indefinitely.

This isn't a knock on Dowtin. I've never seen him play and maybe he's just under-recruited currently. But I'd like to be recruiting kids that have at least a few quality programs involved with them.

 

[JPgmuswim]

Looking at Dowtin's other offers... maybe Paulsen should take his time. He's recruiting for an A10 program now. Going after Patriot League talent is going to assure us a spot in the lower half of the conference indefinitely.

This isn't a knock on Dowtin. I've never seen him play and maybe he's just under-recruited currently. But I'd like to be recruiting kids that have at least a few quality programs involved with them.

This was my thought, I'm sure it helps that he probably already has been recruiting some of these kids but if he was recruiting them at Bucknell are they good enough to make us competitive in the A-10. You could argue that like we've seen in the past coaches sometimes reach of kids that could play in higher conferences than the one they are recruiting for but looking at the current offers that doesn't seem to look like that's the case.
At any rate I'm excited Paulsen has jumped into things so quickly, this program needs a lot of work after what we've been subject to these last 4 seasons. Throwing offers out doesn't always mean they are legit offers, coaches can offer 8 different 6-7 athletic forwards scholarships but when the best one signs all of a sudden the other 7 no longer have an offer on the table.

 

[Quentin Daniels]

Tennessee freshman forward Tariq Owens will seek a transfer after meeting with new Vols coach Rick Barnes on Thursday, a program source confirmed to GoVols247.

A 6-foot-11, 205-pound Baltimore-area native, Owens played in 28 games as a true freshman for the Vols, starting five times. He averaged 1.2 points and 1.1 rebounds per game and played 7.6 minutes per game.

Owens collected a career-high seven points and three rebounds in Tennessee's final game, a quarterfinal loss to Arkansas in the SEC Tournament.

ESPN's Jeff Borzello tweeted that Owens will visit St. John's, a program closer to his hometown.

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[gmujim92]

Looking at Dowtin's other offers... maybe Paulsen should take his time. He's recruiting for an A10 program now. Going after Patriot League talent is going to assure us a spot in the lower half of the conference indefinitely.

This isn't a knock on Dowtin. I've never seen him play and maybe he's just under-recruited currently. But I'd like to be recruiting kids that have at least a few quality programs involved with them.

I don't disagree necessarily, but Davidson won the A-10 with a bunch of guys recruited to play in the Southern Conference.

With the way AAU is destroying offense in college basketball, it seems wise for Paulsen to recruit smart, fundamentally sound players who might not be the most "athletic" but excel in passing, shooting and moving without the ball.

Again, not saying this kid can play on our level. But if our coach thinks enough of him to offer him again at Mason, I'm not ready to say he can't, either.

 

[MasonFanatic]

Coach Paulsen is doing more that just recycling the same ground. I asked Josh Verlin on Twitter and he said that Dylan Painter did not previously have an offer from Bucknell. He thinks Paulsen knew Painter was going likely A10 or higher, not Patriot League, so he didn't bother previously.

 

[Herndon]

LOLOLOL. I encourage some of you guys to watch Dowtin's highlights. I don't know how good he is, but he's got this ridiculously entertaining old school/old man game.

High dribbling, herky-jerky, set shot taking, no elevation having, slick passing, long limbed defense having YMCA stuff. He's a guy you could enjoy.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G7qQbnqImc

 

[patriotchild]

Weren't we just complaining that we were recruiting too many athletic guys and not system guys? Let's not forget vcu and Davidson both won the regular season with players not at "A10 level".

Oh, and we also went to a final four without "A10 talent"