2020 Recruiting

[inthescoop]

North Texas is surprising for Ousmane, I thought he was going to end up at Iona.

[Worcester_To_Amherst]

I see a pattern with these last 2 recruiting cycles, apart from the obvious TB/Woodstock set up. Seems like they are embracing the reality that 2-4 kids are going to be transferring out every year. As a result they’re trying to fill out the roster with the most talented kids available and let playing time/future playing time sort itself out through competition. The guys that get beat out will most likely move on, and you’re left with the strongest guys remaining.

I’d say the conventional wisdom is you recruit starters, bench guys, and end of bench guys. I don’t see them just taking guys to fill out the back of the roster anymore.

[UMassfan_19]

I see a pattern with these last 2 recruiting cycles, apart from the obvious TB/Woodstock set up. Seems like they are embracing the reality that 2-4 kids are going to be transferring out every year. As a result they’re trying to fill out the roster with the most talented kids available and let playing time/future playing time sort itself out through competition. The guys that get beat out will most likely move on, and you’re left with the strongest guys remaining.

I’d say the conventional wisdom is you recruit starters, bench guys, and end of bench guys. I don’t see them just taking guys to fill out the back of the roster anymore.

Perhaps but Bergeron was pretty adamant that they were going to go deeper down the bench than last year.

[inthescoop]

I see a pattern with these last 2 recruiting cycles, apart from the obvious TB/Woodstock set up. Seems like they are embracing the reality that 2-4 kids are going to be transferring out every year. As a result they’re trying to fill out the roster with the most talented kids available and let playing time/future playing time sort itself out through competition. The guys that get beat out will most likely move on, and you’re left with the strongest guys remaining.

I’d say the conventional wisdom is you recruit starters, bench guys, and end of bench guys. I don’t see them just taking guys to fill out the back of the roster anymore.

I don’t think so. The coaches never had a full roster that they collectively loved. Now that they have it, I think the goal going forward now is to keep this squad tight and grow them to their fullest capability. Sure we may have 1 or 2 but it won’t be seeing these full roster turnarounds anymore.

[UMassfan_19]

I see a pattern with these last 2 recruiting cycles, apart from the obvious TB/Woodstock set up. Seems like they are embracing the reality that 2-4 kids are going to be transferring out every year. As a result they’re trying to fill out the roster with the most talented kids available and let playing time/future playing time sort itself out through competition. The guys that get beat out will most likely move on, and you’re left with the strongest guys remaining.

I’d say the conventional wisdom is you recruit starters, bench guys, and end of bench guys. I don’t see them just taking guys to fill out the back of the roster anymore.

I don’t think so. The coaches never had a full roster that they collectively loved. Now that they have it, I think the goal going forward now is to keep this squad tight and grow them to their fullest capability. Sure we may have 1 or 2 but it won’t be seeing these full roster turnarounds anymore.

As far as 2021 recruiting goes we will have two spots open

[uz2b-len]

As it stands

[UMassfan_19]

As it stands

Correct but 2 open spots is guaranteed

[DoctorJ]

Are we assuming there will be no more defections this season?

[69MG]

I can almost guarantee there will be more. Yes, he will play a lot of guys if he presses and runs all game as is the plan. However, guys 12 & 13 still won't see many minutes and will be tempted to move to a program where they will get to play. Who they are is hard to guess at this point.

[UMassfan_19]

I can almost guarantee there will be more. Yes, he will play a lot of guys if he presses and runs all game as is the plan. However, guys 12 & 13 still won't see many minutes and will be tempted to move to a program where they will get to play. Who they are is hard to guess at this point.

I could see 12 & 13 being buggs and Gasperini

[69MG]

^ I have Gasperini as #11. Unless he stinks, he'll get his 10 minutes, he knows that's his role and he'll be gone anyway at the end of the year. I think it will be a battle to stay out of spots 12 and 13. It's also possible that it changes from game to game depending on matchups. This roster is potentially more versatile than we have seen in a long time.

[inthescoop]

I see a pattern with these last 2 recruiting cycles, apart from the obvious TB/Woodstock set up. Seems like they are embracing the reality that 2-4 kids are going to be transferring out every year. As a result they’re trying to fill out the roster with the most talented kids available and let playing time/future playing time sort itself out through competition. The guys that get beat out will most likely move on, and you’re left with the strongest guys remaining.

I’d say the conventional wisdom is you recruit starters, bench guys, and end of bench guys. I don’t see them just taking guys to fill out the back of the roster anymore.

I don’t think so. The coaches never had a full roster that they collectively loved. Now that they have it, I think the goal going forward now is to keep this squad tight and grow them to their fullest capability. Sure we may have 1 or 2 but it won’t be seeing these full roster turnarounds anymore.

As far as 2021 recruiting goes we will have two spots open

Yep - I was referring to players transferring not seniors leaving.

[Worcester_To_Amherst]

They’ll run deep this year, and that’s my point on the turnover. I feel like some of these guys aren’t going to be getting the minutes their talent levels dictates, and they will be looking for a bigger opportunity as their career progresses. Nothing wrong with it, just the reality of the times. And I don’t see chemistry issues arising necessarily, they were able to keep it together last year even with some guys not playing as much as they wanted.

If come next year no one leaves early, that’d be awesome. But that’s highly unlikely. My point is that it’s inevitable nowadays that kids are going to leave, so they are stacking the roster with real players instead of 12th men and letting the chips fall where they may.

This is all just quarantine speculation either way, but that’s the way I’m seeing the recruiting strategy.

[Old Cage]

Say what? https://scoopmantv.com/2020/04/11/rifen ... pril-15th/

"Rifen Miguel’s search for a new home post-JUCO appears to be coming to an end. The second-team All-Panhandle Conference forward announced that he would be deciding between UMass, Ohio, Jacksonville State and Milwaukee-Wisconsin."

What year we talkin' bout here? Still recruiting 2020? What else don't we know? He has our logo on his twitter page.

[rsox1221]

Say what? https://scoopmantv.com/2020/04/11/rifen ... pril-15th/

What year we talkin' bout here? Still recruiting 2020? What else don't we know?

To my knowledge and I believe it's correct, UMass is done for this year.

Just because a kid has UMass (or any school) in his "top choices" doesn't mean that school has room for him or will take him. Kids these days love making their decisions into their own version of "The Decision".

I don't believe we'll see him pick UMass because UMass can't take him. His offer from UMass was to hedge in case they didn't get DeGray but they did.