ESPN - updated 2024 rankings
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2 Dylan
3 Ace
64 Warren
90 Sommerville
3 Ace
64 Warren
90 Sommerville
@Greene Rice FIG I know you don't pay attention to recruiting but you're missing out on the party!
I would take him to be one of the best 6th man in college basketball for 2024.
They are terrible but these guys are all rated similarly on the better sites. Latham is the only one noticeably lower on 247 and on3 but he’s still top 150.
Unless someone has seen these guys play a lot and watch them against other top players I an not sure how the casual fan could know what is too high or too low.
Naasir Cunningham is 26.
Offer lists, insights from the mods and Russ, composite rankings, watching games
It is my problem. I am extremely turned off by players coming to a school because they are getting paid. I hate where this is going. Yes it appears we are beneficiaries, but this isn’t amateur college sports any more.
Hasn't been amateur sports for a loooooooong time.
I don't love the misuse of the NIL system, but at least Rutgers has a shot now.
These kids are not choosing Rutgers because we outbid everyone else. It’s not like that. More likely they want to come to RU and we are then able to come up with enough money to make it a viable option.
What happened with Caleb was a very good thing. He knew he could get a significant amount of money playing abroad in Europe. He obviously preferred to come back to RU, but giving up money that would make a difference for you and your family is very difficult to rationalize. There’s only so many years these kids bodies will hold up to make money from playing ball. Coming back to RU made it possible for him to graduate and make a little money so he wasn’t completely turning down a year of revenue. Good thing across the board for everyone.
Now you take these kids like Ace and Dylan. If you think for a second they can’t name their price to go play for Auburn for a lot more dough than our donors are shelling out you’d be wrong. Any elite player coming to RU wants to play for us. We don’t know the specifics of the NIL conversations, but you can bet the large numbers at RU are contingent based as Geo alluded. These kids trajectory is probably NBA after one college season. What NIL can provide now for these kids is security. I doubt we’re handing out millions to come play for us one season. Seems a lot more possible that our donors are promising up front to pay elite recruits who decide to stay multiple seasons at RU and contracts are structured accordingly (no inside knowledge but just a guess) that our frosh deals are structured more like insurance policies than pay outs. I could be wrong.
MIDKNIGHT MADNESS is about 6 months away. This recruiting success belongs to everyone who has built this program to where it is, including the fans who show up and make the Jersey Mike's RAC such an exciting venue.
I don't think that combination will qualify the average fan to rank the top 50-100 players. You'd have to watch at least 50 to 100 individual games, plus watch more games of the top players going head to head. Who has the time for all of that if you are not Biancardi and others like him who actually paid to it.
I agree that it wouldn’t help the average fan rank the top 50-100 but it generally helps in seeing if someone is drastically underranked (such as a near consensus top 10 player with a great offer list and tape being ranked 50ish, for example).
No one has any idea what we are offering to this kids. Some posters are desperate to want to believe we are different somehow. Who cares, let’s just be happy we have these guys coming.
I think I legit forgot all about Teng until seeing this. Usually finishing second for a guy like that would kill me the entire recruiting season.
When kids de-committ, there are almost always the same 2 lines used in their tweet:
1. After thoroughly talking to my family and coaches and lots of hours praying and asking God what to do , I have decided to reopen my commitment.
Respect my Decision!!!
Please respect my grammar mistakes 🙏👍
Weird - You seem to follow recruiting when RU is not doing well.
Isn’t your screen name based in part on a recruiting class? Farmer, Inman, Griffin — FIG
Basketball recruiting has always been dirty
Players in general went where they got paid the most and that was said to my son by a friend of his currently in the NBA
Rutgers didn't play that game
As I said when NIL had just started , NIL might help RU because we could now pay "legally"
While NIL has changed College BBall
It hasn't changed it as much as we may think
If the NCAA would go back to a mandatory year off for transfers , the movement of players would slow the process down considerably and in a good way
Players in general went where they got paid the most and that was said to my son by a friend of his currently in the NBA
Rutgers didn't play that game
As I said when NIL had just started , NIL might help RU because we could now pay "legally"
While NIL has changed College BBall
It hasn't changed it as much as we may think
If the NCAA would go back to a mandatory year off for transfers , the movement of players would slow the process down considerably and in a good way
I don’t think we’re “different” in a choir boy narrative. It would just surprise me to learn that we have boosters willing to shell out millions on only hype and potential. What Geo says makes more sense - that our supporters go into their wallets to retain guys who have already come in and contributed at RU.
how many other amateur sports does the team owners/execs (schools) make millions and millions of dollar off of them?
these guys makes so much money for the school, they should 100% be rewarded accordingly.
They get more support than most people can imagine
The RU academic building for athletes is as nice as the APC
Rutgers Big Ten Build | Gary and Barbara Rodkin Academic Success Center
Rutgers Big Ten Build
www.rutgersbigtenbuild.com
They can’t afford the hit to the APR score so they get a lot of academic support now.
