2024 MBB recruit and former commit Khani Rooths predicted to Michigan
On the heels of the news UGA coach and Khani's lead recruiter Akeem Miskdeen joining May's staff we have our first prediction for Khani back to Michigan. Davis Moseley has been all over what's happening with our staff and recruits as of late so this is a pretty great indication of what's to come.
In light of recent developments, I have updated Khani Rooth’s section with a prediction.https://t.co/8lrY4zmo9f
— Davis Moseley (@DavisMoseley) April 3, 2024
Hopefully this is happening, need some positive news for mens bball 👍
I feel like everything is positive with M bball relative to a month ago. I can’t keep up with all the positive news, rumors, speculation. May the force be with us
It's good to see Mays in Blue
For a player as highly rated as he is, I felt a little underwhelmed reading his scouting report on 247. But we could use some positive momentum in the recruiting/transfer area and there are far worse things than getting a high potential top 40 kid with athleticism at 6’8”.
If we hypothetically have space for the 5th best player on FAU's roster, we definitely have room for a top 40 HS player.
Oh definitely, by no means am I suggesting he’s not a take. I was just reading the scouting report on 247 and it wasn’t what I expected for a kid ranked in the top 40. It’s pretty much centered on him being 6’8” and athletic. Big enough to punish smaller defenders, athletic enough to punish larger defenders.
Subpar shooting numbers, poor assist-turnover ratio, not a good ball handler. In a top 40 recruit I’d assume there’s a more college-ready trait there. Reads like he’s going to be a developmental kid moreso than an impact guy in year 1 or 2.
Juwan Howard was ready to guarantee him 35 minutes a game is first year sure, oRTG in the 80's not withstanding.
Read back through some of Matt EM's bb recruiting posts...high school talent (and therefore recruiting rankings) is what it was 10 years ago or even 5 years ago. For a number of reasons, there seems only be a small handful of top level recruits per year, and it tails off pretty quickly after that into a much bigger pool of players that are more difficult to project.
Some people will always find the negative in a supposed positive situation.
I mean you can read his scouting report on 247 yourself if you’d like. It’s not about anyone “finding the negative.” I was curious about what kind of player he projects as and how that fits with what May runs and the scouting report wasn’t exactly glowing.
Rather than scooping too many FAU players, there are some other interesting players entering the portal...would LOVE to see us go after Jordan Pope who is exiting Oregon State. Kid is legit.
Decision-making tree.
1. Is he a wing? Yes = Take. No = see Q2.
2. Can he put ball in basket? If yes, = take. If no see Q3.
3. If he cannot put ball in basket, can he stop someone else from putting ball in basket? If yes = take. If no, see Q1.
I don’t think wing is even a requirement right now. I’d actually say we need guards more than we need wings.
The decision tree is way too simplistic when it comes to evaluating basketball players. Way more to it than position, can they score, etc.
You missed the part where he said it is his opinion. He really doesn't know shit.
That's why it's a prediction. Moseley has been right on most stuff lately.
That’s literally what a prediction is Captain Obvious
Moseley is a Michigan basketball recruiting beat writer who goes to Georgia. Akeem Miskdeen is/was a Georgia assistant. Moseley said they know each other and have had conversations. Miskdeen is Rooths primary recruiter. Rooths top two schools are/were UM and UGA. I can't say for sure that Moseley knows anything, but it's not hard to see how/why he'd have inside information on this one.
Rooths must be a smart kid picking GA and MI. I didn't know this until I went to a wedding in Marietta, but Georgia is actually a really good school. Being in the SEC with Bama, Mississippi, Mississippi State, etc. I assumed they were garbage, but I was wrong. Florida is actually a really good school too. When college football breaks in to good schools and schools that exist, the B1G should pick off GA and FL.
Eeeeasy with Georgia being a great school. It's on par with other SEC schools sans Vanderbilt (and Texas '24), which is a great school.
UGA is nowhere near comparable to Michigan. It's hell of a party school though.
Love Athens.
Lots of Shiny Happy People in Athens! Go Dawgs!
Not to mention the 52 Girls.
They said it was really good, not great, and didn't compare it to Michigan.
Which is an accurate statement. Really good school, not Michigan, but you can get a really good education there
For 30 years UGA has had the “Hope Scholarship” which pays tuition for In-State kids finishing high school with a 3.0 GPA. Can be used at Emory, Georgia Tech, and UGA—all top 50 schools.
Probably has helped keep more top students from metro Atlanta area from leaving the state and made the quality of the education better.
I guess there's no post about landing Akeem from Georgia so I guess this serves as a double post. We've been taking Georgia's bacon left and right lately.
I can't see that it's reported anywhere other than Michigan Insider citing anonymous sources -- sounds like it's just not yet official but on the horizon. Two excellent staff hires so far, if true.
I am beginning to feel like next year may be slightly less of a complete disaster than I thought. I’m smelling 10 wins now.
If May gets the FAU core transfer to Michigan, I think it could be a downright bubbly year.
I would pull back a bit there. We will need more help than that.
Yeah, simply importing FAU doesn't make this team a tourney team or anything but for as bad as this looked last year you didn't have to squint that hard to see a team with even average defense being competitive in a lot of these games. If May can get them to play even top 100 defense (which was FAU this year) it would be a massive step forward and keep them in games way longer.
With the right stabbings of 90% of admissions program we could stretch this to 11 wins. I do believe there are at least 3 MAC teams we can beat next year and maybe 4 P5s. Maybe.
With our current 3 scholarship players who knows. But we have Jace who will run rampant through the MAC.
Get the three or four core players from FAU, and add Wolff, Rooths, and another guard (Essegian?), and I can see a bubbly year of 15-18 wins. With that roster, a new coach, and the enthusiasm it all entails, I can see a much better year than the last couple we just had.
Going back to his Rooths, I see
Booooo
Someone needs to tel this Davis Moseley character to crystallize his ballz, 247 style.
swim lanes????????
For real. That spreadsheet is incredible. So much info and so neatly organized and easy to digest. Love it. Wish more insiders did it.
Then what would they charge for?
Looks like Davis feels chesty about #16 overall HS recruit to Michigan (Liam McNeely)??..
I don't know who you are, Davis.. but I like your style.
Keeping our top recruit through a regime change would be amaizing.
The Rooth fairy is coming !!!!
Hopefully this doesn't force Tschetter out as our roster is getting pretty full.....
:D
Going to take a lot to even get this team into position to be on the bubble heading into Selection Sunday next year. I don’t expect them to make the tournament next year and considering what Dusty is inheriting that’s likely an unfair expectation, but he absolutely seems to have things trending in the right direction early on.
All you can ask for at this point.
I actually think we got this. I won't be disappointed if we don't make it next year but I think we'll put together a team with the talent to be in the mix.
That's what it's shaping up to be. If the roster comes together as nicely as its trending, the bubble will be real.