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Instate C prospect Taylor Currie:

Currie was originally supposed to be a 2019 commit before reclassifying. Speculation: Michigan might have asked Currie to return to his original enrollment date so that they could pursue an additional prospect in the 2018 class, and Currie might have wanted to get going on college a year earlier.

As Ace noted in his roundup, Michigan has two prospects on campus who might be close to committing: FL C Colin Castleton and NY SG Adrien Nunez are both taking visits this weekend and may drop. Castleton and his EYBL-second-best block rate may be too much to pass up for Michigan in 2018.

Comments

AA Forever

September 30th, 2017 at 6:04 PM ^

coaches don't care about star ratings, you lose all credibility. Of course they do. They want the most talented guys they can get. Bamba didn't particularly fit into Beilein's system (which has never emphasized that kind of inside player), but he would have taken him in a heartbeat regardless. And the fact that Currie was originally in the class of 2019 was all the more reason not to rush and offer him. As I said, he wasn't going anywhere. Better to wait until we saw how 2018 was shaking out before we took a commit from him.

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OkemosBlue

September 30th, 2017 at 7:02 PM ^

Sorry, but I can't agree and I don't think you're reading the blog post correctly either. Do recruiting services help good coaches?  Sure, but only by narrowing down how many recruits they see in person. Then it's up to the coaches to make their own individual determinations about the talent of the player and who they want to pursue.  Maybe being a 5 star might have sway even here, but a good coach makes their own ratings, and that's what Beilein does with more care than most coaches from personality and need.  As long as he wins a requisite number of championships, nobody cares whether he recruits a 3 star (I remember low 4 star because of his size but I could be wrong) Trey Burke or a 5 star Charlie Matthews.

 It's because we fans don't have time or the knowledge, skill, ability and experience to truly make our own ratings that we have to rely on the shorthad of recruiting stars.   If you have looked at them in any detail, then you know that a single point on a subjective rating scale can differentiate between a 5 star and a 4 star; a number 20 recruit and a number 40 recruit, and so on and so forth.  Sometimes its based on a single bad or good performance at a particular event.  This is silly, especially with 17 and 18 year olds, but it's done, and bad-losing coaches will point to the stars to prove that they are bringing the program back or to national prominence or to excuse their own poor coaching.  

 

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AA Forever

October 1st, 2017 at 10:36 AM ^

But completely apart from that, Currie was simply not that high on the scale of talent and athleticism. Maybe Beilein could have made a quality player out of him, but that's not the ultimate point. The question is whether he was the best player Beilein could have hoped for to fill that spot in the 2019 class, with more than a year until signing date. I don't think so, and I doubt you do, either. All your protestations of "trust the coaches" notwithstanding, with so much time left in the recruiting cycle, would it not have made sense to at least TRY to land someone with more talent that also fit into the "system"? There was no downside to waiting to find out.

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jdemille9

October 1st, 2017 at 2:34 PM ^

What I am saying is coaches aren't looking at Rivals and 247 to see what a kid is rated before they offer. Of course they want the most talented players, but how one judges that talent can be very different from coach to coach. 

As for not needing to rush on Currie, for all we know Beilein may think he's a hidden gem that he wanted to lock up before he exploded. Beilein knows a lot about basketball and recruiting and based on his massive experience he felt they should offer this kid. But since you're clearly a better judge of talent I'm sure your D1 program that you coach is better off than Michigan.

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AA Forever

October 2nd, 2017 at 7:08 AM ^

because you can't "lock up" anybody ahead of signing day.   Beilein knows that, because of his massive experience, and for those who don't get it, Currie just showed you.  A guy either wants to come here, or he doesn't.

And as far as the "you're not a coach, so you're not allowed to criticize our coaches" nonsense, that's old and dead.  Are you advocating that there should be no posts on this board with any kind of criticism or questioning of coaches' decisions by anyone who doesn't have more coaching experience than them?  Because it's going to be a very boring place if that's the rule.

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cbs650

September 30th, 2017 at 12:30 PM ^

you don't reclassify up unless you and coaches talk and its a definite they want/need/can take you. I think there was a miscommunication between parties highlighted by his statement "i learned how the recruiting process works". It happens.

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Bertello NC

October 1st, 2017 at 10:46 AM ^

Between Livers, Brazdiekis, and Johns, I feel like he was looking at an uphill battle for possibly one position. I think it was a good mutual understanding and after Ignas committed we really needed someone to fill Wagner’s shoes and that could very well end up being Castleton.

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