Brandon Randolph (Xavier Commit)

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Originally Posted by I AM SUPERNINTENDO

XLAX,you trying to push Randolph to Mizzou or something? Jeesh.

A back court with Semaj, Dee, and Randolph would be unstoppable. Then you bring in Myles from the bench to jack 3's. That's scary to imagine.

Mizzou's vaunted backcourt last season couldn't even polish off a MEAC team in the tourney.

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not at all. just pointing out the reality of the situation.

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Originally Posted by Juice

I think you're way off on this. This Randolph recruitment is based on needs of both the player and school. I highly doubt XU will be recruiting much in California, Texas, or Florida. Expect most of the targets to come from Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, DC and Baltimore area, and Philly. These areas are where XU has recruited before and has connections with its current coaches. The coaching staff has no connections to Texas and California.

I think XU will continue to recruit at a high level but only top 10 schools can have a reach across the country like that, i.e. Duke, UNC, Kentucky, Florida, Michigan St., Indiana, UCLA, etc.

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I should have clarified, I didn't mean like we are going to reach out to these areas to get recruits. I meant like, we finally have the national presence to go out and garner interest from kids around the country, which shows how much our program prestige is increasing. It's going to translate to larger recruits in our pipeline area, aka top 25 recruits, and if we HAVE to go out of our way to pick up somebody from California or Texas, we will have the assets to do so.

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Originally Posted by GIMMFD

I didn't mean like we are going to reach out to these areas to get recruits.

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Originally Posted by GIMMFD

I meant like, we finally have the national presence to go out and garner interest from kids around the country

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aren't those basically the same thing?

Someone posted on the A-10 board that Brandon had cancelled his trip to Mizzou and was going to commit to X. Is this true? Any word?

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Originally Posted by Muskeagle

Someone posted on the A-10 board that Brandon had cancelled his trip to Mizzou and was going to commit to X. Is this true? Any word?

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He did that yesterday only to change his mind and the visit was back on.

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Originally Posted by xlax

aren't those basically the same thing?

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Not necessarily, I feel it could be more we pick and choose our recruits, the more top talent interested, the better our chances of finding the perfect fit of a particular top talent. Rather than if there's one 5 star interested, we automatically go after him (look at the whole Chris Thomas debacle)

Torraye Braggs doesn't see what the big deal is about getting a stud from California. Anthony Coleman wishes he could agree.

http://scouthoops.scout.com/a.z?s=75...=1&nid=5557171
Scouts site says Randolph's visit at Mizzou is today. Let's hope he calls Mack on his way to the airport to tell him the fax is on its way to XU.

Missouri has no game today. Seems like schools would want to give prospects the "gameday" feel on their visits if they are coming during the season.

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Originally Posted by blueblob06

http://scouthoops.scout.com/a.z?s=75...=1&nid=5557171
Scouts site says Randolph's visit at Mizzou is today. Let's hope he calls Mack on his way to the airport to tell him the fax is on its way to XU.

Missouri has no game today. Seems like schools would want to give prospects the "gameday" feel on their visits if they are coming during the season.

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I wonder if he'll stay for the game the next day and leave on Saturday.

If he goes to the game, he can see how basketball will always play second fiddle to football at Mizzou. Do you want to be the steak (like a bone-in ribeye) on the plate, or a piece of parsley? Cincinnati's the college bball capital of the country. No better place than here at X.