Roddy Peters

[DC Muskie]

This. It's more the fact that we are going to have 4 available scholarships next year and don't really seem, at least to my knowledge, to be really close to landing any recruits any time soon.

Patterson.

[danaandvictory]

There are definitely fewer guys who fly under the radar now given blanket coverage of recruiting. A player like Brian Grant is not going to come out of rural Ohio like a Sasquatch and develop into an All-American without anyone noticing.

In fact, the one place that inefficiencies seem to exist is in the international recruiting sphere -- think about Andrew Nicholson or any of the ANZACs St. Mary's has pulled in...

[nkymuskie]

On the other hand ... Whether Peters going to Maryland was a fait accompli or not, it is hard to argue with the fact that X's staff has missed on every one of the priority recruits that were on the board, say, six months ago. And lost Thomas to boot. Patterson, after all, was an IU commit until the very last minute. I don't know how you can look at that and not at least raise an eyebrow.

Missing on Peters stinks but it was assumed the whole time that if the twins went to UK, he was going to stay home at Maryland. It's the fact that more or less every name I've heard associated with Xavier recruiting over the past year has either eliminated X or committed somewhere else. Davon Reed, Anton Gill, Kris Jenkins, E.C. Matthews, Devin Williams, Maverick Morgan, Josh Hart, Miles Overton, and losing the Chris Thomas commitment (more or less expected though). I don't know how close X was with all these guys or whether there was ever a legitimate chance, but those are the names that Xavier has recruited over the past year with nothing to show for it.

Mack has been a good recruiter so I guess this is why this is a little bit disconcerting. I'm not trying to be all doom and gloom. Xavier will be fine, but like other people have said, 2013 (EDIT: the 2013 recruiting class) might be a write off.

[Juice]

There are definitely fewer guys who fly under the radar now given blanket coverage of recruiting. A player like Brian Grant is not going to come out of rural Ohio like a Sasquatch and develop into an All-American without anyone noticing.

In fact, the one place that inefficiencies seem to exist is in the international recruiting sphere -- think about Andrew Nicholson or any of the ANZACs St. Mary's has pulled in...

Texas has been hitting Canada pretty hard with Kabongo, Cory Joseph, and Tristan Thompson.

[nkymuskie]

Texas has been hitting Canada pretty hard with Kabongo, Cory Joseph, and Tristan Thompson.

Gonzaga typically has a couple international players as well as a few from Canada too.

[xlax]

Patterson.

You consider Patterson a recruit X is close to landing? This article from a day ago paints a slightly different picture. From the article...

He said he has no timetable for announcing and could wait.

“I might wait till the spring,” he said.

[DC Muskie]

You consider Patterson a recruit X is close to landing? This article from a day ago paints a slightly different picture. From the article...

He said he has no timetable for announcing and could wait.

“I might wait till the spring,” he said.

Or he might not wait till spring.

[RealDeal]

Or he might not wait till spring.

I think all bases are covered there.

[xlax]

Or he might not wait till spring.

oh ok, I didn't realize that lends itself to him being close to picking X. My bad.

[XUFan09]

Patterson looks to be one of those guys that if he commits soon, it bodes very well for X. If he waits, he still might pick X, but there would be a few other schools in the mix, potentially with an equal or even better chance of landing him.