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Men’s Basketball Recruiting against the Big Boys!
With Toledo being the first team to offer Wauseon High School, 6-9 Junior Big Man, Austin Rotroff, it will be interesting to see how his recruitment plays out. If you remember a couple of years ago, Toledo was the first school to offer Olmsted High School, 6-11 Big Man, Austin Davis whose recruitment blew up to the point where he signed with Michigan and is expected to play a major role for the Wolverines beginning next season after redshirting his freshman year. While I am not comparing Rotroof’s recruitment to Davis’s recruitment, it’s somewhat ironic that while we want players that Toledo has offered to improve while in high school, but not to the point where they begin to receive interest and possible offers from larger Programs like Michigan. Or maybe we need them to be late developing players so that Mid Major Programs like Toledo have a legitimate chance of landing them. Just saying!
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(03-30-2017 12:49 PM)Basketball Jones Wrote:  With Toledo being the first team to offer Wauseon High School, 6-9 Junior Big Man, Austin Rotroff, it will be interesting to see how his recruitment plays out. If you remember a couple of years ago, Toledo was the first school to offer Olmsted High School, 6-11 Big Man, Austin Davis whose recruitment blew up to the point where he signed with Michigan and is expected to play a major role for the Wolverines beginning next season after redshirting his freshman year. While I am not comparing Rotroof’s recruitment to Davis’s recruitment, it’s somewhat ironic that while we want players that Toledo has offered to improve while in high school, but not to the point where they begin to receive interest and possible offers from larger Programs like Michigan. Or maybe we need them to be late developing players so that Mid Major Programs like Toledo have a legitimate chance of landing them. Just saying!

Maybe Lauf being a grad assistant, as I hear, may help with some of these small school NW Ohio guys.
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Must recruit better against other MAC schools like Akron and Ohio, for starters.
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Rotroff's performance in the State Tournament was recognized by the Triple Double Prospects website. Logan Hill was an honorable mention.

https://tripledoubleprospects.com/

Austin Rotroff – ’18 C Wauseon: An under-the-radar prospect heading into the season, Rotroff created a buzz with strong play all season, and then cemented his name in the next edition of our prospect rankings with his two performances in Columbus. Both in a semifinal win over Columbus Eastmoor Academy and a finals defeat at the hands of Akron STVSM, Rotroff was extremely efficient; showing an active motor, legit size at 6’9 and physical promise as a big who can move his feet. Rotroff isn’t just a big shot-blocker either, as the junior showed the ability to score over his left shoulder with the hook-shot, make free throws and generally carve out space on the interior. As he enters the travel circuit for the first time this spring, look for Rotroff’s name to be one that is mentioned often in NCAA D1 recruiting chatter.
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Scott grad Chris Darrington also has multiple D1 offers

Darrington led the Trailblazers in average points (20.7) and assists (5.1) this season. He also boasted a 2.2 assist-to-turnover ratio and made 43.1 percent of his 3-point attempts.

“He’s probably been as good of a 3-point shooting guard as there was this season in junior college, especially the top teams,” Franklin said.


http://www.courierpress.com/story/sports.../99802918/
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(03-31-2017 07:13 PM)Sleepy Wrote:  Scott grad Chris Darrington also has multiple D1 offers

Darrington led the Trailblazers in average points (20.7) and assists (5.1) this season. He also boasted a 2.2 assist-to-turnover ratio and made 43.1 percent of his 3-point attempts.

“He’s probably been as good of a 3-point shooting guard as there was this season in junior college, especially the top teams,” Franklin said.


http://www.courierpress.com/story/sports.../99802918/

Darrington's guard teammate mentioned in the article, Nate Hanson, is from Evansville Reitz High School...... He graduated and played with Jaelan Sanford.

Small world.......
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(03-30-2017 12:49 PM)Basketball Jones Wrote:  With Toledo being the first team to offer Wauseon High School, 6-9 Junior Big Man, Austin Rotroff, it will be interesting to see how his recruitment plays out. If you remember a couple of years ago, Toledo was the first school to offer Olmsted High School, 6-11 Big Man, Austin Davis whose recruitment blew up to the point where he signed with Michigan and is expected to play a major role for the Wolverines beginning next season after redshirting his freshman year. While I am not comparing Rotroof’s recruitment to Davis’s recruitment, it’s somewhat ironic that while we want players that Toledo has offered to improve while in high school, but not to the point where they begin to receive interest and possible offers from larger Programs like Michigan. Or maybe we need them to be late developing players so that Mid Major Programs like Toledo have a legitimate chance of landing them. Just saying!

That is how it works. Toledo has 0 chance of landing these guys. Big Boys always come in late. This is a pointless post.
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(04-03-2017 07:57 PM)NWOBlackburn Wrote:  
(03-30-2017 12:49 PM)Basketball Jones Wrote:  With Toledo being the first team to offer Wauseon High School, 6-9 Junior Big Man, Austin Rotroff, it will be interesting to see how his recruitment plays out. If you remember a couple of years ago, Toledo was the first school to offer Olmsted High School, 6-11 Big Man, Austin Davis whose recruitment blew up to the point where he signed with Michigan and is expected to play a major role for the Wolverines beginning next season after redshirting his freshman year. While I am not comparing Rotroof’s recruitment to Davis’s recruitment, it’s somewhat ironic that while we want players that Toledo has offered to improve while in high school, but not to the point where they begin to receive interest and possible offers from larger Programs like Michigan. Or maybe we need them to be late developing players so that Mid Major Programs like Toledo have a legitimate chance of landing them. Just saying!

That is how it works. Toledo has 0 chance of landing these guys. Big Boys always come in late. This is a pointless post.

Agreed.
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(04-03-2017 07:57 PM)NWOBlackburn Wrote:  
(03-30-2017 12:49 PM)Basketball Jones Wrote:  With Toledo being the first team to offer Wauseon High School, 6-9 Junior Big Man, Austin Rotroff, it will be interesting to see how his recruitment plays out. If you remember a couple of years ago, Toledo was the first school to offer Olmsted High School, 6-11 Big Man, Austin Davis whose recruitment blew up to the point where he signed with Michigan and is expected to play a major role for the Wolverines beginning next season after redshirting his freshman year. While I am not comparing Rotroof’s recruitment to Davis’s recruitment, it’s somewhat ironic that while we want players that Toledo has offered to improve while in high school, but not to the point where they begin to receive interest and possible offers from larger Programs like Michigan. Or maybe we need them to be late developing players so that Mid Major Programs like Toledo have a legitimate chance of landing them. Just saying!

That is how it works. Toledo has 0 chance of landing these guys. Big Boys always come in late. This is a pointless post.

There is no reason to call someone's post "pointless." While it may be unlikely that programs like Toledo will get these big recruits, there is always a chance!
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(04-03-2017 07:57 PM)NWOBlackburn Wrote:  
(03-30-2017 12:49 PM)Basketball Jones Wrote:  With Toledo being the first team to offer Wauseon High School, 6-9 Junior Big Man, Austin Rotroff, it will be interesting to see how his recruitment plays out. If you remember a couple of years ago, Toledo was the first school to offer Olmsted High School, 6-11 Big Man, Austin Davis whose recruitment blew up to the point where he signed with Michigan and is expected to play a major role for the Wolverines beginning next season after redshirting his freshman year. While I am not comparing Rotroof’s recruitment to Davis’s recruitment, it’s somewhat ironic that while we want players that Toledo has offered to improve while in high school, but not to the point where they begin to receive interest and possible offers from larger Programs like Michigan. Or maybe we need them to be late developing players so that Mid Major Programs like Toledo have a legitimate chance of landing them. Just saying!

That is how it works. Toledo has 0 chance of landing these guys. Big Boys always come in late. This is a pointless post.

All our posts are pointless, pretty much. It's a sports message board. Not sure why you feel the need to try to squelch conversation. It's the off-season.
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(04-03-2017 08:30 PM)RocketBBallFan Wrote:  
(04-03-2017 07:57 PM)NWOBlackburn Wrote:  
(03-30-2017 12:49 PM)Basketball Jones Wrote:  With Toledo being the first team to offer Wauseon High School, 6-9 Junior Big Man, Austin Rotroff, it will be interesting to see how his recruitment plays out. If you remember a couple of years ago, Toledo was the first school to offer Olmsted High School, 6-11 Big Man, Austin Davis whose recruitment blew up to the point where he signed with Michigan and is expected to play a major role for the Wolverines beginning next season after redshirting his freshman year. While I am not comparing Rotroof’s recruitment to Davis’s recruitment, it’s somewhat ironic that while we want players that Toledo has offered to improve while in high school, but not to the point where they begin to receive interest and possible offers from larger Programs like Michigan. Or maybe we need them to be late developing players so that Mid Major Programs like Toledo have a legitimate chance of landing them. Just saying!

That is how it works. Toledo has 0 chance of landing these guys. Big Boys always come in late. This is a pointless post.

There is no reason to call someone's post "pointless." While it may be unlikely that programs like Toledo will get these big recruits, there is always a chance!

You have no chance to win if you don't get in the game. I imagine the best chance would be to maybe pick up a local star who wants to stay at home. Still a pretty slim possibility, though. I don't envy Coack K. I think he has a really difficult job.
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(04-03-2017 07:57 PM)NWOBlackburn Wrote:  
(03-30-2017 12:49 PM)Basketball Jones Wrote:  With Toledo being the first team to offer Wauseon High School, 6-9 Junior Big Man, Austin Rotroff, it will be interesting to see how his recruitment plays out. If you remember a couple of years ago, Toledo was the first school to offer Olmsted High School, 6-11 Big Man, Austin Davis whose recruitment blew up to the point where he signed with Michigan and is expected to play a major role for the Wolverines beginning next season after redshirting his freshman year. While I am not comparing Rotroof’s recruitment to Davis’s recruitment, it’s somewhat ironic that while we want players that Toledo has offered to improve while in high school, but not to the point where they begin to receive interest and possible offers from larger Programs like Michigan. Or maybe we need them to be late developing players so that Mid Major Programs like Toledo have a legitimate chance of landing them. Just saying!

That is how it works. Toledo has 0 chance of landing these guys. Big Boys always come in late. This is a pointless post.


The only way you have zero chance is to not offer at all.
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Bonzi Wells
Zeke Marshall
Lamonte Bearden
Seth Dugan

sometimes guys with multiple P5 offers decide to go to a MAC school because they recruited them hardest, were close to home, really liked the coach, etc...

it's 1 in 20 or maybe 1 in 50 but it pays off sometimes. and sometimes there's a greg stempin who sure seems like a Big10 recruit but for whatever reason they never come in and make a late push. in addition, sometimes these guys go to a big name school and don't like the program and transfer somewhere back closer to home, like Willie Jackson who UT recruited hard a couple years ago, went SEC and is now a Rocket.
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(04-04-2017 03:51 AM)pono Wrote:  Bonzi Wells
Zeke Marshall
Lamonte Bearden
Seth Dugan

sometimes guys with multiple P5 offers decide to go to a MAC school because they recruited them hardest, were close to home, really liked the coach, etc...

it's 1 in 20 or maybe 1 in 50 but it pays off sometimes. and sometimes there's a greg stempin who sure seems like a Big10 recruit but for whatever reason they never come in and make a late push. in addition, sometimes these guys go to a big name school and don't like the program and transfer somewhere back closer to home, like Willie Jackson who UT recruited hard a couple years ago, went SEC and is now a Rocket.
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There are other MAC schools who do a better job at getting higher rated kids. It's all about the coaching staff. Look at Kent and Akron's arenas. Basically 1960's, but they usually are winning. We have a very nice setup for basketball, but I'm not sure the renovations to Savage really helped our recruiting. It's frustrating when you see so many schools that were DII or DIII twenty years ago passing the Rockets.
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A school like Gonzaga plays with the big boys because the coaching staff many years ago decided they were not going to settle for mere prospects. They wanted big time players. If our coaching staff works hard enough to build relationships they can get Toledo to become a destination school and not a place for guys without big school offers. We have started to get 3 star types to transfer here and that should also continue. Additinoally, the administration needs to allocate more money. Everything about the program has to be first class. There are a lot of donors who would contribute more if the school proved that a successful program is a priority.
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If you don't offer a local prospect, you might as well give up the game, go to coach a school that has no "local" prospects. Staying close to home is a consideration I duobt many throw off the table right from the get-go. Most of the players have played here through their high school careers, know people here. To not give THEM the opportunity to make that decision seems poor community relationsions.

I hope Rotroff DOES have many options. I want and expect UToledo to be one of them. Kid has a cool head. Say a player doing innane azzinine things to try and get him to recreat and he kept it in or ignored it entirely. Good head. Kid is a lot more agile than he looks. He looks like a lumberer but he does have a quick first step. Not sure about his get up and down the floor a whole game but with conditioning, I don't expect him to have a problem. He's every bit the player Donnel was, more at this stage. I do expect him to have the attention of teams needing bigs.
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(04-05-2017 06:10 PM)DetroitRocket Wrote:  Toledo target picks Marquette

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/colleg...100059486/

This guy didn't even have Toledo on his list. How can you say Toledo lost out? All these big bodies, that you feel Toledo may lose out to other schools is B.S. All big kids CAN'T play Div 1 basketball. Keep everything on a even keel. Do we need big bodies, yes we do, can we get some, maybe. The big schools can't take them all. Hopefully some one will stay close, but, you can't blame the coaching staff, if, we don't get any from around here.
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(04-06-2017 11:46 AM)FrickerRon Wrote:  
(04-05-2017 06:10 PM)DetroitRocket Wrote:  Toledo target picks Marquette

http://www.freep.com/story/sports/colleg...100059486/

This guy didn't even have Toledo on his list. How can you say Toledo lost out? All these big bodies, that you feel Toledo may lose out to other schools is B.S. All big kids CAN'T play Div 1 basketball. Keep everything on a even keel. Do we need big bodies, yes we do, can we get some, maybe. The big schools can't take them all. Hopefully some one will stay close, but, you can't blame the coaching staff, if, we don't get any from around here.

According to the article he did take an official visit to Toledo.

6'4" and 160 pounds--I wish him well...not the kind of use for a scholarship that I'm looking for at this late date, though. I wonder how hard Toledo pushed after his visit?
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