Temple picked up a Rivals 150 commit this weekend in Nate Pierre- Louis https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/3493who had offers from Cincy, Creighton, Dayton, FSU, GT, ISU, UM(fl.), PSU, Purdue, Seton Hall, St, John's, TCU, Vandy.

That is the good news. The bad news is it seems basketball recruiting in the conference is going down drastically. So far the AAC only has two top 150 recruits according to rivals. The Big East, who many of us see as the competition for top mid-major conference has 11 Rivals 150 recruits already...

In 2016, the AAC has 7 commits in the Rivals 150 (UConn had 5). BE had 12.

2015- 10 AAC, BE had 11.

Not a good trend IMO

Definitely not a good sign.
The AAC has always relied on its standard bearers (UConn, UC, SMU, Memphis, Temple) to fill those lists.
Two of our bigger recruiting machines, Larry Brown and Josh Pastner, have just been replaced. Memphis fans are already complaining about Tubby's recruiting (without having to worry about his coaching acumen).
...while SMU fans swear on Jankovich... but, imho, how he'll recruit without Larry Brown's name is the biggest question mark in the AAC. Will they be able to bring in the Shake Miltons?
ECU and USF are dumpster fires.
Dawkins (UCF) and Dunleavy (Tulane) are works in progress in their new locations.
When Donnie Jones and Ed Conroy were in the AAC, they weren't bad recruiters. I think, in time, the recruiting relationships at these two programs will begin to yield higher quality HS recruits.
Sampson (UH) is struggling to break into that upper tier in recruiting. The new Tillman Center should help him immensely in those efforts. If he would have landed Jarrett Allen that would have been a game changer.
Haith's (Tulsa) recruiting is seemingly getting better. When he started at Tulsa, he was getting more diamonds in the rough but that's improving.
The point is everyone needs to step up their game but it seems like adjustments are being made. There is still a lot of talent in this conference. We need our programs to produce on the court and continue building those relationships with the young HSers.

UC and UConn have gotten Four star (Top 100) recruits or better every year in the league. It's the other programs that have been the issue.

Don't know how you fix it. Coaching stability has a lot to do with it though.

That stat is wrong though. UConn alone has 5 Top 150s. Four of them are Four Star top 80s. UC has a Four Star #61, which is half UC's 2 frosh recruiting class. UC also got a prior Four Star transfer from nc state too.

Tulsa has a transfer that was #139 on Rivals coming out of HS in Jr. Etou and we're still in the top 5 (really the top 3) of a local top 150 guard in Elijah Landrum. SMU is one of the others on Landrum and they're in on a guy from our area - Chargios who is top 150. Tulsa's been getting quite a few unofficial visits from top 150 players in the last year or so... it's only a matter of time before Haith snags a top guard simply because of the up tempo offense he runs.

(09-12-2016 08:57 AM)payday Wrote:  UC and UConn have gotten Four star (Top 100) recruits or better every year in the league. It's the other programs that have been the issue.

Cincy has recruited very well in basketball.

As long as we're all in this conference, we're hoping for similar success for every team. Only way to build up the league. Hats off to Dunphy.

Have we seen the conference rankings the past 3 years?

BEast: 3, 3, 5
AAC: 7, 10, 7

It's not close at all

(09-12-2016 09:12 AM)payday Wrote:  That stat is wrong though. UConn alone has 5 Top 150s. Four of them are Four Star top 80s. UC has a Four Star #61, which is half UC's 2 frosh recruiting class. UC also got a prior Four Star transfer from nc state too.

Here are the rankings of the Rivals #150 since 2015 by school. Again, this is just the Rivals.com rankings.
2015-
UConn- #23, #58
UC- #99, #119
Memphis- #33, #54
SMU- #66, #128
Temple #111, #127

2016-
UConn- #34, #47, #80, #133, #145
UC- #61
Temple- #140

2017-
UConn- #38
Temple #148

2017?!? Only about 30 of the top 75 recruits have even committed. That means nothing. Cronin nearly always signs his recruits late too.

(09-12-2016 10:05 AM)TheBasketBallOpinion Wrote:  Have we seen the conference rankings the past 3 years?

BEast: 3, 3, 5
AAC: 7, 10, 7

It's not close at all

Because its a work in progress. The AAC used a different criteria in realignment than the NBE did in selecting programs. It was never expected we'd be starting off on equal footing. We needed to fire underperforming coaches at UCF, UH, Tulane, etc, first.

(09-12-2016 09:34 AM)invisiblehand Wrote:  Tulsa has a transfer that was #139 on Rivals coming out of HS in Jr. Etou and we're still in the top 5 (really the top 3) of a local top 150 guard in Elijah Landrum. SMU is one of the others on Landrum and they're in on a guy from our area - Chargios who is top 150. Tulsa's been getting quite a few unofficial visits from top 150 players in the last year or so... it's only a matter of time before Haith snags a top guard simply because of the up tempo offense he runs.

Must be pretty easy to be a top 150 recruit when you are playing high school basketball at the age of 21.

(09-12-2016 11:13 AM)Tech Savy Wrote:  

(09-12-2016 09:34 AM)invisiblehand Wrote:  Tulsa has a transfer that was #139 on Rivals coming out of HS in Jr. Etou and we're still in the top 5 (really the top 3) of a local top 150 guard in Elijah Landrum. SMU is one of the others on Landrum and they're in on a guy from our area - Chargios who is top 150. Tulsa's been getting quite a few unofficial visits from top 150 players in the last year or so... it's only a matter of time before Haith snags a top guard simply because of the up tempo offense he runs.

Must be pretty easy to be a top 150 recruit when you are playing high school basketball at the age of 21.

Not my problem. All I hope is he helps Tulsa. On the plus side, with the transfer season, he'll be close to his prime 26-28 years by the time he plays.... HAHAHAHA

Houston just landed Fabian White.

http://m.chron.com/sports/cougars/articl...ter-mobile

Not a Rivals 150 guy but he did have a lot of offers from programs like Creighton, TCU, Memphis, SMU, etc

https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/3074

Fabian will be good for Houston and yes SMU was after him

(09-12-2016 11:17 AM)invisiblehand Wrote:  

(09-12-2016 11:13 AM)Tech Savy Wrote:  

(09-12-2016 09:34 AM)invisiblehand Wrote:  Tulsa has a transfer that was #139 on Rivals coming out of HS in Jr. Etou and we're still in the top 5 (really the top 3) of a local top 150 guard in Elijah Landrum. SMU is one of the others on Landrum and they're in on a guy from our area - Chargios who is top 150. Tulsa's been getting quite a few unofficial visits from top 150 players in the last year or so... it's only a matter of time before Haith snags a top guard simply because of the up tempo offense he runs.

Must be pretty easy to be a top 150 recruit when you are playing high school basketball at the age of 21.

Not my problem. All I hope is he helps Tulsa. On the plus side, with the transfer season, he'll be close to his prime 26-28 years by the time he plays.... HAHAHAHA

Lol fair enough

(09-12-2016 11:42 AM)BigEastHomer Wrote:  Houston just landed Fabian White.

http://m.chron.com/sports/cougars/articl...ter-mobile

Not a Rivals 150 guy but he did have a lot of offers from programs like Creighton, TCU, Memphis, SMU, etc

https://n.rivals.com/content/prospects/3074

Solid pickup!

NPL was a good pickup, but Temple's staff recruits poorly. They should be pulling in a #50-#75 player every year.

4* G Jamal Johnson to Memphis