2019 Recruiting Class - Surely the best ever :D

[DudeAnon]

Mack. 1 Elite Eight in 9 years.

Steele can do better than that.

[adoraz]

meanwhile Mack has at Louisville guys rated 44,45,72,86,97, and 208.

Well yeah, because he's at Loui$ville now. He wouldn't get a class like that had he returned to X. In fact, I think his 2018 X class was mostly empty.

X right now has a Top 10 class in the nation. They clearly don't need Mack. They are bigger than their coach, just like most teams in the Big East.

Both coaches/programs are recruiting at a ridiculous level, I'll give you that.

Well, Mack in 2017 had 34 and 58- along with 136 and 176. It was the #11 class in the country.

It's interesting though looking at the 2019 class to some of Mack's last ones....

2019- 92/101/106/121 in top 125
2017- 34(Scruggs)/58(Marshall)
2016- 78/105
2015- none
2014- 39(Bluiett)/88/102(Macura)/106

so Mack in the 4 years was able to get 2 top 40 kids and 3 in the top 60.... Even though Mack only averaged 2 top 125's per year, I'd much rather have 3 in the 4 years in the top 40-60, than have 4 guys, but with none in the top 90......

Why skip over his 2018 class? He was with Xavier until April 2018 (the entire cycle). I don't think he had many players signed despite coming off an E8 and getting a one seed.

[stever20]

Why skip over his 2018 class? He was with Xavier until April 2018 (the entire cycle). I don't think he had many players signed despite coming off an E8 and getting a one seed.

didn't he have some guys and they decommitted after he left? Also, that's similar to '15.

Also, your point about coming off the 1 seed- that would have been in March last year. 80-90% of the recruits are signed by that point of the process.

And still, give me 5 years from 14-18 where he gets 3 top 60 guys and 78 (plus some other good guys in the 80-110 range) over getting 4 guys in the 90-125 range ..

[Novachap]

Yes!! Pretty amazing class for next year at nova.

www.vuhoops.com/2018/10/30/18011036/vil ... commitment

[gtmoBlue]

GReat pickup Nova!!! Excellent player and kid!

Had hoped he would choose KU as then a possibiity of transfer in a year or 2. BE rules prohibit, although he won't transfer from Nova.

Great get and class for 2019! Way to go.

[kayako]

Quinerly, Gillespie, Brian A., Swider and JRE. The first 5-6 off the bench could be a Top 10 team (Slater, DCR, Samuels, Bey, Moore, Dixon).
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Team Blue:

Quinerly
Antoine
Samuels
Swider
DaDa
Dixon off the bench

Team White:

Gillespie
Moore
Slater
Bey
JRE
Painter off the bench

Not sure how you keep everyone happy, but it sure is better than suiting up 7 players for stretches back in 2017. Hopefully everything works out.

[jfan]

Yes!! Pretty amazing class for next year at nova.

http://www.vuhoops.com/2018/10/30/18011 ... commitment

Great get Nova. Holy crap! The rest of us need to get going to keep up. X is close to doing that this year.

[Jet915]

Congrats Nova!

[novahoops11]

Kansas fans everywhere:

[adoraz]

Once again, big congrats to Nova!

Why skip over his 2018 class? He was with Xavier until April 2018 (the entire cycle). I don't think he had many players signed despite coming off an E8 and getting a one seed.

didn't he have some guys and they decommitted after he left? Also, that's similar to '15.

Also, your point about coming off the 1 seed- that would have been in March last year. 80-90% of the recruits are signed by that point of the process.

And still, give me 5 years from 14-18 where he gets 3 top 60 guys and 78 (plus some other good guys in the 80-110 range) over getting 4 guys in the 90-125 range ..

Come on Stever, that last point is laughable. You can't seriously be comparing a few months of recruiting without even playing a game (excellent recruiting too, btw- currently top 10 nationally) to a five year stretch. That's ridiculous.

As for the rest... if he did have 2018 recruits, it definitely wasn't many and they weren't that highly ranked. Did Louisville even recruit anybody last cycle? They're not in the 247 top 100 teams. If Mack did recruit, they should've joined him there. Just admit that he didn't recruit well last year. I'm sure we'd all remember if Xavier lost a bunch of star recruits several months ago.

I'm aware he wasn't coming off a one seed, but Xavier was positioned as a top team for pretty much the entire year, as well as during the pre-season.

My original point was that Steele is doing an excellent job recruiting and vastly out recruited Mack's final year. Think he'll take Xavier further than Mack was able to.