marshallcotiger 0 Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Trey Dickerson and Chris Griffin are scheduled to visit this weekend but I wouldn't consider either of them huge recruits. Here is a decent source of information on AU BBall recruiting. https://twitter.com/AUHoopsBlog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANSBY 0 Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 I was thinking more along the lines of Tarik Black transferring out of Memphis. Ryan Miller has some pretty nice connections to Memphis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marshallcotiger 0 Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 I'd love to have him but I think he is looking to transfer somewhere with a higher profile than Auburn. RT @GoodmanCBS: Tarik Black drawing interest from Duke, Kansas, Marquette, Miami, Tenn., FSU, UMass, 20 others -- per his AAU coach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANSBY 0 Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 I'd love to have him but I think he is looking to transfer somewhere with a higher profile than Auburn. RT @GoodmanCBS: Tarik Black drawing interest from Duke, Kansas, Marquette, Miami, Tenn., FSU, UMass, 20 others -- per his AAU coach Could be....can't blame him for that. One of the writers on another site hinted that AU might be working on something here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwmboom7 0 Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 Chris Griffin would be a nice pickup. He seems like a solid player with a few offers from very good basketball programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marshallcotiger 0 Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 Chris Griffin would be a nice pickup. He seems like a solid player with a few offers from very good basketball programs. I agree. The only reservation I have about signing him is that he is natural wing and we already have 7 of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwmboom7 0 Posted April 11, 2013 Share Posted April 11, 2013 Chris Griffin would be a nice pickup. He seems like a solid player with a few offers from very good basketball programs. I agree. The only reservation I have about signing him is that he is natural wing and we already have 7 of those. Obviously, we would rather have a PG instead, but with his height being around 6'7", he might could play the 4 spot in some lineup combinations. Also, having another shooter definitely won't hurt us, that is for sure. We already have 4 long guys with Atewe, B.C., Delph, and ADT, so we should have a lot of depth all around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marshallcotiger 0 Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 Griffin named Auburn his leader after the visit. Should sign somewhere this week unless he schedules another OV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarDamnEagle#1 0 Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 Justin Hokanson @JHokanson BREAKING: JUCO SF, former Murray State signee, Chris Griffin has committed to #Auburn. The story. auburn.rivals.com/content.asp?CI… @Rivals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwmboom7 0 Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 BOOM. Huge for our program. Dickerson is next, hopefully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey 16,631 Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 If the committed guys all sign, we'll be one over. Don't know how many more we can reasonably recruit. I know it's normal to lose a few but I think a lot of Barbee's future at Auburn depends on retaining the returning players that are currently on the squad. If a signee or two pops up with grade problems that could be the answer. Link to story about the "oversigning", which is never oversigning unless and until you're faced with the problem come fall semester. http://www.wareagleextra.com/2013/04/14/one-too-many-auburn-basketball-oversigned/#comment-12130 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aupharmd15 0 Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 What year is Dickerson? Services say he's a 2012 recruit. Guessing he went to prep school or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
douggwilliams 61 Posted April 14, 2013 Share Posted April 14, 2013 Griffin is a great pick up. He scored 10.5 pts per game while only playing 8 min per last 15 games (MCL injury). Sounds like what we need especially since FS is gone (A scorer). My only concern is how many schools he has already played at or has been committed to. Not saying leaving Rutgers is a bad thing though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwmboom7 0 Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 If the committed guys all sign, we'll be one over. Don't know how many more we can reasonably recruit. I know it's normal to lose a few but I think a lot of Barbee's future at Auburn depends on retaining the returning players that are currently on the squad. If a signee or two pops up with grade problems that could be the answer. Link to story about the "oversigning", which is never oversigning unless and until you're faced with the problem come fall semester. http://www.wareaglee.../#comment-12130 If I had to guess who it would be (pure speculation), it would be Greene Jr. or Denson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjazz 0 Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 If the committed guys all sign, we'll be one over. Don't know how many more we can reasonably recruit. I know it's normal to lose a few but I think a lot of Barbee's future at Auburn depends on retaining the returning players that are currently on the squad. If a signee or two pops up with grade problems that could be the answer. Link to story about the "oversigning", which is never oversigning unless and until you're faced with the problem come fall semester. http://www.wareaglee.../#comment-12130 Is there a possibility that one of the signees/commits has grade problems? I have no idea, but reality is that we really need to keep the last signing class intact after the issues with the first two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey 16,631 Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 If the committed guys all sign, we'll be one over. Don't know how many more we can reasonably recruit. I know it's normal to lose a few but I think a lot of Barbee's future at Auburn depends on retaining the returning players that are currently on the squad. If a signee or two pops up with grade problems that could be the answer. Link to story about the "oversigning", which is never oversigning unless and until you're faced with the problem come fall semester. http://www.wareaglee.../#comment-12130 Is there a possibility that one of the signees/commits has grade problems? I have no idea, but reality is that we really need to keep the last signing class intact after the issues with the first two. I have no idea if any of the signed/committed guys have grade problems or not. However, Barbee must have an idea of each player's standing. If he's taken a committment from number 14 and is still after number 15, he smells a rat somewhere. I do agree that he can't stand to lose current players and still keep his job. As mentioned, he's already lost the better part of two recruiting classes to guys transferring out. He has to stop that bleeding! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwmboom7 0 Posted April 15, 2013 Share Posted April 15, 2013 If the committed guys all sign, we'll be one over. Don't know how many more we can reasonably recruit. I know it's normal to lose a few but I think a lot of Barbee's future at Auburn depends on retaining the returning players that are currently on the squad. If a signee or two pops up with grade problems that could be the answer. Link to story about the "oversigning", which is never oversigning unless and until you're faced with the problem come fall semester. http://www.wareaglee.../#comment-12130 Is there a possibility that one of the signees/commits has grade problems? I have no idea, but reality is that we really need to keep the last signing class intact after the issues with the first two. I have no idea if any of the signed/committed guys have grade problems or not. However, Barbee must have an idea of each player's standing. If he's taken a committment from number 14 and is still after number 15, he smells a rat somewhere. I do agree that he can't stand to lose current players and still keep his job. As mentioned, he's already lost the better part of two recruiting classes to guys transferring out. He has to stop that bleeding! As long as he keeps Shaq, Price, and Greene Jr. as well as getting all our current commits in school, we will be good IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonefhin 8 Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 If the committed guys all sign, we'll be one over. Don't know how many more we can reasonably recruit. I know it's normal to lose a few but I think a lot of Barbee's future at Auburn depends on retaining the returning players that are currently on the squad. If a signee or two pops up with grade problems that could be the answer. Link to story about the "oversigning", which is never oversigning unless and until you're faced with the problem come fall semester. http://www.wareaglee.../#comment-12130 Is there a possibility that one of the signees/commits has grade problems? I have no idea, but reality is that we really need to keep the last signing class intact after the issues with the first two. I have no idea if any of the signed/committed guys have grade problems or not. However, Barbee must have an idea of each player's standing. If he's taken a committment from number 14 and is still after number 15, he smells a rat somewhere. I do agree that he can't stand to lose current players and still keep his job. As mentioned, he's already lost the better part of two recruiting classes to guys transferring out. He has to stop that bleeding! As long as he keeps Shaq, Price, and Greene Jr. as well as getting all our current commits in school, we will be good IMO. If there is a rat anywhere it is Barbee, he has got to sign guys that last, if we sign this kid that is a guard, that gives us two too many. We do need a guard, I understand that this kid may be able to play some point, if fact I do not understand why we got Griffin, we need guards more than forwards. If we lose two off the current roster it really looks bad for Barbee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANSBY 0 Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 If the committed guys all sign, we'll be one over. Don't know how many more we can reasonably recruit. I know it's normal to lose a few but I think a lot of Barbee's future at Auburn depends on retaining the returning players that are currently on the squad. If a signee or two pops up with grade problems that could be the answer. Link to story about the "oversigning", which is never oversigning unless and until you're faced with the problem come fall semester. http://www.wareaglee.../#comment-12130 Is there a possibility that one of the signees/commits has grade problems? I have no idea, but reality is that we really need to keep the last signing class intact after the issues with the first two. I have no idea if any of the signed/committed guys have grade problems or not. However, Barbee must have an idea of each player's standing. If he's taken a committment from number 14 and is still after number 15, he smells a rat somewhere. I do agree that he can't stand to lose current players and still keep his job. As mentioned, he's already lost the better part of two recruiting classes to guys transferring out. He has to stop that bleeding! As long as he keeps Shaq, Price, and Greene Jr. as well as getting all our current commits in school, we will be good IMO. If there is a rat anywhere it is Barbee, he has got to sign guys that last, if we sign this kid that is a guard, that gives us two too many. We do need a guard, I understand that this kid may be able to play some point, if fact I do not understand why we got Griffin, we need guards more than forwards. If we lose two off the current roster it really looks bad for Barbee Not trying to be a Richard here, but I had trouble understanding your post. It seems like you said we had too many guards, then in the next sentence said we need more guards than forwards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonefhin 8 Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 If the committed guys all sign, we'll be one over. Don't know how many more we can reasonably recruit. I know it's normal to lose a few but I think a lot of Barbee's future at Auburn depends on retaining the returning players that are currently on the squad. If a signee or two pops up with grade problems that could be the answer. Link to story about the "oversigning", which is never oversigning unless and until you're faced with the problem come fall semester. http://www.wareaglee.../#comment-12130 Is there a possibility that one of the signees/commits has grade problems? I have no idea, but reality is that we really need to keep the last signing class intact after the issues with the first two. I have no idea if any of the signed/committed guys have grade problems or not. However, Barbee must have an idea of each player's standing. If he's taken a committment from number 14 and is still after number 15, he smells a rat somewhere. I do agree that he can't stand to lose current players and still keep his job. As mentioned, he's already lost the better part of two recruiting classes to guys transferring out. He has to stop that bleeding! As long as he keeps Shaq, Price, and Greene Jr. as well as getting all our current commits in school, we will be good IMO. If there is a rat anywhere it is Barbee, he has got to sign guys that last, if we sign this kid that is a guard, that gives us two too many. We do need a guard, I understand that this kid may be able to play some point, if fact I do not understand why we got Griffin, we need guards more than forwards. If we lose two off the current roster it really looks bad for Barbee Not trying to be a Richard here, but I had trouble understanding your post. It seems like you said we had too many guards, then in the next sentence said we need more guards than forwards You are correct I did not state that very well. By signing Griffin and maybe this other kid we have offered we will be two over therefore, two current players have to go, I am just disappointed that again we will be losing current players on the roster. I feel that we do not have enough guards, esp. point guards, in fact the only point guard is a fall signee. Therefore if Barbee is going to lose players, why are we getting another forward, Griffin, it just seems we sign kids and hope some stick and most are not. And if we are going to sign new players lets at least fill a need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUfanaticAU 0 Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 You are correct I did not state that very well. By signing Griffin and maybe this other kid we have offered we will be two over therefore, two current players have to go, I am just disappointed that again we will be losing current players on the roster. I feel that we do not have enough guards, esp. point guards, in fact the only point guard is a fall signee. Therefore if Barbee is going to lose players, why are we getting another forward, Griffin, it just seems we sign kids and hope some stick and most are not. And if we are going to sign new players lets at least fill a need. I disagree. We have a good number of quality guards but not enough size (the only returning big man is ADT). With this class Barbee has coming in we finally have quality size. Imagine having ADT (7ft) at center, Grinaucus/Atewe (6'9") at power foward, then Griffin (6'7") and Shaq Johnson (6'5") at guard. We should finally be able to dominate the boards. I do agree with the part about not having a point guard but it seems we're banking on Tahj Shamsid-Deen being able to start right away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonefhin 8 Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 You are correct I did not state that very well. By signing Griffin and maybe this other kid we have offered we will be two over therefore, two current players have to go, I am just disappointed that again we will be losing current players on the roster. I feel that we do not have enough guards, esp. point guards, in fact the only point guard is a fall signee. Therefore if Barbee is going to lose players, why are we getting another forward, Griffin, it just seems we sign kids and hope some stick and most are not. And if we are going to sign new players lets at least fill a need. I disagree. We have a good number of quality guards but not enough size (the only returning big man is ADT). With this class Barbee has coming in we finally have quality size. Imagine having ADT (7ft) at center, Grinaucus/Atewe (6'9") at power foward, then Griffin (6'7") and Shaq Johnson (6'5") at guard. We should finally be able to dominate the boards. I do agree with the part about not having a point guard but it seems we're banking on Tahj Shamsid-Deen being able to start right away Not trying to get into anything, but you are missing part of my point, you say we have some good guys coming with some size, but we do not know that, because at least one is going to be gone and more than likely two. Do we have a point guard with Tahj or will he even make it a few weeks into the season, if you bet the odds the answer is 50-50 at best. With Barbee track record it could be three or four, so do we have ADT, Atewe, Shaq, Greene, and who. We have to have some roster stability. We have to be deeper than one deep at all positions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikey 16,631 Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 Doesn't the signing day start today? If he signs two more, we'll know that either two signees aren't going to qualify or two current players aren't coming back. Either case is not good. Greene was recruited as a point guard, what happened there? I'll agree that he looks more like a shooter when he's on the floor, but is our player evaluation so poor that we can't recognize if a prospect is a point guard or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarDamnEagle#1 0 Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 Justin Hokanson @JHokanson Wabash Valley (Ill.) small forward Chris Griffin has signed with #Auburn. He committed on Sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwmboom7 0 Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 You are correct I did not state that very well. By signing Griffin and maybe this other kid we have offered we will be two over therefore, two current players have to go, I am just disappointed that again we will be losing current players on the roster. I feel that we do not have enough guards, esp. point guards, in fact the only point guard is a fall signee. Therefore if Barbee is going to lose players, why are we getting another forward, Griffin, it just seems we sign kids and hope some stick and most are not. And if we are going to sign new players lets at least fill a need. I disagree. We have a good number of quality guards but not enough size (the only returning big man is ADT). With this class Barbee has coming in we finally have quality size. Imagine having ADT (7ft) at center, Grinaucus/Atewe (6'9") at power foward, then Griffin (6'7") and Shaq Johnson (6'5") at guard. We should finally be able to dominate the boards. I do agree with the part about not having a point guard but it seems we're banking on Tahj Shamsid-Deen being able to start right away Not trying to get into anything, but you are missing part of my point, you say we have some good guys coming with some size, but we do not know that, because at least one is going to be gone and more than likely two. Do we have a point guard with Tahj or will he even make it a few weeks into the season, if you bet the odds the answer is 50-50 at best. With Barbee track record it could be three or four, so do we have ADT, Atewe, Shaq, Greene, and who. We have to have some roster stability. We have to be deeper than one deep at all positions. I read somewhere that Harrell might not be getting a scholarship and will be a walk on. I have no clue if t PG depending on Greene. his is true or not, but if it is, then we are right at 13 right now. The coaches really want Dickerson (PG), so if we get him, that will give us 2 or 3That would put us at 1 over, which wouldn't be too bad, and we would have good depth at every position. I trust Barbee in knowing what he is doing, so lets just sit back and enjoy the ride til we start the season in November. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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