Smith recruiting

[Glad Cougar]

Thought it would be good to have a thread dedicated to the players Kyle Smith is going after. Brand X reports a potential grad transfer will be visiting Pullman. Matt Freeman is a big....6-10 230-pound New Zealander who didn't do a whole lot as a sooner, but at least has some size. His stats are similar to what Jordan Rainey had at Iowa State before transfering to WSU but Freeman will only have one year to play. No doubt, a stopgap big guy and perhaps a hedge against Pollard leaving. Wade would be the next biggest guy on the team (assuming Nigel Johns goes elsewhere), and he's not all that big. Freeman was a 4-star prospect out of an Auckland NZ high school. Might also be good to start that Down Under connection.

Brand X also confirming that Ronnie Degray has an offer from WSU. His offers from other big schools include Arkansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma State. Arkansas still doesn't have a head coach, who knows if Hoiberg will still be interested, and OK State is coming off a down year, like WSU. Probably a reasonable chance to land Degray.

Glad Cougar

 

[7ICoug]

Good idea. Here is a little Jim Shaw recruiting story from Seattletimes blog.

"I know you got a one-that-got away story. Can you tell it to me?) “Absolutely by far, by a millions mile far it’s Terrence Jones. One hundred percent. I put in a tremendous amount of time. The story with Terrence Jones and Terrence Ross, I was with Cameron Dollar at Highline Community College and those guys weren’t even in high school yet. When I got hired here, I told Lorenzo this is going to sound a little but funny but you’ll have to trust me that we’re going to become a major player with every guy that comes out of Portland. I just have a lot of friends on the northeast side. … We have a lot friends there that are going to try and help us. Dollar and I were down there and you just knew those two kids were going to players at an early age. When they were seventh graders you knew they were going to be really, really good. I said to Cam, it would be fun to coach two guys like that one day. He said yeah. I said I can’t guarantee we’re going to get them, but we’re going to be close. You watch we’re going to be so close on those two guys. And close doesn’t count in anything, but on that one we were beyond close because you always kind of know the pulse of the thing. The night before that thing went down, I didn’t say anything. I was playing it like I didn’t know, but I thought it was coming our way. You have enough things going on down there. You know kind of what’s up. I would have been surprised, not shock, I would have been surprised if had put our cap on. And once they do that and then it gets away, you’re allowed to call that the one that got away. No doubt that’s the hardest one by far because that was always my plan for that team to have Isaiah Thomas, Terrence Ross, Terrence Jones, Matthew Bryan-Amaning, Justin Holiday and C.J. Wilcox.”

 

[SaveFerris]

RayQuan Evans - 6'4" PG/SG. Verbal Commits has him as a Florida State commit but apparently considering GU and WSU as well.