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St. Bonaventure, Rhode Island, and St. Joe's are all bigger basketball brands than Akron, but none of them are big enough that I'd say we'd have no chance of beating out for a recruit. In fact, to improve in the college basketball landscape these are the type of programs we need to beat out in recruiting battles to move up.

In the good old days, when they made tires in Akron, one good thing about the rubber workers occasional strikes was that it gave all the mayors of West Virginia towns an opportunity to go home and visit. Incredibly few D1 basketball programs can brag about the academic excellence of their institutions or their players with a straight face. (Really old story warning) As coach of one of the final four teams in the big dance, Al Mcquire was asked why he started Bill Neary instead of Bernard Toone. Al said, "Well, Bill is a straight A student in accounting and with him in the lineup it raises the accum of the starting 5 up to a D - ." Students at Marquette told me one either had to be a really good student or a really good basketball p[layer to be adnitted.

If the value of a specific school's degree had any role in the mindset of 17 and 18 year old basketball recruits, the Ivy League would leapfrog the ACC, SEC and Big 10.

In today’s college basketball landscape that list is not impressive at all and with that being said we have a shot.

Another early commit with P5 offers ?? Nine verbal commitments and counting...

I’m still concerned, this is the time these commits should be rolling in, IMO I think we are a little behind, quality may be better but volume is a little low, I’m hoping we get twice this amount by end of month

It's still to be seen if it translates to wins, but it's nice having a recruiting staff that can actually get players that other programs want.

That leaves three forwards on the roster? Anybody on the Wayne College Warriors who could help out?

I hate to break it to you but that's not that impressive of a list.