Boylen's recruiting prowess

[SeattleUte]

Wow.

http://www.metroplexhoops.com/rankings.php

[TripletDaddy]

Boylen pwns the greater Dallas/Ft Worth metroplex area!

Fools better step off!

[8BR]

I wish he could get a top 5 recruit out of the Seattle area.

There are some crazy good HS hoopsters in the region right now.

I saw Josh Smith play the other night. He is a beast and the top rated kid in the nation for '10 (Seattle will produce the nation's top FB and BB recruit in 10)

[Surfah]

I wish BYU could get PG County recruit. Anybody see the article in SI a few weeks ago about the recruits coming out of there?

I worked with a kid who grew up with a bunch of those guys. He actually played ball at Appalachian State. This kid was nasty too. Crazy handles and he'd tell me all kinds of stories about balling it up with playground legends and he's played with them all. Of all the guys he's played with and against he said the best was Stephon Marbury which surprised me. He said if you were on Starbury's team you had better keep your eyes open and hands up because he would throw lazer passes that nobody saw coming.

[8BR]

Here is a NYT article on Seattle HS hoops

The growth of basketball here reached new heights in recent years. In back-to-back summers, the two main A.A.U. teams — Rotary Select and Friends of Hoop — put together college level teams that featured a combined five N.B.A. and seven Division I college players.

Crawford also put together a team — himself, Roy, Robinson and Hawes — that went to the championship street ball game in 2006 at Rucker Park in Harlem. Afterward, all anyone asked about was Seattle basketball.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/sp...ewanted=1&_r=2

[SeattleUte]

Here is a NYT article on Seattle HS hoops





http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/sp...ewanted=1&_r=2

I bet Dallas isn't chopped liver. Did you see those Memphis, Kentucky, Texas and OK State commits below Utah's?

Why is Seattle so strong? The weather? Our population isn't huge, not LA, not even Dallas huge, and our demographic. . .uh. . . it's not one that normally produces a lot of great basketball talent.

[smokymountainrain]

I wish he could get a top 5 recruit out of the Seattle area.

There are some crazy good HS hoopsters in the region right now.

I saw Josh Smith play the other night. He is a beast and the top rated kid in the nation for '10 (Seattle will produce the nation's top FB and BB recruit in 10)

Josh Smith? Which HS?

[8BR]

Josh Smith? Which HS?

He plays in SE King County - at Kentwood. Same HS Rodney Stuckey (Pistons) attended. We have a family friend on the team and went out and watch them last week.

http://basketballrecruiting.rivals.c...=64551&Sport=2

SU is right; the Sound is really not a very big metro area. And the population centers within it that generate most of the D1 and NBA talent are very small. Most of the talent is in the Metro League - at 'Beach, Franklin, Seattle Prep or O'Dea.

Bellevue is also very good this season with the sons of a few former pro athletes on their squad. They just blew through a California tourney over the holidays.

It's funny, with no Sonics in town (how's that working out for you OKC?) I'm paying a lot of attention to local NCAA and HS hoops. I'm even trying to get out to games. Hey, at least they're much cheaper to attend.

[DrumNFeather]

Now he's just gotta coach 'em up.

[Goatnapper'96]

Wow.

http://www.metroplexhoops.com/rankings.php

Will he be the Wayne Howard of Utah hoops? A pretty good coach whose emotional instability and poor timing doomed him to a mediocre performance before he is fired or resigns unable to escape the long shadow that is BYU?

I mean what kind of luck must a Ute coach have to land the top and #8 recruit from the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex and yet the BYU coach can outrecruit him with the top two players from Utah County? That, my friends, is some real shitty luck and my mind struggles to fathom how low the probability of that happening must be!

[smokymountainrain]

He plays in SE King County - at Kentwood. Same HS Rodney Stuckey (Pistons) attended. We have a family friend on the team and went out and watch them last week.

http://basketballrecruiting.rivals.c...=64551&Sport=2

Interesting. I used to live in the Seattle area. I used to go watch Stuckey all the time at Kentwood. Back then Kentridge (where my niece went to school) had a good player by the name of Joey Henley (went to Sacred Heart to play ball) and he and Stuckey used to have some nice battles despite Stuckey being a year or two younger.

[MartyFunkhouser]

Will he be the Wayne Howard of Utah hoops? A pretty good coach whose emotional instability and poor timing doomed him to a mediocre performance before he is fired or resigns unable to escape the long shadow that is BYU?

I mean what kind of luck must a Ute coach have to land the top and #8 recruit from the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex and yet the BYU coach can outrecruit him with the top two players from Utah County? That, my friends, is some real shitty luck and my mind struggles to fathom how low the probability of that happening must be!

What long shadow of BYU?

[Goatnapper'96]

What long shadow of BYU?

Not very long at all, but until you folks get out of Idaho State's shadow you won't know how limited the BYU shadow is. One step at a time, Sweet Jesus!

Still got feel for Boylen, he comes to Utah as a crazy time when Utah County is supplying athletic kids like Haws, Emery, the Collinsworths and Davies. Seriously, like what are the odds of that?

Will Marshall Henderson be any better than Mike Rose?

[Senioritis]

Will Marshall Henderson be any better than Mike Rose?

Yes he will, because he doesn't look like a Garbage Pail Kid.

He does, however, look like a deacon.

[SeattleUte]

Will he be the Wayne Howard of Utah hoops? A pretty good coach whose emotional instability and poor timing doomed him to a mediocre performance before he is fired or resigns unable to escape the long shadow that is BYU?

I mean what kind of luck must a Ute coach have to land the top and #8 recruit from the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex and yet the BYU coach can outrecruit him with the top two players from Utah County? That, my friends, is some real shitty luck and my mind struggles to fathom how low the probability of that happening must be!

THe difference is Mike Rose is no Lavelle Edwards. Your two Utah county kids are probably overrated. They have not had near the competition as Marshall Henderson.