Excellent Hoops recruiting story by Kyle

[grizzlyjournal]

Lost in the "hoopla" of football on this first Saturday in September was a great story by Kyle Sample in today's Missoulian. There are three blue chip basketball players on campus this weekend... one of them who signed last Feb. Good read! Link is below.


http://missoulian.com/sports/college/montana/montana-hoping-to-duplicate-recruiting-success/article_04571eb9-983b-5d6c-b50b-e1c64f48068d.html

 

[maroonandsilver]

Timmy Falls has gotta be one of the most enthusiastic recruits in UM history.

 

[citygriz]

Note: Jamal Hartwell is a four-star recruit on ESPN. Would he be our first four-star recruit ever?

Note II: Don't forget, scheduling can be a recruiting tool, and a big one. Duke almost always promises their recruits that they will schedule a game in or near the recruit's hometown. (At least, before one-and-done.) If we play well against USC in Los Angeles, that will be a huge boost to our program. Won't be easy, as USC big Bennie Boatwright is projected to be a first-round draft choice next year. Still, problems spell opportunity, no? No more so than on the recruiting trail.

 

[kyle_sample]

Note: Jamal Hartwell is a four-star recruit on ESPN. Would he be our first four-star recruit ever?

Note II: Don't forget, scheduling can be a recruiting tool, and a big one. Duke almost always promises their recruits that they will schedule a game in or near the recruit's hometown. (At least, before one-and-done.) If we play well against USC in Los Angeles, that will be a huge boost to our program. Won't be easy, as USC big Bennie Boatwright is projected to be a first-round draft choice next year. Still, problems spell opportunity, no? No more so than on the recruiting trail.

There was a kid named Vaughn Autry who was part of the class with Kareem Jamar in 2010. He sparingly played as a freshman and left the team in May 2011.

 

[citygriz]

Note: Jamal Hartwell is a four-star recruit on ESPN. Would he be our first four-star recruit ever?

Note II: Don't forget, scheduling can be a recruiting tool, and a big one. Duke almost always promises their recruits that they will schedule a game in or near the recruit's hometown. (At least, before one-and-done.) If we play well against USC in Los Angeles, that will be a huge boost to our program. Won't be easy, as USC big Bennie Boatwright is projected to be a first-round draft choice next year. Still, problems spell opportunity, no? No more so than on the recruiting trail.

There was a kid named Vaughn Autry who was part of the class with Kareem Jamar in 2010. He sparingly played as a freshman and left the team in May 2011.

Vaughn Autry was a four-star?

 

[ordigger]

Note: Jamal Hartwell is a four-star recruit on ESPN. Would he be our first four-star recruit ever?

Note II: Don't forget, scheduling can be a recruiting tool, and a big one. Duke almost always promises their recruits that they will schedule a game in or near the recruit's hometown. (At least, before one-and-done.) If we play well against USC in Los Angeles, that will be a huge boost to our program. Won't be easy, as USC big Bennie Boatwright is projected to be a first-round draft choice next year. Still, problems spell opportunity, no? No more so than on the recruiting trail.

There was a kid named Vaughn Autry who was part of the class with Kareem Jamar in 2010. He sparingly played as a freshman and left the team in May 2011.

After not playing for 3 years, and using his redshirt season - Autry returned to the court last season as a sophomore for the University of Montevello in Alabama. Looks like he turned his life back around after the robbery charges. He was a four star - 92 grade.

http://www.montevallofalcons.com/sports/mbkb/2015-16/bios/autry_vaughn_hvlh

http://patch.com/california/glendora/suspects-in-2011-robbery-spree-sentenced-to-prison

 

[citygriz]

Autry reminds me of that terrible period we went through with our recruits, key guys who washed out over about a five year period:

--Vaughn Autry
--Eric Van Vliet
--Austin Swift
--Billy Reader

All with tremendous potential, not to be realized at Montana.

It was during the Austin Swift era that I went down to watch Swift's AAU team play, and witness another player Montana had on their recruiting radar at that time, a big burly kid that I thought should have been playing football, not basketball. But he wanted to play basketball, and he did so well that he wound up at UC Santa Barbara, where he set records, before flirting with the Pacers and the Suns of the NBA. But right now, Orlando Johnson just signed with a team in China.