Believe me, I am elated with quality of recruits we are landing or even considering us. I do have a concern though. How hard is or us to get 6'8" plus post players to look at us? Most the recruits and signees are Wings, 1 through 3 (PG, SG, SF, combo). Qvale is graduating after this year. Selvig the year after. That leaves us with Hutchison and Reader as our only decent sized big men. Sorry, but I cannot see Ward as a legit big post player, even though he is effective. I see everyone else more as power 3's or 3's in general.
This concerns and surprises me, considering Tinkle's experience being a big and developing them. Could it be the GRIZ have a few trump cards in bigs they are keeping close to the vest in hopes to keep more competition at bay for their services?
To be honest, offensively teams can overcome true bigs. Defensively though, part of the reason we are so effective is because of our length in Qvale and Selvig. We play great defense now. I watch the GRIZ very intently every year every chance I get (TV, internet, or live). Our defense struggles a lot without either Selvig or Qvale on the court. I do expect that to improve though with Reader and Hutchison.
Anyone with any idea of who, what and when big recruits come into play again? The 6'7" and under post guys will never cut it at the DIV 1 level. What is going on with recruiting bigs?
