22-23 Recruiting Thread

[Goods]

https://twitter.com/landdeck1323/sta...xUU2l4_cg&s=19

EWU guard Mason Landdeck transferring to Hawaii Pacific. He prepped at Zillah HS but played his senior season in Utah during the pandemic.

He actually prepped at Kittitas (Fr), then Cashmere (Soph), then Zillah (Jr.), then moved to Utah his senior year since Washington state sports didn't exist thanks to the state's COVID response. I watched him daily while at Kittitas, you could tell then he would play beyond high school. Can't really fault his decision to move to Utah. There was a point there where I didn't think Washington would have sports, so I get it.

[tsull]

Yeah he will probably have 2 solid seasons at HPU then transfer back to D1 as a grad transfer.

I say 3 more stops, minimum. "I gotta get my shots and PT, man ... and I gotta play D1, this is too small time," ... I've heard and seen it all. Portal is trash.

[CWU Wildcat Nation]

Sure had a great game against the Cougars, I thought he was on his way to being a first team all-conference pick. Landing in Hawaii is great, but this is a dude who changes schools like I change socks. He has a couple more stops in him.

Yeah he will probably have 2 solid seasons at HPU then transfer back to D1 as a grad transfer.

[tsull]

Cheney vs. Honolulu. I'd say he chose well climate wise. EWU is a good school though, and their b-ball program always seems to rise up. I watched him play this season, his minutes were strong early and dried up later in the year. He's a shoot first point guard with good foot speed and good range on his shot. He needs to become a better floor general aka point guard which I'm sure he'll improve on with maturity.

Sure had a great game against the Cougars, I thought he was on his way to being a first team all-conference pick. Landing in Hawaii is great, but this is a dude who changes schools like I change socks. He has a couple more stops in him.

[gratefuldad]

Cheney vs. Honolulu. I'd say he chose well climate wise. EWU is a good school though, and their b-ball program always seems to rise up. I watched him play this season, his minutes were strong early and dried up later in the year. He's a shoot first point guard with good foot speed and good range on his shot. He needs to become a better floor general aka point guard which I'm sure he'll improve on with maturity.

[tsull]

https://twitter.com/landdeck1323/sta...xUU2l4_cg&s=19

EWU guard Mason Landdeck transferring to Hawaii Pacific. He prepped at Zillah HS but played his senior season in Utah during the pandemic.

He lit up the Washington State Cougars this year in Eastern's upset in Pullman. He struggled a little bit after that. Went to four high schools in 4 years, I'm guessing Hawaii Pacific won't be his last stop.

[CWU Wildcat Nation]

https://twitter.com/landdeck1323/sta...xUU2l4_cg&s=19

EWU guard Mason Landdeck transferring to Hawaii Pacific. He prepped at Zillah HS but played his senior season in Utah during the pandemic.

[CWU Wildcat Nation]

Many west coast teams including CWU, Point Loma, Concordia-Irvine, CS San Bernardino, and CS Dominguez Hills have offered San Diego City College's Jonathan Ogugua. Last season he averaged 17 ppg and 2.3 spg. https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/jonathan-ogugua

[tsull]

Good post and I don't think the program is a mess or the coaching staff is clueless. I think they're out-thinking it. I realize the entire coaching staff is from somewhere besides Oregon, they're recruiting connections are elsewhere. But the school is Western OREGON not Western California. I think the program -- at least last year -- has lost its identity. It should be a place for good Oregon preps to play ball. There's guys out there in-state, as proven in the last decade where the foundation of those winning teams were in-state guys. I think they should return to that, and of course don't completely ignore out-of-state. I think there's things they can do in getting in-state kids. This also goes for the entire school, which is struggling with enrollment, while the state keeps getting larger in population. A new president is going to be hired soon, I hope he looks first and foremost at enrollment.

I like coach Pifer, good guy and good coach. I think they've whiffed on their nation-wide recruiting and making it too complicated. There are others who share my views, they just don't post them on a message board.

Regarding Tobin, he got that Covid year and is using it and I'm guessing he probably got his degree at UAA. He was a good, committed UAA player. If I was a prep in the U.S., I'd think UAA or UAF would be neat places to play. Don't worry about the cold, spend your winter in the gym anyway. It's a beautiful state. Life is about adventure.

[Anchorage]

I would agree with this and I'm not against getting some out-of-state guys and at UAA they have to do that. WOU's best seasons had a core of strong in-state players, they've gone away from that to get out-of-state guys who really aren't that good or they wouldn't be 9-25 or whatever they were. We're WOU not UCLA. They've lost their identity. As noted, a key reserve, great academic guy from Roseburg just left. That's the kind of guy they should be keeping, not having them leave. I'm sure they'll replace him with the Texas JC dude, who may or may not have buy-in to the university, and certainly will be long gone after he graduates, never to be seen again.

It's not just basketball, but baseball had a recruiting class entirely out-of-state. Other sports are keen to get a marginal player -- and pay a lot for him/her -- from Seattle, who frankly isn't very good. Track had a world class distance guy from a tiny eastern Oregon town of Joseph. In-state athletes are out there if they look. Football does this the best and because of new membership into the tough Lone Star Conference and California having no D2 schools, it's wise to go to California for players. Men's and women's hoops, baseball, track, soccer, etc., have no excuse to continually ignore the state.

I also realize I'm the only fan posting on a message board on this or even caring. The coaches/admin do these things because they can and there's only one person mentioning it or paying attention. I doubt I'll move the needle.

[tsull]

I would agree with this and I'm not against getting some out-of-state guys and at UAA they have to do that. WOU's best seasons had a core of strong in-state players, they've gone away from that to get out-of-state guys who really aren't that good or they wouldn't be 9-25 or whatever they were. We're WOU not UCLA. They've lost their identity. As noted, a key reserve, great academic guy from Roseburg just left. That's the kind of guy they should be keeping, not having them leave. I'm sure they'll replace him with the Texas JC dude, who may or may not have buy-in to the university, and certainly will be long gone after he graduates, never to be seen again.

It's not just basketball, but baseball had a recruiting class entirely out-of-state. Other sports are keen to get a marginal player -- and pay a lot for him/her -- from Seattle, who frankly isn't very good. Track had a world class distance guy from a tiny eastern Oregon town of Joseph. In-state athletes are out there if they look. Football does this the best and because of new membership into the tough Lone Star Conference and California having no D2 schools, it's wise to go to California for players. Men's and women's hoops, baseball, track, soccer, etc., have no excuse to continually ignore the state.

I also realize I'm the only fan posting on a message board on this or even caring. The coaches/admin do these things because they can and there's only one person mentioning it or paying attention. I doubt I'll move the needle.

[Anchorage]

I may be old fashioned, but I like how UAA is bringing the hometown guys back. In Monmouth we've turned into the University of Northern California with pretty weak results.

[tsull]

I may be old fashioned, but I like how UAA is bringing the hometown guys back. In Monmouth we've turned into the University of Northern California with pretty weak results.

[Anchorage]

[Anchorage]

Great info, sounds like a D1 talent. CSI is a pipeline to D1 schools, so he'll get some looks. Even their deep bench guys get D1 scholarships. Decades ago it became a school where D1 institutions placed their players. It's been that way ever since. He'll land D1 somewhere, and most all of their players get scholarships above the Big Sky level (no offense to the Big Sky).