Recruit #1: David Ware

I needed two guards for this class, primarily to play SG.  Ware was not a top option to begin with, but he became our best option.  With high-high potential in defense, he will be a good enough defender to play in the ACC.  He'll be a good shooter and passer, but his handles aren't what I would hope for.  Overall, he's pretty good, but not great.

Recruit #2: Michael Eckhart

He has some big weaknesses, like his very low defense and his low rebounding (it's low-high so it'll never be great), but he also has great strengths; high-high in athleticism, low post, and perimeter (not sure about BH).  He'll be a great athletic shooter off the bench for (hopefully) the next 3 years, although he may end up starting earlier if Christian goes pro.  

Recruit #3: Thomas More

With high-high potential in LP and Per (and speed unknown), I think he could develop into a stellar PF for us.  He's not going to be overly athletic, but he should end up being able to score and rebound.  Like Ware, he's a guy who's going to be good and not great.  

Recruit #4: Tim Braden

An unranked C from MD, Braden may be my favorite player in this class.  He has high-high potential in Ath, Reb, SB, and Def, which means he should get to around 90+ in all of them.  I like to think of him as a Tyson Chandler-type players: tons of defense and his offense is coming off of dunks and put backs.  Also, he'll be taking a RS this year because More is more ready to play and I already have Neil Kelley who is going to be in this class (inel last year).  

Recruit #5: William DuBois

Since we're going to be bad again this year, he might actually start to get his lowly 25 WE up.  He has high-high potential in rebounding, defense, and ball handling, low-high in speed, LP and Per (obviously).  I am really hoping ath is high-high, although I didn't scout enough to find out because I knew he was good enough anyway to be a backup SG, which is all I really need from him.  If he is high-high in ath, he could really be a gem, possibly even get drafted (if it gets in the 80s).  

This year's recruiting class was obviously not as highly ranked as last year's, but they have a lot of potential and could end up being very good.  Plus, most of them will be backups for three years and these are some damn good backups.  

This was supposed to be in the recruiting diary, but I can't figure out how to hyperlink in excel google doc and I don't have any damning info here, so it's going on the forums!

Player

State

Pos.

Signed with

Prediction

8pm

Notes

11pm

Notes

2am

Notes

8am

11am

2pm

11pm

11am

5pm (poaching time)

8pm

11pm

11am

2pm

Elite Recruits

-

Stacy Smith

NC

C

UNC

Duke/UNC

UNC

UNC

-

UNC

UNC

Michael Arend

NC

SF

UNC

Duke/UNC

UNC

UNC

-

UNC

UNC

Melvin Bunger

NC

C

Duke

Duke/UNC

Duke

Duke

-

Duke

Duke

Ronald Stransky

NC

PF

UNC

Duke/UNC

UNC

UNC

-

UNC

UNC

Brandon Bowman

NC

PG

UNC

Duke/UNC…G'Town?

Duke

Duke

-

Duke

UNC, Duke

UNC, Duke

UNC

William Delapaz

SC

SF

South Carolina

USC will try and lose to Duke/UNC

Duke and USC

Duke and USC

-

Duke, USC

USC, Duke

USC, Duke

Richard Jones

TN

SG

Indiana

Kentucky

B+ sim Missouri

No one thinks he's quite good enough to battle for yet

Missouri, Indiana, Ill

Indiana

Indiana

Indiana

Douglas Neer

TN

SG

Miami

Tennessee

Miami and UNC

Woah!  Did not see Miami going 700 miles to get him

Miami

-

Miami

Miami

James Jackson

FL

SG

Miami

Miami 100%

Miami

Miami

-

Miami

Miami

Robert Keyes

FL

PF

LSU

Miami

LSU

LSU

-

LSU

LSU

Good Recruits

-

Robert Stokes

NC

PF

Wake

WF/Clem/Maryland/Char

None

WF and Charlotte

Looks like I got this right

-

WF

WF

Wake

Marc Wilson

NC

SG

Louisville

WF/Clem/Maryland/Char

None

Tennessee

-

UT

UT, Louisville

Louisville

Louisville

David Ware

NC

PG

NC State

WF/Clem/Maryland/Char

None

None

Gonna throw my hat in the ring here, I expect 2 or 3 others as well

Charlotte, UVA, Tennessee

High-high in Def, I'm gonna watch to see if I could jump in late here

NCSU, UVA, Tennessee

NCSU

NC St.

NC St., UVA

NC St, UVA

NC State

Terry Tremper

NC

SG

Clemson

NC State!

NCSU, Clem, Duke, UGA

Evals came back not so hot, gonna wait on him

NCSU, Clem, UGA

Hmm no one making a move yet

Clemson

Clemson

Clemson

Thomas More

NC

C

NC State

NC State!

NCSU, Duke

He's not worth enough to Duke for them to battle me

NCSU

-

NC St.

NC State

Stephen Branham

VA

C

WVU

WVU

WVU

-

WVU

WVU

Donald Teter

SC

SF

UNC

Clemson

UNC

Oh well

UNC

-

UNC

UNC

Vincent Smith

SC

SG

Wake

Wake

Wake

-

Wake

Wake

Henry MacGregor

SC

PF

Tennessee

Clemson

None

None

-

Tennessee

Tennessee

Robert Boyle

TN

SG

Kentucky

SEC School

None

UK and Charlotte

UK

Kentucky

Kentucky

Ali Forman

TN

PF

Kentucky

Kentucky

None

UK, Tenn, Illinois

UK, Illinois

Kentucky

Kentucky

Steven Lilley

FL

PF

ND

Florida or Fla St.

None

None

Tennessee, ND

ND

Notre Dame

Roger Robinson

FL

C

Florida

Maybe Miami b/c he's from there

WF

Good for uglyskunk

WF

-

WF

NC St.

Florida

Florida

Edward Hildreth

FL

C

Miami

Florida St.

South Florida

USF

-

USF, OK St.

USF, OK St.

USF, OK St.

USF, OK St, Arkansas, Miami

Decent Recruits

-

Steven Cunningham

NC

C

Duke

Big 6

Duke

I guess he's a decent pick up for them

Duke

-

Duke

Wake

Wake

Bradley Hamburg

NC

PF

Winthrop

Interested to see if big 6, prob MM

None

Winthrop, Tenn Tech

-

Winthrop

Winthrop

Patrick Surface

NC

SF

Davidson

low mid-major

None

Davidson

-

Davidson

Davidson

Kevin Olivarez

NC

SG

Clemson

WF

Georgia

Clemson

-

Clemson

Clemson

Bobby Wetherell

MD

SF

Penn St.

Maryland

Penn State

PSU

-

Penn St.

Penn State

Henry House

MD

SF

Georgetown

NC State!

Georgetown

Didn't see this one coming, not gonna battle though

G'Town

-

G'Town

Georgetown

Tim Braden

MD

C

NC State

NC State!

NCSU, Maryland, Shipp (D2)

HOLY CRAP amazing evals, 4 high-high in his cores

NCSU

-

NC St.

NC State

Terry White

MD

SF

UMES

Sam Houston State (sim)

SHSU

SHSU, UMES

SHSU, UMES

SHSU, UMES

SHSU, UMES

UMES

William DuBois

VA

PG

NC State

NC State!

NCSU

as expected

NCSU

-

NC St.

NC State

Stephen Johnson

VA

SG

Ohio

Ohio

coached by mchristman!

Ohio

Can't talk myself into him yet

-

Ohio

Ohio

Thomas Lingenfelter

VA

C

Richmond

Ohio

Ohio

Ohio, Richmond

Ohio, UR

Richmond

Richmond

Mike Dorsey

VA

C

Quinnipiac

great value for low-MM (D range)

None

None

Xavier

Undecided

Richmond

Quinnipiac

Quinnipiac

John King

VA

C

Bluefield St.

Same as Dorsey, maybe D

None

None

None

None

Undecided

Bluefield State (C+, D2)

John Carroll

SC

PF

Alabama

None (I think)

Alabama

-

Alabama

Alabama

William Lewis

SC

PF

Tennessee Tech

?

Tenn Tech

-

Tenn Tech

Tennessee Tech

Phillip Thompson

SC

PF

None

None

-

None

Undecided

Michael Eckhart

SC

SF

NC State

Big 6

None

He's my new SF target now that House is gone

NCSU

Damn, great evals

-

NC St.

NC State

Brent Bragdon

SC

SF

Eastern Kentucky

Decent MM

None

None

-

E. Kentucky

EKU

Eastern Kentucky

Gregory Campbell

SC

C

Clemson

Starting right away at MM or WF

None

None

-

Clemson

Clemson

Clemson

Kyle Grove

SC

C

Clemson

WF or Clemson

None

None

Clemson

Nice

Clemson

Clemson

Richard Turner

SC

PF

YSU

Youngstown St (C+ sim)

YSU

-

YSU

Youngstown State

Michael Kaiser

SC

PG

Clemson

None

Clemson

-

Clemson

Clemson

David Farrell

GA

C

Winthrop

Winthrop

Winthrop

-

Winthrop

Winthrop

John Dietz (JUCO)

GA

PF

YSU

Youngstown St (C+ sim)

YSU

-

YSU

Youngstown State

Sean Joslyn

TN

PF

GT

None

UK

UK, GT

GT

GT

Georgia Tech

Christopher Taylor

TN

PF

UTC

Butler

Butler

-

Butler, UT-Chatanooga

But, UTC

Butler, UTC

UTC

Timothey Delvalle

TN

C

Mississippi St.

?

Miss St., Butler

-

But, Miss St.

Butler, Mississippi St.

Mississippi State

Jonathan McKenna

FL

SG

Florida

B or less

None

None

-

Miami

Maimi

Florida

Florida

William Billips

FL

SF

GT

Decent team, no Ds here

None

None

-

None

GT

Georgia Tech

William Emmons

FL

C

FAU

good mid-major from FLA

Florida Atlantic

FAU

-

FAU

Florida Atlantic

James Smith

FL

PG

FAU

good mid-major from FLA

Florida Atlantic

FAU

-

FAU

Florida Atlantic

Robert Bryant

FL

PF

Wake

good mid-major from FLA

None

None

-

None

Central Floria

Central Florida

Wake Forest

Wake Forest

Harry McAleer

FL

C

low, but I'm interested to see where

None

None

-

None

Undecided

Undecided

Undecided

We went 9-18 this year, but we won 5 games in the ACC and upset a ranked FSU team towards the end of the year.  We did make some good progress towards the end of the year.  

Eckhart's ATH and PER just turned black and Braden's ATH just turned black.  Christian's LP cap is 99 and PER is 93.  Glanz LP cap is 88 or 89 (I believe).  I am very excited about Christian's development (obviously, hope he doesn't leave, I think there's a very slim chance of that).  Moore's improvement has also been awesome, hopefully he can get 95 LP or so.  He reminds me a lot of Gilberto Romano of my old Nevada team.  

Recruit #1: Richard Slater

I knew I wanted to cut Neil Kelley this year (signed by Richmond) and I’d have to bring in 2 guys with one scholarship’s worth of money. I ended up scouting a few guys and decided that my best play was to go with Slater. He came cheap, I had to spend a whopping $1k to scout him and then bring him in. He’s low-high in athleticism, which isn’t ideal, but he’s high-high in LP, which is what I needed to know before I recruited him. I wish there was a way to know that his LP would cap at 95 instead of 60, but it’s a risk I’m going to have to take. Also, his defense is lower than what I would hope for, so I know he’s not a great recruit, but he has the upside (albeit way down the line) to be an athletic rebounder and scorer who can block shots, and that is a valuable piece to have when you only had to spend 1k to bring it in.

Recruit #2: Steven Rogers

Unlike Slater, Rogers did not come cheap. I spent 31k on Rogers (battling Richmond), which was the majority of my budget. I believe I had 38k or so to start, spent a bunch on scouting-and by scouting I don’t just mean FSS…too many people think that’s all scouting is. Scouting is FSS as well as sending evals to a bunch of potential recruits to see where their high-high potentials are. If you’re not finding guys with high-high potentials, you’re not finding the guys who are going to help you make deep runs in the tournament. Rogers is a guy with a lot of high-high potentials. Every high potential is a high-high (except for PER, but that will be in the 90s without high-high so I didn’t really need it there), which will make Rogers into a great scorer by the time he’s done at NC State. Obviously I wish his rebounding were better, but I really don’t have any other complaints. Overall, I’m extremely pumped to get a guy like Rogers with such little money available.

EDIT: ACC POY, not bad for the 70th ranked SF. 

We had a good run this year, going 14-2 in the ACC and getting a 5 seed.  We barely won our first game against Navy and then upset 4 seed Pitt on a half-court shot at the buzzer.  We went down to 1 seed Michigan State in the sweet 16, but making the sweet 16 with no seniors in quite an accomplishment.  Now the real question is, will 1st team all-american and ACC POY Jimmy Christian return for his senior season?  He's the difference between finally being a contender to go deep in the tournament and being a 1st round exit type of team next season.  Here's this year's team:

Jimmy Christian declared for the draft last night, leaving my hopes and dreams of a deep NT run shattered.  It's not like this was unexpected though, I have two SFs on the roster for expressly this scenario.  Unfortunately, Eckhart is a marginal starter (at best) and while I expect Steven Rogers to be very good down the line, he's just not ready yet.  We'll still be good next year, but we have a bunch of guys who are #2 and #3 scorers and no one to really carry the scoring load.  I think JC has been my favorite NC State player so far, so here's to hoping he goes high in the draft!  Here are his final ratings:

Recruit #1: Robert Steverson


Recruiting this year was very uneventful.  With only one open scholarship, I knew I needed to get a guard because my roster is very big man heavy right now.  We have two quality SFs who won't be leaving soon, so a guard was our only need.  I decided to stay local (10 miles) and ended up getting on Steverson on the very first cycle and I encountered no resistance whatsoever.  I didn't do my normal recruit-tracking this  year because I didn't need to scout many states to find a good target and without a comprehensive look at the area, there's really no point in closely examining recruiting.  Steverson has high-high in Per and BH, so he'll definitely be able to score down the line.  He won't be the fastest, but I'd say he's a pretty good recruit for only having 1 opening.

We had a decent year, all things considered (namely a strong ACC and a lack of Jimmy Christian).  We had several solid non-conference wins, which helped us when we started to struggle a bit in the ACC.  We went 10-6 in the ACC and finished 2nd in the division.  We ended up with an 8 seed, matched up with St. Joe's in the first round.  We won fairly comfortably, but in the 2nd round we faced 1 seed Texas Tech, who handled us with ease.  WIthout Christian, I am happy we were able to win an NT game, I just wish I could have seen what we would have been with him.  Some of our graduating seniors from my best class ever finished up there in the NC State Record books: Glanz and Johnson finished 4th and 5th in rebounds and 12th and 5th in blocks, respectively.  Glanz was also 12th in FG%.  John Conner is the all-time assists leader by a large margin as well as 12th in steals.  As of right now, junior David Ware (1st-team all-ACC this past season) is leading in all-time 3pt% and is 6th in FT%.  I'll miss this class and I look forward to reloading in this upcoming recruiting class.