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Isaac Haas

Much much rarer. Our staff got blindsided. I'd be curious to know the spin from the Purdue side.

siff?
 
DeaconKing said:
We fly down on Sunday and make a final pitch, but he had already decided on Purdue. Instead of telling the coaches that he has verballed to Purdue and is signing his LOI to play for them, he lets the coaches fly down and waste a day even while he knew he wasn't going to come to Wake. Everything he told the press was BS. The reasoning from Deman on 247 re: the fans is also a load of crap. Our coaches have made no comment and even if they did, they wouldn't have anything kind to say about Haas or the situation. The entire staff was involved with recruiting him, so they were all pissed, hurt, and shocked. Haas made himself out to be a good Christian guy, yet he totally screwed us over. Battle especially was livid. They put a lot of time into this kid, and lost time with others. Lets just say Matt Painter is not especially well liked in these parts nowadays.
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I fail to see how these two things are incongruent.
 
DeaconKing said:
He was 100% coming to Wake Forest, or so he led everyone to believe. Rusty, Battle, and Buzz were all checking in with him and his hs coach daily. They were openly communicating with our guys and things seemed to be going smoothly. We were interested and talking to 2 other bigs but decreased contact once Haas gave the verbal. We were committed to him, and he to us, so everyone thought.

The afternoon before he was to sign the LOI, he talked with Rusty and was 100% on board with Wake. This was around 3:00-4:00pm. Being from a small town and new to all of this. he asked questions about what was going to happen, the media, if his folks needed to do anything, what should he wear. Again, no reason to think anything was up.

Later that night (not sure how late but I'm assuming 9:00-10:00pm) Rusty gets a phone call from Haas telling him that he's not going to sign the LOI. He said that he was going to take a visit to another college (UAB). His mind was made up - he was not signing LOI, not coming to Wake BUT he wasn't sure what he was going to do. He said he may sign at the end of the weekend with us, but he wanted to have time to make up his mind and think about his choices. Essentially stringing us along.

Even though Haas verballed at the beginning of Sept, Purdue stayed in hot pursuit of him. They didn't care that he'd verballed, and continued with a full-court press recruiting. None of this info was ever relayed to our staff. We truly had no idea, and were given no indication that this was even a possibility. The hs coach, the kid, the parents all did a great job keeping it on the down low. Haas never even indicated that they were calling or that they were interested. Haas told our staff that he was going to UAB on Friday, which is why we didn't make a trip that day. It wasn't incompetence, there would have been no point in going down if he wasn't going to even be home. We find out later that Purdue is at his HS that day. Thats the first we hear about Purdue. Complete shady on their part.
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I know DeaconKing has good sources, but this would carry a lot more weight with me if Bz and co. hadn't deflected the blame--be it towards the players, fans, or prior coach--for literally everything that's happened to the program since Bz stepped foot on campus.
 
I still say that we shouldn't have waited almost a full week to go down and see him. As soon as he said that he wanted to go visit UAB we should have had someone down on the next available flight.
 
I get that Haas and Painter were dicks here, but this stuff may not have happened if our program were in better shape.
 
Looking at his video Im really not that upset. He is not exactly Ralph Sampson.
 
I'm still not sure what the big deal is. Unless this kid ended up being drastically better than his ranking (something that almost never seems to occur with 7-footers- its more likely to be the opposite, as we have seen at Wake) he was going to be a 10-15 minute a game guy next year and probably the year after. Our 4-5 rotation for the next 2 years will be some combination of Thomas, Cavanaugh, Moto, Washington and (gulp) Green. I saw no video from Haas that made me think he would some sort of significant upgrade during the next 2 years.

It seems simple to me- keep the scholly, get a new staff for 2014-2015, go get a big in that class (or 2 depending on the stability of the roster) and hope that the big(s) you get can contribute early.
 
As I said when this guy committed to us, he looks like a total stiff. He's perfect for the Big 10. Good riddance.
 
Agreed. It's just that we need a big, any big, and he was our target.

Time to find a new target.
 
DeaconSig said:
I'm still not sure what the big deal is.
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I don't think we missed on much and I'd rather have his scholarship for a future coach. That said, it's still a big deal that our coaches can't hold onto a verbaled recruit.
 
RacerDeac said:
I don't think we missed on much and I'd rather have his scholarship for a future coach. That said, it's still a big deal that our coaches can't hold onto a verbaled recruit.
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I guess. I was less happy about the recruiting efforts in general than losing a specific verbal.
 
I read that Painter told Haas to honer his committment but when Haas said he was definitely not going to Wake, he decided he couldn't pass on this kid. Don't know who to believe, the shitty coaching staff trying to save their jobs or someone from the B1G where being shady is the norm.
 
If that story is even half true we are probably better off in the long run not to have that type of personality on the team. He probably did us a favor by showing both his and his family's true colors before we were stuck with him. My prediction is he ends up transferring to UAB when its all said and done.
 
DeaconSig said:
I'm still not sure what the big deal is. Unless this kid ended up being drastically better than his ranking (something that almost never seems to occur with 7-footers- its more likely to be the opposite, as we have seen at Wake) he was going to be a 10-15 minute a game guy next year and probably the year after. Our 4-5 rotation for the next 2 years will be some combination of Thomas, Cavanaugh, Moto, Washington and (gulp) Green. I saw no video from Haas that made me think he would some sort of significant upgrade during the next 2 years.

It seems simple to me- keep the scholly, get a new staff for 2014-2015, go get a big in that class (or 2 depending on the stability of the roster) and hope that the big(s) you get can contribute early.
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The big deal is that [Redacted] lost his highest rated recruit ever on signing day, something that doesn't happen in hoops. It's embarrassing.
 
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