Basketball Recruiting The Past 10 Years

[ACCOffice]

Since the 2001 class of Williams, Gray, Ellis, Joyce and Strickland we have signed 28 players. Only 11 of those have stayed 4 years. Most of those only stayed 2.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

How many left to go get paid and how many left because they transferred/got kicked out?

 

[ACCOffice]

How many left to go get paid and how many left because they transferred/got kicked out?

4 went NBA

 

[RChildress107]

Of those who left, 11 went on to contribute at another D1 school. * indicates they had or are having moderate success, ** means they were very successful

*Jeremy Ingram (ECU)
Cameron Stanley (Winthrop) (He was technically here 4 years but only played 3 for the Deacs)
**Anthony Gurley (UMASS)
**Jamie Skeen (VCU)
*Konner Tucker (Sam Houston State) (UTEP)


Post Bzz arrival

*Tony Woods (Oregon)
Ari Stewart (USC)
Tony Chennault (Villanova)
*Carson Desrosiers (Providence)
Melvin Tabb (Kent State)
*JT Terrell (USC)

Bzz recruits

Anthony Fields (Bradley) (4 pts in 4 games)


[Redacted] inherited a team with 10 players, 6 of them transferred, 3 of them found success elsewhere, and 2 of those would be seniors on this years team. A starting five of CMM, JTT, Travis, Devin, and Carson combined with someone who could coach would be pretty competitive.

 

[PhDeac]

Something I put together when the rumors of Chase transferring started:

So if Chase transfers, that will give us three consecutive recruiting classes that whittled down to only one player.

2009 - CJ, Ari
2010 - Travis, JTT, Chennault, Carson, Tabb
2011 - Chase, Green, Fields

10 players. 3 stayed. So far.

You could make the case for the two years before that as well:

08 - Ty Walker stayed, Woods and Aminu left
07 - Gary Clark stayed, Johnson and Teague left

Ouch. Different reasons, but it still says something.

So the 2006 class, the last class that Skip coached, is the last one to retain more than one player. And even that class had 3 transfers out of 6 players.

2006 - Ish, LD, Chas, Skeen, Gurley, Crawford

We lost half of the players in the 2005 class...

2005 - Hale, Weaver, Swinton, Dukes

...the only player in the 2004 class....

2004 - CamStan

...3 of 4 players in the 2003 class.

2003 - Visser, Paul, Ingram, Hendley

It hasn't been since the 2002 class that a majority of the players stayed at Wake:

2002 - Big E, JGray, Trent, Ellis, Joyce

The moral of the story? When people say we shouldn't talk about transfers, they aren't looking at reality.

To sum it up, in the 9 freshman classes from 2003-11:

11 players completed their eligibility at Wake
4 players declared for the draft
16 players transferred

 

[EagleDeac]

What percentage of non basketball students stay four years?