'09 GA SF Ari Stewart (MSU Offer)

[AASpartan]

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Marietta (GA) Wheeler
AAU: Worldwide Renegades
Ht: 6-foot-7
Wt: 190 lbs
Class: 2009 (High School)




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2/28/2008

Rivals - Stewart Remains Wide Open $

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3/25/2008

Rivals - 5-Star Stewart Talks Recruitment, Cavaliers $

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4/13/2008

Scout - Could ATL's Stewart be MSU Bound? - $

[AASpartan]

3/25/2008

Rivals - 5-Star Stewart Talks Recruitment, Cavaliers $

Still wide open. Being recruited hardest by Wake, Xavier, Miami, and Va.

[NorthSpartanCarolina]

Originally Posted by AASpartan

3/25/2008

Rivals - 5-Star Stewart Talks Recruitment, Cavaliers $

Still wide open. Being recruited hardest by Wake, Xavier, Miami, and Va.

You would think that he would be recruited harder by better schools if he is indeed a 5 star player.

[Jersey Spartan]

He likes Xavier a lot. I have not read the latest but Xavier has been his long time favorite.

[St8 Law]

With us not pursuing Stewart hard, letting have Crean have his way with Wilson, Howell dropping, who the hell are we after? I have read not to glowing reports on Riley and hear that we are after Kirk. Who else are going hard for? Not panicing just surprised about the usual suspects not looking so great according the posters here and have not really hear any new names.

['86]

Originally Posted by St8 Law

With us not pursuing Stewart hard, letting have Crean have his way with Wilson, Howell dropping, who the hell are we after? I have read not to glowing reports on Riley and hear that we are after Kirk. Who else are going hard for? Not panicing just surprised about the usual suspects not looking so great according the posters here and have not really hear any new names.

You are not alone. I'd also be interested to hear if anyone has any strong opinions along these lines. Are there guys likely to come out of AAU making the entire journey from relative obscurity to star recruit? Could this just turn into a year far short of the past two (I'm a Sherman fan, BTW)?

[IzzoisdaMan]

Originally Posted by '86

You are not alone. I'd also be interested to hear if anyone has any strong opinions along these lines. Are there guys likely to come out of AAU making the entire journey from relative obscurity to star recruit? Could this just turn into a year far short of the past two (I'm a Sherman fan, BTW)?

It happens every year. One thing to remember...the rankings on Rivals and Scout haven't been touched since last August. Every year, there are kids that go from being a top 10 player in August to being outside the top 100 in April (and vice-versa). It is way too early to be worried about our 2009 class. There are kids in the 2009 class that scouts didn't get a chance to see last AAU season, doesn't mean they aren't good. Some AAU programs don't let kids play up a level and scouts don't spend much time watching 16U AAU games, instead they focus on the 17U level (rising seniors).

March is a dead month for recruiting...high school basketball is over and college coaches are preparing for the NCAA tournament. The AAU season heats up in April, there will be new names on the radar.

[bpmcgant]

Originally Posted by IzzoisdaMan

It happens every year. One thing to remember...the rankings on Rivals and Scout haven't been touched since last August. Every year, there are kids that go from being a top 10 player in August to being outside the top 100 in April (and vice-versa). It is way too early to be worried about our 2009 class. There are kids in the 2009 class that scouts didn't get a chance to see last AAU season, doesn't mean they aren't good. Some AAU programs don't let kids play up a level and scouts don't spend much time watching 16U AAU games, instead they focus on the 17U level (rising seniors).

March is a dead month for recruiting...high school basketball is over and college coaches are preparing for the NCAA tournament. The AAU season heats up in April, there will be new names on the radar.

Given the break between HS and AAU, isn't this normally a time for those rankings to be updated? That would be nice to see. I know it's not what they'll look like by the time these kids hit campus, but the closer we get the more accurate they are.

['86]

Originally Posted by IzzoisdaMan

It happens every year. One thing to remember...the rankings on Rivals and Scout haven't been touched since last August. Every year, there are kids that go from being a top 10 player in August to being outside the top 100 in April (and vice-versa). It is way too early to be worried about our 2009 class. There are kids in the 2009 class that scouts didn't get a chance to see last AAU season, doesn't mean they aren't good. Some AAU programs don't let kids play up a level and scouts don't spend much time watching 16U AAU games, instead they focus on the 17U level (rising seniors).

March is a dead month for recruiting...high school basketball is over and college coaches are preparing for the NCAA tournament. The AAU season heats up in April, there will be new names on the radar.

BANG! That's right on the money, thanks. This answers a lot. Now, before we get chased off this thread, I look for further posts on the general threads.

[IzzoisdaMan]

Originally Posted by bpmcgant

Given the break between HS and AAU, isn't this normally a time for those rankings to be updated? That would be nice to see. I know it's not what they'll look like by the time these kids hit campus, but the closer we get the more accurate they are.

They usually update them after the first few major AAU events...so late April, early May

[bpmcgant]

Originally Posted by IzzoisdaMan

They usually update them after the first few major AAU events...so late April, early May

Thanks.

I wish they'd give a little more heads up. It seems like I get on here or go to Rivals one day and it's there.

[DrTre11]

New scout article up hinting that Ari Stewart might be MSU bound...boy would I love to see this kid at MSU!!!!

[AASpartan]

4/13/2008

Scout - Could ATL's Stewart be MSU Bound? - $

Hasn't heard from MSU since the season started last year. Says he likes MSU and wishes they would recruit him harder.

[Ivan Drago]

Originally Posted by DrTre11

New scout article up hinting that Ari Stewart might be MSU bound...boy would I love to see this kid at MSU!!!!

$ - Scout Article

[papaburg88]

Originally Posted by AASpartan

4/13/2008

Scout - Could ATL's Stewart be MSU Bound? - $

Hasn't heard from MSU since the season started last year. Says he likes MSU and wishes they would recruit him harder.

so are we going to?? How could King not go after this kid if he says he likes us??

[NorCal Spartan]

Originally Posted by papaburg88

so are we going to?? How could King not go after this kid if he says he likes us??

No ****. This is two of these type articles in as many weeks. Trust Izzo, but it's not good to hear that a player wishes he was being recruited harder.

[papaburg88]

Originally Posted by NorCal Spartan

No ****. This is two of these type articles in as many weeks. Trust Izzo, but it's not good to hear that a player wishes he was being recruited harder.

Maybe we're just playing "hard to get"

[Jersey Spartan]

I bet Izzo has his reasons why he is not recruiting some of these kids hard.

[ShaolinSpartan]

Originally Posted by Jersey Spartan

I bet Izzo has his reasons why he is not recruiting some of these kids hard.

Who is he going hard after? It seems like every article I read is about some kid wishing Izzo would recruit him harder or some story about izzo cooling on the kid. So who is in the group izzo is going hard after? It seems like Riley, Stewat, Hollowel, White, Wilson, are in the lightly recruited group. So who is in the strong group?? Kirk, Cousins, Still, who else is there?

[DrTre11]

Originally Posted by AASpartan

4/13/2008

Scout - Could ATL's Stewart be MSU Bound? - $

Hasn't heard from MSU since the season started last year. Says he likes MSU and wishes they would recruit him harder.

What is the deal with this? Seems like I'm hearing this from more and more kids. Did the coaching staff just get so involved with in-season preparation (understandably so) and get away from recruiting?

[burnsmi4]

maybe some of these kids think that coaches should call and send love letters to them a couple times a day

['86]

I want to know what an 'offer' means? You know, if you have an offer, what more do you need!? What is different from Sherman's recruitment from, say, Ari Stewart!? Sherman picks up the phone and says 'I'm coming.' Izzo says, 'That's great! I'm so happy!' So, what's the difference? Sherman get flowers the others haven't gotten!?