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Recruits Zone reports we’ve reached out to Top 65 ‘28 Derek Swartz

David Punch was the #127 recruit nationally who was from near TCU when he committed to TCU in October of his senior year in high school. He just portaled to Texas, which is an hour from his home town. David Punch has been rated a top ten overall portal transfer nationally - that means he is rated higher than Sherrill or Yigi and is a $4-5 million a year guy. He averaged 14/7 while starting every game last year. That is a player that absolutely merits 30+ mpg and a starting role. Could we strike gold and sign the freshman version of David Punch? I'm not seeing the potential for any high three star, new-freshman, physical bigs for 2026 to still be available. What is more likely is an under the radar Euro big, as @str8baller stated. And we already have one of those on the roster.

Exactly, like I said, go find the David Punch type players, they were out there.

You go find the David Punch type players and you sell them on rotation and give them all the minutes it takes to keep Yig and Sherrell fresh in which I think would be more than 15 min/game. Even that is enough time for them to show their stuff without anyone getting overplayed I would think. Were paying a GM to find these type of players as insurance and that is what has been lacking IMO.

Back in my HS and early college days, this conference consistenly had dudes that would make national All American lists. College talent all over the field, and those Colerain teams were juggernaut level. If its still anything like that, this kid has been tested already.

So you’re back to take Analytics Archie over Underutilizing Kinght then?

Who is doing that? Certainly not IU. This is a program that missed the 68 team tournament last year. If you want that guy you better have an A+ scout on a kid who played very limited mins last year, a euro, a freshman, etc… Likely he just doesn’t exist.

A top-tier player is 100% concerned with their future career. Therefore they are not likely to be interested in being a 15 mpg backup unless the money was markedly higher at IU than anywhere else. And we aren’t the only wealthy school.

You can’t tell me that we don’t have donors out there who are spending several mil for NIL that would not spend a couple more to bring a player on who could really put us over the top. We just can’t settle for a few top notch players and go budget on the supporting cast..not if you want to make a statement and get us over that old worn out hump.

Not much, maybe Robert Miller? But we should have already addressed this last month.

Who is an available big at this point?

I think we would need to pony up for a Bradshaw-esk type to really get some much needed traction at this point. Got to get over that hump

Yikes..that wouldn’t help much.

And sorry, Sokolov ain’t going to cut it this year as that piece.

If we grab another big, I’d expect it to be someone that is about the level of Langdon Hatton.

I would want Yig and Sherrell to play as much as possible together…that leaves plenty of time for another quality combo Big for rotational minutes, and a lot more if foul or injury happens. That’s how you build a NC contender roster. Not by skimping by and playing one big at a time in this conference. Shouldn’t we have learned that by now?

It WAS used in conference.

Schools in the Greater Miami Conference…Princeton, Middletown, Lakota West and Lakota East, Mason, Fairfield, Hamilton, Sycamore, Oak Hills, Colerain

9-12 enrollment at Lakota West….2845 9-12 enrollment at North College Hill….402

We have one. Euro something or other. How do you plan to sign a 6’10” post player who is good but not expected to get any real minutes but wants to patiently wait on the bench in the case of an emergency? That’s just a tough putt.

I was younger but couldn’t wait until he turned into the next Michael Jordan with that amazing vertical. Weird how that works innit?

In an experimental year where it wasn’t used in conference or the tournament? lol…

He plays for Lakota West HS and not North College Hill. Lakota West plays in the Greater Miami Conference. They play in the big school division of Ohio HS athletics.

IU or Georgia, true? Or is there more IU buzz than that 50/50 chance?