Interesting, he has a lot of P5 interest and offers, wonder if he’s fallen off a bit if we’re coming in at this later stage

Feel like it would be awesome for us to start playing in the high level international recruit game. Not that we always want to compare to it, but maybe taking another page from the Gonzaga playbook? They’ve had some phenomenal overseas players throughout the years. Think they still hit at a high clip from that pool, but are now getting the 5 star guys on top of it.

This is what I've been saying for years, and thank you for mentioning it again in this context, bmh. American higher education has taken a bit of a hit in its international reputation the past several years, but in Eastern and Central Europe Jesuit schools are thought of as equivalent to Ivy League institutions. The fact that we have The Largest Enrollment Jesuit University in the United States, that we're in a city and a neighborhood with very strong ethnic communities from Central and Eastern Europe, and that we have a kick-ass basketball program should make it a no-brainer.

Besides Gonzaga, Valpo has also had a lot of 3 and 4 star International hoops recruits. But we're in a better city, we're a Top 100 national university according to US News (neither Gonzaga nor Valpo are even considered national universities in their ranking system), we're a great fit for skilled international freshmen and sophomores looking to refine their game, and we're dabbling in the area of being a consistent Top 50 men's basketball program.

Short write up on Jalen Quinn.

He specifically calls out our facilities and winning tradition as highlights.

Recent Trib article for him as well. Feel we’re in a good place, he didn’t “blow up” as much as maybe people would have guessed this summer. I’d still be happy with the addition

https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/ ... story.html

I’m really high on this offer, but he’s starting to get some pretty serious P5 offers. Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Wake Forest have all recently offered. Looks like he had a really good AAU summer

Robbie played behind a couple of stud bigs on his Meanstreets AAU team: Jalen Washington, a North Carolina commit, and AJ Casey, the #1 2022 prospect from Illinois who has a bunch of Big 10 offers. So Robbie didn't get a lot of opportunity to show his stuff.

I would love to sign Robbie and continue the tradition of unathletic-looking white guy centers who know how to play.

Avila should be a Rambler. I don't know how to explain it, but he just should.

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Agreed. He already has a cool nickname, Robbie Buckets, and has the potential of becoming a folk legend based on his Old School game and Man-of-the- People personna.

And with the new NIL rules he could market his Robbie Buckets Dork Goggles to the hipster crowd and make a fortune!