Jabari Brown Cuts List to Seven: Maryland Doesn't Make It
by Ben Broman on Aug 16, 2010 10:25 AM EDT
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The great list cuts of August 2011 continue. I guess if Maryland wants a top-flight shooting guard in the 2011 recruiting cycle, its time to hitch all the wagons to Nick Faust, because it doesn't look like Jabari Brown is happenin'.
Brown cut his list to seven schools today, and it appears Maryland wasn't one of them. The current seven are UConn, Cal, DePaul, Georgia Tech, Oregon, St. John's, and Washington. The original article detailing the list came from the uber-reputable Evan Daniels, a recruiting analyst for Scout. I don't have a Scout subscription, but it's not hard to go to Scout's profile for Brown, see those seven schools and the visit date promised by the article's teaser, and draw your own conclusions.
[Note by Ben Broman, 08/16/10 2:24 PM EDT - We all know how iffy Alex Kline can be on his reporting, but this is pretty straightforward: apparently Brown confirmed the report that those are the final seven. It was nice recruiting you, Jabari.]
For the record, I'm really confused about what's happening with college lists these days. Brown's list is free of any major players, just like Johnny O'Bryant's and Maurice Harkless'. I'm kind of wondering why Kentucky and Kansas couldn't stop making recruits' list like four years ago. But I digress.
Brown's been a Maryland fan favorite since ever since he emerged as a legitimate option thanks to his exciting style of play and high rankings. He's been very complementary of Maryland since the process began and even took a visit to College Park after the NBPA Top 100 camp. His apparent interest combined with Rob Ehsan's West Coast recruiting prowess, Pe'Shon Howard's connections, and Maryland's own need for a tight-flight perimeter scorer made it seem like Brown was a legitimate possibility.
Once Nick Faust emerged, though, it became clear that Maryland had some options at the 2-guard spot. With Bino Ranson on board at least partially to deliver Maryland some Baltimore recruits, it's not hard to imagine that the much more attainable Faust was the priority anyway.
Is it bad if I'm reminded of the Taran Buie list cut last year, when Maryland - supposedly one of the top five or so schools for Buie - was dropped like a day before Terrence Ross (in this case, Nick Faust) committed? If Brown's heard positive buzz around Faust, I wouldn't be surprised if that's why he dropped Maryland. Hey, a guy can dream. Getting Faust - who, remember, was ranked ahead of Brown on ESPN - would be enough to make everyone forget about Jabari.
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You don’t think Brown knows we’re going harder after Faust and that Faust is likely to commit? I don’t think we were going to land Brown anyways but we didn’t make his list because we’re going to land Faust.
No.
We didnt make Brown’s list because he didnt want to come here, relax. MD is on the opposite side of the country, its a tough sell to anyone, even to like a 3 star
Do you honestly believe that?
We don’t have a commitment from Faust and hes taking visits. No matter how likely he may be the staff certainly didn’t tell Jabari “were not going to recruit you hard because Faust is coming”. I 100% guarantee that the staff would have taken Faust and Jabari if they both wanted to commit today.
Furthermore these kids have no idea what is going on with other kids recruitments unless its their close friend. Its extremely naive to think that Jabari has any idea where Faust is going to go especially because Nick himself hasn’t even stated a leader or group of leaders.
We didn’t get on his list because the mutual interest wasn’t extremely high between us and Jabari and thats about it. Jabari is as heavy a UW lean as Faust might be a MD lean. Faust had absolutely nothing to do with Browns recruitment.
I clearly put “I think” or “I don’t think” in my posts to let you know it was my opinion. You seem to think that your opinion is the only right one. Like I said, I don’t think we were going to land Brown anyways but him seeing another top 25 SG recruit heavily leaning our way probably had a hand in us not making his list.
You are not getting my point....
How exactly do you think Jabari knows that Faust is a MD lean? I don’t think he checks testudotimes or insidemdsports.com. Faust himself certainly hasn’t said anything about leaders or which way hes leaning.
Furthermore the school that Brown himself is considered to be leaning towards is currently loaded at guard. In 2008 they signed two top 50 guards, in 2009 a 5* guard, and last year they signed a guy by the name of Terrence Ross. If that group doesn’t scare away Brown you can be sure that the possibility of one top SG signing with MD didn’t play a role in him cutting us.
Word travels fast in the basketball recruiting world. Not everything is public. Just because Faust is still taking visits or hasn’t announced any leaders doesn’t mean he doesn’t have any.
Its possible that Brown, through the grapevine, a friend, whatever, heard that Faust was heavily favoring Maryland – which may or may not be the case. It’s not a stretch at all for word to get around about one top 25 prospect to another.
And Brown’s been as quiet about his leaders as Faust has. Washington’s rumored to be a leader, but no more so than Maryland is for Faust.
Besides, I don’t think the competition is as good as you make it out to be. Turner and Suggs @ UW have done nothing in their two years and I doubt they’d stand in front of Jabari if he’s as good as they say. Gaddy will probably go pro if he can rebound from his rough freshman year, and he’s a natural PG anyway. Ross is more of a 3. If you throw Turner, Suggs, Brown, and Ross into a bag, Brown rises to the top almost every time. It’s a bigger deal to come in with another top 25 wing than it is to have two high-three star seniors in front of him for one year.
I’m not saying Faust is the reason Maryland’s not on Brown’s list – in fact, it’s way more likely that he just didn’t like Maryland – but I don’t think you can definitively say it’s not a factor.
i like Brown more than Faust…. by a pretty good margin…..
so this kinda sucks
i will still be plenty happy if we pull Faust
by bloodwatermission on Aug 16, 2010 12:12 PM EDT reply actions
Not but not surprised
After so many years, I have finally accepted the fact that UM will NEVER again have a top 10 recruiting class until the time comes for Gary to retire and we get a young, new, and up-coming coach. We will just have to be satisfied with hanging around somewhere between 25-40 classes. Maybe one of these type classes will over-excel like the 2002 Team.
just imagine last year’s class had we landed Lance Stephenson. that would have been great for the program to have him tied with the school/program
by Ttown Funkster on Aug 16, 2010 4:03 PM EDT up reply actions
The grass is always greener
I ‘ll take Gary’s coaching and player development capabilities paired with a top 20 class over a young coach who can recruit a top 10 class and not do much with them.
Yea not so much.
We will have a top 20 class this year and could easily push top 10.
I want Faust, anyway...
Brown can go to UW, because Terence Ross will not make it into school, anyway. He’ll start, right away, book it!
Oh well
I want faust bc i love bmore kids and u can bet on it that his grades are right city college doesnt do bad grades and dnt know he was 6’7 ? I’ll take garys 30th rank recruiting class 7 days out of 7 truth is he has the best x’s and o’s man in bball and yes im bias i will be sad 2 c gary go but in 5yrs or so we he steps down md will have da most sought after job in basketball anyway enough blah blah md is in good hands
by valenciais1 on Aug 16, 2010 9:55 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
I like todd bozeman or jay wright
by valenciais1 on Aug 17, 2010 12:52 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
gary will get
faust stock will keep going up and gary will get something good out of next year class and why do we need top rank players they never show up say a player by the name of travis garrison and mike jones the second shooting guard behind lebron james in his class i will take what ever comes to maryland gary will get them to play as a team no matter what just like this team this yr i see 17 to 25 wins
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