Don't know where to put this, but Coach Bill Grier is following Joel Ayayi on Twitter. French scoring guard. Seems to be in the same vein. They are casting a wide net for this talent
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'17 France PG Joel Ayayi (Committed to Gonzaga)
- Thread starter Hunchback Quaker
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6'4" PG from INSEP Academy (France)
Offers from Georgia Tech and Baylor, also hearing from Gonzaga, Oklahoma and Xavier. Will make trips to US in April. http://www.scout.com/college/basket...765998-french-star-looking-at-college-options
Scout Profile
Detailed scouting report: http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/Joel-Ayayi-97191/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/joel_ayayi
I mean those are some big time offers and programs looking into him
Does he have an offer from CU?
Not that I can see, but CU keeps things fairly close to the vest with basketball recruiting. Not a lot of twitter action, edits, etc.
CitizenKane
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#Nohops
Rohn is following Oliver Sarr on Twitter, another Frenchman, this time a big. I think that the Buffs are going to France this summer.
Visited Gonzaga and one lined up with GT. Open to others. I want CU to be an other, please.
http://www.scout.com/college/basket...769917-french-guard-joel-ayayi-visits-gonzaga
http://www.scout.com/college/basket...769917-french-guard-joel-ayayi-visits-gonzaga
Well, to me that says that we were going after the right guy. Not gonna win many battles against Gonzaga for foreign prospects, and they know how to pick em
Gonzaga has so many links to INSEP Academy from current roster (Killian Tillie) to former players such as Ronny Turiaf. I didn't expect to win this one.
Buffs Basketball Fan
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Honestly, they sound like completely different players. Personally, I prefer McKinley. He is great at running the show and keeping everyone involved. Simmons (who I can't stand) actually had a good article today on CP3 talking about how he's a guy who sets his teammates up for 42 minutes and then takes over the last 6 minutes of a game. It's what Dinwiddie did while here and it's what I see in McKinley. As for Ayayi, the DraftExpress scouting report made him sound like a perfect #TadBall guy. He rebounds really well, he defends really well, and he's big for a point. But he is more of a combo guard than a lead at this point.
I don't think we'd go wrong with either, but if I was given the choice, I would have taken McKinley Wright (and this isn't revisionist history as @Buffnik and I have had discussions sharing this opinion for a few weeks now).
We agree here. Ayayi is significantly taller and might have more upside, but he's raw. Give me the MN POY who Archie Miller and Butler (among others) wanted to run the show for them. Hopefully it would open up recruiting to Minnesota and the AAU/traveling squad guys that Wright has played with and against, too.
This is huge too. It didn't end up with many closes, but the Mayor's rolodex got our foot in the door with a lot of recruits. Now that we have a little bit more of a history than when Spencer was here, Wright's connections could help us land some bigger fish.
Well, if we got into the top 2 for Ayayi, that's pretty good news. No way we beat the Zags for him, and I didn't even know about the connections, but it's good to see us swim in international waters successfully.
BuffG
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The Grier Effect...if true. Ayayi was probably who Tad was talking about when he said "if we get the guy we really want..." Have to assume Wright was the other of those two since Ondigo never visited.