Arizona Basketball recruiting...
HOW IT STARTED:
Composite National team rankings
2003: #7
2004: #25
2005: #7
2006: #28
2007: #6
Lute Olson retires Oct. 2008
2008: #280
Arizona hires Sean Miller April 2009
The PAC12 hires Larry Scott July 2009
AD Jim Livengood good's contract expires at Arizona June 2009
2009: #6
Greg Byrne hired as AD May 2010
2010: #32
2011: #4
The PAC12 Network is launched August 2012
2012: #3
2013: #11
2014: #3
2015: #3
2016:#9
AD Greg Byrne leaves for Alabama January 20177
AD Dave Heeke April 2017 hired
President Robbins hired June 2017
Book Richardson is arrested after being charged with fraud and corruption Sept. 2017
2017: #3
Mark Schlabach writes FBI/wiretap article February 2018
Sean Miller doesn't coach vs. Oregon February 2018
2018: #22
2019: #6
Arizona Basketball announces that it is self-imposing a one-year postseason ban December 2020
2020: #7
The PAC12's Larry Scott concludes term as Commissioner January 2021
Arizona fires Sean Miller without cause April 2021
HOW IT'S GOING:
Arizona hires T. Lloyd April 2021
2021: #79
2022: #52
2023: No commits/ranking
Update... Arizona's 2022 team ranking continues to slide as other coaches land talent.
Arizona is now #55.
Jordan Walsh, #7 in the 2022 class just announced he's going to Arkansas, making the Arkansas class #3 in the country. "The difference was the coaching staff and especially Coach Musselman. The fans are wild and it's the only game in town. I want to win a national championship when I am there."
Arizona tried to hire Arkansas head coach Musselman but had to settle for T. Lloyd.
Arizona's 2022 team recruiting ranking is now #55.
College basketball is a business nowadays.
No one is going to come to Arizona with no type of idea of how the product is going to look on the field.
2022 is going to be a slow process until the season is over.
I'll say this though, let CTL get Arizona get to be nationally ranked in his first season AND project to climb, the prospects are going to come.
Quote from: mvpreed2 on October 17, 2021, 05:36:27 PM
College basketball is a business nowadays.
Will Robbins and T. Lloyd bankrupt a once proud program?
Time will tell.
Quote from: What's Good on October 18, 2021, 07:37:28 AM
Quote from: mvpreed2 on October 17, 2021, 05:36:27 PM
College basketball is a business nowadays.
Will Robbins and T. Lloyd bankrupt a once proud program?
Time will tell.
Arizona has enough equity built up from its original owner, Lute Olson.
Then after that, another owner has come and built a little more equity into the program, Sean Miller.
Yes, Miller has lost more equity on the backend than he built on the frontend.
Arizona is still one of the most prestigious programs on the West, after a handful of others.
Oregon/UCLA/USC and Gonzaga will all get theirs, but when Arizona is on the rise, Arizona will be competing with the best in the country for their prospects.
It may not be anytime soon, but I believe CTL will repair and rebuild this program and it will once again rise to the top tier of programs in the West, and one of the best in the nation.
Quote from: mvpreed2 on October 18, 2021, 08:19:20 PM
Quote from: What's Good on October 18, 2021, 07:37:28 AM
Quote from: mvpreed2 on October 17, 2021, 05:36:27 PM
College basketball is a business nowadays.
Will Robbins and T. Lloyd bankrupt a once proud program?
Time will tell.
Arizona has enough equity built up from its original owner, Lute Olson.
Then after that, another owner has come and built a little more equity into the program, Sean Miller.
Yes, Miller has lost more equity on the backend than he built on the frontend.
Arizona is still one of the most prestigious programs on the West, after a handful of others.
Oregon/UCLA/USC and Gonzaga will all get theirs, but when Arizona is on the rise, Arizona will be competing with the best in the country for their prospects.
It may not be anytime soon, but I believe CTL will repair and rebuild this program and it will once again rise to the top tier of programs in the West, and one of the best in the nation.
Miller lost zero equity. Heeke and Robbins made sure that he could not do any better. Miller still recruited some of the best recruit classes on average in the history of the program amidst the unreasonable conditions and limitations set around him. Tommy Lloyd is already considered a placeholder. I won't even shock me if Miller returns to the program to be honest. There will be some serious changes to this University before the real money backers allow us to become worse than UMass after Calipari or Uconn after Calhoun and Ollie. Otherwise the tools of the cbox will really have a Mid Major program to cry about after all these years of knocking the greatest thing to happen to Arizona Basketball since Dirty Lute was sent packing out of the program. (for the record I liked Lute, but he was no angel, no saint, and his 1-3-1 would have been utterly useless in this era as we saw the program go completely downhill after his colossal meltdown vs Illinois in the Elite 8.)
Update: Arizona's 2022 composite team ranking is now 61st.