[TheFarm07]

Do we have two scholarships to give?

BC

Yes we have two and I think we would take any two out of Watkins, Hidalgo and Prosper because they are that good.  But that would leave us with only 2 scholarships for the class of 2024 where we are in play for 5 out of the top 10 players according to HoopGurlz and that doesn't include standout players from the U17 team like Mackenly Randolph or Morgan Cheli who we are also recruiting and are ranked outside the top 10.

Five recruits in said class would also eliminate any scholarship openings for Belibi, Prechtel, Jones, or Jump to return for their extra Covid year. I think there's a chance at least 1 of them would want an extra year. (maybe I'm wrong). I hope the coaches are having these conversations with current players now so we don't come across a situation where someone wants to return but there is not a spot available. It almost seems we should have stopped at 3 for the 2022 class (Nivar, Lepolo, Betts) just to have a little more flexibility with recruiting and the extra covid year option. We have been on a roll as of recent with recruiting and it seems we have so many interested recruits and it's hard to make the math work if many of them chose Stanford.

My pessimist's view (I have no inside info) is that even though we might be a declared finalist (and keep in mind the finalist tally for some of them is still pretty large) for many of these elite recruits, the staff might believe that we won't win out in the end for many/most of them and therefore we are down to a smaller number of openings relative to those who are still publicly expressing interest.

It felt like that happened with the Class of '22 (weren't we in the running for Rice, Gardiner, Nnaji, among others as well?) where it seemed like we had so many interested recruits but most of them ended up elsewhere.

[TheFarm07]

Do we have two scholarships to give?

BC

Yes we have two and I think we would take any two out of Watkins, Hidalgo and Prosper because they are that good.  But that would leave us with only 2 scholarships for the class of 2024 where we are in play for 5 out of the top 10 players according to HoopGurlz and that doesn't include standout players from the U17 team like Mackenly Randolph or Morgan Cheli who we are also recruiting and are ranked outside the top 10.

Five recruits in said class would also eliminate any scholarship openings for Belibi, Prechtel, Jones, or Jump to return for their extra Covid year. I think there's a chance at least 1 of them would want an extra year. (maybe I'm wrong). I hope the coaches are having these conversations with current players now so we don't come across a situation where someone wants to return but there is not a spot available. It almost seems we should have stopped at 3 for the 2022 class (Nivar, Lepolo, Betts) just to have a little more flexibility with recruiting and the extra covid year option. We have been on a roll as of recent with recruiting and it seems we have so many interested recruits and it's hard to make the math work if many of them chose Stanford.

My pessimist's view (I have no inside info) is that even though we might be a declared finalist (and keep in mind the finalist tally for some of them is still pretty large) for many of these elite recruits, the staff might believe that we won't win out in the end for many/most of them and therefore we are down to a smaller number of openings relative to those who are still publicly expressing interest.

It felt like that happened with the Class of '22 (weren't we in the running for Rice, Gardiner, Nnaji, among others as well?) where it seemed like we had so many interested recruits but most of them ended up elsewhere.