Barring injuries, MAAR, Duncan, and Wagner each should surpass 1,000 points this season, raising our program total of 1,000-point scorers to 54—a little more than one for each 2 seasons. (MAAR and Wagner just need to match last season's point totals; Duncan needs to exceed last year's total by a few points but doesn't need to match his first season.) Ten of those 54 would be Beilein recruits. These are the seven who already made it:
2008—Novak
2010—Hardaway
2011—Burke
2012—Stauskas, Levert
2013—Irvin, Walton
There are a few remarkable things to note here. First, according to this article, MAAR's other offers were from Bucknell, Drexel, Lehigh, Harvard, and Rice. Novak's reportedly were from Valpo, Colorado State, IPFW, and Oakland. Duncan, of course, is the only documented scholarship transfer from D3 to D1. Levert we stole from Ohio U. Yet each of those players is or likely will be in a group that does not include Sean Higgins, Jerod Ward, or Tim McCormick (or, obviously, Willie Mitchell or Albert White).
The other thing that strikes me is that if MAAR and Wagner do make it to 1,000, Beilein will have six straight recruiting classes, and seven of his eight that have (at that point) played at least three seasons, with at least one 1,000-point scorer. Only once before has the program had six straight classes with a 1,000-point scorer: from 1981–87 (so seven in a row). You can say what you want about freshman ineligibility, but that ended more than 40 years ago.
Recruiting is about getting players, and the measure of a player's value is what he does, not what he's expected to do or even what he has the potential to do. Recruiting a 1,000-point scorer six years in a row is great recruiting.
2008—Novak
2010—Hardaway
2011—Burke
2012—Stauskas, Levert
2013—Irvin, Walton
There are a few remarkable things to note here. First, according to this article, MAAR's other offers were from Bucknell, Drexel, Lehigh, Harvard, and Rice. Novak's reportedly were from Valpo, Colorado State, IPFW, and Oakland. Duncan, of course, is the only documented scholarship transfer from D3 to D1. Levert we stole from Ohio U. Yet each of those players is or likely will be in a group that does not include Sean Higgins, Jerod Ward, or Tim McCormick (or, obviously, Willie Mitchell or Albert White).
The other thing that strikes me is that if MAAR and Wagner do make it to 1,000, Beilein will have six straight recruiting classes, and seven of his eight that have (at that point) played at least three seasons, with at least one 1,000-point scorer. Only once before has the program had six straight classes with a 1,000-point scorer: from 1981–87 (so seven in a row). You can say what you want about freshman ineligibility, but that ended more than 40 years ago.
Recruiting is about getting players, and the measure of a player's value is what he does, not what he's expected to do or even what he has the potential to do. Recruiting a 1,000-point scorer six years in a row is great recruiting.
