Payton Pritchard - 2016 Point Guard (Oklahoma)

From Trevor Andershock twitter today:

Team FAST point guard Payton Pritchard (2016) entering the gym wearing a Butler sweatshirt drew some comments from coaches haha
1:15pm - 28 Apr 13

http://future150.com/hs/basketball-profiles/payton-pritchard-pg-2016

 

Wasn't Brad out in Oregon last week? I know 2016 is a bit off the radar at this point, but a kid wearing your colors hopefully gets someone's attention.

 

Eric Bossi‏@ebosshoops21h
2016 PG Payton Pritchard has one hell of a feel for the game to just be be a freshman. Baller

 

Corey Pegram‏@CoreyPegram22 Jul
2016 Team Fast PG Payton Pritchard tells me Tennessee, Arkansas and Washington are now recruiting him

 

LeftCoastRecruiting ‏@LC_Recruiting 1h
2016 Payton Pritchard (West Linn, OR) will take an unofficial visit to Notre Dame Sept 27th and an unofficial visit to Stanford in October

 

Matt Prehm ‏@Prehmmr247 4h
2016 PG Payton Pritchard out of West Linn HS in Oregon is taking an unofficial visit to Notre Dame today

 

Anyone know if this is still relevant, or if he was a guy who would only consider Butler with Stevens at the helm?

 

Brian Flinn‏@BFlinnFuture1501h
2016 West Linn (OR) PG Payton Pritchard lists an offer from Oregon State. Interest from BC, Stan, Villanova, Gonzaga, Oregon & Notre Dame

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Might be able to archive this. I don't think this is going to go anywhere especially with our 15 interest in Bolden and 16 interest in Goodin, plus they are checking out a 15 PG up in Chicago Thurs.

 

Wow! I'm extremely glad we're still in contact with him. He seemed to have atypically strong interest for a west coast kid when Brad first started looking at him. Agree with you completely, ButlerWay.

 

Pastner of Memphis has evidently been talking with him.....

IIRC Pritchard took a visit to Notre Dame also. He obviously has no problems leaving Oregon behind....


Butler Way: you watched him at North Central, no? I didn't see his game(s). What did you think? How big is he? Really....in your opinion. I've heard from a few people that he is very small. That the 6'1 height isn't legit.

 

You mean that BU is recruiting and watching kids and us fans don't know about it in real time? LOL

 

*sigh*

This crap again? Nobody has ever said that we as fans know everything the staff does. We do, however, know of players who have significant mutual interest. Offers, visits, top school choices, etc. simply do not go unreported in this day and age.

Find me one example of where it did. You cant.

Nobody cares to enough to follow every single open gym a coach attends . . . so sure, that stuff slips by. Doesn't mean much, though.

 

Agree that we as fans know of offers, official visits, and significant interest (for the most part). But when the handwringing (and staff blasting) about recruiting based on tip of the iceberg information kicks in, that gets old quick. I realize that in a vacuum of information, people will jump in with their own conclusions--just don't see the need for some to go so negative when given the choice.

I disagree about open gyms not meaning much. Indicates interest--esp. when going to the west coast. I consider on campus visits meaningful. The summer visits often go unreported. Even some attending BU games go unreported. Derrick Smits is a good example of people thinking that recruitment was dead in the water--when clearly it's not. Unless you think he was there for X