Supposedly his buyout after year one is $3+mil
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'15 CO PG Austin Conway (Verbal to Wyoming)
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Supposedly his buyout after year one is $3+mil
Johnny Juzang
Well-Known Member
Anything new on Austin? He's picked up a number of offers, including several Big 10 schools. Is he still deciding between basketball and football?
Dorn09
Well-Known Member
I Just watched his football highlighs on Hudl. He looks fast as hell. Both Tad and Mac need to offer right away. He is one heck of an athlete.
Medford M.
Well-Known Member
If we wanted to let this kid play both sports, he only needs the one scholarship right? I'd assume, we'd want him on a football scholarship to open up an extra basketball one right?
BeBe
Club Member
I think he would have to be on football scholarship. For multi-sport athletes, there is a pecking order in the scholarship world and the "highest" of the sports is where your scholarship must count.
ESPN #8 PG, 57th Overall.
Does anyone think we are going after Austin? We will have Collier, Stalzer, Talton and possibly Hopkins at PG.
We damn well better.
Agreed. I would absolutely hate for both Perkins and Conway to go elsewhere.
Good article from the DC...
http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_23552868/howell-blog-conway-cu-buffs-show-mutual-interest?source=rss
http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_23552868/howell-blog-conway-cu-buffs-show-mutual-interest?source=rss
at 5-10, hope he does some growing.
I want this kid. Should be an easy get. From Colorado, loves our coaches and wants to go to Colorado. I mean come on.
I want him to be a Buff as well. That said and he is certainly good enough to be a strong contributor we have to see how he will fit with the needs for his class. If Tad thinks the fit is right then great, if not then it probably wouldn't be best for CU or for Austin.
Would think he would since he's only about 16 right now
Wow. An interesting predicament, for sure. We DO seem kind of set at PG for a while, but his talent is pretty evident. Hate to say it, but would he be a redshirt candidate? You'd like to put a little separation between him and Collier. By his RS Freshmen year, Stalzer and Talton would be gone as well. Hell, I don't know. It seems like it would be crazy to let this kid go somewhere else.
Re: '15 CO PG Austin Conway
Teams with dominant pg play can go deep in the tourney. One game changer at pg and we can be a final four team.
Teams with dominant pg play can go deep in the tourney. One game changer at pg and we can be a final four team.
I agree. I just don't know what Tad's thoughts are about using what limited scholarships we have available. Can we put him on a football scholarship? I know that sounds crazy, but I honestly don't know what our needs are for the 2015 recruiting class. Plus, our football team needs all the scholarships it can get, so that's probably not a good idea. Just spitballin'.
Related to this discussion, though, is how incredibly awesome it is to be having a conversation like this about a kid who is that highly ranked. A sure fire top 100 player, and we're trying to figure out how to fit him on the team. Incredible. #rolltad.
A couple of things in favor of figuring out how to bring him in.
One is that Tad has shown an ability to adapt his system to the talent he has. If he has a number of of excellent PGs I can see him figuring out a way to use mulitple PGs at the same time.
Secondly while we aren't yet recruiting guys who are one and done guys we are seeing a number of kids coming in who are candidates to leave after 2-3 years. Our current depth at PG could go away fairly soon if Dom turns out to be as good as some think he can be.
Third, kids as good as Austin looks to be often are attracted to competition, not repelled. He may be willing to take his chances on the depth chart to play at CU.
One is that Tad has shown an ability to adapt his system to the talent he has. If he has a number of of excellent PGs I can see him figuring out a way to use mulitple PGs at the same time.
Secondly while we aren't yet recruiting guys who are one and done guys we are seeing a number of kids coming in who are candidates to leave after 2-3 years. Our current depth at PG could go away fairly soon if Dom turns out to be as good as some think he can be.
Third, kids as good as Austin looks to be often are attracted to competition, not repelled. He may be willing to take his chances on the depth chart to play at CU.
Medford M.
Well-Known Member
I asked Will on Rivals if he thought we'd be in position to take a PG in the '15 class given the fact we only have 1 scholarship available for it (as it stands right now). He said maybe, but he added that he didn't foresee any way that there wouldn't be some form of attrition by the time that class signs, so we should have at least 2 spots available. Given that we're pretty well set on the wing for the next few years, I think we'll probably look at PG and another big in the '15 class.
Johnny Juzang
Well-Known Member
I don't think there is any question at all that you recruit this kid hard.
The staff is in a really good position with Conway right now. With an in-state kid who has CU at the top of his list, and who has already stated he's going to wait another year before deciding, they can be patient with an offer. This is a little different situation than Collier and Perkins, where we had to go all-in as early as possible to get in the running.
SECOBuffsFan
Active Member
You can not have too many good point guards in my opinion
Seconded.
Conway's my #1 "realistic" target right now for 2015. It'd be even better if he committed here for football, so we could double up on the scholarship, but I'm not sure how likely that is. Honestly, from numerous people I've heard that you will not find a faster kid with the basketball in the country. That with Tad's pace would be deadly. The kid has some holes in his game, but everyone outside of the top 20 usually does.