We recruiting this kid?


Lammers' time
Alamo Heights center Ben Lammers said he didn't think he'd get to play much this season because he's just a sophomore.
Which is absurd, because he's a 6-foot-9 sophomore shot-blocking machine.
Lammers' 173 blocks rank him sixth in the nation among players whose stats have been reported to maxpreps.com.
He's also averaging 14 points and 8.2 rebounds for the Mules, who are the third-ranked Class 4A team in the state.
Heights coach Andrew Brewer said one of Lammers' biggest strengths is how coordinated he is for his height. Lammers has had time to adjust to being the tall kid in class — he was already 6-3 in seventh grade.
“I got used to the physicality of varsity basketball faster than I thought,” said Lammers, whose father Chris Lammers was an All-State lineman at Churchill and went on to play at Texas A&M.


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I believe he is committed to Texas.

I think it is Connor Lammert (from SA Churchill) who committed to tu.

[This message has been edited by Carl Hubay Jr. (edited 2/21/2012 8:31a).]

That is correct Carl... hopefully we have somebody recruiting this kid.

Here is some information I found on him...

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/recruiting/player-Ben-Lammers-132735

http://www.maxpreps.com/athletes/RYAxlW3h_0isrRMlrLSpJg/basketball-winter-11-12/profile-ben-lammers.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcThnPro6IU

He's visited Baylor, Texas, and Tech. Get on it, coaches. Family of Ags.

Do any of you get wearied by checking on recruits and finding out that Baylor has already been on them?

We haven't had a shot blocker since BD. We could really use that type of interior player.

I went to school at Churchill with his dad's family.

His dad, an aunt, and two uncles went to A&M. Another uncle went to t.u.

His father is an architect and presented the Kyle Field expansion design (bowl version) a few years ago.

Hopefully he'll decide to come here.

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Do any of you get wearied by checking on recruits and finding out that Baylor has already been on them?

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Yep. We shouldn't get outworked, but tu and bu consistently outwork us and have.

turgeon was a good coach but compared to drew and barnes, he was a very lazy recruiter for us.

It is nice to know he feels maryland is an important enough job to actually give his best in terms of recruiting.

[This message has been edited by viva torrente (edited 2/22/2012 7:47a).]

I guess every coach we've had has been lazy. What other explanation could there be?

[This message has been edited by monkeyaround (edited 2/22/2012 9:30a).]

Shelby Metcalf was a good recruiter.
Tony Barone even landed Jerald Brown.
Melvin was a good recruiter.
BCG was a decent-to-good recruiter.
Turgeon was a bad recruiter.
The jury is out on Kennedy, but he's sure putting in the work.

Conner already signed with tu.

[This message has been edited by Hunter83088 (edited 2/22/2012 9:45a).]

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I guess every coach we've had has been lazy.

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Uh no. Other A&M coaches actually tried to get into the state HS and AAU scene.

Turgeon felt it was beneath him, until he went to a "real" basketball school. Then he embraced it.

He was a good coach but got lapped by guys like drew and barnes badly in terms of recruiting.

I think Kennedy and Co. would definitely do a better job but who knows with the illness.

"The jury is out on Kennedy, but he's sure putting in the work."

Barnes was watching Frazier yesterday. Where was Kennedy?

Do you only get one chance to watch a kid per year? Did we somehow miss our only opportunity?

Kinda sounds like Lomers...

No.
We're just getting out worked. Not recruiting high school. Just JUCOs.

Dude, you sound like Maroon Dawn. Just because you didn't personally see Kennedy at one single HS basketball game doesn't mean he isn't working.

There are several HS prospects that have listed A&M as "interest" and "offered". Does that mean they will come? No, but that at least means they've been OFFERED.

No. I don't. I'm quite even handed in this. I see school lists all the time and which coaches are visiting which players. We are rarely listed in comparison to bu or tu. our coaches are killing the JUCO ranks, so it makes sense some. Need the 2013 and 2014 classes to be good.

@ Tivy gym, Alamo Heights killing the Antlers, Lammers is crazy good!

Watched him play against Boerne Champion last week. Great defense (due to his size), can't say that I saw much offensive skill from him. Might have been an off-night. Champion made a big comeback and won.

Writing a game story on that Tivy-Alamo Heights game right now. Kid had impressive size and made a few impressive plays, but seemed to lack a killer edge. (Then again, they were up 18-6 by the end of one quarter.)

Was fun to watch him play.

I have talked to a family member of this kid. He said Baylor was recruiting him and that he hasn't heard if we had been.

I do think our guys work hard on the recruiting trail, but are limited.

Limited by what?

Yuck! Stay away from these people!

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Yuck! Stay away from these people!

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Just stay away!

WTH are you talking about?

We don't need to go down this road.

Look this isn't going to end well.

An Aggie legacy. Why doesn't this staff have him locked up already?????

Lammers