Drew Lock '15 sg 6-4

[tropicalshox]

The sharphooter from Lee's Summit has offers from Missouri and Missouri State. Interest from the Shockers, Creighton and Oklahoma. He also has Missouri and Louisville offers for Football.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/recruiting/player-Drew-Lock-134366;_ylt=AjM6HUP8cfMHtjKEFV97eenXO5B4

[SirShoxAlot]

My eyes always light up when I read "sharp shooter."

[jdshock]

The sharphooter from Lee's Summit has offers from Missouri and Missouri State. Interest from the Shockers, Creighton and Oklahoma. He also has Missouri and Louisville offers for Football.


http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketb...KEFV97eenXO5B4

Well that's just not fair. Mizzou gets TWO head coaches spending time trying to convince Drew to go there. I've never heard a more compelling argument for bringing back football than that.

[WSUwatcher]

Well that's just not fair. Mizzou gets TWO head coaches spending time trying to convince Drew to go there. I've never heard a more compelling argument for bringing back football than that.

Absolutely, jd. We saw how much it boosted WSU's basketball program when Marshall and Stephenson both recruited him -- the Shocks have been on a roll ever since. Even made it to the Final Four, with Coy smacking the ball pretty well in the Valley tournament to help the cause. Oh, wait...

Actually, it probably did help WSU with Paul Miller to have two HC's after him -- and once again, one of them was not a football coach.

[SubGod22]

That's a poor argument. We've missed on a couple of players as well because of the football issue. It goes both ways. We may land a few because we don't have it, but we'll definitely miss on some because we don't. It is what it is.

[jdshock]

I was just kidding... If he ends up at Mizzou to play basketball the football coach still missed on the recruit. I was just having fun,

Move along folks. Nothing to see here.

[WSUwatcher]

The problem with your point, Sub, is twofold:

1. Even if you get someone because of football, you have to keep him (which is what I was saying with tongue in cheek about Coy), which is hardly automatic. We see, for example, what one-time Shocker recruit Kendall "Quadruple Double" Wright did at Baylor, where he correctly opted for football and is now in the big timre.

2. You have to look not just at the players gained or lost but also at the financial costs and benefits. WSU's been without football for so long that there literally isn't a scholarship athlete of normal age on campus who was even alive when the Shocker football team last took the field. Yet the athletic department, which was nearly broke back then, has never been healthier than it is now, both financially and esthetically (as evidenced by the record-setting all-sports performance this past year).

I'll leave it to you and the Memphis guy to talk football. As for me, I've contributed enough to diverting this thread from its real subject, so I'm finished with anything other than Drew Lock. I was kidding, just as jd was, but I obviously hit a hot button.

[SubGod22]

It's not a hot button at all. I thought you, like many do, were trying to simply spin that no football is an absolute benefit to the program. If you were kidding, I missed it. But it's not uncommon for posters on here to try and spin anything and everything to make it sound good. Look at the Cle topic and him not going to the Lebron camp. I don't know or care what his reasons were, but some tried to make it come off as Cle doing it for the team or that going could have hurt the team. Crazy stuff. I was just bringing up the flip side of this potential debate because that's what I do. There are pros and cons in recruiting to not having football. If you were kidding, simply disregard. I knew jd was joking about it but didn't pick that up out of your post.

[tropicalshox]

Oklahoma offers. He might be leaning strongly to Missouri.

[tropicalshox]

Reported offers from WSU, Missouri and Oklahoma. Lock is averaging over 22 points a game this season. He also holds several football offers.

http://rivalshoops.rivals.com/content.asp?highlight=Wichita&CID=1602840

[im4wsu]

Is he any relation to Don Lock who averaged 10.1 ppg as a senior oin 57-58?

[pinstripers]

Doubt it. All Lock's family was from Illinois. His parents were the only ones who came to Kansas. Don's grandson recently graduated from Andover. He had a D-1 football offer when he broke his ankle (again) which I assume ended his sports career.

[150946shox]

Is he any relation to Don Lock who averaged 10.1 ppg as a senior oin 57-58?

And went on to play major league baseball with the Washington Senators, Philadelphia Phillies and a short time with the Boston Red Sox. Don hit 27 home runs and drove in 82 in 1963 and 28 home runs driving in 80 in 1964.

[jocoshock]

And went on to play major league baseball with the Washington Senators, Philadelphia Phillies and a short time with the Boston Red Sox. Don hit 27 home runs and drove in 82 in 1963 and 28 home runs driving in 80 in 1964.

I have one or two of his badeball cards.

[pinstripers]

A storyteller of the highest order. I asked him once if he had ever played against Oscar, and he replied, "Played against him? I guarded him!" I said, "how'd ya do?". He answered, "I held the son-of-a-***** to 42!"