Basketball: Haws' decision won't effect Davies
The big recruiting news of the day, obviously, is that Lone Peak High shooting guard Tyler Haws has committed to BYU.
We've got more on that on our BYU sports blog. Haws' commitment, naturally, has people wondering about the status of the other top uncommitted basketball player in the state, Provo's 6-9 Brandon Davies.
Coincidentally, Davies is scheduled to visit Gonzaga this weekend, and has offers in hand from Cal, Gonzaga, BYU, Utah, Utah State and Santa Clara. He has pretty much eliminated Utah, and the Utes are quite possibly out of scholarships, anyway.
Some BYU fans are saying that Davies has been waiting for Haws to decide and will now follow him to Provo.
Frankly, I've talked to Davies probably six or seven times about his recruitment and he has never -- never -- mentioned Haws. I think Davies will decide for himself where he goes, and he is more concerned about who he will be competing with for playing time than he is about going somewhere just because someone he knows is going there, too.
I'm not saying Davies won't end up at BYU; I'm just saying if he does or doesn't, it will have very little to do with Tyler Haws.
In my opinion, it is not quite as important for BYU's coaching staff to land Davies as it was for them to land Haws, although Davies could very well end up being the better player. Haws is a legacy recruit -- with a father (Marty) who played for the Cougars and was a star, while Davies lives a stone's throw from the Marriott Center, but really doesn't have strong ties to the school, aside from being LDS.
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One last thing about Haws. His father told me a few weeks ago, and Haws mentioned it again tonight -- the player and his family were very impressed with Utah coach Jim Boylen. They said Utah's new coach took it extremely well a few weeks ago when he was told Haws wouldn't be heading his way.
"I have no doubt that he would have made me a better basketball player," Tyler Haws said.
We've got more on that on our BYU sports blog. Haws' commitment, naturally, has people wondering about the status of the other top uncommitted basketball player in the state, Provo's 6-9 Brandon Davies.
Coincidentally, Davies is scheduled to visit Gonzaga this weekend, and has offers in hand from Cal, Gonzaga, BYU, Utah, Utah State and Santa Clara. He has pretty much eliminated Utah, and the Utes are quite possibly out of scholarships, anyway.
Some BYU fans are saying that Davies has been waiting for Haws to decide and will now follow him to Provo.
Frankly, I've talked to Davies probably six or seven times about his recruitment and he has never -- never -- mentioned Haws. I think Davies will decide for himself where he goes, and he is more concerned about who he will be competing with for playing time than he is about going somewhere just because someone he knows is going there, too.
I'm not saying Davies won't end up at BYU; I'm just saying if he does or doesn't, it will have very little to do with Tyler Haws.
In my opinion, it is not quite as important for BYU's coaching staff to land Davies as it was for them to land Haws, although Davies could very well end up being the better player. Haws is a legacy recruit -- with a father (Marty) who played for the Cougars and was a star, while Davies lives a stone's throw from the Marriott Center, but really doesn't have strong ties to the school, aside from being LDS.
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One last thing about Haws. His father told me a few weeks ago, and Haws mentioned it again tonight -- the player and his family were very impressed with Utah coach Jim Boylen. They said Utah's new coach took it extremely well a few weeks ago when he was told Haws wouldn't be heading his way.
"I have no doubt that he would have made me a better basketball player," Tyler Haws said.
2 Comments:
The speculation that Haws committing will lend to Davies also committing to BYU has little to do with Davies knowing Haws and wanting to play with him. Rather it is about a very talented player (Davies) being impressed with the accumulation of talent at a certain school he'd like to attend. With Haws committing, Davies can feel more certain that he'll be surrounded by very good players and have the opportunity to find significant team success at the Y.
Davies doesn't have any strong ties to BYU? I thought his Mom was a big BYU fan? Is that not true, Jay? I would hope that would be at least a factor in there somewhere.
I also thought he was hanging out with BYU basketball players. That would most definitely be a factor.
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