Gonzaga losing a transfer as well

http://www.gozags.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/060118aaa.html



SPOKANE, Wash. – Jesse Wade will transfer from the Gonzaga men’s basketball program, head coach Mark Few announced Friday.



Wade appeared in 20 games during his freshman season. The 6-1 guard scored 26 points during 2017-18. He played a season-high 19 minutes versus Incarnate Word and scored a season-high nine points against Howard.

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Wade joined the Bulldogs last season after completing his two-year LDS mission after graduating from Davis High School in Kaysville, Utah.



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So they lost a RM and we lost and RM--we're even right? :whistle:

St. Mary's is getting a 7'3" transfer. Bastards.

Good for them. now are they upping their OOC schedule?

I wonder if, he saw the that Dastrup had declared he was transferring and thought this might be the right time to try and transfer to BYU. Think about it, how many guards does BYU have on scholarship...

Jr- Jahshire Hardnett 6' 185

Jr- TJ Haws 6' 4" 170

Fr- Connor Harding 6' 6" 185

So- Rylan Bergersen 6' 6" 200

**Jr- Nick Emery 6' 2" 185 (still a ? with the NCAA)

You could maybe play Jr- Zac Seljaas 6' 7" 215 and Jr- Dalton Nixon 6' 7" 215 at the 3 also...



So there looks to be a need for guards that can play the #1 and #2, unless BYU is pinning the hopes on more walk-ons like Sr- McKay Cannon 6' 185. BYU does not have anyone (LOI) for the PG position right now... Hunter Erickson 6' 3" 180, Colby Leifson 6' 4" 190, and Cal transfer Trevin Knell 6' 5" 185 are all more #2 or #3 guards... Hunter would be the most likely out of the three, but all film I have watched on him he has not played the point.

With Jahshire, TJ, Nick are Jr and McKay a Sr, that means while Jesse red-shirted this year, the other 3 would all be a Sr in his So year.

If BYU does in fact now currently have a open scholarship right now with Dastrup leaving this seems like a very good win win for BYU, Wade, and Dastrup. Because BYU is going to be pretty loaded in the post this year, with Childs 6' 8" 225, Baxter 6' 9" 200, Nixon 6' 7" 215, Seljaas 6' 7" 215, Lee 6' 9" 260 (think, Brad Waldow type), Andrus 6' 11" 240, and Worthington 6' 10" 235. Andrus at 240, should be very interesting, because as a true freshman I think he was listed at 195 and at times he was overpowered by bigger, older, and stronger post players. But it was not for a lack of trying, he played with a lot of effort on both ends of the court: 21 games, 157 minutes (7.5), 40 points (1.9), 28 rebounds (1.3), 3 assists, 2 blocks, FG 54.5%, 3pt FG 37.5%, FT 72.2%.

If he does come here, it would likely be without a release and thus a year without a scholarship.



Plus he doesn't appear to be as good as Dastrup, or many others who have transferred out.

Do you really think Mark Few would not give him a release to BYU? It's not like he was not a BYU fan and BYU recruited him. He likely would have signed with BYU, except for the whole Frank Jackson thing. BYU had a very early verbal from Frank, that lasted for over a year, then Jackson's recruiting blew up... Jackson entered the open market again, signed with Duke... I believe Wade gave a verbal to Gonzaga before Jackson reopened his recruiting. So he had gave Gonzaga a verbal even before BYU offered him a scholarship after Jackson became a huge question mark. Jesse held true to his verbal, even after his mission. Things have not went as planned for him at Gonzaga (post mission injury and ect...). Gonzaga just does not have the same experience with return missionaries as the Utah schools do and even with that experience post mission injuries often happen at the Utah schools also.

Few seems like a pretty good egg and I'm not sure he wants to go down that road of not granting a release to certain schools (conference schools and ect...), because Gonzaga does recruit Utah and LDS players now and then.

We won't get him.



We prefer Weber State and D-II castoffs.

FWIW, McKay Cannon gave up his scholarship at Weber St to walk-on at BYU. I've been following Jesse Wade at Gonzaga this past year and find it really odd, that in March he was very happy at Gonzaga. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/mar/21/gonzaga-guard-jesse-wade-juggles-hoops-classes-and/#/0

But a few days after (I believe 3 or 4) Payton Dastrup announced he was transferring Jesse Wade asks to be released so he can transfer.

About 100 family and friends attended the Gonzaga @BYU game: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/feb/25/gonzagas-jesse-wade-receives-warm-welcome-in-provo/

http://ibexnews24.com/2018/02/gonzagas-lds-player-jesse-wade-gets-heros-welcome-at-byu-game/

Playing for BYU that could be a weekly thing for friends and family. Plus, sister will be playing for BYU soccer this Fall and he did serve in the same mission as TJ Haws.

I hope he comes to BYU. I think he has potential.

snoscythe wrote:

We won't get him.



We prefer Weber State and D-II castoffs.

indeed we do.



Wasn't Wade Mr. Basketball in state of Utah? The guy seems legit.

Wade would be huge pickup for us.

Wade is an intriguing case, because he was a good high school prospect, he was Mr. Basketball, as BroncoBot points out, but he also had only one legitimate D1 offer, Gonzaga. At Gonzaga he's been largely irrelevant.



Is he better than Dastrup? No. Getting him in place of Dastrup would be a net loss. But having him come in as a walk-on to be a 2nd or 3rd string PG could be intriguing.



If he weren't to go to BYU would he go to any kind of big time program? I doubt it. Most likely a very low tier D1 program or a D2.

Wade goes to UVU.



We don't need him at BYU.

Gunk wrote:

Wade goes to UVU.



We don't need him at BYU.

I knew wade's cousin. He told me that BYUs recruiting of wade was a major turnoff.



To hawk's points. He played in 26 (?) games as a freshman right off the mission? I think he has potential. Maybe he was going for big fish in small pond if he is going to UVU, and I can't blame him for that. Especially if he had a bad previous experience with BYU. As SNO pointed out,BYU has been taking some real head scratches as their guards these days.

BroncoBot wrote:

Wade goes to UVU.



We don't need him at BYU.

I knew wade's cousin. He told me that BYUs recruiting of wade was a major turnoff.



To hawk's points. He played in 26 (?) games as a freshman right off the mission? I think he has potential. Maybe he was going for big fish in small pond if he is going to UVU, and I can't blame him for that. Especially if he had a bad previous experience with BYU. As SNO pointed out,BYU has been taking some real head scratches as their guards these days.

You would know this better than I would, or maybe you can find out, but do any big ponds actually want him? As far as I know, and I don't know much about this kid at all, but from what I understand no one actually wanted or recruited him. Has that changed now?

hawkwing wrote:

Wade is an intriguing case, because he was a good high school prospect, he was Mr. Basketball, as BroncoBot points out, but he also had only one legitimate D1 offer, Gonzaga. At Gonzaga he's been largely irrelevant.



Is he better than Dastrup? No. Getting him in place of Dastrup would be a net loss. But having him come in as a walk-on to be a 2nd or 3rd string PG could be intriguing.



If he weren't to go to BYU would he go to any kind of big time program? I doubt it. Most likely a very low tier D1 program or a D2.

A lot of that IMHO, was he gave a early verbal to Gonzaga back in 2013.



Where has it been reported that he is transferring to UVU? Last I had heard by second hand (maybe even 3rd) sources that he was likely to transfer to BYU.

Gunk wrote:

Wade goes to UVU.



We don't need him at BYU.

This is just a guess (and not a bad one).



Wade has not made any official announcements about possible destinations yet.

snoscythe wrote:

We won't get him.



We prefer Weber State and D-II castoffs.

the extreme cynicism around the message board fanbase is funny to a degree but is getting old. By the way, remind me which Weber State or D2 transfers got a scholarship. I can't think of a D2 transfer. Cannon is still a walkon.

BlueK wrote:

We won't get him.



We prefer Weber State and D-II castoffs.

the extreme cynicism around the message board fanbase is funny to a degree but is getting old. By the way, remind me which Weber State or D2 transfers got a scholarship. I can't think of a D2 transfer. Cannon is still a walkon.

To be fair, some of our better guards of late (Carlino, Bryant) were transfers.