Travon Landry leaving Alabama...

#1
bleedingTNorange

bleedingTNorange

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jan 9, 2012
Messages
73,783
Likes
49,532
#1
Will be transferring to the national powerhouse Huntington Prep in West Virginia.

Will be joining UT targets Xavier Rathan-Mayes and Moses Kingsley there, along with top 2014 prospect Andrew Wiggins.

He will be playing VERY good competition, and will be playing with basically a college starting 5. Will be interesting to see how he performs, he really seems to be a limited offensive PG, but a great passer, leader and defender "true PG".

If we can surround him with guys like hubbs then we wont need his scoring. Will definitely be interesting to see how he does at Huntington Prep this year.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
#2
#2
bleedingTNorange said:
Will be transferring to the national powerhouse Huntington Prep in West Virginia.

Will be joining UT targets Xavier Rathan-Mayes and Moses Kingsley there, along with top 2014 prospect Andrew Wiggins.

He will be playing VERY good competition, and will be playing with basically a college starting 5. Will be interesting to see how he performs, he really seems to be a limited offensive PG, but a great passer, leader and defender "true PG".

If we can surround him with guys like hubbs then we wont need his scoring. Will definitely be interesting to see how he does at Huntington Prep this year.
Click to expand...

Who is this Hubbs? I've seen him mentioned, but personally I can't keep up with bball and football recruiting. If you are able to post links that would be great.
 
#3
#3
Andrew Wiggins, Xavier Rathan-Mayes, Dominic Woodson, Moses Kingsley, and now Travon Landry. I wonder how that team would do in the SEC.
 
#5
#5
GatorsGators said:
Andrew Wiggins, Xavier Rathan-Mayes, Dominic Woodson, Moses Kingsley, and now Travon Landry. I wonder how that team would do in the SEC.
Click to expand...

That team is absolutely stacked, I'm very interested to see how Landry does. He prefers to facilitate and hell have his opportunity to do that all season playing with those guys.
 
#9
#9
bleedingTNorange said:
That team is absolutely stacked, I'm very interested to see how Landry does. He prefers to facilitate and hell have his opportunity to do that all season playing with those guys.
Click to expand...

Probably will be good from the "facilitate" standpoint, but I was looking forward to seeing if Landry could step up and carry the load for Bob Jones this year. They lost two all-state players offer the Alabama runner up and the probably needed Landry to "be the man". Now he goes back to a support role.

Of course, now he's in position to recruit one of the four top 100 players on the Huntington roster.
 
#11
#11
BTO - you probably keep up with this stuff as much as anyone. Does the Clearinghouse still ding you for multiple transfers? This would be Landry's fourth school in four years.

bleedingTNorange said:
Will be transferring to the national powerhouse Huntington Prep in West Virginia.

Will be joining UT targets Xavier Rathan-Mayes and Moses Kingsley there, along with top 2014 prospect Andrew Wiggins.

He will be playing VERY good competition, and will be playing with basically a college starting 5. Will be interesting to see how he performs, he really seems to be a limited offensive PG, but a great passer, leader and defender "true PG".

If we can surround him with guys like hubbs then we wont need his scoring. Will definitely be interesting to see how he does at Huntington Prep this year.
Click to expand...
 
#12
#12
germanicus said:
BTO - you probably keep up with this stuff as much as anyone. Does the Clearinghouse still ding you for multiple transfers? This would be Landry's fourth school in four years.
Click to expand...

It definitely makes things a bit more difficult, with that said id be shocked if Landry had trouble getting into school.
 
#13
#13
germanicus said:
BTO - you probably keep up with this stuff as much as anyone. Does the Clearinghouse still ding you for multiple transfers? This would be Landry's fourth school in four years.
Click to expand...

It may help that the other schools aren't NCAA. I could also be completely wrong
 
#14
#14
Chris4Vols22 said:
It may help that the other schools aren't NCAA. I could also be completely wrong
Click to expand...

What do you mean aren't NCAA?

What he's saying is lots of times it's had to get cleared when you played for multiple High schools. Your transcript becomes a mess and lots of times its a red flag to the clearing house.

This will be landrys 4th high school in 4 years so he's wondering if the NCAA clearing house will give him trouble when enrolling into college.
 
#17
#17
Still think Landry can be a fine SEC point guard.
 
#19
#19
zjcvols said:
Still think Landry can be a fine SEC point guard.
Click to expand...

If we land Hubbs and Nichols I have no problem with Landry. If we got those two we would just need him to be able to get them the ball and play lock down D.
 
#20
#20
bleedingTNorange said:
Why are you wanting to add another PG this class then? Wouldn't it be better to add another big than a 2nd PG if you feel Landry is the answer?
Click to expand...

I believe I have said I want both. I want more of a combo guard than a point guard.
 
#21
#21
CAVol said:
If we land Hubbs and Nichols I have no problem with Landry. If we got those two we would just need him to be able to get them the ball and play lock down D.
Click to expand...

This is exactly how I feel. I've wanted Newkirk and still absolutely do, but I feel Landry can work if we land the elite guys to surround him with.
 
#22
#22
zjcvols said:
I believe I have said I want both. I want more of a combo guard than a point guard.
Click to expand...

You want a combo guard in addition to Landry to play the point, or you want a combo guard that will play both the 1&2 and just Landry at the point?

Cause I know you've said you wanted Newkirk, but Newkirk isn't a combo guard. At 6' even hes going to be strictly a PG in college so bringing in both guys is just bringing in 2 PGs.
 
#23
#23
bleedingTNorange said:
You want a combo guard in addition to Landry to play the point, or you want a combo guard that will play both the 1&2 and just Landry at the point?

Cause I know you've said you wanted Newkirk, but Newkirk isn't a combo guard. At 6' even hes going to be strictly a PG in college so bringing in both guys is just bringing in 2 PGs.
Click to expand...

I think it'd be nice to have Newkirk. I don't think I've said I want him as bad as you do.

I would like a combo guard. Like Golden, if we had another viable option at point guard. I like versatility.
 
#24
#24
zjcvols said:
I think it'd be nice to have Newkirk. I don't think I've said I want him as bad as you do.

I would like a combo guard. Like Golden, if we had another viable option at point guard. I like versatility.
Click to expand...

No you haven't said it as much as I have, but you definitely did recently say you want him in this class. I would like Newkirk definitely, but more in exchange for Landry, than along with him, I only want to bring in one PG given the numbers this year and needs.

We have Armani who I expect will be good, probably more so next year, and he's a textbook combo guard who already has a SEC body. We need scorers, and we need bigs, I like bringing in one PG to learn behind golden for a year and then were also in on a few really good 14' PGs as well so you don't want a log jam there.

Right now with stokes staying...either Landry/Newkirk, hubbs, Nichols, one of jw3/Agau/Rimmer/ringer...I'd be VERY pleased, and if stokes leaves add either another scorer like Crawford, Davis, Stephens or another big like Edwards possibly.
 
#25
#25
hmm.

Sorry guys, really just an opinion so don't ban me lol

IMO, I think he looks at upping his stock on a bigger stage. It's all preperation to play with better competition on a bigger stage so you are more college / SEC ready but i think if Martin continues having success, we aim for a more elite PG. Landry has nothing to lose and only gain by doing this but all I see is a quality backup. He has a ton of potential and I haven't seen him much but I still think we aim higher in that department.

Anyways, great move because that's a great school! Does anyone know why he has changed schools so much in the past? Just curious
 
Last edited:
New posts
You must log in or register to reply here.

VN Store



Back
Top