DublW has what UF needs. White's crummy if he doesn't recruit this guy convincingly.
1) WW is an inside "presence" -- the kind UF can't seem to attract out of H.S.
2) You can see that Walker plays "big-man" style = gets the ball and forces his defenders back toward the basket, then scores or passes for layup assists.
3) WW causes defenses to collapse inside because they fear our "inside guy" will score. This opens paths for a driver to score.
4) *** He's got two years eligibility remaining and high likelihood of staying for both.(build around that some)
5) per game 11 points ('16-'17 seasons) 6 rebs ; not static stats = inside presents from our "inside presence"
6) he's adept at dribbling & crafty at passing assists.
7) ** among the tall trees, Wyatt does not back down = it isn't futile to pass it in to WW (like with Hayes or Gak.)
8) he's got full experience ... against enough respected teams.
9) It's a position we've been a black hole with the last several years.!!
First of all, remember a bit after this time last year UF fans were talking about Pitt grad transfer Cameron Johnson who had two years left. He also flirted with UK but ended up at UNC where after an early season injury he has done well. Koulechov did not come on to our radar here until a week or so after Johnson.
Second, I agree with many of your points though Bart's point about health is very important. I am trying to find an actual article that says when he was injured, but no luck so far.
Third remember above I said this:
Wyatt Walker is listed 6'9" 240 lbs. Back of the envelope calculations based on Barry and Koulechov's numbers and how much they fell off coming to UF suggest Walker would be about at 8.5 points per game and 7.8 rebound per game guy in about 23 minutes per game of play for UF.
Of course the caveat with all of these guys is the something about their quickness, defense etc that would cause them not to translate to high D1 at all.
Well I calculated his numbers in his games against better competition. He had 8 games in his two years against NMSU, Cincy, St. Louis, FSU, UL, UTx, UNL and UAR. In those 8 games he averaged 26 min, 9.1 points, 7.4 rebounds and 0.75 assists per game while shooting 52% from the field and 65% from the FT line. So that is two ways of looking at what UF might get from him and they basically agree.
I think he is a better FT shooter than that as this is a small sample and he just sent 1-4 in one game and really was not fouled in several games. The lack of drawing fouls might be a concern, but might because Samford as out manned going 2-6 in those games and you defend without fouling if you can. This sample of games also includes his first game of his frosh year and a couple of other early games that year where he had not quite established himself yet so his minutes were in the teens, so maybe he would be slightly better at UF.
Still overall I think the two methods giving similar results is interesting. One can quibble about NMSU and St. Louis being good enough to include in this sample and Walker was better than his averages against these two opponents. NMSU was an NCAA team but a 13 seed that year. To me the question is are they similar to whomever is at the bottom of the SEC each year. NMSU is in the WAC and St. Louis U is in the A10 so they are midmajors not high majors. Then again all 8 games are road games so maybe his numbers would be better with half or more of his games at home as they would be at UF.