2026 Recruiting

[DRK331]

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The 2025 A-10 Regular Season Championship trophy on display! It's helping with recruiting!

 

[gmujim92]

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Here are pics of Shane Pendergrass' visit on Instagram

The 2025 A-10 Regular Season Championship trophy on display! It's helping with recruiting!

Got a very good feeling about this one. Pendergrass and Mason are a perfect fit for about a gazillion reasons.

 

[mbush]

Got a very good feeling about this one. Pendergrass and Mason are a perfect fit for about a gazillion reasons.

From your lips to God's ears.

 

[gmutom]

Pendergrass and Mason are a perfect fit for about a gazillion reasons.

Unfortunately, we don't have a gazillion dollars.

 

[gmujim92]

Unfortunately, we don't have a gazillion dollars.

Not yet, my friend. Gotta keep hope alive.

 

[mkaufman1]

Official Visit Tracker:

Name	Height	Weight	Position	Date of Visit	Recruit Ranking/Status
Jaen Chatman	6'1"	190 lb	PG / Combo Guard	George Mason – part of upcoming schedule (exact dates not stated; amid visits in late Aug–mid Sept)	247Sports Composite rating of 88; National ~194, PG ~27; 4-star level

Name	Height​	Weight​	Position	Date of Visit	Recruit Ranking/Status	Source
Shane Pendergrass (2026)	6'9​	200​	F	Early September 2025 (weekend; exact dates not publicly posted)	Consensus 4-star	Recruit social confirming an official visit to George Mason; plus On3 report that he set official visits in September. (X (formerly Twitter), On3)

Have we ever had OV's from multiple 4* players in the same season?! Actually, how many 4* players have we even had - Copes and Justyn Fernandez? Was Kanga?

I wonder if the recruiters like Skinn have a better shot at getting these kids who would almost always go high major due to the portal and making a pitch - come here, play early and earn a promotion/paycheck by transferring up.

I'd have to look but I have to imagine Kim English had multiple 4 star visitors over the course of his 2 years. Not sure where some guys were ranked off the top of my head, but I remember there being top 100 type guys for sure.

Also, yes with how the market moves now its basically these types of situations:

1) come at the mid major level, play, do well, move up in a year or two
2) go high major, warm the bench, move down after a year or two
3) be a low major, do well, move up to a higher major after a year or two

I sound like a broken record but as much as we hate the roster rotation and lack of loyalty, an A10 / midmajor program is right in the sweet spot to benefit from this type of movement.