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2026 Recruiting: Dylan Mingo breaks down visits; dives into upcoming officials & commitment timeline

Lafayette said:
In all seriousness I think Mingo is overrated. His writeup on 247 was kinda rough. Maybe just by size and physicality he can grow into an amazing combo guard, if his mechanics are not fluid and his turnover ratio is higher than others, it's weak class.
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Many have suggested that, in most years, he’s maybe a top 20 guy. Obviously he wants to be compensated like a top 5 though. Next.
 
Hearing talk that his brother who's a freshman at Penn State could be a one and done (or at most a two and done), and I thought he was the lesser talented of the two Mingos? Imagine the nickname potential, The Two A-Mingos, if they played together at Penn State?
 
Baylor, NC State or Penn State. Seems like a strange list for a top 10 ranked player. I get why Penn State because of his brother. Baylor for a NY kid is a little strange but I can buy the Edgecombe angle. NC State, not sure what the angle there is. And no Blue bloods heavily involved after UConn dropped out. So what is Mingo looking for? Assurances on playing time and leading the team? Top dollar?

5-star PG Dylan Mingo​

Dylan Mingo has not announced his visits until the Wednesday before he takes them. So far, Washington, Miami, UConn, Alabama, Penn State, and Baylor have hosted him. He announced a visit to NC State for this weekend, and is currently looking to visit UNC next week(end). I am also told that the lines of communication are still open with him and Oklahoma. Speaking with sources around the recruitment, Baylor and Penn State both have draws for Mingo. Baylor is where former high school teammate VJ Edgecombe went, and Penn State is where his brother, Kayden Mingo, is currently a freshman. One source I spoke with recently told me they are watching this upcoming NC State visit closely. While a commitment date has not been announced, 2026’s top PG has said that he is not rushing it, but would like it to be done before his season starts.
Prediction: NC State / Baylor
Confidence Level: 35%
Biggest Threat: Penn State

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HooperScooper said:
"This kid"? Are you saying there's something concerning with Mingo that we don't know about?
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Biggest concerns are that he doesn’t care about winning in his one year, he cares primarily about a showcase stage & NIL. You could sniff this out with him for awhile now. I’m starting to think the only reason Hurley recruited him is because he was local and LIL. He feels like the anti Dan Hurley recruit.
 
HooperScooper said:
Probably. But couldn't he have gotten a lot of money at better programs?
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I honestly think that the top, top guys couldn't care less where they go nowadays. It's all about the immediate $$, because they will be lottery picks regardless. Be a big fish somewhere, put up #'s, go 21-11 and build a hype train, lose in the 2nd round, and then be a lottery pick. The whole system is broken. Castle was an anomaly—a guy who was willing to be a 4th option on a big team. I'm curious, in retrospect, if Castle would've committed here if he was being recruited with his final ranking and not his committed ranking. He verballed as the #27 recruit in the country. He entered school as #9.
 
boog204 said:
I honestly think that the top, top guys couldn't care less where they go nowadays. It's all about the immediate $$, because they will be lottery picks regardless.
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This has nothing to do with Mingo, but I don't get this logic. If you're a guaranteed lottery pick why would you give a about the NIL money you make in your 8 months on campus? You're going to be signing a big ticket in a couple months. I would think NIL would be a much bigger draw for kids whose long-term earnings potential in the league is more uncertain.
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
This has nothing to do with Mingo, but I don't get this logic. If you're a guaranteed lottery pick why would you give a about the NIL money you make in your 8 months on campus? You're going to be signing a big ticket in a couple months. I would think NIL would be a much bigger draw for kids whose long-term earnings potential in the league is more uncertain.
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Correct and some kids care about winning their one year in college and care about the school they're choosing.
 
BigErnMcCracken said:
This has nothing to do with Mingo, but I don't get this logic. If you're a guaranteed lottery pick why would you give a about the NIL money you make in your 8 months on campus? You're going to be signing a big ticket in a couple months. I would think NIL would be a much bigger draw for kids whose long-term earnings potential in the league is more uncertain.
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I think there are a lot of guys who couldn't care less about "winning." Just over the last few years, you've had top guys each year like Dybansta, Ace Bailey, and Harper, Collier to USC, and Williams to Colorado, Nick Smith to Arkansas, Chet, Patrick Baldwin, etc. I think there are more and more guys who are just looking for the highest bidder because it doesn't really matter.

This year, you have Crowe to Missouri, Mingo perhaps to Penn State. I think it's going to happen more and more.

Granted, there are other factors at times (Mingo and PSU, for example), but I think a lot of top guys want to go to a place where they are clearly the #1 option, get paid, and then they get out. Mingo wouldn't necessarily be the obvious #1 guy if he came here, and he'd have a maniac pushing him to places he's never been before.
 
are all the top guys supposed to go to the same schools? when guys committed to Hurley when he hadn't won anything did they not care about winning? I wonder what a Boneyard would have looked like when Calhoun was building the program and trying to convince guys to go to a school and play for a coach who hadn't won anything.
 
boog204 said:
I think there are a lot of guys who couldn't care less about "winning." Just over the last few years, you've had top guys each year like Dybansta, Ace Bailey, and Harper, Collier to USC, and Williams to Colorado, Nick Smith to Arkansas, Chet, Patrick Baldwin, etc. I think there are more and more guys who are just looking for the highest bidder because it doesn't really matter.

This year, you have Crowe to Missouri, Mingo perhaps to Penn State. I think it's going to happen more and more.

Granted, there are other factors at times (Mingo and PSU, for example), but I think a lot of top guys want to go to a place where they are clearly the #1 option, get paid, and then they get out. Mingo wouldn't necessarily be the obvious #1 guy if he came here, and he'd have a maniac pushing him to places he's never been before.
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Sure, some kids only care about money but a lot of them also want to win. BYU probably offered the most money to Dybantsa but I'm sure he also thinks he can win a title there, the team is loaded.

Harper's brother went to Rutgers and Harper became close friends with Bailey. They wanted to be a package deal at Rutgers and I'm sure they thought they were good enough to win. Arkansas was coming off back to back elite 8's when Nick Smith went there and he was a part of the #2 recruiting class in the country with Anthony Black and Jordan Walsh. Patrick Baldwin chose to play for his father. Who is Chet? Chet Holmgren is the only Chet I know of and he went to Gonzaga which is a perennial power and went to two title games.
 
boog204 said:
I think there are a lot of guys who couldn't care less about "winning." Just over the last few years, you've had top guys each year like Dybansta, Ace Bailey, and Harper, Collier to USC, and Williams to Colorado, Nick Smith to Arkansas, Chet, Patrick Baldwin, etc. I think there are more and more guys who are just looking for the highest bidder because it doesn't really matter.

This year, you have Crowe to Missouri, Mingo perhaps to Penn State. I think it's going to happen more and more.

Granted, there are other factors at times (Mingo and PSU, for example), but I think a lot of top guys want to go to a place where they are clearly the #1 option, get paid, and then they get out. Mingo wouldn't necessarily be the obvious #1 guy if he came here, and he'd have a maniac pushing him to places he's never been before.
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Though connections seem to always abound when hearing the recruiting story, apparently Crowe Sr. and Dennis Gates shared a coaching connection back in the early 2000s with the Clips.

Missouri basketball recruit Jason Crowe to play in Norm Stewart Classic Missouri basketball fans won’t need to wait until 2026 to see 5-star recruit at Mizzou Arena
 
aceboon said:
are all the top guys supposed to go to the same schools? when guys committed to Hurley when he hadn't won anything did they not care about winning? I wonder what a Boneyard would have looked like when Calhoun was building the program and trying to convince guys to go to a school and play for a coach who hadn't won anything.
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Of course not... I'm just finding the lists of some of these guys getting stranger and stranger, and obviously, there is a vast difference between an OAD type and Jalen Gaffney.

And I also in no way blame anyone for going somewhere where the NIL is peaked. I would do the same thing, and if I had a child in that situation, I would tell them the same. The ultimate goal of all of these kids of that caliber, I'd think, is to get to the NBA, not to win an NCAA title.
 
RuffRuff said:
Prefer 247, and not sure when they updated, but On3 has Mingo up to the number 2 player in the class. The Raitliff's have also skyrocketed.

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On3 trying to be different. That’s their MO even in football. They do a lot of things to drive engagement and this ranking surely will drive conversation.

Crower at 17 and Jordan Smith at 10 is laughable.
 
HW611 said:
On3 trying to be different. That’s their MO even in football. They do a lot of things to drive engagement and this ranking surely will drive conversation.

Crower at 17 and Jordan Smith at 10 is laughable.
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they ranked Bryce James as a top 100 recruit for the 2025 class when no one else was shameless enough to do so
 
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