Oakland lands a big guy with high-major offers. Interesting.
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According to the article Cisse hasn’t visited Oakland, which makes a whole lot of sense to me.
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Maybe he thought the Oakland of Golden Grizzlies fame was in Oakland-on-the-Bay Oakland and figured he’d get to rub elbows with Klay, Stephen, and the rest of the Warriors. Or maybe he’s heard all about that hot hot hot Rochester night-life and thought he’d give it a shot.
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Cisse, a native of Senegal who played in France before arriving at Hillcrest in January, comes to Oakland from the same prep school as Micah Parrish, who excelled at Oakland this past season as a freshman.
That makes a bit more sense…I guess. That’s still a lot of trust to put in a former teammate. Also, props to the recruiting coordinator at the kid’s prep school for not taking the bag to steer his player to a bigger school.
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If I recall, the recruiting coordinator also cites the existence of the transfer portal/one-time transfer rule in their reasoning. Pretty funny stuff.
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I thought that at first, but given that his former HS teammate went to OU, surely he knows where it is.
Very interesting.
Now, I don’t think this is happening in this case, not for one bit. But it does bring something to mind:
It wouldn’t surprise me to see some mid-level program that we’ve heard the name of but is otherwise totally unremarkable begin to emerge as a power, particularly in basketball, as a wealthy alum or fan with significant public business decides that they want to hire athletes to endorse his business on the regular.
I mean, we will doubtless see this for larger programs, but I’m talking about some program like, say, Southern Illinois Edwardsville, that has an alum that made it big in software security and loves basketball, and decides to pump $3 million into the program every year to have 3-4 guys do promotional events and stockholder meetings with him. Suddenly you have a program punching well above its recruiting weight on the regular, and even guys that aren’t getting serious deals want to play there because they’ll win a lot of games and make the tournament.
Not the case here. But in basketball all it takes is a couple of key players. It won’t surprise me to see a couple of unusual names start to challenge for the Sweet Sixteen every year.
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high-major offers
quote unquote. he definitely didn’t have committable high-major offers
I wonder if the transfer rule will lead to MM+/MM type of prospects, the ones who would sometimes do a prep year in the NEPSAC or something like that, just going to a lesser college and trying to show out and then up transfer.
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I hope, Mr King, that you are right about some random mid majors getting serious and irrational support. That would be so fun.
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Going be a lot of early season betting value against Memphis………
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Hopefully some of the franchises here step up for the athletes at Michigan.
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I guess some schools were already buying players; there was nothing even or fair about college sports to begin with. I accept w.o. reservation that players were being exploited.
But I don’t think we’re gonna love what we end up with.
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Man the PK80 was just yesterday
Pretty sure I just lost four years of my life when I realized that the PK80 was in 2017. 
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Holy moly…
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Big East willing to take a guaranteed loss with three teams?
I mean, Xavier would lose games anyway but still conferences usually don’t sent multiple teams to 8 team events.
Hunter talks about how restrictive um policies are compared to others. Its really started to hurt um football recruiting. Will be interesting if it starts to hurt basketball recruiting and player retention.
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Frustrating. He sounds pretty miffed about it too.