Same account that called Diallo to Kansas and Ingram to Duke is calling Jaylen Brown to Kentucky. Now we wait. https://t.co/GNM5TzEv3M
— The Big Blue Nation (@KentuckyFanClub) May 1, 2015
Weren’t those announcements basically foregone conclusions? I didn’t follow the Diallo recruitment, but I read that by the end Kansas was a heavy favorite. And Ingram to Duke was no secret.
Yesterday, Snow said gun to my head its Michigan, wonder if he would still say the same today
Kiss of death…
Same account that called Diallo to Kansas and Ingram to Duke is calling Jaylen Brown to Kentucky. Now we wait. https://t.co/GNM5TzEv3M
— The Big Blue Nation (@KentuckyFanClub) May 1, 2015You realize that is referencing the straighthoops tweet from earlier right? Or are you just pointing out the specifics that this twitter also called Diallo to KU and Ingram to Duke?
You got it
A propos, one of Bacari’s most recent inspiration tweets is about not wasting your days. Ironic that this recruitment has caused me to waste a few of mine.
I’ve been saying it all along, but some of you guys are getting too emotionally invested in this recruitment; you’re only setting yourself up for disappointment if/when Brown doesn’t choose UM. I learned my lesson after Dashawn Hand picked Alabama over us. No point in caring what happens until it happens. I won’t lie and say I won’t be disappointed if we don’t get JB, but there are a few on this board that won’t be able to sleep at night.
All momentum seems to be with UK now.
Honestly, fuck Kentucky. First they have a fluke 3 point shooting game including a buzzer beater to knock us out. Then they seemingly get to hand pick whatever 5 star recruit they want year in and year out.
What I’ve learned through following basketball recruiting for over 2 decades is this…perception = reality to a large degree irrelevant of system, fit, etc. Whatever the ‘it’ school is at the moment is where recruits flock. UNLV in the mid-late 80s. UM for the early-mid 90s…UK ever since Cal got there.
Yes, yes, it’s highly flawed etc. But…
I’m surprised Crystal Balls haven’t started to shift (other than one Indiana guy who’s already flip flopped a couple times this week).
Now that I’ve said that, I’m sure they’ll start.
any chance kid really wants to go to Kentucky… family/others pushing him towards adidas/um? know article a while back said family said anywhere but kentucky (which to an 18 year old means go to kentucky) but kid has different desire for the “it” school
I’m hoping that his camp just got annoyed by all the momentum going to UM since they were trying to keep the decision quiet and are just throwing out some stuff about going to UK to get the momentum even.
I hope BA retweets/ tweets something tommorow along the lines of welcoming new members to the family…read into that!
He’s still going the other way. Half an hour ago, he tweeted this:
“It does not matter how slow you go as long as you never stop pushing on.”
well things are simple now… we just gotta go beat kentucky in the tournament next year
The younger generation is into marketing. It is in their DNA. Like others have suggested, it is creating of buzz and mystery around his recruitment to reveal his decision slowly. I really believe it will come down to UM and Kentucky. Not because he hasn’t already decided but because it is great marketing to turn down Kentucky for the school (UM) that didn’t even make the tournament. Voltron__blue and I must be drinking from the same batch of koolaid…I have no worries…
if UK, any chance max comes back?
hmmmmmm
Would anybody else be let down after the dust settles and we don't come away with Brown or Williams? Not necessarily that we absolutely need them (OK, we do need Brown), but just the anticlimactic nature of it all. Just seems like no matter what we can't get our primary targets these past 2 years
I would be disappointed from the perspective of that Michigan was only in on Brown since September. Maybe if Michigan made Brown a bigger priority say a year ago or more it’s quite possible they would be in better standing. I know they’re in the “final 2” but why wasn’t he a bigger priority earlier? Michigan isn’t even recruiting at the level of a few years ago when they brought in Burke, McGary, Stauskas, Robinson, Irvin and Walton. Some may want to ignore it but recruiting has to improve a lot imo.
http://chat.virginia.sportswar.com/message_board/basketball/2015/May/1/6351659.phphmmmmmm
wow
http://chat.virginia.sportswar.com/message_board/basketball/2015/May/1/6351659.phphmmmmmm
wow
Dont know if true or not, but everyone else seems to post things that might not be reliable so there ya go!
When it comes to Kentucky, they just run a completely different type of program than we do. Even if you disregard the cheating - and I’m positive it exists in many cases - it’s basically professional basketball. They have a dorm almost exclusively dedicated to their basketball team, the players are treated like local celebrities (which comes in large part from not having any pro teams), and I’m sure no one is going to class or doing their own work.
Michigan’s program was once run very similar to that, and once those facts came to light, the people running the University put a stop to it and mandated a different direction. Whether that was the right thing to do - especially from a competitive standpoint - is certainly subject to debate. And it does make you wonder what would have happened if Rick Pitino hadn’t changed his mind about the Michigan job. But in any event, that’s the landscape. I think we have a lot to offer prospective basketball players - great coaching, great facilities, great education, great basketball conference, great alumni network later in life - but we don’t treat our guys like pros, and we don’t let other people treat them like pros. So, most of the things that appeal to 18 year olds will be in far greater supply at Kentucky. And heck, if I were 18 and felt very strongly I had a long NBA career ahead of me, doing it the easy way for a year or two might be really appealing.
And I’m not saying that’s what every kid who picks Kentucky wants, though it was curious that Luke Kennard - while growing up a huge Kentucky fan - picked Duke. (And I recall Shane Battier picking Duke because he said he felt he didn’t “fit in” with the Michigan players). It’s entirely possible Jaylen Brown only cares about playing with the best players he can, on the biggest stage he can, and that’s Kentucky. But if 8/10 of the team came to Kentucky to get treated like a pro athlete, well, that’s the culture, even if not every kid picks Kentucky for that reason.
That’s why I don’t think anyone should worry about losing recruits to Kentucky. They really do play by an entirely different set of rules.