I felt good about it until I read your pro vs con list.
Pros and Cons
1. I agree
2.
Blue Blood: certainly Kansas would qualify under most any measure as a Blue Blood. But after looking at the results of the last seven years they made 1 final four. With all of that talent, still have to reload and remesh. (Don’t get me wrong, everyone on this board would have killed for the same results for the
Good Guys.) But I would think if he wanted to go to a blue blood, his prime interests are a shot to make it to the final four and to enhance his changes at the next level. Kansas is reloading again. They are losing three of their best in Lawson, Grimes and Dotson. No doubt they will be good, but probably not as good as last year, no shoe in for Final 4. And I think Antigua offsets any claim to an advantage on preparation for the next level.
3.
Staying in Texas and playing for the National runner up: Texas Tech, “National Champion Runner Up” has the prospect to completely fall off it’s perch. Didn’t realize it, but Tech was playing 4, count’em, four red shirt seniors last year, any they weren’t practice players. They used basically a 8 man rotation, and including Jarrett Culver (declared for the draft) they are losing 5 or the top six players in the rotation in every category. Moretti, arguably their 2d most valuable is the only of their top six returning. They could win the Farthest to Fall award. As far as staying in Texas. Lubbock is almost as close to Denver as SFA (and that is to say, it’s a long way). And no offense to all you West Texans, but Lubbock is not my first choice of vacation spots and isn’t anything like Nacogdoches (SFA), where you can get to Dallas, Houston, Austin, Shreveport, La reasonably efficiently. He would be much closer to New Mexico (where he is from). But I don’t believe location will be much of key in this recruitment.
Then again, having come from the Midwest and having spent time in Lubbock, none of these will stand out for their unique natural beauty (Plains/Prairie, corn, soybeans, cotton . . .), and I would add that Lubbock was named
The Weather Channel’s Worst Weather City and U of I is always near the top of the best party campuses.
And then again, this is my evaluation, who knows what TJH is thinking. Hopefully he is a guy that likes long term relationships.
Hope this makes you feel a little better.