Not necessarily, Groce wants depth at the big spots. If Tilmon only stays 2 years, then both he, Finke & Black are gone, leaving you only a junior Kiir and a sophomore Wooten
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Not necessarily, Groce wants depth at the big spots. If Tilmon only stays 2 years, then both he, Finke & Black are gone, leaving you only a junior Kiir and a sophomore Wooten
Piper pretty much confirmed on the Tay and J show yesterday that Abu was Oregon bound. Well so much for our Canadian pipleine.
FWIW Wooten is a terrific athlete. Haven't looked into him too much and I'm guessing he's on the raw side but dude has some bounce
We should do well in this recruitment against the likes of Utah, Washington State and UTEP.
Doubt it means much other than were just covering our bases.
Piper pretty much confirmed on the Tay and J show yesterday that Abu was Oregon bound. Well so much for our Canadian pipleine.
There is a real pipeline from Canada to U of I. It just so happens that the end of the line is in Oregon. We're nothing more than a railroad stop for these guys, i.e.DILLON BROOKS, DYLAN ENNIS, and soon to be Kigab.
Unfortunately, "base case" is that we miss on all three. FWIW, a few UCLA diehards out here are very optimistic on getting Wilkes.
Not sure what it means, but we could still use 2 bigs, miss on Wilkes & Kigab which seems likely...we would have room for both Kiir & Wooten.
I thought we had a decent shot at Kiir, but alas, looks like 0 for 3 is a foregone conclusion now.
We need another big from somewhere. This Wooten looks like a good player.
It didn't work out very well between us, SLU, and NW for another recruit. Do we have a lot to offer? Sure. What does he want at the end of the day? Not sure.
We could go for another grad transfer if need be.
this is my thought as well Bigs are what we need the most, you cant stop trying to recruit. JG knows he has 2 spots still open so till they aren't he wont stop looking I don't believe
what makes you say we are out for Kir and Wilkes?
they are just glass half empty kind of people
After watching this its got me thinking Lowell Hamilton
Well, Wilkes because we were never in for Wilkes and that's been obvious to anyone paying attention this entire time. But for Kiir, if we're going around and handing out fresh offers to players we wouldn't take if we landed Kiir, not tough to see the writing on the wall.
Losing Kiir to VCU would suck, but look on the bright side, losing kids to lesser schools because we have a 5-star in their way gets filed under "good problems to have".
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http://www.modbee.com/sports/high-school/article76833727.html
MAY 10, 2016 3:42 PM
Wooten leaves Manteca High for Trinity International in Las Vegas
Kenny Wooten propelled the Manteca High School boys basketball program to its first CIF state championship, coining the slogan “For the City.”
With less than three weeks left in the school year, the springy 6-foot-9 forward – an All-District large-school and all-state MaxPreps Division III first-team selection – has left that city for another.
MAY 10, 2016 3:42 PM
Wooten leaves Manteca High for Trinity International in Las Vegas
Kenny Wooten propelled the Manteca High School boys basketball program to its first CIF state championship, coining the slogan “For the City.”
With less than three weeks left in the school year, the springy 6-foot-9 forward – an All-District large-school and all-state MaxPreps Division III first-team selection – has left that city for another.
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Wooten won't decide until the spring, so not sure his offer has anything to do with Kiir.
Heck, we lead in CBs with Kiir, have Meyer's vote and just picked up the most recent one less than a week ago.
we have 2 spots open even if we Land Kiir we still have room for one more be it wilkes abu epps or someone else.if we can get another good Big to go with Kiir and JT it would really help us down the road
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Indiana boards getting kind of ugly the last day or so as many of them are coming to that conclusion about Wilkes. Especially after one guy who had a CB to Indiana flipped it to UCLA yesterday.
http://247sports.com/PlayerInstitution/Kris-Wilkes-at-North-Central-58314/CurrentExpertPredictions
http://btownbanners.com/topic/3030-2017-sf-kris-wilkes-ov-930-102/?page=41
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Cody Riley just committed to UCLA. I like our chances with Wilkes
"Never in" is probably too strong, but making top 3, top 5, or even top 2 does not necessarily mean equal chances. We have made top 2 for Kigab, but everyone seems to think for sometime now that he is going to Oregon. So the same question could be asked, why haven't we been eliminated already?
I think the answer to this question for all of these recruits (not just these two) is that you are dealing with 17-18 yr-old kids who like to make announcements.
"Never in" is probably too strong, but making top 3, top 5, or even top 2 does not necessarily mean equal chances. We have made top 2 for Kigab, but everyone seems to think for sometime now that he is going to Oregon. So the same question could be asked, why haven't we been eliminated already?
I think the answer to this question for all of these recruits (not just these two) is that you are dealing with 17-18 yr-old kids who like to make announcements.
Right. I was just saying because everyone talks about hating absolutes
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No idea if we land Wilkes or not, I still think UCLA is the front runner but I just really wanted to use that gif.
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