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Derek Piper @DPiperScout 15m15 minutes ago
Hearing MSU plans to visit Mr. Basketball Mark Smith tomorrow. Duke says they're coming this week. #Illini will see him again too.
Wow.
Derek Piper @DPiperScout 15m15 minutes ago
Hearing MSU plans to visit Mr. Basketball Mark Smith tomorrow. Duke says they're coming this week. #Illini will see him again too.
Oh we need Duke involved in this like a hole in the head
Oh we need Duke involved in this like a hole in the head
Oh we need Duke involved in this like a hole in the head
Goodness gracious has Mark Smith's recruitment been nuts. It feels similar to Anthony Davis' did.
Loyola? Dan Muller and the Illinois State Redbirds will be the premiere team in the MVC for the next couple of years.
Oh we need Duke involved in this like a hole in the head
No joke, Loyola is going to be tough. They've got Chastain back from the knee injury, Donte Ingram who started at Simeon during DJ and Murrow's junior year will be back, Henricksen picked Krutwig over Tilmon on his All-State team and says Krutwig is the best passing big man he's seen since he started scouting (plus the kid is a monster, looks like a pro wrestler), Negron had legit high d1 interest and Lucas Williamson just led Young to a state championship and might have had the best state finals weekend along with Horton-Tucker of anybody down there. With Wichita State gone, Loyola might be in the Dance next year, two years at the most if the class stays together.
Could be shades of the early 60's again, when Loyola became the only school in the State of Illinois to ever win an NCAA championship (makes me sad to type that), not that I'm saying that will happen, but they are going to be legitimately good.
Mark Smith is very good. But his recruitment has gotten insane. Like he's the flavor of the month and everyone wants a taste. I'd expect this sort of hoopla for a one and done recruit, but for Smith?
Not disrespecting the kid at all. He'd be a major coup for us. Just nuts how Duke wants in now.
If Tom Izzo, John Calipari, and Mike Krzyzewski are this interested, I'd say he's more than just a flavor of the month.
The late interest in primarily a product of it being late in the recruiting period. There aren't many recruits that had such little interest with amount of talent he has. The blue bloods are jumping on that opportunity to fill one of their departing spots.
Something tells me OA makes this recruiting game one in which we finally are dressing for the Varsity squad. OA having the direct knowledge of UK and the Blue Blood's recruiting process benefits us now that he is talking with Smith on our behalf. I just have a good feeling about it. It's just a feeling.
It could just be the RedBull.
Mark Smith is very good. But his recruitment has gotten insane. Like he's the flavor of the month and everyone wants a taste. I'd expect this sort of hoopla for a one and done recruit, but for Smith?
Not disrespecting the kid at all. He'd be a major coup for us. Just nuts how Duke wants in now.
Mark Smith is a backup plan of Trevon Duval for Duke. Hope he understands that.
UK just got Jemarl Baker committed, and they are not in short of talented guards for next season at all.
Good point. Which is what I was getting at. Kinda like the transfer window when teams fall all over themselves to fill spots. Speaks more about the market than the talent available.
Again, not dissing Smith. He's very good. But this late recruiting window, like you mentioned, is certainly a big factor.
Coincidence that since Antigua was hired things have shifted away from MSU a bit? And Illinois is 'back in it?'
Again, that could just be the process playing itself out but wouldn't shock me if Antigua already has had an impact.