Something reeks..
He lives with the Camden kid and his family that just committed to Memphis yesterday.
Something reeks..
Not just the golf, but also the messaging: "Kid, with your game, I really think you're a one-and-done. I've been there; I know."Guess the golf course is where the best deals go down...
https://basketballrecruiting.rivals...k-down-commitment-of-four-star-jordan-nesbitt
Guess the golf course is where the best deals go down...
https://basketballrecruiting.rivals...k-down-commitment-of-four-star-jordan-nesbitt
Yeah but Penny was just giving him āthe real.āNot just the golf, but also the messaging: "Kid, with your game, I really think you're a one-and-done. I've been there; I know."
Penny, Juwan Howard, et.al.......
I was saying that also I think a lot of penny sells is the NBA to kids. come learn from a former all-star and a sharpshooter and play with other top recruits.From the last 10 years, Memphis Tigers have 1 guy in the NBA, UI has 2, so go figure.
Agreed. I want Underwood and staff to change absolutely nothing. Totally content with our current progress.No sour grapes...just stay confident and move on Brad. Development and production are the key metrics as we gain momentum...which we will.
How much does it take to buy a top-75 recruit these days? I'm asking for a friend
No sour grapes
This is really, really, really just another way of saying "recruiting is fluid." :noidea:"At first, I was really, really, really going to Illinois,"
C'mon guys...it's not like he was really, really, really, really going to Illinois!
Can we replace crystal balls with reallys?
My 2 cents.
What an absolute joke. Maybe Iām wearing orange tinted glasses here, but seriously? Letās just take a second and really look at this. Penny Hardaway was a great NBA player, donāt get me wrong. But what the hell has the guy done thatās bringing in these guys? Memphis!? I posted yesterday about Wiseman going there and then becoming ineligible and thereās a reason. This recruitment absolutely reeks. That Memphis program has reeked since Calipari was there. Youāre telling me a guy who has never coached anything but a high school team just walks into a mid tier D1 school and starts raking in talent? Something Tubby Smith couldnāt do a year earlier!? Ya know....Tubby Smith. A National Championship winning coach. What the hell changed for Memphis when they hired Penny!? Same facilities. Same arena. Same location. Why play for Tubby Smith when you can play for the next Coach K Anfernee Hardaway. Crazy how Penny had just helped Wiseman and his family out a year or two prior to getting hired. Not saying Penny had secret motives behind it, but itās crazy how of all people in the world he helped out, it just happened to be the #1 recruit in the whole country. Iām sure Memphis had no idea about that (sarcasm). And donāt tell me every program plays this game. Iām so sick of that excuse. I think Penny has taken a page out of his old coach from Blue Chipsā playbook. Give me a freaking break.
The way the selection committee likes to do things, you just may get your wish. Like to see it and prove to kids that B1G competition, coaching, and player development can Trump NBA hype.Hopefully Penny can develop talent and coach for the sake of all these kids heās recruiting. It will be a boatload of wasted talent if not. Also, I donāt see whatās happening at Memphis as being sustainable. I am happy with the system we have in place and our current trajectory.
That being said, Iād love to crush Memphis in a tournament game on our way to the Final Four this year.
Letās say Memphis got him through the dirtiest recruitment possible. Straight cash, a house, a car and high paying jobs for minimal work for his parents.
All hypothetical, but is there anyone here who wouldnāt take this offer? You have to maximize your earning potential while you can, and the ncaa doesnāt necessarily work fast on these things. If you are a true 1-2 and done, youāll be in and out before it catches up to you. You and your family gotta do whatās best for you.
i donāt pretend to know the Nesbittās situation, but if Memphis makes it better than we offered, he did the right thing. A freak injury that ends his career and nba level earning potential and I guarantee you they wouldnāt regret this choice if they got the hypothetical benefits I listed earlier.
If it were my son, I might ask him to read up on wire fraud before making the decision.
From the article above:
It was more than just one phone call that sold Nesbitt on the Tigers, however. Nesbit has a longstanding relationship with the Memphis staff. A relationship the touted prospect says was built on honesty.
āThe bond I built with Coach Penny was very different from the relationships Iāve built with most coaches,ā Nesbitt said. He was real with me from the start. He didnāt tell me stuff like ācome here and start right away.ā Instead, he just gave it to me real and told me, āI love you game and I feel like if you put in the work, youāre one and done. He just gave me the real.ā
I honestly wish we had gotten him. And it sucks we didnāt...and I know the staff has been moved on for days by now.
But I agree with TCT here. Who does he (or whoever told him to say/write those words) think heās fooling?
Those statements read like pre-canned, contradictory gibberish.
Yeah good riddance dude canāt even BS correctly.The bolded parts really stuck out to me, too. How many guys don't start but also turn into one-and-done...?