So today was good news after all. It could have been Northwestern.
Jordan Goodwin commits to SLU
So today was good news after all. It could have been Northwestern.
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yes, it can always be worse!:thumb:
Epsilon
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- Pdx
Yeah, with all the energy in this recruitment, it just seems odd to me that at best we were 3rd...?
Congrats to him. Heard lots of things on this one and unfortunately seems too be correct. Hope the kid does well.
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- Pdx
Educate me
The comparison to Marcus Smart is not a bad one. I actually made the same comparison before Ford/SLU came into play. So there is nothing wrong with Ford telling Goodwin that he could become the next Marcus Smart, or that his pro future depends on being able to play PG. That much is true.
I had watched Marcus Smart in HS and he was not a true PG either, although a better player with more advanced combo skills than Goodwin. Goodwin is a SG/SF who has played more PF than PG in HS. So it remains to be seen whether he can make that transition in college (I personally have doubts based on his HS career so far). But he is indeed a very tough, mentally and physically strong player, who we would have loved to get.
http://www.illinoisloyalty.com/Forums/showpost.php?p=1217312&postcount=2684
We led all the way through, he's just a kid that was led down the wrong road..
As another poster pointed out, just looking out for his family. Sad, really.
No way were we behind NW. That's just JGood thowing it back in our faces, probably due to a lot of negative UI fan reactions over the past few days. Oh well.
Could have been a legend on a great team in a premier conference.
Instead he'll be a really good player on a mediocre team in a crap conference (albeit with nicer things in his apartment)
Could have been a legend on a great team in a premier conference.
Instead he'll be a really good player on a mediocre team in a crap conference (albeit with nicer things in his apartment)
Still find it amazing how the top IL High school players continue to choose other schools. Guess the last 5 or 10 years of losing will have that affect. But still, players just continue to look elsewhere. The thought of being a legacy at Illinois is just not that big a deal with IL recruits anymore. I'm pretty much cool with rooting for players from other states that commit here. Not sure just how out of it we are with the recruitment of Scruggs, but he'd be a fantastic get and would make us forget about JG.
Looking out for your family in a crooked, broken system designed to abuse you and steal your labor is hardly "sad". What's sad is that the interests of Goodwin and his family didn't intersect with the maximum potential on-court success and exposure for him as a college basketball player. Life doesn't always work out that way.
I more meant the sad part is the way this turned so quick on the coaches. Recruiting is an ugly thing at times.
hooraybeer
- Pittsburgh, PA
posting/implying that broken rules are the reason we lost a recruit the day he commits elsewhere sounds like such sour grapes on our part.. wish people would stop doing that unless your source is more credible than a guy who knows a guy
Illinithad
- Northeast Missouri
So I wonder if he will actually play PG at Saint Louis or if Ford is just telling him that to get him to commit.
1). If he plays point, will he most likely be playing out of (his best) position?
2). Did Ford just lie to him about playing point to get him to commit, and then deal with the consequences later?
1). If he plays point, will he most likely be playing out of (his best) position?
2). Did Ford just lie to him about playing point to get him to commit, and then deal with the consequences later?
illinidday
- Dallas, TX
You live in Flower Mound Obelix? I'm in Lewisville.
Mike
C-U Townie
While it REALLY torques me off that the NCAA allows dishonest crap like this, and that recruits & family think they are entitled to fringe money, if others are playing this game then we are hurt if we do not as well.
Do not about other, but this is a blessing in disguise.
It opens another scholarship spot.
Frazier next weekend and then Scruggs.
It opens another scholarship spot.
Frazier next weekend and then Scruggs.
If you can acknowledge that we are living, in the present day, in a glass house, I don't see what the problem is.
I guess the question really is why we couldn't pull off whatever SLU did. What did Tate know that we didn't?
Id be willing to bet most people insinuating these things have legitimate sources, whether they actually know someone in the know, or are just parroting things posted to premium sites
No, during HS years, but in AAU circuit.
It would probably be different if the kid were a McDAA... Not worth the risk for a top 60 player at a position we are stacked at already