šŸ€ Recruiting Rundown 9/16/24: Crunch Time

Singleton will be a really nice portal add in two years. Braxton Key-esque.

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Basically Singleton had settled on Northwestern among the schools he had already visited, leaving UVA as the last obstacle. It’s not so much that we were the runner up, as the last other team considered.

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Agree. We’re worrying over whether CTB manages to use his 13th scholarship. The team is plenty deep already.

With the huge '24 class, its ok for the '25 class to be smaller. Also, having a smaller '25 class should make things easier in recruiting the '26s which will be more important for spreading things out anyway. Its unfortunate that we’re behind in '26 recruiting, but there’s plenty of time to make it up. However, if '26 ends up also being a small class as well, then it’s going to be a problem we’ll need to fix with transfers (which isn’t ideal).

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Waking up to see multiple crystal balls for Ward and MSU.

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And Fresh called it first way back

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Tom Izzo will continue to do the very least with the best talent.

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Definitely is one of those coaches who consistently has a bevvy of talent, but kind of skates by scrutiny because he’s made runs in a bunch of tournaments. Especially in last 10-15 years.

But, like, why aren’t the teams more consistently better?

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Does not getting commitments from Singleton or Ward, combined with Duke getting the Boozers mean that we will a) continue to pursue and maybe even ramp up pursuit of Ament, and b) have a realistic chance to get him?

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Define realistic :upside_down_face:

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Boozers committing to Duke was like the first mini boss in a ten or so stage game where the last boss like throws flaming axes and we haven’t yet found the cloak of protection.

And in this case beating the ultimate boss just means ā€œrealistic shot at Amentā€ not ā€œwe get Ament.ā€

But the good news is: we beat the miniboss!

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charlie brown lucy GIF by Maudit

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I’ve gained so much respect for you haney in just one post.

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I will say that if you laid out the case for us ending up with Ament a couple of months ago, everything has basically followed that so far. Still won’t happen but good start.

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Oh, totally. Haney’s not giving us any credit at all for having made it to the Booze minion-boss. There was a whole process just to get here!

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We have defeated Glass Joe. We’re on our way!

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And I am disturbed by what I presume to be his computer game references! :roll_eyes:

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Exactly. Given the laws of physics, is it theoretically possible a five star in-state recruit with blue blood offers being pursued by Duke could commit to Virginia? Scientists theorize yes, it is possible.

Is it likely to happen before the heat death of the universe? Statisticians say probability wise, unlikely.

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I’m going to ask the professor. Fresh are we getting Ament?

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Proly yes

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Don’t give us hope Fresh if it’s just despair at the end of the road

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