🏀 Recruiting Rundown 9/16/24: Crunch Time

Best video game ever. I don’t think I ever beat Tyson either though. And actually I had the one that came out after they stripped Tyson’s name from the game so it was Mr. Wonderful.

6Nxv2x

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In my defense, I was like 14 at the time, and my mom would make me turn the Nintendo off when I started getting too pissed.

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Mine cut me off when I started having dreams about being trapped in a Hyrule dungeon. Never completed the Triforce. :cry:

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Based on little or no real information, I have a suspicion that Nate Ament doesn’t know which schools are currently the front runners. Additionally, even if he does have an idea of his “front runners”, since it appears that he won’t make a decision until next spring, those could change before he makes his commitment. Come March, he will have a better notion of any changes which may have taken place at the competing schools. Rosters, staffs, styles of play, projections of future success are all fluid elements. Even conference affiliations aren’t certainties these days. I am somewhat surprised that more elite prospects aren’t doing as Nate Ament is doing.

I agree

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Yessir. Is exactly as I see it

I can be on the train to Espirito Santo tomorrow. Let me know what we need to do to close the first LRA recruitment.

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Only there is no train but I get it

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Amigo, there’s a daily trem from Belo Horizonte to ES! 12 hours of heaven from what I hear (slower than driving.)

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It that were a certainty, I imagine he would have committed by now. He may end up in Durham, but, for the moment, I doubt that he knows where he’ll play.

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Beleza. Had no idea

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Wonder if we recruit this kid. Joining Team Herro/Phenom (wisconsin) AAU. Lefty. Already taking Power 5 visits. Wonder how Igor’s dad thinks about us.

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Just FYI because the tweet gave me the wrong notion, he’s from Illinois, but obviously eligible for Poland in some way internationally.

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Midwest kid who isn’t under Igor’s dad’s control? even better

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Oh, if he’s not from Oceania somewhere, then pass.

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We really need to get back to recruiting Wisconsin in 2026. That’s what was missing this summer. Missed all the talk of Greg Gard and random Bennett high school coaching cousins.

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This is the current top-ranked Wisconsin 2026 player on 247:

It’s probably too reductive to say he’s the Wisconsin Kody Stattmann, but
it’s not that wrong either?

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I barely know who any of these 2026 kids are so far. But there is a big guy named Jensen in WI who may or may not be related to Leon Bond’s mentor already gotten a few HM offers. Jensen is probably like Smith up there.

And Bennett did check out guard Josh Manchester this summer, he visited last fall. Several HMs flirting with him but none have bitten yet.

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NEED

Me after the introductory clips are followed by the first two highlights - “Wait, what?”

Going to try and remember to check in on that kid down the line. Kind of a fun mash-ups of skills.