'16 PF NC Grant Williams (UT commit 11/13/15)

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@BillElleby: HS Boys 3A State Championship Game Stars SBS#13 2015 Shadeed Shavazz 6'2 PG/SG Rainier Beach 22pts did everything for team.@MR_SHABAZZ_5
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
Dallas, you still haven't answered my question, how many NCAAT have both conferences had in recent years?
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Just a sec and I will. But like I said, it's easier for te mwc to get in due to the teams they're up against, they don't have to go after 4-5 stars (which arguably no team does.) but they can go after 3-4 star players and dominate the conference to get in the tourney, if lets say sdsu losses to duke, but then goes on to be second in their conference with a win over somebody like candy, they're gonna get in.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
No, not at all, but you're pushing a guy with 1 D1 offer, most here see the issue with that. On the flip side Fulk has 20+ D1 offers
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Apparently he's one of the most underrated talents out there. Search his name on Twitter, a lot of people are high on him.
 
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Just looked it up, in a span of 3 years there has been 4 or 5 times that a mwc team was in the tourney, but, they're mostly the same teams in repeated years. At least by what I found.
 
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Official visit to Princeton is this weekend, and then expected in for the Georgia game at Tennessee as an UOV with and announcement expected soon after. Per VQ mom is pushing Ivy League but Grant has very little interest in that idea.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
Official visit to Princeton is this weekend, and then expected in for the Georgia game at Tennessee as an UOV with and announcement expected soon after. Per VQ mom is pushing Ivy League but Grant has very little interest in that idea.
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Man have to say that sounds good for us.


Surprising to me. If he is a take it seems I measured it wrong with him coming back for an UOV
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
Official visit to Princeton is this weekend, and then expected in for the Georgia game at Tennessee as an UOV with and announcement expected soon after. Per VQ mom is pushing Ivy League but Grant has very little interest in that idea.
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Depends on how much Mom wants to push it, then. As a 17 year old, Mom will have to sign any scholarship papers. If she really wants to play hard ball - and parents have done that in the past - he can't sign with a school without her signature.
 
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germanicus said:
Depends on how much Mom wants to push it, then. As a 17 year old, Mom will have to sign any scholarship papers. If she really wants to play hard ball - and parents have done that in the past - he can't sign with a school without her signature.
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Doesn't sound like she's gonna go to that extent, but definitely possible. Do you know if mom has custody? If he's in NC and she's in TX is it not plausible that she may not even have custody and that's just her opinion?
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
Doesn't sound like she's gonna go to that extent, but definitely possible. Do you know if mom has custody? If he's in NC and she's in TX is it not plausible that she may not even have custody and that's just her opinion?
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Not many parents would go to that extreme anyway.

Sounds like he is going to be a Vol if the coaches want him.

Yes looks like I was wrong
 
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germanicus said:
Depends on how much Mom wants to push it, then. As a 17 year old, Mom will have to sign any scholarship papers. If she really wants to play hard ball - and parents have done that in the past - he can't sign with a school without her signature.
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Never understood that angle by a parent. When he turns 18, that is irrelevant. All he has to do is not sign and enroll at the university of his choice and be placed on scholarship after he turns 18. For 95% of HS seniors, that would be before the beginning of their FR year in college. National Letter of Intent is unnecessary.
 
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BruinVol said:
Not many parents would go to that extreme anyway.
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Not many, other than the parents/guardians of DeJuan Blair, Mac Koshwal and Austin Nichols - and that's just in the last 10 years in Tennessee basketball. Now, I don't know if they used the words "i'm not signing that scholarship", but all of those guys wanted to come to Tennessee, but were steered away by parents/guardians. It happens.

Now, admittedly, I've never heard of it happening because a parent insisted a kid go to an Ivy League school over a Power 5 school.
 
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cncchris33 said:
Never understood that angle by a parent. When he turns 18, that is irrelevant. All he has to do is not sign and enroll at the university of his choice and be placed on scholarship after he turns 18. For 95% of HS seniors, that would be before the beginning of their FR year in college. National Letter of Intent is unnecessary.
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But, this kid is one of the 5 percent who won't turn 18 until after he starts his freshman year. I don't understand it, either. In the case of the uber prospects, I've always suspected some of the cases are just flat out under the table dealings.

In this case, I'm sure it's just a Mom who values that Ivy League degree more than a basketball career and can't imagine turning that chance down.
 
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germanicus said:
In this case, I'm sure it's just a Mom who values that Ivy League degree more than a basketball career and can't imagine turning that chance down.
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I'm with the mom. The kid is not going to the NBA, so if he has the chance to get that sort of degree, I think he should take it. There is no substitute for an Ivy League degree.
 
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germanicus said:
Not many, other than the parents/guardians of DeJuan Blair, Mac Koshwal and Austin Nichols - and that's just in the last 10 years in Tennessee basketball. Now, I don't know if they used the words "i'm not signing that scholarship", but all of those guys wanted to come to Tennessee, but were steered away by parents/guardians. It happens.

Now, admittedly, I've never heard of it happening because a parent insisted a kid go to an Ivy League school over a Power 5 school.
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Parents have influence for certain. I just think there is just a very very small few that will go as far as not signing an nli
 
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cncchris33 said:
Never understood that angle by a parent. When he turns 18, that is irrelevant. All he has to do is not sign and enroll at the university of his choice and be placed on scholarship after he turns 18. For 95% of HS seniors, that would be before the beginning of their FR year in college. National Letter of Intent is unnecessary.
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I understand it....my kids know there are certain schools that they will not be attending
 
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