'21 WA PF Paolo Banchero (Duke Commit)

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Whatever Duke has offered to pay, pay double. Time to spend the $$$ if you wanna out recruit the big boys consistently.
 
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Duke got three of the top six in 2018 (RJ, Cam and Zion) and still lost in the Elite 8. They are likely to get three of the top six this cycle (maybe five of the top fourteen), including the top two in the country. It doesn't make it an automatic Final Four appearance. It's great for us this announcement came this early. We have the top PG in the country committed, and have a bunch of prospects we are still in a good position with. The only thing I'm sour about is our seeming lack of effort recruiting Harrison Ingram. Whether his top two of Stanford and Purdue were looked at as too much too overcome, or the feeling was others were higher on the board. He was someone I thought we would have pursued harder,
 
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804VOL said:
Duke got three of the top six in 2018 (RJ, Cam and Zion) and still lost in the Elite 8. They are likely to get three of the top six this cycle (maybe five of the top fourteen), including the top two in the country. It doesn't make it an automatic Final Four appearance. It's great for us this announcement came this early. We have the top PG in the country committed, and have a bunch of prospects we are still in a good position with. The only thing I'm sour about is our seeming lack of effort recruiting Harrison Ingram. Whether his top two of Stanford and Purdue were looked at as too much too overcome, or the feeling was others were higher on the board. He was someone I thought we would have pursued harder,
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Hindsight is 20/20, but I agree it now looks like giving up on Ingram this early might have been a poor choice. Although I suspect that this sudden Banchero commitment probably came as just as much of a surprise to Barnes as it did to us. I'm sure they're they're discussing as a staff tonight where to go next and which recruits to press on.
 
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VolFreakJosh said:
Nobody is questioning his talent.

We’re just tired of these bigger basketball programs cheating their way to National Titles without ever being punished.
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The poster he quoted literally said, "He (Banchero) isn't good enough to move the needle on a one and done/freshman lead team."

A couple days after the same poster claimed Banchero would be the "most talented freshman to come to Tennessee since Bernard King."

Regardless of intentions, that comes off as sour grapes to make those two statements within days of each other. Banchero is an awesome talent, and will be an awesome college player for a year, whether it was at Tennessee or Duke.
 
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cncchris33 said:
The poster he quoted literally said, "He (Banchero) isn't good enough to move the needle on a one and done/freshman lead team."

A couple days after the same poster claimed Banchero would be the "most talented freshman to come to Tennessee since Bernard King."

Regardless of intentions, that comes off as sour grapes to make those two statements within days of each other. Banchero is an awesome talent, and will be an awesome college player for a year, whether it was at Tennessee or Duke.
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You’re right about Banchero being an awesome talent. Most likely some of us are upset considering we lost him to a program that’s prone for cheating.

Not saying Barnes hasn’t bent the rules during his years of coaching but Coach K has been making it too obvious.
 
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He got the sweet deal zion and his family got. When you get two to three top guys in the top five each year like cheating K does you know bunch of cash is involved. Biggest cheater ever.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
Tennessee is never going to spend Duke money in basketball. Just like Duke is never going to spend Tennessee money in football. It's just a fact of life.
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Well it's dumb, I know damn well UT has the money. Your basketball program is well on the verge of being a top 5 program for the next couple years at the very least with legit shots at a national championship. Yeah we're a football school, but a basketball national championship is huge as well. It's worth trying to pony up the dough for. On the bright side, Barnes could still lead us there with the job that has been done.
 
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Well, that is a kick in the nuts. I wouldn't normally bat an eye over losing a basketball recruit to Duke, but this commitment did seem out of the wild blue yonder... and so soon after Chandler's commitment? It feels like Duke just reached down and upped their ante following his commitment to Tennessee. That could always just be sour grapes, I guess.
 
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Seems like whenever a top recruit doesn't come our way, football or basketball, it's always because they were bought off.

To someone on the west coast, UT is not paradise. Maybe they just like the tradition and rep of some other place better than UT>
 
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orangemadam said:
Seems like whenever a top recruit doesn't come our way, football or basketball, it's always because they were bought off.

To someone on the west coast, UT is not paradise. Maybe they just like the tradition and rep of some other place better than UT>
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I don't think anyone is saying any recruit that doesn't choose Tennessee is bought off, but in this particular circumstance we have Atlanta Vol coming to the board heavily hinting that was the case as well as the fact that this commitment came out of left field when it was anticipated this would be a long drawn out recruitment. It's not hard to put two and two together.

It's disappointing that Banchero didn't choose us, but I'm not going to say, nor will most on this board say, that anyone who rejects us was paid off. It was always a longshot to land Banchero, and if others choose to not attend TN (like Smith) it's not just because we didn't pay enough.
 
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804VOL said:
Duke got three of the top six in 2018 (RJ, Cam and Zion) and still lost in the Elite 8. They are likely to get three of the top six this cycle (maybe five of the top fourteen), including the top two in the country. It doesn't make it an automatic Final Four appearance. It's great for us this announcement came this early. We have the top PG in the country committed, and have a bunch of prospects we are still in a good position with. The only thing I'm sour about is our seeming lack of effort recruiting Harrison Ingram. Whether his top two of Stanford and Purdue were looked at as too much too overcome, or the feeling was others were higher on the board. He was someone I thought we would have pursued harder,
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I can't say that I have followed Ingram's recruitment closely, but it makes me wonder how much he has really been recruited by high level programs if Stanford and Purdue are his finalists. Stanford is a great school, but I would guess a top 10 player is not expecting to stay to get a degree.
 
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orangemadam said:
Seems like whenever a top recruit doesn't come our way, football or basketball, it's always because they were bought off.

To someone on the west coast, UT is not paradise. Maybe they just like the tradition and rep of some other place better than UT>
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