Elliot Williams

Having a full cupboard didn't dissuade Derrick Rose from going to Memphis. Elite players have enough self confidence that they don't cower from competition. Also, exactly who would Williams have had to compete with for time at the 2 next season?
 
So where does this leave this recruiting class? I assume all of the guys that UT lost out on waiting for Williams will be signing this Fall? I know R. Smith committed during the Spring signing period...any chance of getting that kind of player this Spring?
 
Keep an eye on Eshaunte Jones. I'll be interested to see if he actually signs a Letter of Intent with Oregon State, because there's a really good chance Jay John will be fired at the end of the season.
 
I would say up a creek.

Woolridge and Jurick aren't bad. This fall's recruiting class will include those two for sure, which isn't anything to complain about, although adding Williams would have put it over the top. Now, we'll prob not sign anyone else this fall, scrounge the juco ranks into the spring and see what is out there. wouldn't surprise me at all to not sign anyone else, save the other two schollies and go hard next year after Leslie McDonald, Ferrakohn Hall and a true PG, maybe John Wall.
 
Man, I followed this kid for so long. For nothing. Just another dukie... He could have made a name for himself here. Now he will just be part of a long list of good duke players.
 
^ thats how i feel. I followed his recruiting all damn year, and then we get nothing. :banghead2:
 
Keep an eye on Eshaunte Jones. I'll be interested to see if he actually signs a Letter of Intent with Oregon State, because there's a really good chance Jay John will be fired at the end of the season.

So if we somehow get EJ, would that change your view on this year's class?
 
Maybe if he spent more time hitting the pavement and less time preening for the Sports Illustrated cameras he wouldn't be about to sign a completely average class.

Hat, is this just your opinion or a commonly held belief within the college bball world?
 
CRAP! I just realized we're going to have to hear Vitale on ESPN call EW a diaper dandy a million times and how Coach K walked into Memphis and stole EW.
 
Having a full cupboard didn't dissuade Derrick Rose from going to Memphis. Elite players have enough self confidence that they don't cower from competition. Also, exactly who would Williams have had to compete with for time at the 2 next season?

Yes they do. It happens all the time in college football.
 
CRAP! I just realized we're going to have to hear Vitale on ESPN call EW a diaper dandy a million times and how Coach K walked into Memphis and stole EW.

Maybe he'll be a one and done after he experiences yet another early tourney exit with a Coach K team. So it'll be more like 600,000 times you'll have to hear Vitale. Unless you opt for the mute button on your remote.
 
NC, there is a sizeable portion of the college coaching community who feel that Pearl thinks he invented basketball.
 
Hat, is that a bad thing that coaches feel like that? maybe thats where the team gets the "swagger" from..
 
Hat, is that a bad thing that coaches feel like that? maybe thats where the team gets the "swagger" from..

It might just be me but I think it's what our BB program needed. I like it, what else did we have?
 
So hat, other than Jones, are there any other names that you know of that we may try to get on? I mentioned the Lithuanian kid earlier, though I know nothing of him. How hard do you think we go into the JUCOs?

Also, just as a side question, how in the hell does Thad Matta recruit so well?
 

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