Emmanuel has Been Officially Released from His Letter of Intent

#226
#226
i dont really see how you could gather much from that video. It's just so hard to understand him. someone said on another board, he was tight lipped about the Ut visit, maybe because he was talkin to a bunch of Memphis reporters.
 
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#227
Bballvol said:
He is going to Memphis. When you watch the WREG-TV Memphis video (about 4 minutes in) Negedu states: I am coming down here to be on team that wants to win.
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What do you consider going 31-5 to be doing?

He may also want to play real competition every year in conference.
 
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#228
dickens821 said:
What do you consider going 31-5 to be doing?

He may also want to play real competition every year in conference.
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I'm hearing Memphis as the front runner still. It doesn't look like we are closing the gap any either, that is just the impression I get. Hope I am wrong.
 
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westtnhsballer said:
What could Memphis offer that UT doesn't? I think he chooses to be a Vol.
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I will tell you......

Whether you like it or not Memphis main recruting pitch to top notch players are you will be 1 - 2 years done here and on to The NBA. Coach Cal will get a group of solid role players about 8 or 9 that will stay 4 years and then bring in Blue chip prospects maybe about 4 - 6 that will be gone in a year or two.
Coach Pearl goes with the more traditional philosophy of 3 - 4 years and you're out of here. However players of today especially blue chippers don't want to hear that. They want to get to the NBA as soon as possible
 
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Mr. Rockytop said:
I will tell you......

Whether you like it or not Memphis main recruting pitch to top notch players are you will be 1 - 2 years done here and on to The NBA. Coach Cal will get a group of solid role players about 8 or 9 that will stay 4 years and thenm bring in Blue chip prospects maybe about 4 - 6 that will be gone in a year or two.
Coach Pearl goes with the more tradiotnal philosophy of 3 - 4 years and you're out of here. However players of today especially blue chippers don't want to hear that. They want to get to the NBA as soon as possible
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Bruce doesn't tell kids that. He's always said if they are ready for the league he will push them to go to the draft early.
 
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dickens821 said:
LSu Clemson or wake forest are his three choices
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I heard that it was LSU and thats just about a lock. I also didn't know that he originally had signed with Florida until today. I've got some pretty reliable friends from Memphis, and the guy that told me this would know.
 
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#245
westtnhsballer said:
I heard that it was LSU and thats just about a lock. I also didn't know that he originally had signed with Florida until today. I've got some pretty reliable friends from Memphis, and the guy that told me this would know.
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Well ok. The Commercial Appeal reported his three choices as LSU, Wake, and Clemson.
 
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#246
Mr. Rockytop said:
I will tell you......

Whether you like it or not Memphis main recruting pitch to top notch players are you will be 1 - 2 years done here and on to The NBA. Coach Cal will get a group of solid role players about 8 or 9 that will stay 4 years and thenm bring in Blue chip prospects maybe about 4 - 6 that will be gone in a year or two.
Coach Pearl goes with the more tradiotnal philosophy of 3 - 4 years and you're out of here. However players of today especially blue chippers don't want to hear that. They want to get to the NBA as soon as possible
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Until Hopson, Pearl hadn't been able to sign a Top 20 blue chipper who would be able to leave in 1-2 years. I don't think it had anything to do with his philosophy. But, you're right that Calipari can point to his track record of having players successfully leave very early.
 
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dickens821 said:
Well ok. The Commercial Appeal reported his three choices as LSU, Wake, and Clemson.
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I'm not trying to say that they didn't list those. I'm just telling you what was told to me. I wasn't trying to cause trouble.

Hope this helps the validity of my earlier post. This is from Dan Wolken, the beat writer for Memphis.

There were many days over the past two seasons when I would sit in the Finch Center and watch Doneal Mack singlehandedly win scrimmages for Memphis’ second team. For the sake of the kid, who everybody around the program liked personally, I held high hopes that he would do the same during real games. Unfortunately, the difference-maker potential that Mack displayed during practices never materialized during his two seasons with the Tigers.

Mack’s career at Memphis came to a close on Thursday when he decided to transfer. LSU, according to my sources, is his likely destination. The reason? Playing time, according to his father, Greg Mack.

I had heard rumblings from as far back as the USC game — when Mack played just six minutes — that there were issues. And the situation never really got much better as the season wore on; he ended up playing 12 minutes per game (down from his freshman year) and just 10 minutes total against Texas, UCLA and Kansas in the final three games of the season.

There are certainly two ways to look at the situation. One perspective is that Mack did not play more because he was not physically strong enough to defend, didn’t get to enough loose balls and wasn’t efficient enough as a shooter on most nights to warrant more minutes. The other perspective is that Mack was marginalized as a 3-point specialist and didn’t get enough opportunities to play through mistakes or bad shooting nights.

Having watched Mack in almost every practice of his career at Memphis, I always thought he had great potential as a long-range shooter. But I did not see it translate to the court. At the level Memphis is trying to compete at, going 2-for-7 from the 3-point line in 15 minutes — a fairly typical Mack stat line — is not good enough. Last season, Mack shot just 36 percent from the 3-point line, which was disappointing in my view, especially considering how many of his makes came in garbage time. Had Mack shown a knack for making clutch jumpers — I remember a couple wide open looks in the second half of the Tennessee game, for instance — I’m positive he would have played more.

Though I know Mack was disappointed in how his year went, I thought he would stick around with the opportunity next season to play a bigger role if he improved his game and showed some dedication in the weight room. Within the past 48 hours, however, I had gotten signals that the situation was perhaps beyond repair, moreso with his father than with Doneal.

Coach John Calipari simply isn’t in position right now to project minutes. Too many unknowns. Two years ago, Memphis went through the same situation when it lost Rodney Carney, Darius Washington and Shawne Williams. Calipari threw it wide open, and guys like Chris Douglas-Roberts, Antonio Anderson and Jeremy Hunt grabbed leading roles and made Memphis into an Elite Eight team once again. The same process is going on right now, and Mack had every opportunity to be a part of it. But there are no guarantees, especially with a talented freshman class coming in this summer and probably another one after that. Hopefully, for Mack’s sake, he’ll land at a school where he can become the focal point of its offense. If not, he probably would have been better off sticking around.
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Bballvol said:
Obviously, you missed my point. The fact he said I AM COMING DOWN HERE, indicates to me he is going to Memphis.
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The word "here" does not automatically equate to "Memphis," however. Unless he was more specific than that somewhere else in the conversation, you're jumping to conclusions.
 
#250
#250
I agree, "here" could mean somewhere in the state of TN. It might be Memphis, but Memphis isn't the only school in TN.
 
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