Emmanuel has Been Officially Released from His Letter of Intent

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there are other schools in Tennessee, that's not just your opinion, that's a fact.
 
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ThatVolGuy said:
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.
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I may be jumping to conclusions, but when he is standing in the Memphis airport talking to reporters about Memphis and he says the word HERE it would appear by saying HERE he meant MEMPHIS. We will see. I hope I am wrong.
 
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dickens821 said:
Rose, and almost every other blue chipper to go to Memphis during Cal's tenure there was guided there by William Wesley. He's not involved with Negedu.
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Yes you are right. Worlwide Wes gets Memphis the players that he is connected with. He is a very powerful man in the game of basketball including NCAA and NBA. Please google him for yourself.
 
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Bballvol said:
I may be jumping to conclusions, but when he is standing in the Memphis airport talking to reporters about Memphis and he says the word HERE it would appear by saying HERE he meant MEMPHIS. We will see. I hope I am wrong.
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Trust me, you're jumping to conclusions.

Do you think he would've made a big deal about taking all of his visits and being thorough with the decision-making process if he planned on announcing his choice in a routine local television interview? Heck, he hasn't even finished his time at Memphis.

When he makes his formal decision, we'll know. I don't think he's going to be talking about favorites until all is said and done, so I highly doubt he's going to drop such a blatant hint for all to hear completely out of the blue.

He may still end up going to Memphis, but you're reading into his comment a bit too much, methinks.
 
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ThatVolGuy said:
Trust me, you're jumping to conclusions.

Do you think he would've made a big deal about taking all of his visits and being thorough with the decision-making process if he planned on announcing his choice in a routine local television interview? Heck, he hasn't even finished his time at Memphis.

When he makes his formal decision, we'll know. I don't think he's going to be talking about favorites until all is said and done, so I highly doubt he's going to drop such a blatant hint for all to hear completely out of the blue.

He may still end up going to Memphis, but you're reading into his comment a bit too much, methinks.
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The only thing I agree with you on is will know when he announces. I hope I am wrong but like I said the slip ups in that interview indicate to me that he is going to Memphis.
 
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UTCVol said:
If I had a penny for every time you've told us to google WWW...
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Well as you were told before at some point in your life " If you have already done this, then this does not pertain to you "

And if you had a penny for every time I told you to google Wes then you would only have 2 or 3 pennies.
 
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Bballvol said:
The only thing I agree with you on is will know when he announces. I hope I am wrong but like I said the slip ups in that interview indicate to me that he is going to Memphis.
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.... You do realize he is a young man from Africa, right? English is not his native language, and the likelyhood of him meaning that he had already decided he will be attending UMemphis is nil. You do know that right? Trying to look into what was said by a kid who speaks English at the level of a young native speaker of the language is absurd.
 
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Going into the 4 visits, I thought that Negedu was probably leaning towards Memphis. If he was leaning that way I would think that he would have committed during his visit. From the reports on the net, he had a great time at UT. Maybe he was leaning towards Memphis, but is having second thought about pulling the trigger. I would think not committing during his visit at Memphis only leads me to believe that he is now leaning towards another school.
 
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Bballvol said:
The only thing I agree with you on is will know when he announces. I hope I am wrong but like I said the slip ups in that interview indicate to me that he is going to Memphis.
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They don't indicate anything, but if you'd like to continue reading between the lines when there's nothing there, nobody can hold you back.

Some people are just determined to be contrarians, even in the face of common sense and reasoning.
 
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johnnybravo said:
Going into the 4 visits, I thought that Negedu was probably leaning towards Memphis. If he was leaning that way I would think that he would have committed during his visit. From the reports on the net, he had a great time at UT. Maybe he was leaning towards Memphis, but is having second thought about pulling the trigger. I would think not committing during his visit at Memphis only leads me to believe that he is now leaning towards another school.
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That's what I thought when I saw the order of his visits. If he were only visiting UT and Memphis, I'd have felt good about getting the first visit, because Pearl has had some luck lately with getting guys to commit and cancel other visits (Hopson, Maze).

The fact that he was visiting four schools and had Memphis last and UT 3rd, it looked like he was visiting in reverse order of his preferences. I had forgotten the date(s) of the Memphis visit. If he is done with his visits and has not chosen a school, I agree that we now have a good chance.
 
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dickens821 said:
.... You do realize he is a young man from Africa, right? English is not his native language, and the likelyhood of him meaning that he had already decided he will be attending UMemphis is nil. You do know that right? Trying to look into what was said by a kid who speaks English at the level of a young native speaker of the language is absurd.
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O.k. I am going to quit focusing on what the obvious statement the kid made and just pretend (like you guys) he is coming to UT. You guys are right we are getting him. I give up. Now, all I want to know is what is our plan when Rivals reports he is going to Memphis. Maybe we can tell them that they misunderstood his dialect. Look guys, I hope he comes here just as bad as you do. Look at my prior posts, up until the time that interview was posted I thought we had a good shot. At least I am basing my thoughts on evidence. You havent a shread of evidence, just desire for him to attend UT.
 
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ThatVolGuy said:
They don't indicate anything, but if you'd like to continue reading between the lines when there's nothing there, nobody can hold you back.

Some people are just determined to be contrarians, even in the face of common sense and reasoning.
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Again, hope your right. Is it common sense and reasoning? or is it everytime you hear of a good recruit looking at UT, you are convinced he is coming here b/c your a UT Fan?
 
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Bballvol said:
Again, hope your right. Is it common sense and reasoning? or is it everytime you hear of a good recruit looking at UT, you are convinced he is coming here b/c your a UT Fan?
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Where did I say I was positive that he'd be coming to Tennessee? That's not what I'm talking about here, Bball - you've clearly missed the point.

Negedu made a vague statement about coming to play "here," and you've convinced yourself that he meant he was going to Memphis. The fact that you're the only one going on about it speaks volumes - don't you think others would be making a big deal out of it if he truly meant that he'd already made up his mind?
 
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Bballvol said:
At least I am basing my thoughts on evidence.
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Are you serious? You're calling this "evidence"? A vague statement that can be interpreted several different ways? That's funny.

Edit - After watching the video, he said, "I'm coming down here to be on a team that's gonna win." I was unsure of his exact words before, but now that I've seen it, I'm even more convinced that you're reading too far into it.
 
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