Five-star SG Anfernee Simons visiting this weekend

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BigZiti09 said:
Dude - you are clueless. I didn’t answer because it’s not worth discussing with you because you are clueless and have an incorrect assumption about my opinion on recruiting. Now since you’ve insisted...

Per rivals....
Ben Howland who was hired at miss state same time has Barnes has landed 10 four stars and 2 five stars and Barnes has landed 1 four star. 2015-2018 classes.

Is it tough to land top 10 players? Yeah. And you’ll never see me demanding we do that.

I’ve long maintained Barnes needs to do better. Never said much of anything about 5* players. Certainly didn’t demand he land a bunch of them.

Now take your “Tennessee is hard to recruit to” nonsense elsewhere. Dumbest argument ever. Starkville is currently housing a full squad of top 150 players. Don’t give me this talk about how it’s hard to recruit to Tennessee. Excuse making garbage.
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Your wasting time arguing with the masses of sheep here. You are absolutely correct.

Hell, throw in Will Wade/LSU and Bobby Hurley/ASU. Both are killing it in recruiting.
 
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docholiday said:
Your wasting time arguing with the masses of sheep here. You are absolutely correct.

Hell, throw in Will Wade/LSU and Bobby Hurley/ASU. Both are killing it in recruiting.
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Nobody said it's impossible. It's just not as easy as your and Ziti's biased minds think.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
When Barnes was recruiting Daniel he told him that he wasn’t guaranteed any starting spot, any minutes, nothing...that he would have to work for it all in practice. And to Daniel’s credit that didn’t bother him at all and he chose to come here over other schools that did promise him minutes etc.

My point being that I’m sure Barnes has told Simons from day 1 that he’s going to come and and work for and playing time, and that he’s not guaranteed anything...so I’m assuming Simon is good with that or he wouldn’t have visited here. Now does that change as he visits other schools and they make him promises, we shall see.
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I was talking to Special Ed about this. He wants to know what Simon says. :crazy:
 
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whobethis16 said:
Nobody said it's impossible. It's just not as easy as your and Ziti's biased minds think.
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Recruiting isn’t easy.

Go to rivals. Count the 4 and 5 stars signed by each SEC team in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and at back to me.

Stop the excuse making.
 
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BigZiti09 said:
Recruiting isn’t easy.

Go to rivals. Count the 4 and 5 stars signed by each SEC team in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and at back to me.

Stop the excuse making.
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That's the first time you've said it's not easy. You've been sticking out and thumping your chest about how Barnes should be able to just waltz in, have a conversation, and sign every guy higher than 3* out there. But you're to ignorant, or just ignoring, all the issues we've had prior to this year that prevent it.
 
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docholiday said:
What the hell are you talking about. Nursing home Barnes has zero top 100 recruits period.
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But it’s so easy to recruit to UT???

Barnes gets criticized for not recruiting well enough yet he just outcoached Cal who had six 5* recruits on the floor and on the bench.

By some of ya’lls standards, Barnes is failing at recruiting because he’s only signing 3* players and has to develop them.

I mean, a good coach kind of does that don’t you think?
 
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whobethis16 said:
That's the first time you've said it's not easy. You've been sticking out and thumping your chest about how Barnes should be able to just waltz in, have a conversation, and sign every guy higher than 3* out there. But you're to ignorant, or just ignoring, all the issues we've had prior to this year that prevent it.
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You have no idea what you’re talking about.

Have a nice day.
 
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BigZiti09 said:
He looked bored to death during the game.
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His quotes were nice, “blown away by atmosphere, better than expected, was watching to see where he would fit and definitely saw it”...I wouldn’t take too much from it, he’s not a commit so I wouldn’t expect him to be jumping up and down in Tennessee gear, however the guy sitting 2 spots from him was decked out in orange so not sure if that was Dad or who that was, but guessing it was someone with him.
 
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CAVPUT said:
I might be wrong, but I'd assume it's somewhat like baseball. Kids are always using the college route to enhance leverage with the mlb team that drafts them. Maybe things are different? Maybe I'm clueless on how this works in hoops? Regardless, I agree. Hope he's wearing orange for at least one year.
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NBA draft is June 21st...he’s gotta sign with a college in April, not really sure how he could leverage NBA teams?
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
His quotes were nice, “blown away by atmosphere, better than expected, was watching to see where he would fit and definitely saw it”...I wouldn’t take too much from it, he’s not a commit so I wouldn’t expect him to be jumping up and down in Tennessee gear, however the guy sitting 2 spots from him was decked out in orange so not sure if that was Dad or who that was, but guessing it was someone with him.
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Mom seemed like she had a ton of fun. The kid is probably just like every other high school kid and probably wanted to act like he’s too cool for school. But he just seemed stoic every time I looked over at him. Even in big moments.

It could mean nothing or it could mean he wasn’t feeling it.

I’m more bummed he’s gonna let his recruitment go the distance it seems.
 
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BigZiti09 said:
Mom seemed like she had a ton of fun. The kid is probably just like every other high school kid and probably wanted to act like he’s too cool for school. But he just seemed stoic every time I looked over at him. Even in big moments.

It could mean nothing or it could mean he wasn’t feeling it.

I’m more bummed he’s gonna let his recruitment go the distance it seems.
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I agre as well...I would assume Tennessee tries to force his hand at some point, probably let him schedule a visit or two and then tell him they need an answer.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
I agre as well...I would assume Tennessee tries to force his hand at some point, probably let him schedule a visit or two and then tell him they need an answer.
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Have we ever landed a big time recruit in the spring? I just keep thinking of Selby spurning us.
 
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