10 more final answer.

11/17/2008 9:44:05 PM

Xavier Henry to Memphis... could help us with Wall

11/18/2008 8:58:55 AM

how does that help us with Wall? Henry is a shooting guard. The #1 SG in fact.

11/18/2008 9:34:31 AM

i think wall has said he wouldn't mind playing with henry, but he has also said that about several other guys.

11/18/2008 10:51:00 AM

Memphis is fucking nuts. They are still in it for the #1 PG, #1 SF and #1 C (though Favors is highly unlikely). They have already signed the #1 SG.

Honestly, why is Memphis the biggest recruiting juggernaut in college basketball right now? Is Calipari THAT great of a coach to play for? Is the ability to dominate a mid-major conference important to these kids? We know they can recruit anyone with a pulse there since they can recruit easier (unlike 5 of the 6 BCS conferences -- SEC doesn't have more stringent recruiting rules from what I recall), but there has to be more to it...

[Edited on November 18, 2008 at 10:56 AM. Reason : x]

11/18/2008 10:54:30 AM

FedEx pays the kids well.

11/18/2008 10:59:35 AM

^

11/18/2008 11:00:09 AM

Favors kinda disses Calipari in this Espn article from yesterday:

http://sports.espn.go.com/highschool/rise/basketball/boys/news/story?id=3707648

11/18/2008 11:03:13 AM

They pay the kids...

^^^

11/18/2008 11:16:33 AM

Calipari was too chicken shit to come to the ACC and COMPETE/Follow Rules, so why would his recruits be any different?

11/18/2008 11:36:46 AM

i guess that's one way of looking at it.

11/18/2008 12:49:35 PM

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"how does that help us with Wall? Henry is a shooting guard. The #1 SG in fact. "

If I was him, a scoring pg, i wouldnt want a scoring sg takin the spotlight and points away from me....

11/18/2008 1:00:54 PM

Isn't LoBrown known as a scoring combo guard?

just saying.

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"hes no henry though... this is number 1 sg, not a top 50 recruit (below) "

True that, point taken, and hopefully it does sway his decision, if he was thinking about Memphis. (And yeah, no knock on Lorenzo, realling looking forward to seeing him suit up.)




[Edited on November 18, 2008 at 1:19 PM. Reason : ]

11/18/2008 1:10:22 PM

hes no henry though... this is number 1 sg, not just a mid top 50 recruit like brown... although i hope brown is dirty, but the hype isnt there like it is for henry

[Edited on November 18, 2008 at 1:16 PM. Reason : ]

11/18/2008 1:15:31 PM

Not to knock on Lorenzo, but he's not Xavier Henry

11/18/2008 1:17:28 PM

Memphis smells a whole lot like this movie i seen once with shaq and someone name Nolte. I think it was called bullshit's or something like that

11/18/2008 1:34:06 PM

11/18/2008 1:44:13 PM

look how skinny shaq used to be! especially his arms.

11/18/2008 1:53:28 PM

Dont forget penny. & who was the white guy?

11/18/2008 2:06:46 PM

The white guy, Matt Nover, played for Bob Knight which is why he was in the movie. Knight had some influence in the movie. Some say that Knight was very mad at Steve Alford when he told Knight that he didn't want to be in the movie. There is actually an NC State connection to the movie. The movie was filmed in Frankfort, Indiana, which is where Everett Case coached the high school boys basketball team to 4 state championships. The gym where the Frankfort High boy's basketball team plays is called Everett Case Arena. This gym is the one which is home to the fictitious Western University in the film.

11/18/2008 2:55:37 PM

damn, brass. you weren't lying about your boner for stadiums and arenas never subsiding. you should make your own megathread for stadium profiles.

11/18/2008 3:03:29 PM

I've considered it. I could update it with quirky facts like the one above, discussion about stadium/arena architecture, and new stadia that are being planned/built. Also people could post pictures of stadia that they've been to on their travels.

11/18/2008 4:43:12 PM

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"you should make your own megathread for stadium profiles."

agreed, that would be badass

11/18/2008 5:02:49 PM

^^what's the basketball arena that looks badass on the inside, but the outside of it resembles a roller rink (Iowa maybe?)?

11/18/2008 6:05:25 PM

^ New Mexico's University Arena, aka The Pit. It can get pretty loud in there. It's most famous for being the place in which NC State shocked the world and beat Houston led by two of the NBA's Top 50 players of all time in Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler. That was also the last time the MOP of the NCAA Tournament came from the team that lost in the championship game.

11/18/2008 6:31:22 PM

Everyone post comments in that ESPN article on Favors that Bullet posted. Favors probably reads the comments. We're already showing him how much we want him in that AJC.com poll, why not post comments in articles on him as well.

11/18/2008 7:26:08 PM

^Can't hurt:

http://sports.espn.go.com/highschool/rise/basketball/boys/news/story?id=3707648

11/18/2008 7:48:23 PM

John Calipari is a chickenshit.

I'm not saying he isn't a good coach, because he is. I just think he is a coward because he had the opportunity to come coach in the best basketball league, and go head-to-head with two of the best coaches in the game today (and probably all-time, at least in the case of Coach K).

He had his opportunity, and he squandered it.

11/19/2008 12:57:38 AM

posted my comment

11/19/2008 1:00:55 AM

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"He had his opportunity, and he squandered it."

i thought it was more the result of lee fowler's general incompetence as our athletic director

11/19/2008 2:13:21 AM

haha and who the hell are those 2 random wisconsin fans who posted on that ESPN article?

11/19/2008 2:17:13 AM

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"i thought it was more the result of lee fowler's general incompetence as our athletic director"

i'm sure that was a factor but not a large one. no one knows if calipari was even serious about coming here or just wanted more money from his current employer. hard to tell.

keep the posts going on favors; it can't hurt.

11/19/2008 8:20:46 AM

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"posted my comment"

11/19/2008 8:33:48 AM

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"no one knows if calipari was even serious about coming here or just wanted more money from his current employer. hard to tell."

i think that's the general consensus in a lot of circles. but i don't think you can call the guy a coward for not moving to the ACC if our athletic office can't get their shit together and convince him, or anyone else higher than sidney lowe on our priority list, that it'd be a good decision to coach here.

11/19/2008 11:46:20 AM

did you guys hear, Wall committed to Kentucky.

Ed said so: http://www.news-record.com/content/2008/11/19/article/kentucky_gives_unc_reminder_how_programs_can_bog_down

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"That's not true back home where Gillispie's teams and coaching habits and his recruiting classes and recruiting habits are being watched closely for signs of trouble. This year's roster includes four former junior-college players, and next year's will include the four jucos and John Wall, the Raleigh phenom who UNC stayed clear of and N.C. State missed on."

I have already sent this idiot an email but no response yet.

11/19/2008 11:49:00 AM

^WTF? Where did he get pull that info. from?

11/19/2008 12:06:31 PM

haha wtf? They don't even mention Wall anymore on the UK boards. Aside - Anyone know if he was at the game last night?

11/19/2008 12:18:09 PM

that article was messed up bad, Wall is not consdering Kentucky nor does Kentucky have 4 JUCO transfers.

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"i think that's the general consensus in a lot of circles. but i don't think you can call the guy a coward for not moving to the ACC if our athletic office can't get their shit together and convince him, or anyone else higher than sidney lowe on our priority list, that it'd be a good decision to coach here."

Calipari was set to come here but took off as soon as Lee stood for our Admission Regulations (not just ours, the entire ACC's). Calipari can't bring those type of kids to the ACC... it just doesn't work. He doesn't want to play 2nd fiddle to Roy/Coach K to start with, and if he can't bring those kinda recruits in here... there is no way he could compete.

There is a reason he is in the C-USA and not the Big 12, SEC, Pac-10, Big East or ACC.

11/19/2008 12:20:28 PM

Wall will end up at state, you heard it somewhere first.

11/19/2008 3:05:55 PM

Durand Scott chose Miami...

Blows my mind how a wing from NYC wouldn't go to UConn and would instead go to Miami...

Haith is building a juggernaut...

V in 2 yrs they'll be competing for a conf title and final 4

[Edited on November 19, 2008 at 4:18 PM. Reason : x]

11/19/2008 4:14:30 PM

Maybe we should have hired Haith? He is a NC guy.....

I think it's funny that some people said Frank Haith? Fuck him I'll take Sid any day....

11/19/2008 4:16:34 PM

I don't know how big Miami will get, however in a couple years we may be competing for a final four the way our recruiting is going

11/19/2008 4:22:13 PM

Being in the ACC, and being on South Beach... I think any of us could recruit down there.

We'll see if he can do anything with the talent.

11/19/2008 4:40:58 PM

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" i think that's the general consensus in a lot of circles. but i don't think you can call the guy a coward for not moving to the ACC if our athletic office can't get their shit together and convince him, or anyone else higher than sidney lowe on our priority list, that it'd be a good decision to coach here."

i agree completely with this. I fully blame our athletic department for not being able to hire anyone above Sidney Lowe on our "wish list" regardless of whether he works out or not. I just don't fully blame them for Calipari just because no one could really ever be sure if he was even serious about coming here to coach.

It would take a bold guy to come and compete with K and Roy every year in recruiting and on the court. Calipari has never taken a college job where he would have much competition. UMASS and Memphis do not play in tough conferences.

Continue the Favors posting! Never know how much of a difference it may make!

11/19/2008 5:30:15 PM

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"Continue the Favors posting! Never know how much of a difference it may make!"

Why not? Post (some intelligible shnit [more intelligible than mine]) on the ESPN site:

http://sports.espn.go.com/highschool/rise/basketball/boys/news/story?id=3707648

And follow BM's link to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution and vote (on the left side) where he should do his college career:

http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/highschool/stories/2008/11/11/high_school_derrick_favors.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab

Might not make a difference, but it can't hurt.
And... I'm.. done.

[Edited on November 19, 2008 at 9:20 PM. Reason : i re-read my un-intelligible shnit on espn]

11/19/2008 9:06:19 PM

i still can't believe john wall has a wall on his facebook page.... and doesn't monitor who he adds to his friends. i cant believe some of the shit i see on there sometime (yes, i friended him to just see what was up).

someone actually posted something on there about "dont go to memphis, thats where martin luther king jr was shot" . you shittin me?

another girl from kentucky basically tried to seduce him via facebook.

11/19/2008 9:20:16 PM

i will seduce him if it means he comes to nc state

11/20/2008 5:03:17 PM

Farnold Degand out at least a few weeks according to Sidney Lowe during his press conference this morning

11/21/2008 12:12:47 PM

^it starts

well, it may have started with johnny thomas in the first scrimmage, but nc state shit is here.

11/21/2008 12:19:24 PM

It almost seems like we have a better chance with Favors than with Wall. This is odd considering Wall is from Raleigh and his mother is sick.

11/21/2008 1:01:51 PM