Well, then thanks for your limited contribution. Sorry you didn’t find any interest in my out of the box thoughts.
I would hope that if Phillips get someone was available to do what you described, he would have gone after him.
Can we get a little realistic?
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Well, then thanks for your limited contribution. Sorry you didn’t find any interest in my out of the box thoughts.
I would hope that if Phillips get someone was available to do what you described, he would have gone after him.
Go independent or ivy with it. Or fully commit to excellence. But the middle of the road crap is frustrating.
Stop the madness.
Impossible for NU to pull just MBB out of the B1G and remain a member otherwise. And too much B1G money to leave a Power 5 conference.
You are too smart to make such a dopey argument.
I get the argument. It frustrates me as a fan that NU would put up such mediocracy as a world renown institution. Maybe it frustrates other B1G schools and maybe they will push for NU to get the boot.
But some external pressure needs to occur.
Oh stop it. NU was beyond terrible in the both sports in the 70s,80s and part of the 90s with bad facilities. Not the case now in EITHER sport.
There are millions of reasons we will not go with option 1. Not sure how far along the spectrum we can get on two but that is the route we have to take. Some of the biggest obstacles have been addressed but that doesn't mean it is any kind of snap you fingers and it is done
You got me. I fell for your schtick, taking the undefensible side of an argument just to generate clicks.
Well played.
So if it frustrates you so much, why do you spend time around here? Why is the purpose? Plus, there’s other teams you can start following that might be more down your ally of “win at any cost”.
Ok, the MBB has not reached beyond terrible. Enjoy this season. Then, let’s see how many more transfer out. But everybody will get a participation trophy.
Because I would miss you. We have become so tight since allying on the rant board. You complete me.
In other words, you openly don’t like the program, want it to disband or leave the B1G, and only post here to intentionally attempt to get under other peoples’s skin?
Those other words are yours. That’s ok buddy. It’s gotta be rough realizing how much we have in common. Let’s head over to the rant board and pick on some liberals.
Well, we are halfway through September and still zero commits with four open spots.
Which would be worrisome if we were late in the recruiting cycle, imo, but we're not. And we had one of the earliest 2020 commits in the BIG who decommitted through no fault of our program...
Your first sentence is ridiculous. Never do ANYTHING like Carmody and his staff when it comes to recruiting, PLEASE.
I’ll see your Shurna and raise you a Turner...
Carmody had a few great recruits, and one who IMO was the best NU ever had (Shurna). But he had a slew of recruits were weren’t D1 caliber at any level. He also had his own Vassar situation with Kevin Coble, except that Coble was a bigger loss.
Geez, that's a real stretch to equate Vassar and Coble. Collins realized he made a mistake with Vassar and ran him off. Coble and Carmody didn't see eye to eye and parted ways, which was a real loss for NU. Never forget the night Coble beat MSU in East Lansing just about single handedly.
I’ll accept that. But “didn’t see eye to eye” is downplaying it just a tad. I remember well Coble’s very detailed story on here. There was much more too it, including a very sick parent and a coach unwilling to make any concessions regardless of the seriousness at the time. Kevin’s mom isn’t a big fan of Carmody, I’ll tell you that.
Meh, we hadn't even offered him, according to 247... Didn't even know who he was until the Harvard commitment was brought up here.
Haywood mentioned him as one of two hot prospects on this board. And in the story on his commitment he said he said it came down to NU and HU, consistent with what Haywood said. So regardless of what 247 said it was a tough loss for NU.
Like I said, wasn't even on the 247 offer list. And don't we have two bigs already? Also Pete is 6'10". so not exactly a position of need. Young man probably saw the writing on the wall re: playing time for fhe next two years...
Losing Bam was big news. This is not, imo. Had you even heard of this player before Haywood brought him up?
Losing Bam was big news. This is not, imo. Had you even heard of this player before Haywood brought him up?
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You're too much!!
According to VerbalCommits.com, he had offers from Maryland, Tennessee, Auburn, UConn, Wake, Vandy and Yale. I suspect he could play a little at NU.
But meh.
http://verbalcommits.com/players/justice-ajogbor
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Between 247 and Haywood, I put stock in Haywood.
Ajogbor, a 6-foot-9, 230-pound center, narrowed his list of schools to Harvard and Northwestern in June, but also had serious interest from Stanford, Wake Forest, Davidson and a host of others. Ajogbor took an official visit to Harvard last weekend.
"I took this past week to look at my two options," Ajogbor said. "I was looking at Harvard and Northwestern. On Wednesday I was just in class and I wasn’t even thinking about college and the idea just popped in my head that I want to be at Harvard."
https://247sports.com/Article/Justice-Ajogbor-commits-to-Harvard-135656189/
Why do you care about him so much? He was ranked 171 in the 247 composite-- even if we did offer (and this article doesn't say we offered him, either), he would have been one of the lowest-ranked recruits we offered. And it is not in a position of need, so again, meh...
I care because Haywod said there were two top targets for NU likely to make a commitment to their choice of school in the next 6 weeks, and one of them is now gone. Given the young mans offer list, he would have been a nice recruit for NU.
But I will wait patiently for one of those other higher rated kids 247 says has an offer to commit to NU.
Like Goode? He's been offered and has visited. Or Berry and Hopkins? Same thing. I tend to focus on those players, sorry if that somehow offends you!
247 doesn’t even have a NU beat writer. Most info comes from Regional guys. They miss a lot of offers/interest when it comes to NU.
