MBB: Entire 2017 Top 50 announces Michigan will finish 2nd in its recruitment
(Associated Press - 7/13/15) In an unprecedented conference call today, the entire 247 Top 50 of the 2017 men’s basketball recruiting class announced that Michigan would finish second in its recruitment. Speaking for the group, power forward Wendell Carter, Jr. of Atlanta said that Michigan combined “top-flight academics, player development, and recent success” to make it the consensus runner up for the entire Top 50.
“When you look at what they’ve done with guys like Trey Burke, Darius Morris, and Tim Hardaway, you know this is the place you want to very nearly go to school,” said point guard Trevon Duval of Newark, New Jersey. “I mean, in theory, they could take a guy like me and make me a top five pick.”
Today’s announcement came after the players met at various camps and realized they all held Michigan in equal esteem. Shooting Guard D.J. Harvey of Hyattsville, Maryland explained how it happened: “We all got to texting and realized, hey, Michigan and Coach Beilein have sent seven guys to the NBA despite having no McDonald's All-Americans. And it’s a near-Ivy League school too! Who wouldn’t want to strongly consider going there but then pick someone else? We decided we might as well get some of this recruiting craziness over with and announce today that Michigan will be our No. 2.”
When asked for more detail about how they came to almost choose Michigan, players pointed to the academic support provided on campus in Ann Arbor, the “offensive genius” of John Beilein, and even the recent addition of Nike as Michigan’s team apparel provider. A number of parents of the players, who were also available for interviews, said they trusted the integrity of the Michigan coaching staff more than any other staff they had encountered. Said one parent: “Their trustworthiness is a real selling point. I have no problem with my son using Michigan as a back-up.”
When pressed as to why they didn’t want to commit to Michigan, recruits mentioned the recent national success of teams like Duke, the NBA draft success of players from places like Kentucky, the cold weather in Ann Arbor, and in the case of one player, “I just threw a dart at a board, and it hit ‘Gonzaga.’” A handful of players also referenced jobs their parents recently obtained on the campuses of other schools, “transportation alternatives” that were not available at Michigan, and the apparent fact that there are many more lost wallets filled with $100 bills that no one ever claims on some campuses than there are in Ann Arbor.
Very well executed Erik!
This would make a good Onion article.
I read the Onion a lot and this defintely has the Onion's fingerprints all over it. Great observation Stringer.
The Onion doesn't take submissions, unfortunately. Otherwise yeah this would fit right in.
Basketball recruiting makes me feel forever alone.
That's gold, Erik, gold!
Does this make us like a burner phone?
Or sloppy seconds at a frat party.
Yeah, sorry about getting in there first, Don.
tweet my disappointment to every single one of them.
I would laugh at these jokes if I wasn't busy crying about the underlying truths.
Amen.
To be fair I do think we'll move up to 1.5th place once we can offer Jumpman.
#Progress
Michigan is on the left and Syracuse on the right.
McFly or Munson?
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Maybe I needed to add it to my post? Unless of course you want to send me your credit card information.
With the Every Three Weekly not coming out again until September, I needed this.
Yep, this is nothing new. I'm going way back here, but among the players who put us second in their final analysis were:
Magic Johnson
Doc Rivers
Eric Montross
Derek Harper
Who am I missing?
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Lew Alcindor
This is second best post I've seen on this site for a while.
[gif from Miss Amazonas 2015 -- runner up tore crown off winner's head and threw it to the ground]
Erik_in_Dayton is always good for quality threads/comments.
First of all job well done. That was absolutely fantastic.
One note though is that while yeah the recruits really should be flocking to us for basketball it could be a lot worse for football if we played the "recent success" card.
Anyway job well done oure absolutely right we should not have this much trouble to get highly ranked basketball players on campus except for those dollar dollar bills.
We get turned down by only the best.
The Michigan difference.
See? Not everybody down here in Ohio deserves board scorn. Here is Eric - one of my FAVORITE posters and the writer of this absolutely brilliant thread.
Then there's me who posts goofy pictures of himself with Jim Tressel & Phil Hubbard.
Eric wins.
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Very good reporting. If you get a chance to talk to these recruits again, please ask them about how long they've been in contact with Beilein, how often they have heard from Michigan's staff as opposed to any other, how they'd be the best fit in Michigan's system, and whether the shade of maize affected their decisions.
That was effing fantastic.
It was almost worth the whole B-ball recruiting debacle just to read that piece.
Brian/Seth/Ace Postings. Loved it!!
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More useful to say than I thoroughly enjoyed that. Well, not really, because it feels too much like it could be completely true. Still...well done.
Multiple edits for various typos. Going to be one of those days.
This was an absolute joy to read. Very insightful.
a fun read, concise and original.
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