Jaylen Brown To Cal
Uh, okay?
Jaylen Brown tells Scout that he has committed to California. Story coming.
— Evan Daniels (@EvanDaniels) May 2, 2015 The lesson, as always, is that Tennessee is bad at having college sports. It would have been real, real nice to grab Brown but Michigan is still looking at a very deep roster that should see them have a nice 2015-16. C'est la vie.
Also, as a Bay Area Blue - Ivan Rabb's a beast! Cuonzo can cruit!
training camp for his tranfer to the pro's. Michigan and Kentuckyn are high profile schools with big expectations. He isn't interested in publicity and team record. I doubt he believes Cal will make it to the final four. He wants to develop without pressure and knows the pro scouts will be monitoring his progress.
This could be the rationale for his decision to go to Cal.
lolwut?
This whole recruitment was starting to become "Terrelle Pryor-ish".
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Ah well. I do wonder if Williams is back in the fold, regardless of what he is saying.
michigan is just as a good a school for undergrad, so the only difference is that michigan basketball is a relevant program, whereas cal basketball hasn't been...pretty much ever...
Considering California's higher education budget crisis going on atm. I think it is very fair to say Michigan and Cal academics are a wash.
And in basketball, not even close. You mention history of Cal basketball players as if it even means anything in terms of Michigan's. Jason Kidd is I think their only relevant player...
Not to mention Beilein > Martin. I'm gonna toss this one up to weather, campus and girls.
I like that you think USNews rankings are an objective, irrefutable indicator of educational quality, as if somehow there is any measurable difference between schools a few spots apart.
And no, Cal doesn't have a history of good basketball players. They have a history of awful team play with the occasional individual standout. They have one conference title since 1960, which is also the last time they went to the Final Four. They're a terrible basketball program and have been for a very long time.
Sorry to break the news to you, but the reality is, that my alma mater Michigan is a back up school for CA hs kids who cannot get into Berkley or UCLA. that wasn't the case back in the 80's when I attended as a CA resident, but it is now. Wish it was not true, but it is.
I've met a number of Cal/UCLA grads here in NYC who said they had considered Michigan before those schools but chose the local ones due to financial/logistical issues.
Most people I've met who listed UM as their "backup" school were turned down by the Ivy/Duke/Stanford schools, and frankly in most of their cases they weren't likely to have gotten into those schools but felt pressured to apply.
Regardless, let's all just admit that Cal/UCLA/UM/UVa are all some of the best public colleges in America and not focus on what 1-2 semi-arbitrary ranking systems say.
I wish Brown the best, but he's not going to be at Cal long enough to take advantage of their world-class education, and from an NBA preparation standpoint their is no comparison between UM and Cal.
The question isn't really whether a fellow message-board poster is taking US News rakings too seriously. The question is whether a high school student who hasn't actually spent multiple semesters on each campus is taking the rankings at face value. Having degrees from both institutions, I can speak with some authority in saying that academics are a wash. (And at that level, how good an education you get has far more to do with you personally and what opportunities you take advantage of than how many Nobel laureates are in residence on campus.) But I wouldn't expect a high school senior to know that. The attitude that "#1 is #1" may indeed be exactly the attitude a competitive high school athlete would take.
It's funny, actually: US News rankings are a lot like recruiting rankings. They're accurate in broad strokes, but if you take the exact numerical order too literally, you're missing the forest for the trees, and could easily come away with a false impression.
[Edit: this post was supposed to be a reply to Pinky above]
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I think you picked the wrong example for a comparison of #1. Duke got a lot of favorable calls that changed the outcome of that game. I would say both teams played hard (UW could've easily won).
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Cuonzo Martin over John Beilein. That is so incredibly hilarious and stupid.
Fuck California... State can't lose water fast enough. YEAH I SAID IT!
Not to mention Bacari's tweet and the 19 straight crystal balls. Solid work 247.
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That's what I'd like to know. Crystal's balls have as much insider knowledge as all these idiots.
Anybody who was following Brown's decision process would have known that he and his inner circle were extremely tight-lipped about their thinking, and the people making confident predictions about this school or that school based on "trends" were just pulling it out of their asses.
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Wish Beilein could start recruiting a little better.
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If you're going to go to Cali - might as well go to Westwood.
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Why all the NO's? That's something to look at.
Mitch McGary said yes.
is a different breed of player. He actually seemed to really like college basketball and playing for a team, not just for himself or his future.
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