2015 Basketball Prospect Karl Towns to be coached by Calipari
I realize it may seem early to discuss a class of 2015 basketball player, but this kid is a phenom and he has genuine interest in Michigan. He's a 6'11 center with a great handle and in inside-outside game. Umhoops had a nice interview with the kid where he describes his Michigan fandom.
Unfortunately we probably should start counting our chickens. John Calapari recently added the young star to the Dominican Republic National Team. The 16 year old will be coached by Calipari and playing alongside Al Horford and Charlie Villanueva in a quest to go to the Olympics. Calipari will certainly have a upperhand in his recruitment.
This should not be allowed.
This
I understand he's written a book about his approach to recruiting and success in life:
Maybe Jon Horford can get his borther to put in some good words for us.
Hopefully, but his brother will probably be recruiting him for Florida.
Represents everything that is wrong with college sports.
And he continually shows that the NCAA is nothing more than a bunch of chicken shit.
~Herm
I bet you two are the type who don't use capitalization, punctuation, or proper titles in letters either. This damn texting has turned an entire generation into a bunch of Twitter tweetle-dee-dumbers. At least now readers can identify who is writting these comments. I'm Herm, I'm a person who these people can identify with and talk to. You're just "jMatthe313GoBlue"... if anyone can figure out what that means.
~Herm
Congratulations bub, you found a spelling error in my comment on a message board that commonly utilizes a nearly naked blonde to describe happiness, obviously indicating that MGoBlog is the foremost bastion of formal discussion on the internet. Moreover, such nit-picking endears you to me, and others, about as much as an old-maid, second grade spelling teacher with bad breath. I'll put this in terms you can hopefully comprehend; I'm the Maverick to your Goose, and not in the friendly sort of way (more of a: you die in a plane crash and I score Kelly McGillis, metaphorically of course).
~HERM
and he's right way more than he's wrong, keep up the good fight Herm!
As far as Towns is concerned, this kid has a really nice, complete game for a Freshman and he seems perfect for Beilein's Offense, let's hope he goes Blue, U-M Blue!!!!
Seriously? You sound like the epitome of everything that is wrong with the blue hairs. I bet you sit somewhere near the fifty yard line and whine about all the hooligans around, as if you were at some soccer match in Ukraine and not a football game in Ann Arbor.
I was gonna go out on a limb and suggest that you probably watch the games from a box, but then I realized someone as close-minded and grumpy as you has exactly 0 business acumen and thus probably can't afford it. So, yeah.
^~*~State Street~*~^
I'm a big fan of it becuase it seems to annoy people for no reason.
Cal usually gets the upperhand by being underhanded.
For someone listed at 6'11" he sure plays below the rim a lot. I'm sure his athletic ability is still a work in progress, as with many kids who have this type of size early in development.
Towns sounds like a another version of Anthony Davis.
Anthony Davis? The above-the-rim guy from Kentucky who (I believe) led the nation in blocks? The guy who started out as a guard and had a late growth spurt? I don't see it at all.
Karl is, at this early stage, a ground-bound guy with a good skill set that seems suited to Beileinball.
His shooting range (if not form) is amazing.
I should have been more specific. His ability to handle like a guard is similar to Anthony Davis.
I wonder how people would feel if Coach K got ride of the current USA team in favor of a McDonald's All-American High School roster?
Coach Cal is the biggest cheater in sports. Always has been,always will be.
Biggest cheater in sports huh? The Chicago black sox team would like a word in this debate.
Maybe he'll be sanctioned again by then.
I'm OK with it if he is indeed worthy, but Calipari is probably pretty proud of himself for thinking of this one. Still, somebody should tell this kid that he forfeits any chance at wearing the Stars and Stripes if he plays for DR in international competition. As the #1 kid in his class you have to believe he's got a good chance at playing for the USA if he kept developing.
Why is John Calipari coaching the Dominican Republic National Team?
You'd think the answer would be because he's of Dominican decent...
But the real answer: Because Rick Pitino was coaching the Puerto Rican National Team
Does anyone here really think Calipari will still be at UK in 2015? He will get caught cheating before then, or will put his nose to the air, "smell the posse on his trail," and head for higher ground, just as he always has before.
Calipari is incapable of keeping his cheating far enough below the radar in today's "information age" to stay at any school for very long. John Calipari is no Jim Tressel.
Knew Karl Towns was going to be coached by John Calipari in November.
I'm surprised half a dozen top-50 recruits haven't received mysterious offers of Dominican citizenship in advance of the Olympics, with somebody in place to take their citizenship test if by some chance they happen to fail the first time around.