October 18th, 2010 at 1:45 PM ^
Steve Lavin is the coach at St John's. I knew we were going to get slimed.
October 18th, 2010 at 4:50 PM ^
Has joined him in the Big Apple. That's a power tandem right there, with Keady being the legend and Lavin the protege/TV personality. I think it's good for NYC basketball (maybe big city college basketball in general, which used to dominate... i.e. Manhattan teams of the 40's and 50's). And on another note, I don't think there is a greasier combo than Keady-Lavin, the amount of gel used on each is epic.
October 18th, 2010 at 1:45 PM ^
Rivals is reporting that he has pushed his announcement back a week FWIW.
October 18th, 2010 at 1:54 PM ^
huge blow. someone send him a tape of manny on the cavs.
October 18th, 2010 at 1:50 PM ^
This sucks. Amir Williams, come on down! Oh, what? You don't actually want to go to Michigan? :facepalm:
October 18th, 2010 at 1:58 PM ^
Wow. This sucks!! I was convinced we'd get him to commit over the weekend...
October 18th, 2010 at 2:14 PM ^
RR ISNT HAPPIE SCREWING UP THE FOOTBALL PROGRAM NOW HES SCREWING UP THE BASEKTBALL. POINTER TOOK WON LOOK AT THE PUNT IN THE FIRST HALFD AND SAID IM GOING TO A SCHOOL THAT PLAYS REALL FOOTBALL AND HE SURE ENUF WENT THEIR. GO HOME RODRIQUEZ GO BLUE
October 18th, 2010 at 2:18 PM ^
WHY DID HE MAKE THE CLASSROOMS SO LARGE AT MICHIGAN!!!!!!!!!!!
October 18th, 2010 at 2:20 PM ^
HE KNOWS NUTHIN ABOUT TRADITION. THEIR ARE PLENTY OF WAYS TO BREAK A CAMELS BACK AND HE KNOWS PLENTY. THE ONLY TWO RS I WANT ON THE FIELD ARE THE ONES AFTER C-A. BRING BACK LLOYD. UNACEPTABLE. RON ENGLISH COULD DO BETTER
October 18th, 2010 at 2:19 PM ^
LET'S GET HIM OUT OF HERE BEFORE HE RUINS THE BIG CHILL ALSO.
October 18th, 2010 at 2:22 PM ^
HE'S GOING TO MAKE THEM PLAY OUTSIDE. NEVER WOULD HAVE HAPPENED WITH LLOYD CARR.
October 18th, 2010 at 2:30 PM ^
Hey Geaux_Blue, nobody in this thread approached the tone of your supposedly hilarious, sarcastic comments. You're being way more annoying than funny, and you're not making your point well.
October 18th, 2010 at 2:34 PM ^
i was trying to add levity. all of us fail at some point. this is truly a significant loss on the bball program that appears to not be blamable on anyone - who could blame the kid for going to the top 5 recruiting class in the country? other than cleveland fans i mean.
October 18th, 2010 at 5:19 PM ^
His comments were hilarious. Stop being such a whiner.
October 18th, 2010 at 8:04 PM ^
If you or the other two or three habitual anti-GB posters have anything personal against GB, you may want to take it offlist. If you don't, things will probably continue to escalate, which will result in them getting ugly. And, even if there are ten of you, I doubt that you will be able to effect any change here, except maybe to get yourself booted.
Here's hoping that everyone sees mgoblog as being bigger than personal emnities.
October 18th, 2010 at 11:12 PM ^
I have absolutely nothing personal against GB, have never commented about anything GB has said before, and in no way should be perceived as a "habitual anti-GB poster."
I completely understand the point GB is trying to make about hysterical reactionary fans, but I simply didn't think this thread - and especially where GB started the comments - was the appropriate place for the point being made.
The original post came off as an attack on a poster who was simply expressing disappointment, and I didn't think that was warranted or necessary.
That's it.
October 18th, 2010 at 2:38 PM ^
This is why Michigan offered Stauskas in hope of him jumping into committing to Michigan and he didn't. It seems like Michigan is looking to upgrade athleticism and depth on the wing.
Amir Williams is still a long shot and all indications are that he'll go out of state.
October 18th, 2010 at 2:53 PM ^
Dom, I know this may sound crazy, but sometimes your parents are actually right. I'm just saying this to help you out. But I know that sometimes we have to make our own mistakes. I wish you luck...
October 18th, 2010 at 5:20 PM ^
October 18th, 2010 at 2:59 PM ^
I was not expecting a basketball-related dong punch today. Damn.
October 18th, 2010 at 3:18 PM ^
After reading Sam Webb's article, I thought that this looked great for us. Given that he has a skill set that would have been huge for what we're trying to do, this isn't a pretty significant loss.
October 18th, 2010 at 3:38 PM ^
October 18th, 2010 at 8:12 PM ^
Coach B just needs to nab that one star recruit to get this program over the top, and who knows, maybe that player is already on campus.
1. If Belein signs a one star recruit, all michigan basketball message boards will spontaneously combust.
2. There are probably 7 one star recruits hooping at the CCRB right now (maybe 8 if Gavin Groninger came back for homecoming)
3. I'm being totally sarcastic. I know what you meant.
October 18th, 2010 at 9:52 PM ^
I'm punctionality challenged, period. End of story.
October 18th, 2010 at 3:22 PM ^
This last weekend we saw that Rodriguez's offense can work against a good defense (yay). That's hope for me. With basketball...I never thought I would be nostalgic for Tommy Amaker. If UM can beat Bowling Green, Grand Valley State, Oakland and Harvard this year I will be very very surprised. Brandon needs to find a coach who can put big ten caliber athletes in those uniforms and fast.
October 18th, 2010 at 5:45 PM ^
I agree that we need to get rid of Beilein because he hasn't done anything of note...wait you mean he got us to the tourney for the first time in a decade? And that he has consistently improved our recruiting until now we are a fringe top 25 recruiting level team? All with the crappiest arena in the conference and having no practice facility? Honestly the strange dichotomy of supporting RR(which I do 100% btw) and hating on JB confuses the hell out of me.
October 18th, 2010 at 3:45 PM ^
Just a quick question....whats the appeal of going to St. Johns if your a big time recruit?
October 18th, 2010 at 4:27 PM ^
1) Gigantic media market.
2) Good conference.
3) A program that has some history and tradition. From wiki:
St. John's Red Storm men's basketball has the 7th-most NCAA tournament appearances (27), two Wooden National Player of the Year Award Winners, 11 consensus All-Americans, 6 members of the College Basketball Hall of Fame, and has sent 59 players to the NBA.
October 18th, 2010 at 6:35 PM ^
Why would a recruit care about the size of the media market? It's not like he can sign any endorsement deals.
October 19th, 2010 at 8:47 AM ^
October 18th, 2010 at 7:13 PM ^
Quick question . . . what's the appeal of going to Michigan if you're a big time recruit? Poor recent history, no practice facility, not even Midnight Madness to celebrate the team.
October 18th, 2010 at 3:51 PM ^
Hurts like a kick in the balls.
That said, we had every opporunity to land this kid. His family is from Michigan. His folks were openly pulling for us and on top of that we had the last visit. I grew concerned when we didn't hear anything yesterday about a commitment. I'm sure Lavin utilized some sort of narrative to land DP just as any other coach on the recruiting trail would have. But to suggest that he cheated or did anything untoward or that Pointer would somehow fall prey (or worse yet consent) to such overtures is a stretch. Pointer is not a make or break recruit. He would have been nice but by no means is this a devastating setback. And if he's actually looking for immediate playing time (I suspect he is - just like any other recruit these days) I find it difficult to believe UM is a better situation than St. John's. If he were to have signed for us he'd have to contend against CB, TB, ZN, SD, and TH. More likely than not he would have sat on the bench or redshirted for his fist full year. I agree with you and most others here in that Beilein needs to do a better job clsoing these guys but I just believe this recruiting battle wasn't that big a deal. Had pointer been a 5 star once in a decade power forward I'd probably feel a little differently but as it stands I think we'll be just fine...
October 18th, 2010 at 5:46 PM ^
Should be interseting for for college BB in NY/NJ this year. First time in a while. St. John's and Rutgers are both putting together excellent classes that should make them relevant for a couple years. Seton Hall isn't pulling in a great class but will have a good veteran team for this year only that should conted for a spot in the dance. Then it's back to "eh" for them next year.