Battle to Cuse Apparently Official
we will be losing any sleep over it, either. I am basing it off of limited video that I have seen and understand the limitations of my knowledge, but he looks to be overrated to me. Nothing about him jumped out at me as being really impactful. Not saying we would not have loved to have another piece, but he did not appear to be a college all american level talent to me.
Then again I'm not Tyus Battle.
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Their tournament ban is already over.
and Cuse will have 10. They rarely have a rotation greater than 7 players. I don't think this hurts Cuse too much.
but my guess is we are able to fill that scholly with someone who will be an impact player, although not at TB's level.
I get the "close to home" thing, but 'Cuse is a head-scratcher. Would love to hear their recruiting schtick now -- it must be good if it helped land TB.
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Good Luck Tyus, have a happy and healthy playing career.
As much as I would love to call shady antics on Syracuse, this poor dudes parents are calling all the shots for him. In the last few months, he's switched high schools, switched AAU teams, switched commitments.
A high school kid's parents are calling the shots for him. Why is that automatically a bad thing? The best we can say now is that maybe that's what is happening. And if it is, you can't tell whether that's good or bad unless you are somehow deepely connected with his family.
Sure, there might be good reasons for a kid to switch, but when you are taking a HS kid and switching his AAU team, his HS team, and having him semi-arbitrarily switch colleges before his senior year even begins, I'm having a hard time believing this is all being done for the direct benefit of the kid. I'm a parent (admittedly of a young kid), but switching her dinner from salmon to chicken is enough to get a cocked eyebrow and a 2-minute conversation about why the fish tastes funny. I'm guessing Battle didn't make all of these decisions on his own.
I was looking forward to seeing Battle in Maize and Blue but it's his choice and I hope he does well with his decision. I wonder why he decided to decomit from Michigan, probably will never know. Oh well we push on and hope for a commit from Miles Bridges! Go Blue!!
I think his skills would determine his position more than his height and weight. The "4" in Michigan's system isn't much different than a 2/3 in some other places, anyway.
Our Battle-ship has been sunk
At least he didn't wait and Tyus up any longer with his decision
Nice one, upvote!
The Cowherd interview must have scared him away from Michigan /s
I hope that his decision is what he really wants and outside influences are not getting in the way
Oh well, we got Harbaugh and Nike
Well, Gary Battle got what he wanted. I sincerely hope it is also what Tyus wanted.
Tyus Battle (ESPN, No. 27) has committed to Syracuse. Big-time get for the Orange. Story on @kidmamba23: http://t.co/Bv5PnxQ8j6
— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanESPN) July 13, 2015This one really hurts. Particularly knowing that it probably cost us Langford (or Cumberland) as well. One of these years we will catch a break and finally start landing 5 star recruits on the hoops trail. In the meantime the search continues. At least we still have time to scramble. I wonder if Beilein will go after Cumberland now that we have closure on Battle?
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I am not sure what a Michigan Man is exactly, but I do know that are you not one.
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Ellipses have three periods.
Ever been to Syracuse? It's a dump. The campus is ok but the city itself sucks. Couple all that with the sanctions and you're wondering - if the goal is to be close to home - why in the world you'd pick Syracuse
and it is a dump. I was surprised by how "country" it was. The weather was nice, but I hear the winters are downright brutal.
Close to home would be Rutgers.
Wish him luck, but man, doesn't seem like a good program to attend unless you are 100% planning on going to the NBA in a year and just, I don't know, want to shoot the ball a good deal on a team that doesn't look really good going forward.
He needs to perfect his 2-3 zone skill for the NBA.
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We didn't even make Langford's top 8. For now it's Winston or bust and we're in a battle with MSU for him.
i would be happy with any top 100 PG. if dawkins can improve his handle at all, battle won't be missed much. PG however...
It seems like there will no end of great shooting guards/forwards coming to Beilein. We're overstuffed with them. I'm much more interested in great true point guards. I want a brilliant passer & penetrator, lightning quick with incredible ball handling.
Mix me one up made out of the best parts of Ricky Green, Gary Grant, Eric Turner & The Judge (Who wasn't a point guard but became an amazing ball handler and passer after only being a long ranger bomber in high school)
Jump ship to a major college basketball school after committing to Michigan? Check
Parental over-involvement? Check
I hope for this kid's sake it's not the case, but this looks a lot like the road that Alex Legion went down.
If it is the case, prepare thyself for some serious 2nd Division Italian professional basketball, Mr. Battle.
Unless Bridges goes to UK, it's quite possible it'll either be a Bridges/Winston package to UM or to MSU. This will certainly be interesting to see unfold.
parents somehow - whether by offering something illegal, shady, or even a technically legal inducement. But that's just the cynical side of me. Another part of me hopes he actually chose Syracuse on his own for the right reasons. But, either way, at least we can put this extremely annoying and frustrating recruitment behind us and move on to players who actually want to be here.
a decent plan B.
I think Jaylen Brown said it.
I am very nervous about MSU right now-all indications is Bridges is UK v MSU (and he is from Flint). They already have Langford (top 20) and Nick Ward (top 75). And if I am Winston (top 35) and see that trio that is going to be nearly impossible to turn down. Very frustrating for all the work Beilein has put in.
Do I seriously have to root for that slime from UK here? Ugh basketball recruiting.