Cassius Winston top 4: M makes cut
According to a tweet by Pat Lawless and retweeted by Winston himself. List down to M, Sparty, Harvard, and Stanford.
I plan on making it down to the final two games of the Nike World Elites in Chicago tomorrow morning to see him, Cumberland, and Bridges. Battle not playing in tournament.
Edit: Pitt also on list. Plans to take visits to all 5.
Pretty sure he only included Harvard so that people know he can go to Harvard if he wants to (he doesn't).
I can just see the commitment ceremony now:
CW: "I choose to take my talents out East"
Ace: "Where out East?"
CW: "Boston"
Ace: "What school in Boston?"
CW: "You know what school in Boston"
Ace: "Boston College? Or are you going to be a Terrier or.."
CW: "I'M GOING TO HARVARD, ACE. Harvard is out East. When people say 'out East' it's a way of being pretentious without appearing pretentious."
All 5 schools have something else in common. None of them are in Boston. Harvard is in Cambridge, except for the business school and athletic facilities.
Now you're being pedantic. Like saying you're from Detroit even though you grew up in Royal Oak.
I usually say i'm from Royal Oak. Though I still live in Royal Oak so most people I talk to know where that is.
I also grew up in Royal Oak. When someone in-state asked where I was from, I'd say Royal Oak. When someone from out-of-state asked, I would always say Detroit--those people typically don't give a shit about individual suburbs.
"suburbs of Detroit" to people in Wisconsin. Randomly met someone from Wisconsin who knew where Novi was.
It's not just HBS and the athletic facilities. The medical school (and most affiliated hospitals), dental school, public health school, and much of the new engineering school are all in Boston too.
outside Boston in a town called Cambridge
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One of these is not like the others! One of these things just isn't the same!
2 of the other schools have Michigan connections, oddly enough.
Stanford's head coach Johnny Dawkins is Aubrey's dad and obviously we know the guy who's coaching Harvard.
Tommy Amaker really is the inverse of Beilein, isn't he? Awful at X's and O, terrible offensive coach, fantastic recruiter with little in the way of scruples about player character, etc.
Amaker have a reputation for recruiting players with character issues? I thought that was like the one assignment he was given at Michigan - recruit good people who don't get in trouble and do stupid thignts to bring about more negative attention to our program. I thought that was like his one mandate and I don't remember any particular problems with player character during his time. Am I missing something. I did spend some time out east during his tenure so maybe there were issues I was unaware of.
Ten MGoDollars to the first person to correctly tell me what's going on in the attached photo:
that was me waking up the morning after my 21st birthday. How did you get that picture?
For a little while there, he was crazy fun to watch in a "we're not good but had might as well enjoy this" kind of way.
"I WAS IN THE POOL!
I WAS IN THE POOL!"
Dommanic Ingerson. If I recall correctly, he had multiple transgressions even befor he arrived at MIchigan. Send me the Mgobucks.
http://bustedcoverage.com/2010/02/19/former-michigan-basketballer-domma…
He wasn't that fantastic with recruiting in the early years of his tenure as much as he was later. Of course he had to deal with the huge dumpster fire Michigan basketball had become. And with player character, he definitely brought in a few bad apples, but by and large, the guys were OK. As far as X and O's and player development, yes. They really are inverses.
were the bad apples? Alright, I am going to look at his rosters.
you're thinking of Brian Ellerbee. Fantastic recruiter but always bring in players with big time character problems.
TA is solid but not great but was never able to close onto the recruits he wanted. He did land Daniel Horton and Dion Harris.
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fact that he is interested in academics bodes well. Of course, it's also possible he is leaning heavily to MSU and just included harvard and stanford for show.
Pitt is included in that list as well.
Sparty seems a little out of place in his list.
is it's a Michigan/MSU battle for Winston. He was rumored to be a heavy Sparty lean early on but it appears to be a dead heat between them.
harvard... with seth towns, kids these days talk more and more about school and ball (jaylen brown to cal)
stranger things have happened
Harvard likely won't be a problem. Plus, I like Harvard's chances to make the dance over Stanford.
U-D Jesuit: $12K/year
Harvard: $60K/year, including room and board.
That's quite a jump.
Ivies give out full financial aid minus family's EFC. If he needs money, he'll get every dime that he can't afford covered by any of the Ivies.
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That's rough... he should try out for the basketball team or something, maybe he can get a scholarship!
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Harvard doesn't offer athletic scholarships.
I don't know his situation, but rich private high schools have no problem giving out scholarship money to kids, especially if they are a game changing basketball player.
"Amaker’s arrival coincided with the school’s decision to expand its policy of giving grants rather than loans to low-income students. That means that despite the Ivy League’s prohibition against athletic scholarships, Harvard can now offer a great number of the nation’s best basketball players the same thing as any other school: a free education and the chance to play in the NCAA tournament."
This is an unambiguous good thing IMO, but the author of this Slate article seems to be holding his nose at the merest whiff of students using athletics to better their lot in life. Whatever. If Winston's family is not amongst the top tier of earners, Harvard would be free for him.
that is why i think he will pick sparty, unfortunately.
I agree. I don't actually think Harvard and Stanford are farfetched destinations for Winston.
It seems like almost any D-1 college team can make a tournament run with one transformative player. If you are truly that talented and can get through the admissions process at a top-ranked academic institutions, why not?
1) At Harvard or Stanford, Winston would stand out amongst his teammates; he would be "the man" the day he lands on campus. Also, the metrics for success would be comparatively low; if Winston make the tournament with either of these teams he would be deemed a success by the draft prognosticators and could go 1-and-done. Being "the man" in a mid-level basketball program makes especially good sense for point guards who are expected to elevate the level of the players around them. It makes strange sense to showcase this ability by surrounding yourself with hardworking college players and making them look like marginal NBA talent. Think Steph Curry, Elfrid Payton, Cameron Payne, etc.
2) On the other hand, if Winston goes to Harvard or Stanford and washes out or get injured he could quickly shift gears and pursue a solid profession. This reminds me of Jack Miller (I can't think of a comparable basketball player off the top of my head)—of course this point also applies for Michigan!
I don't think this kid will ever commit anywhere. He'll be in his 30s still taking visits. (Not knocking him. Just seems like we've been hearing his name forever.)
Only in basketball would you see those four names on the same list. Just wait for MSU fans to point out they totally got into Stanford and Harvard but chose MSU because they wanted to "enjoy college."
i have a msu friend who recently told me she got into UM but wanted to go to msu instead. said she had a 4.0 in high school. well, she is a secretary at a law firm here in chi for several years. not knocking that profession, but you don't need a 4.0.