Cole Huff down to Creighton and Iowa

Submitted by Raoul on

Looks like Beilein & Co. may be banking a scholarship for 2015 after all. From Cole Huff's former AAU coach:

Cole Huff is down to Creighton and Iowa where he is visiting tomorrow he will be making a decision following the visit #Eleate

— clint parks (@Brotherhood05) May 1, 2014

Raoul

May 1st, 2014 at 10:35 AM ^

One of my issues with you is that you post your opinions as if they are facts. And you've made numerous blanket statements about one recruit or another in terms of Michigan's chances of landing them, and I can't remember one time when you provided a source for your assertions.

There's a difference between expressing a strong opinion and being an obnoxious know-it-all.

reanimator

May 1st, 2014 at 10:50 AM ^

1. Its a messageboard, isn't everything prefaced as opinion? For example, if I say "Brunson isn't coming here", isn't that obviously a speculative opinion based on info I may have come across.

 

2. If you can cite when I have not sourced anything for an opinion than go ahead.

 

*You* are interpreting the difference between a strong opinion and being an obnoxious know-it-all. I'd say if I was an obnoxious know-it-all, I'd quote and contest others opinions and tell them they are wrong, which is something I never do. 

reanimator

May 1st, 2014 at 10:00 AM ^

I'm sorry you are still mad I used the last 2 months of factual information and you rebuttaled with a 5 month old quote.

 

I was informing the board about Brunson with valuable information and you decided to turn it into a pissing match, lost and cried to the admin (who, himself is passive aggressive) 

You could have simply provided you viewpoint and facts on Brunson and kept it moving, but you are obsessed. 

alum96

April 30th, 2014 at 10:55 PM ^

1) I agree its a negative.  If I was Hoke I would have recruited 3 JUCO OL when he got here because he knew the shitstorm that was coming down the pike after the 2011 kids left.  BUT most likely that is not even possible at UM...leading to point 2.

2) The working theory is transfer credits are difficult -  UM has a lot stricter threshold for credits to transfer from another school than most.  So if a kid is a sophomore and he loses a full year of credit by coming to UM versus say Nebraska, he is not going to come here.  That is different than the general admissions standard which seems to be a lot lighter for athletes of the big 2 sports.... transferring credits is transferring credits, no matter if you are an athlete or not.  And credits from places where most JUCO's are hanging out are going to be even less likely to mean a thing than say if it was a transer from Purdue.

Perkis-Size Me

April 30th, 2014 at 10:19 PM ^

Honestly I'm okay with this. No disrespect to Huff, I'm sure he's a great player in his own right, but I think saving that schollie to make sure we get a big man in the 2015 class is a little more important. I'm curious as to why we didn't go after any big man transfers. Or maybe none of them that we're out there made the cut.



This, of course, coming from a guy who knows jack squat about the X's and O's of basketball.

champswest

April 30th, 2014 at 10:40 PM ^

For 2015, well that is what a lot of us wanted all along. Huff looks like a good player, but I like the idea of getting a potential 4 year player next year with this slot.

alum96

April 30th, 2014 at 11:03 PM ^

Is it?  It doesnt sound like a lot of people want a 4 year player aka what they call sleepers around here or guys not in the top 50.  Guys in the top 50 seem to be going at a rate of "two and thru" at UM so that scholarship was either for 2 years of Huff or 2 years of a 2015 target who hops to the NBA shortly after.  If its a 3 year player or heck 4 year then people here will complain lol since he must be outside the top 100.

Mr Miggle

May 1st, 2014 at 9:31 AM ^

UCLA and Cal have only taken players from California JCs and they don't take very many. If Michigan's community colleges were churning out a lot of D-1 players we would probably be getting some of them, since UM does offer transfer credits from Michigan schools. Vandy very rarely accepts JUCOs. A quick look shows two in ten years, both from CA. ND, NW and Penn State don't either. A leading academic school could accept a bunch of JUCOs, but most choose not to and the reason is academics.

wbpbrian

May 1st, 2014 at 8:18 AM ^

Cole Huff is a good player but the possibility of the scholorship going to someone like Stephen Zimmerman or Carlton Bragg makes sense. 

Jobu

May 1st, 2014 at 11:38 AM ^

I'm okay with this as well. I'm worried more about the team this coming season than the season after. Huff wouldn't help us right away anyway.