Eron Harris not on campus; UM has moved on
Per Chris Balas at TheWolverine. Very odd turn of events.
Michigan is no longer pursuing WVU hoops transfer Eron Harris and he is not on campus. He will decide Monday.
— Chris Balas (@Balas_Wolverine) June 7, 2014Deyonta Davis- top 25 recruit
Eron Harris- 17 ppg scorer
Bryn Forbes- 15 ppg scorer
Kyle Ahrens- top 150, JB was close to offering
Nairn Jr- 4 star
Bess/Ellis- their MAAR/Dawkins
In good shape to get 2 of Ellenson, Swanigan, Brunson, Gil-Caesar, Coleman, Davis, Turner, Manuel, Jarvis Johnson
In great shape with 2016 guys like Winston, Bridges, Murray
Add in upperclassmen like Valentine, Costello and Kaminsky and they will compete for B1G titles and deep runs over the next few years
Guys - let's not get ahead of ourselves about U-M vs. MSU. Last year, MSU was injured (and yes, I enjoyed it too), but we saw what happened when their whole team was playing well - they whooped our ass in the B1G tournament final. I do believe that we have a better team, but MSU and Izzo are top-rate.
I do not see a fit either with Harris going to MSU. I felt he was a perfect match for the Beilein scheme.
I agree that the game meant much, much more to MSU than it did to Michigan, but we didn't have our seed locked up. Had we won, we'd have been in Virginia's spot, with MSU likely in Duke's (and Duke in ours). I'd have liked our chances in that region better, both at the time and in retrospect.
Interesting how we almost made it out of the region of death to Arlington. Truthfully, I thought that there was no way we'd get as far as we did with Louisville, UK, Duke, and Wichita State. Beilein proved me wrong.
Mitch didn't play in the Big Ten tounament. Funny how "Michigan fans" forget about that.
Not sure what you're driving at here, but please don't mistake me for a "Michigan fan" poser, son.
I had forgotten too. We were playing with our weird guys. The game would have been much different if we did not have to play with weird guys.
McGarry missed the whole year vs a couple of their players missing some time in the middle of the year. Big difference.
Not a difference at all. McGary still played some in Nov/dec and could possibly have come back in the final four. The only difference is that one team whined about injuries and the other one played through them.
He was still very limited at the combine.
Even if he wasn't coming back, I'm not sure what difference it makes. We still weren't at our best and they weren't at their best.
MSU's 3 best (Harris, Payne, Appling) missed a few games to injury.
Which team made excuses?
Don't forget about all of the 15 and 16 talent with M on their short list.
Nope they'll still contend for BT championships but as Jabari Parker going to Duke, the final four streak ending etc. shows they are no longer a threat for a national title. They're not going to become PSU bball.
Eron Harris has some great numbers and I think he probably would have fit incredibly well into Beilein's system actually - a very good plug-and-play player for that offense that would have been very productive. At this point, of course, the trendy pick is MSU, so we shall see on Monday - one tweet also added that Harris dropped Michigan from consideration, so it would be intriguing to here what in fact happened. Best of luck to him all the same, of course.
I can't find any other source saying Harris isn't on campus. I'm surprised no one else has said anything.
Expect Eron Harris to make a college decision on Monday. West Virginia transfer, Lawrence North grad.
— Kyle Neddenriep (@KyleNeddenriep) June 6, 2014
That sucks esp since it is likely its a MSU win. Wish he had visiting UM first. Would have been an immediate big time scorer to plug in for Caris in 12 months.
I don't get why people are acting like MSU is going to fall off the map and be irrelevant. They'll compete for titles every year because Izzo is a great coach who's also a dick. I do believe that for the forseeable future, Michigan will be right there with them and probably beating them more often then the lose to them.
there little brother. they suck
it's been for many years. Imo it's not even close. That's with zero early departures. Their recruiting going forward is okay, but below their typical level. To me, that's an indication they'll compete for Big Ten titles some years and be a middle of the pack team others.