Josh Christopher set to announce Monday
Oh crap. Now that the hour is drawing nigh, I'm getting nervous.
YOU CAN ACT LIKE A MAN. <SLAPS SELF> WHATSAMATTA WITH YOU?
Wtf Sop. I wasn’t nervous until you got nervous and said you were nervous. Now I’m nervous.
I finally saw Godfather for the first time just a couple weeks ago. Can't believe it took that long.
Duh fuq?
April 12th, 2020 at 10:04 AM ^
Yes, but did you know there are deleted scenes? In fact, they were mostly all good edits, not because they were extraneous but because they change viewer expectation of certain plot points and story narrative.
April 12th, 2020 at 10:37 AM ^
It depends. Are you 11 years old? If so, that might be kinda early.
This is great news. Either we will all be ecstatic on Monday or we will be melting down over how we blew it. In either event, we will be talking about sports and won’t be talking about abortion on a sports blog.
Hopefully it’s good news so we can see a post that gets 200+ responses and that post doesn’t involve a virus.
The news will spread like a virus.
Unless it doesnt go our way and then we will be talking about our “abortion” of a recruitment of this young man. And in that case i would be strongly against them.
Hopefully he doesn’t read this message board while making up his mind.
Juwan Howard, SOON:
His crusade had logic at first. But once he has the infinity stones, why not just use them to increase resources?
Because there's no Farm Stone.
Did it though? Kill half the population and move it back a few years. Then kick it on an open field where nobody is around either way? I dont know doesnt make much sense to me. If the world lost half its population we would be back here in a blink of an eye (on the worlds timeline) seems very short sighted. A bad guy with a half-assed (pardon the pun) motive.
who are we competing against?
As in life, the true answer is ourselves.
The universe, usually.
Arizona State. His brother plays there as a scholarship basketball player. We have 100% of the 247 crystal balls.
The Blue Blood basketball program super close to home (UCLA) and the school still pretty close to home where his big brother plays (ASU). I believe we're the favorite but there are good reasons to pick both of our biggest competitors.
As someone that lives in Cincinnati, he doesn't want to play for Cronin @ UCLA. Even if it's only for one season. The guy just is not a very good coach as far as developing players. Juwan would do worlds more for him (obviously).
I agree with you, but there is always going to be an allure to the traditionally strong, hometown team (which is why Hoke and RR were able to bring in top recruits from Michigan when they were here).
Honestly think USC has more of a shot than UCLA. Ziaire Williams and Josh are from the same area and Williams is expected to commit to USC today.
April 11th, 2020 at 10:05 PM ^
BPONE
It would be horrendous if he doesn't pick Michigan.
Just so happy to be able to talk about true sports news on Monday. Whether it be good or bad.
Just so happy to be able to talk about true sports news on Monday. Whether it be good or bad.
April 11th, 2020 at 10:16 PM ^
You can say that again!
Since I was present during the Fab Five, I saw firsthand, and I can say this with certainty... when Michigan basketball is on top, there is no brighter light shone in the basketball world. Whether its all the alumni, and so many in media, maybe also from the carryover interest from the football program being the top one for 70 years.....
I hope Christoper knows, thats Michigan basketball truly is a sleeping giant at the moment.
It's not really sleeping man. We were in the national championship game 2 years ago.
April 11th, 2020 at 10:12 PM ^
Sleeping? We’ve made two championship games in the last 7 years, an elite 8, a couple sweet 16s and are perennially amongst the best teams in the B10. Basically nobody but Nova has a better resume than us over the past decade, so if we’re sleeping, it’s very lightly
April 11th, 2020 at 11:08 PM ^
Well the Fab Five wasn't on top because they won a championship. That was a cultural icon as a whole for a lot of people. Michigan will always be behind the likes of Duke, UNC, Kansas, Indiana and Kentucky when things are going well.
I want to respond to this in a comprehensive manner but (as I began to create a rough outline in my mind) I realized it would explode into a long ass post that would make Leo Tolstoy proud.
So I'm saving your post because I think it serves as a great springboard into topics I don't see discussed often (at least not on this board). Example: how the 6 basketball bluebloods came to be. Sure people know the gist (i.e. those programs won a lot and the tradition of winning beget more success) but there's a lot of hidden nuance lost on modern casuals.
For instance, in the ACC it was UNC and NC State (not Duke) who carried the conference in the 70s and early 80s. NC State won a National Championship in 1974 and 1983 and was even with UNC. By comparison, Duke's status as a blueblood is built almost entirely on the Coach K era.
Let me put it this way: we won our first (and unfortunately only) basketball National Championship (89) a few years before Duke won its first (91). Up to the mid 90s, Duke and Michigan were actually quite similar in accomplishments. (This deserves a diary post on its own.) The reason Duke is now considered a blueblood but we're not is simple - Duke maintained an incredible standard of success across decades. We didn't (thanks to the sanctions).
The Big Ten doesn't have a dominant program on the level of a Duke and UNC. (Let's be real. IU is MIA on the big stage. Hence, Kentucky fans refer to Indiana as IUsedToBe these days.) If Coach Juwan Howard can elevate us to the level of a top-10 program over the next 20-25 years, we can overtake Indiana's historical rep for Big Ten supremacy (assuming IU continues to flounder).
It'll come down to one thing: winning National Championships. We're actually quite effective at getting to at least 1 National Championship game per decade. The problem is winning those Monday night games with the eyes of the nation on us.
UConn: 4-0 in National Championship Games
Michigan: 1-6 in National Championship Games
Have we ever not gotten a recruit who when he’s set to announce has 100% Crystal Balls our way?
Josh Christopher has been a silent commit for some time now. Our only fear was that he could always decommit.
What's the latest (today's) rumor about Isiah Todd. Signing? Not?
April 12th, 2020 at 10:24 AM ^
His mother just put out a statement that went something like "as of today he is a Michigan commit".
You won't be able to feel comfortable with this kids recruitment until he is enrolled and on campus.
This reminds me of 7th grade when my crush was ready to tell me at a Friday dance if i was chosen to be her boyfriend...
“deep breath , deep breath “
April 11th, 2020 at 10:03 PM ^
Well don't keep us waiting -- what happened?! Inquiring minds need to KNOW.
April 12th, 2020 at 12:22 AM ^
Good answers only.
If she's now an ASU alum, leave that tidbit out.
April 12th, 2020 at 12:45 AM ^
I'll spend all day wearing the F5 button out and the kid will probably announce late at night since hes on the west coast.