Kenny Williams No Longer Considering Michigan
Does this mean good news on the Jaylen Brown front?
Former VCU signee Kenny Williams tells me he is no longer considering Michigan.
— Alejandro Zúñiga (@ByAZuniga) April 30, 2015
Former VCU signee Kenny Williams tells ESPN he is down to Virginia and North Carolina.
— Jeff Borzello (@jeffborzello) April 30, 2015
It could just mean that he wasn't cool with playing second banana.
So it's happening?
exactly was he scheduled to play first banana?
He wasn't okay with having limitations on his offer...as in "You're our man!! ...after Jaylen Brown."
Yep - sounds like he was being slowplayed big time as Beilein tries to juggle Brown and Williams. Visiting May 18th when the deadline is May 20th as was reported earlier this week is a sign of that.
You always jinx these things. Just wait for it to happen, hopefully you have not ruined this for us all.
I think this is absolutely what this is about. He wants to be desired for his skills, not just if M doesn't get Brown.
oh boy!
I think this means we can haz Jaylen.
Brain - damn.
Heart - Jaylon Brown?!?!
These things fall apart for all sorts of reasons. This is likely only bad news, unfortunately.
and do you know what with them.
And knit them onto a nice, warm quilt?
If we don't get Brown at this point, several people will be quite disappointed.
In preparation for bad news, I've already made plans to down vote any yob who writes "Beilein can't recruit"...
Well I will be commenting from my bunker, so you're downvotes will have no chance of landing.
I affix my dowwvoted to bunker busters specifically for those who troll and hide.
I would hope that every Michigan fan would be disappointed.
That doesn't mean that we all expect him to pick Michigan, but there's definitely a chance and it will be disappointing if he chooses someone else.
I dont blame Beilein in any way for this. It is difficult to have 2 players like this so late - UM is not necessarily a leader for either. So at that point you take your 1 in 3 or 1 in 4 chance on a top 2 recruit and you tell the top 80 guy he has to wait for option #1 to clear. I am sure it was obvious to Williams what was happening and I'd understand he'd prefer to go where there is a clear opening - also to be blunt with Caris here I didnt see him playing almost at all as a freshman and top 100 guys usually want to play a lot early, esp wings/guards.
I'm sure JB was upfront with Williams about this. Why not? Michigan is in play for a transformative player and will take him over Williams if he comes. Williams, understandably, is focusing on sure-thing options.
Michigan will be pretty good next year with or without Williams. Brown comes and we're looking at Final Four expectations. Why not shoot for the moon? You lose, we see guys like MAAR grow up. You win, and the program approaches perennial powerhouse territory.
We shot for the moon for Harbaugh. It worked. It was the right move regardless. Beilein is all in on Brown. It might work. But I like the move regardless.
Why do people feel the need to downvote this gif (+1 for you) as it is cute and SFW???
Is Oakland still in play!?
you love me.
Obligatory, Mr. Cameltoe....
He had just scheduled a visit, so it doesn't make sense to stop considering Michigan so quickly unless he was told they had filled up...
Brown will be blue. Title contention time.
Williams was going to take a trip to Florida before visiting here. With him gone, things are speeding up.
My guess: he tried to commit, coaches said they had to wait on Jaylen, he was pissed. Hope it pays off for the good guys.
This is more likely than him knowing or being told that Brown to UM is definite. Even more likely is he just decided he'd prefer to play closer to home.
He originally committed to VCU to stay close to home. It makes sense for him to still go that route, and the two schools he's picking between ain't bad options for him.
Except does he even have an offer from M right now? It's been policy to only officially offer once a recruit has been to campus. No campus visit means no offer to try to commit to
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Good catch.
Replied to wrong post, apologies MC5...staying close to home is very plausible here
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Why would he try to commit before visiting though? Doesn't add up. My (admittedly optimistic) take is that the coaches told hiim they have no more room :)
Again, could be nothing with Brown. But Williams never actually had an offer right? Beilein wants you to visit before you get an offer. So I don't think he was even able to commit if he wanted to.
Williams only had an offer if Coach Beilein deviated from what he's done with every other recruit (to my knowledge) since he's been at Michigan. Michigan almost certainly didn't turn away a commitment from Williams.
Which is why I have to think Williams was told something by the coaching staff pertaining to that last remaining scholarship. Why else eliminate Michigan so soon after he set a visit date? He seemed to be very high on Michigan prior to today as I recall. Not trying to get into the head of an 18 year old because I know that's a dangerous game but I don't see any other reason for Williams to do this.
Maybe I'm just being optimistic, but he just scheduled a visit to Michigan and then says Michigan is out of it. I feel like this could be good news for us on Jaylen Brown.
he was always rumored to want to stay local, but ya why schedule visit and then cancel next day.
also (not trying to misinterpret)
So excited to see all the great recruits coming into the B1G Conference. We are the best Men's Basketball Conference in the Country! #B1G
webb confirming this AM brown to decide next week and just re posted his feeling a decision comes within the week for jaylen
It probably means nothing.
Buckle yo seatbelts and huddle the fuck up!! Oh wait, wrong sport...Better prepare to get Jimmy Johns on the line to order some SUBS!
If indeed this development is a precursor to good news, which of course remains to be seen, then I would think we should treat ourselves around here. DiBella's perhaps, if we discover that we might be needing some celebratory catering. I am sure that the paid staff of the site would find a way to budget this for several thousand regular daily visitors.
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Things could get crazy.
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