Update(?) on Tyus Battle: Reading Tea Leaves on Twitter (Not Great)

Submitted by EastCoast Esq. on

Some people were noting that Tyus Battle still had his Michigan edit on his Twitter account, and therefore we might still be in it.

It appears he no longer has that edit:

https://twitter.com/kidmamba23?lang=en

I don't know if this means anything, but I figured it was worth a Board post.

mGrowOld

June 28th, 2015 at 1:07 PM ^

Pro-tip: whenever a recruit decommits the odds are about 99.7% they are gone. And yet whenever that unpleasant reality is noted many people will point to that one guy, 14 years ago, who represents the .03% and say "he still might come back."

He gone people.

Albatross

June 29th, 2015 at 9:05 AM ^

Dawson never decommitted, his offer was briefly recinded by the staff cause he had the audacity to visit another school (a practice that has been going on with committed players for ages) and once the staff figured out just how arrogant that policy was (which made me think it might have come from David BRANDon) they quicky reoffered him.

Don't remember the Will Campbell case.

Larry Appleton

June 28th, 2015 at 1:12 PM ^

Thus once again proving the utter frivolity of a teenager's "oral commitment." From "committed" to not even being in the picture. A worthless concept.

chronic

June 28th, 2015 at 1:20 PM ^

didn't James Blackman decommit from Creaniana and then go back? Man, I was also sad to see Devin Booker drafted so high after we nearly had him...sigh...

dbjack

June 28th, 2015 at 1:22 PM ^

Agree with growing older but as someone who is already over the hill, I still like to be optimistic.  So let's hope he might be that .3%. (Little more than your .03%) but still not out of it.  If not, I trust coach to come up with plan B. Or C maybe D or even E!

WindyCityBlue

June 28th, 2015 at 1:35 PM ^

So I'm hearing some interesting things....

...about how this came about. It appears JB and staff did some serious fuck ups that lead to this. And apparently it was some similar shit that lead to the whole jaylen brown fiasco. Still trying to get details, but wanted to put it out there to see if anyone else has heard anything similar with details.



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WindyCityBlue

June 28th, 2015 at 2:02 PM ^

This isn't an attempt to bash JB or his staff, just an attempt to get more info from people on this blog. I have had some great inside sources to the AD for awhile now, and they told me that we messed up both jaylen brown and battle recruiting. But I'm not getting the details. Just looking for a little board help. I understand the JB is a saint to most here, but he's not above reproach.

Blue_sophie

June 28th, 2015 at 5:02 PM ^

I am curious:

Did you get the sense that there was finger-pointing within the AD about missing marquee recruits? Or did they seem to stand behind the recruiting process (presumably as it was established by Beilein), while expressing regret that it led to highly recruited players bailing at the last minute? In other words, do you think these near-misses and decommits signal bigger issues within the AD?

I don't mind missing a big recruit or two (they are gone in a year anyhow), but after the turmoil of football, I am pretty attached to the relative stability of our BBall program, even if it is not at the very apex of the college game.

Erik_in_Dayton

June 28th, 2015 at 2:44 PM ^

I think Brown may have committed to Michigan at one point (BA's tweet and one or two other things suggested this). And we know Battle loved Michigan recently. And as much as I love Coach Beilein, I sometimes get the sense he's overly rigid when it comes to recruiting (he wouldn't let Eron Harris bring his friends on his Michgian visit, for example). It may not just be bad luck that Michigan missed on Brown like they did and that they now face the potential loss of Battle.

JBE

June 29th, 2015 at 11:55 AM ^

I understand your point, but I like what coach B did in that situation. This isn't entourage. We all know he's on the ethics committee, and maybe he wants to set a recruiting/transferring precedent, even if it ultimately sets his team back a little bit.