MBB: Michigan offers Jamal Cain
Steve Lorenz retweeted an Endless Motor Sports tweet saying this. (I believe the Endless Motor Sports guy posts here, btw.)
Below is a link to a UMHoops article about Cain and his visit today to U of M (albeit one written prior to Coach Beilein offering him).
http://www.umhoops.com/2016/04/27/jamal-cain-to-visit-michigan-today-af…
ha no doubt. my basketball recruiting hopes over the past few years have turned from cynical to downright depressed/indifferent. sigh......
April 28th, 2016 at 11:01 AM ^
I understand the sentiment. We get involved only to finish second or third for a lot of elite recruits, but this seems like exactly the sort of recruit that Beilein actually regularly lands. He's a 3 star that seems to be coming on strong late to maybe earn his 4th star. Beilein is great at identifying these types of guys. I think the success of the Burke and Stauskas teams may have actually hurt him because he got lured by the attention from truly elite recruits only to be spurned in the end and maybe started to lose some of his focus on the Burke/Stauskas types that got him that success in the first place.
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April 27th, 2016 at 11:17 PM ^
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April 28th, 2016 at 12:07 PM ^
Which part of VA is your shit? HAHA Also after my discussion on this board about the HR area of VA I thought I would point out that The Clipse is amongst a long line of musicians and athletes that have come from this are. I(as could we all w as Google is our friend lol) could put together a list if asked although I am sure I would forget a name or 2.
Speaking of "swing and miss", do you watch baseball with this same mindset? Because even elite recruiters miss on far more kids than they land.
April 28th, 2016 at 11:34 AM ^
As long as he doesn't get offered by Cal or Syracuse, I'll like our chances.
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nope, not me. thrilled if we get him. recruiting woes continue if we don't.
It's worth tracking who Beilein pursues and when. An offer this early in the cycle means the kid is getting prioritized and when Beilein lands kids he prioritizes it tends to work out very very well for Michigan.
Cain looks like he could be next in the Novak-Robinson-Irvin lineage.
Don't forget Kam!
Kam could be next and allow Cain to ease into a starting spot after his freshman year.
[Probably not how you intended to be interpreted, but whatever.]
April 28th, 2016 at 11:09 AM ^
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The Beilein-4 Bunch
I suppose Smotrycz could be included but he transferred out...
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The best part of this video is that he was hyperventilating into the bag while still smoking the cigarette. You can't help but be especially chilled out after that.
This also is a fairly decent representation of what it is like to mod this blog during a football or basketball game, except it would be nicer if it led into a comedy special as this does.
According to the article, we may have to bust out a new label.
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Imagine if Harbaugh made kids take an academic tour before gettig an offer.
Sigh.
Yep, great, hope we get Cain. What are we doing about Brian Bowen? Top 20 player from Saginaw, still doesn't have a Michigan offer and very likely headed to MSU. Izzo really doesn't have to work very hard to dominate the state.
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Nowadays most top guys want "offers" to gauge a school's interest. However Beilein has at least 3 conditions that must be met before an offer might be issued. The conditions are 1) academic tour, 2) proper transcripts sent in, and 3) not before HS junior year ~6/15.
All of these are nice and orderly, but they are NOT regulations. Putting additional hurdles on your own recruiting is not ideal in today's landscrape.
Manuel needs to talk some sense into him. Recruit cleanly, but don't put disadvantages on yourself.
April 27th, 2016 at 11:55 PM ^
April 28th, 2016 at 10:27 AM ^
Yes, but remember all those good players with "offers" who committed but then were rejected by the Admissions office because they had problems with their transcripts or flunked out at mid-season (or were never really serious about meeting Michigan's academic requirements in the first place, and thus were never going to commit) and Michigan was screwed?
Oh, wait. That never happens. I wonder why?
When this happens in the football program, it's not a problem as long as it's not a regular thing. In basketball, even one is a problem.
numerous times and at one time was extremely interested.
April 28th, 2016 at 11:56 AM ^
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Beilein is stubborn, inflexible, and completely set in his ways. He won't budge, no matter how much it hurts the program.
He changed his offense for Darius Morris. Adapted by playing Novak at the 4. And finally started recruting legit centers in the 2016 class.
He played a good 3 point shooter at the 4, which he's always done. And he's recruited legit centers before, Ricky Doyle being one, Mitch McGary being another. And Davis and Teske look a lot more Doyle than McGary.
April 27th, 2016 at 10:24 PM ^
Without McGary we don't come close to that national championship game
after losing Burke and Hardaway.
I think you can say we do get close without McGary, because we did.
were not great 3 point shooters yet they played the 4
McGary and Doyle are 6'9. MSU and Purdue (and the NBA) will call them PFs. Davis is 6'10 and large. Teske is 7'. Both are true Cs.
...is because JB had no choice.
Your last sentence, I don't even know for that's true...just yet. I've watched the tapes of Teske and Davis. Decent players, but won't call them legit by any means.
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April 28th, 2016 at 12:03 AM ^
"Recruiting him" is the answer to the question. That said, he's cousins with J Rich, so would be an even tougher pull than it normally would.
https://twitter.com/EvanDaniels/status/722474085867982853
https://twitter.com/endless_motor/status/723865007570731008
https://twitter.com/coreyevans_10/status/724253597345652736
April 28th, 2016 at 10:16 AM ^
Bowen actually not a lost cause, as he transferred to a prep in Indiana with high academics, so it seems likely he's waiting for Duke. Also, I see Calipari visited him on March 26.
So MSU doesn't really seem right for him -- if he was set on that he would have stayed in Saginaw. No -- he's waiting for Duke, Kentucky and the like. If those offers don't come, then Michigan has a shot -- it's not like he's never been on campus.
I have trouble distinguishing the MBB and MMB abbreviations. When I first saw the thread title, I thought, "wow, the Michigan Marching Band offered someone a scholarship. Times have changed."