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Cully Payne leaving Iowa

He would be a good midmajor player. I would expect him to land at NIU or Loyola, or a similar school.
 
Da Coach said:
He would be a good midmajor player. I would expect him to land at NIU or Loyola, or a similar school.
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I thought the same thing about Cerasoli and Devan Bawinkle. Cerasoli ended up being OK for Loyola, and Bawinkle turned out to be the ultimate 1-trick pony at Iowa after riding the pine at West Virginia. Payne could probably do well in a lesser league, but it depends on who's in his ear and how good they're telling him he is.
 
BradleyBrave said:
I thought the same thing about Cerasoli and Devan Bawinkle. Cerasoli ended up being OK for Loyola, and Bawinkle turned out to be the ultimate 1-trick pony at Iowa after riding the pine at West Virginia. Payne could probably do well in a lesser league, but it depends on who's in his ear and how good they're telling him he is.
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If I recall, Bawinkel went 24 games without shooting a 2 point shot, FT, or having an offensive rebound or steal in his first season at Iowa...despite playing 15 mins/game. One trick pony is definitely the correct term.

As far as Cully goes, he is cut out for a methodical, slower paced offense because he doesn't make fast decisions. His shot is suspect, but he is a good passer and ball handler, and an above average defender. I bet he is a solid 10/4/3 type of player at the mid-major level, and an all-conference player in a lower level school somewhere in the Summit Conference.
 
Cully will have just 3 choices if he wants to play college ball..
-play D-II so he can play right away - but I can't believe he'd do this as he's always aimed way high every time he's rethought his choices and he's started every game of his college career so I am sure he's expecting to continue that trend somewhere at D-I
-request an immediate eligibility waiver and hope the NCAA let's him play right away wherever he goes - longshot unless he knows someone at NCAA
-or sit out another year and hope to play at D-I level in 2012
..this is indeed an odd time to transfer and hurts himself and his team who are now left with a scholarship that they will have to scramble to fill for next fall.
 
College AND high school vagabond. Don't forget that Cully tranferred high schools leaving Burlington Central who was coached by his uncle. :-o
 
BradleyBrave said:
He's a basketball vagabond that's for sure. The new Justin Cerasoli - Overhyped from Day 1 and struggling to find a home.
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Cerasoli had some great "And 1" talent.

I am good friends with a guy whose kid played AAU with Justin. He seemed like a good kid and dad was pretty nice guy. I had always wished that it had worked out better for him.

I remember being at Sonny Vacaro's ABCD camp all-star game and seeing Justin do some wonderfully entertaining globetrotter-type dribbling. But it was stuff you can't do in a real game. Maybe he should have hit the And 1 circuit.
 
here's an interesting rumor...

Cully Payne - when he decommitted from DePaul -- then verballed to Alabama and head coach Mark Gottfired..

when Gottfired was fired at Alabama - Cully decommitted and landed at Iowa...

now there's some rumor that since Mark Gottfried was just hired at NC State -- that Cully may head there....he'd have to wait out a year and have only one year left unless he gets the NCAA waiver...
 
tornado said:
here's an interesting rumor...

Cully Payne - when he decommitted from DePaul -- then verballed to Alabama and head coach Mark Gottfired..

when Gottfired was fired at Alabama - Cully decommitted and landed at Iowa...

now there's some rumor that since Mark Gottfried was just hired at NC State -- that Cully may head there....he'd have to wait out a year and have only one year left unless he gets the NCAA waiver...
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Some more on that from Insider -

Transferring Iowa point guard Cully Payne told James Henderson of PackPride.com that he's considering some schools closer to his home in Illinois, but it sounds as if a connection to new NC State coach Mark Gottfried could put the Wolfpack atop his list of a scholarship is offered.

"There's a few schools I'm looking at," Payne said. "A lot of the Chicago schools I'm looking at, which are close to home, and I know my guy coach Gottfried took the job at NC State. That is a possibility too. As of now though, I'm really open."


Payne, who has yet to hear from NC State, originally committed to Alabama out of high school while Gottfried was still there. Once Gottfried resigned in 2008, however, Payne was released from his scholarship and chose to attend Iowa. But it sounds like if given the opportunity, he'd still like to play for Gottfried.

"Hopefully I can talk to coach Gottfried about their situation at NC State here real soon," said Payne. "I'd like to find out how strong of an option that could be for me. I think I could be talking to him any day now, but I want to be clear in that I haven't talked to him yet.

I'm not sure he's the kind of player that helps NC State get back into the mix in the ACC.
 
More than any other leagues, the SEC and ACC are loaded with big guards. IMO, he would be way overmatched playing in the ACC. I would be surprised if Gottfried would offer a scholarship that would tie up possible 2 years for only 1 serason of play.
 
Da Coach said:
More than any other leagues, the SEC and ACC are loaded with big guards. IMO, he would be way overmatched playing in the ACC. I would be surprised if Gottfried would offer a scholarship that would tie up possible 2 years for only 1 serason of play.
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I have to agree. Offer him a walk on spot, yes but anything else in the ACC unless you are a stud would be foolish.
 
He was always overhyped. Decent player but didn't he commit as a Freshman at Burlington Central? Hype machine was in overdrive.
 
Cully Payne verbally committed to DePaul in June of 2005, just after the completion of his 8th grade school year, and before he ever enrolled in high school or ever played a high school game.
 
people tweet and text instantly nowadays -- someone is always watching

I'll PM you a couple links

Here's another newsflash...
I just heard that ex- Boise State's HC was spotted checking out Peoria and BU's campus as a candidate for an assistant spot.
 
one Chicago source says he'd have 3 years remaining to play at Loyola...
I would doubt that since he spent 2 years at Iowa...and even if he gets a redshirt for last season --
he'd still have to sit out 2011-2012, then his 5-year clock would run out 2 years later -- so he'd only play 2 years for Porter Moser.
 
tornado said:
one Chicago source says he'd have 3 years remaining to play at Loyola...
I would doubt that since he spent 2 years at Iowa...and even if he gets a redshirt for last season --
he'd still have to sit out 2011-2012, then his 5-year clock would run out 2 years later -- so he'd only play 2 years for Porter Moser.
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He will have the chance to apply for a medical hardship waiver to gain a rare sixth year. Time will tell if he chooses to or not. Knowing the NCAA's odd ability to rule on things, they may even grant him a waiver to be eligible immediately since he moved close to home and was injured last year.
 
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