Remy update

[tornado]

There have been articles that have interviewed many recruits and tried to formulate a list of reasons that kids use when making the call or verballing...

#1 seems to always be that kids do indeed try to grab the highest perceived offer -- the brightest limelight (even if the chance for playing time is not all that obvious), the most chance of being on national TV -- thus the BCS teams get a disproportionate number of the kids they want when battling mid-majors.

#2 is the opportunity for playing time - usually lots of it expected right away...

#3 thru 10 are various reasons like the school having the right playing style, they liked the other teammates there, it was their favorite school growing up, close relationship with the coaching staff, nice locale (unfortunately this one doesn't carry a lot of weight or else Hawaii would be a inundated), has the right academics (odd how this reason actually rates so low), or is described with the ever-present-yet-vague "it was the right fit".
(which may really mean it was the only danged offer he got).

[Da Coach]

Warning, do not read if you are tired of hearing about Remy Abell!

Some Indiana fans as well as other basketball commentators think IU already has enough guards, and don't need Remy-

http://kentsterling.com/2011/04/26/indiana-hoosiers-remy-abell-offered-how-many-guards-are-enough/

If Abell commits to IU, there will be guards stacked like cord wood at Cook Hall, but again, given the Hoosiers 8-46 Big Ten record over the last three seasons, no one could blame Cream for pulling out all the stops to find a potential difference maker.
The twos and threes currently on the ’11-’12 are Maurice Creek, Matt Roth, Austin Etherington, Will Sheehey, Victor Oladipo, and Verdell Jones III. That factors Christian Watford as a four and Jordan Hulls as a one. The year after next, the Hoosiers will lose Jones, and add Ron Patterson, Yogi Ferrell, Jeremy Hollowell, and maybe Gary Harris.
It’s already crowded as hell at the wing before Abell is thrown into the mix. Crowded enough that I’m having trouble counting them. I get ten wings, if Roth returns for a fifth year, before Abell.
When times are tough, coaches look for reinforcements, and times don’t get tougher than 8-46. But 11 wings?

It is also likely some of this sentiment is also due to the uninformed logic that some BCS schools' fans have that goes like this-
"If he was only good enough for a Bradley, why would Indiana want him?".

[SFP]

Thanks T!

Let's put this in our rear view mirror. Some of you guys just love to argue!

We will never know why and only speculate but the chances of Remy not honoring his ROI with JL as coach would have been remote. If you believe otherwise or want to argue that point then you are not statistically in the right by a wide margin. Everything else is just conjectures that are quite frankly boring.

[Future Walk-On]

There are 3 main ideas that have been repeated over and over and over.

I hope he goes to Indiana so he can feel what getting punched in the face with an Orange fist feels like! ILL

[real fan]

Your wrong...the right combination of the coach and the school is what got Remy in the 1st place...Les and Bradley...but when you remove the coach you remove one of the two top ingredients...lets say Les moved up to say Louisville...you think Remy might take a look at that?

Its a decision based on Ingredients and the Coach is the number 1 ingredient..

!00% correct , a recruit bases his decision on the coach that is recruiting him, it would be nice to believe the school is as important but it rarely is, I expected to lose some players because of the coaching change so you go out and hopefully find some other good players and move on to the future.

[AZ BU Fan]

1. Some of you guys just love to argue!

2. Everything else is just conjectures that are quite frankly 3. boring.

1. Is there any other better reason to spend time on a sports forum? Its either here or in a barbershop, and there aren't many of those left.





Eddie: Wait, hold on here. Is this a barbershop? Is this a barbershop? If we can't talk straight in a barbershop, then where can we talk straight? We can't talk straight nowhere else. You know, this ain't nothin' but healthy conversation, that's all.


2. If conjecture was a reason to terminate posts, there wouldn't be much left to read about on this site, that couldn't be read in the mainstream media.

3. There are lots of threads posted here that are, quite frankly, boring to me too, but not to the people who post them and apparently to some that actually enjoy reading/replying to them. If someone gets bored here, don't open the thread you are bored with!

[jrish12]

You're not even close.

Since you are best friends with RA and everything

RA is no different than any other really good high school basketball player. People, sometimes those that dont really know what they are talking about, keep telling him he is better than he really is. And that gets the proverbial snowball rolling.

It really has to be a perfect storm. Yes, had JL not been fired RA probably ends up at BU. The flipside to that coin is would he really be happy at BU if he could have had larger offers? You could play coulda, woulda, shoulda all the way to the bank, but the actual situation isnt going to change. The same could have been said if RA came to BU, he might have been doing the coulda, woulda, shoulda deal his whole time at Bradley limiting his performance. We will never know. This is just my opinion here, but I'm guessing Coach Ford gave one he!! of a sales pitch, but RA already had his mind made up since his stock rose so quickly and he signed very early giving him bigger options.

Now, if he ends up at a WKU or like school, then yes I would be upset, but until we see where he signs Im going to give the kid the benefit of the doubt.