Some good basketball news today (Jaylen Brown)
Good news on the Jaylen Brown front. Definitely do not want to copy and paste straight from Scout, but to paraphrase a little bit, two separate sources (Sam Webb and Brian Snow) have heard that not only is Michigan in the running for Brown's services next year, but that we are in the top TWO. Both insiders are unsure who the other team in the top two would be. Kentucky, Kansas, and UCLA are possibilities.
For those who have a Scout membership, the information can be found here:
http://michigan.scout.com/forums/1088-the-victors-club/13768960-jaylen-…
Trying not to get my hopes up too high here, but I think if we somehow scored Brown, and Caris came back, we would be a top five team next year.
Watching your two most hated rivals both claim national titles in major sports within months of each other, while your school failed to reach the postseason in either sport, would be far worse than any recruit turning you down.
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March 29th, 2015 at 10:36 PM ^
do you walk around with a little rain cloud over you?
Top 2, no breakdown other than that.
Neg me away for pissing in your Wheaties, but we've heard recruiting stories like these before, only to watch Michigan get burned in the end.
Either way, best of luck to Jaylen wherever he goes.
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these things don't tend to fall in anyone's favor. I mean, 87.5% of 2014 five stars DID NOT choose Kentucky. So think how bad they feel about that!!
Rob
March 30th, 2015 at 12:38 PM ^
I have a bent for sarcasm and trivial math, and when they come together, sometimes funny is the last thing that happens. I definitely intended it to be funny. :)
Rob
Michigan hasn't competed for Jaylen Brown type recruits year in and out since the 90s.
sigh...
Actually now that I think about it, it's pretty impressive we used to recruit at that clip in the 80/90s without much of a traditional blue blood background like the KUs and UKs of the world.
Well, there's a reason we were recruiting that way...
I didn't think the scandal went into the 80s...?
March 29th, 2015 at 10:00 PM ^
All was not lilly white in the '80s. Ed Martin and company did not just move to Detroit and take an interest in local players in the fall of 1991.
Nevertheless, at the end of the day, Ed Martin was an Ed Martin booster, not a Michigan booster.
But that aside, people understate what a great recruiting area southeastern Michigan is. You can win a National Championship just by successfully recruiting that area. It's been done.
In that sense, we are like Florida or FSU is in the state of Florida in football. We can win with the recruits in our own backyard plus a few cherry-picked recruits from our region.
March 29th, 2015 at 10:24 PM ^
if it's 10 years ago, but the talent level at Michigan isn't what it used to be. Are there blue chippers in Detroit area? Sure, but it's not plentiful it once was.
March 29th, 2015 at 11:21 PM ^
Not surprising considering Detroit's population has plummeted.
March 29th, 2015 at 11:33 PM ^
Saginaw, Flint are the same way as Detroit so JB is right to go out of state to find talent who can fit in his system. Indiana isn't a bad place to start.
March 30th, 2015 at 12:39 AM ^
I thought I recalled hearing about some connections to non-Michigan players.
The only "tradition" that gets players to choose schools like UK, KU and UCLA is green, not blue.
March 29th, 2015 at 10:23 PM ^
Michigan beat out Duke for his commitment.
Kam Chatman whom Michigan beat out Arizona for his commitment.
Beilein getting in on a 5* late in the process, that is. Offhand, I can only think of one other time and that went well.
Being a favorite for these guys very early and their holding off on committing, that hasn't gone so well.
March 29th, 2015 at 10:39 PM ^
Mr. Reality Check. Without the admonishment, we couldn't stay grounded. s/
Personally, I'm excited for the chance to be excited.
can they shoot the 3?
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The other Kansas, UCLA, and Kentucky are perennial powers.
I don't see how our situation is 'too good to pass up' compared to others.
Do you have any evidence of this, other than this once-in-a-lifetime Kentucky team? Looks to me like recruits are making the same decisions they always have, balancing playing time with quality of team with a million other things.
"rotation player" is going to make Trey Lyles and Devin Booker top-18 picks this year.
March 29th, 2015 at 10:44 PM ^
it hasn't benefitted everyone at UK. The Harrisons have dropped from 1st to 2nd rounders. And top 25 players like Johnson and Lee have almost certainly hurt their stock by playing 6th or 8th fiddle.
was in the final 2 for Jabari Parker and Cliff Alexander so clearly it paid off for them. Hopefully we have the same outcome!
to jaylen.
March 29th, 2015 at 10:03 PM ^
The year before the Fab 5, we lost to Colorado in the first game of the NIT. It does happen.
March 29th, 2015 at 10:47 PM ^
went from winning the NCAA to barely getting into the NIT. If we had won one more, we were in the NIT as well.
March 30th, 2015 at 12:06 AM ^
UNC, Florida and Kentucky recently did after winning national titles.
I don't think a recruit cares about the difference between missing the NIT and not. Did you kow that 26 of the last 60 Final Four teams missed the NCAA tournament within two years? The position Michigan's in is far from from uncommon and not anywhere close to the red flag you and your ilk make it out to be.
Does he plan on announcing his decision at the McDonald's All American game?