All Things Baboucarr Ann Recruitment Thread (Updated: Commits to wisconsin)

[Bad Gopher]

Here’s an original idea: Let’s start beating Wisconsin in basketball. It might help. We don’t seem to lose Minnesota kids to Wisconsin football these days—just say’in.

In fact, we're raiding Wisconsin for quite a few football players. Winning DOES make a HUGE difference.

 

[The Deliberate Stranger]

We don't have that many opportunities to be in the running for that elite of an athlete. We will give the scholarship to somebody but it likely won't be somebody who reminds you of the Baylor players from last year's tournament.

Perhaps, but if they land Ahmed Nur or Isiah Santos, than it's a wash on the athlete side. It sucks, he's a good player going to a rival and we wanted him, but it seems like the pool Niko is swimming in for highschool talent is guys around Ann level, guessing if he doesn't land what he wants he will bank the scholly, for more proven commodities in the portal

 

[Tucker32]

There's a reason he jumped on Wisconsin offer. Multiple offers doesn't mean commitable offers. He is not as highly regarded as he was last summer. If you saw him this past year it was difficult to see the hype. Looks the part physically, but wasn't even best player on his HS team. Will be interesting to see how he does.

 

[GopherNuts]

I used to sweat personnel and recruiting battles a lot more when we had bad coaches with the hope an accumulation of talent would overcome a coach’s flaws. We have a quality coach that I think over the course of the next decade will prove himself to be one of the best in the conference, I’ll sleep well at night trusting his player evals and focusing on guys who want to be Gophers.

Saw Nolen Anderson walking across the Stone Arch a couple evenings ago, looked a happy guy. The guys who stay home will be remembered, the guys who went to Madison will be quickly forgotten.

 

[Spaulding!No!]

We need a coach who is tied in with MN AAU coaches

 

[gopherbadgerman]

I used to sweat personnel and recruiting battles a lot more when we had bad coaches with the hope an accumulation of talent would overcome a coach’s flaws. We have a quality coach that I think over the course of the next decade will prove himself to be one of the best in the conference, I’ll sleep well at night trusting his player evals and focusing on guys who want to be Gophers.

Saw Nolen Anderson walking across the Stone Arch a couple evenings ago, looked a happy guy. The guys who stay home will be remembered, the guys who went to Madison will be quickly forgotten.

People talk about Davidson here all the time. Might be hated or disliked, but not all forgotten.

 

[gopherbadgerman]

Lots of Spin going on here.

On to the next player now.