Cory's Not Coming....

[SelectionSunday]

Point taken (on Walker). That would be a darn nice guard tandem for Calhoun.

 

[Section201]

Roland

He would play with Kemba Walker not behind.
UNLV is definite token team on his list. I hope he comes here but I am realistic it will be tough you have 3 top programs with 3 top coaches.

To me on the surface Villanove would be the choice. Jay Wright can coach and his guards always produce. Scottie Reynolds is done. Nova makes sense.

I thought Nova guards would produce in the tourney so I picked them to go to the championship game.

They sure did not produce this past March!

Other than that, I tend to agree with you. Nova makes the most sense to me but the ultimate question is this, "Does Cory want to play college ball with Devoe?"

I hope for the best. As someone else has mentioned, the Devoe "signing" was all about Texas until Devoe said "Minnesota"!

Go Gophers.

 

[Roland Brooks]

Nova

Nova killed my bracket also. Reynolds was icy.

Walker and Cory Joseph would be a pretty darn good backcourt you are right about that!

 

[Gopher Teeth]

Yes, it has been to me. I will be the first one to be optimistic, but in this case it just doesn't make any sense. As an example, I was totally optimistic on the recruitment of Marquieis Gray and Michael Carter. There wasn't a feeling that these guys were going another place at all.

I don't have any inside information. But unfortunately reading into the recruitment of Cory Joseph I find it hard to believe he will sign here.

Just stop and think about it for five minutes.....really think about it deep down and you know the conclusion that will happen. Be honest with yourself. This is a situation where the brother plays for the school, and he hasn't committed yet? Doesn''t seem like good odds IMO. Usually family gets a commit to sign or verbal earlier in the process. That combined with the fact that all the unsigned top guys are PGs - for the very reason that they are waiting for the dominos to fall - means that there is a slim (albeit a chance, sure) chance he will sign here. I would love to believe he will be here and I would love to be wrong - but I'm not some naive 21-year-old college student.

All the signs are pointing to him signing elsewhere.

It could be as simple as Cory just simply wanted to focus on the season and not distract from his play, or maybe he knows he is going to Minnesota to play with his brother but wants the attention and the press so he can build his profile and exposure. You can't determine Minnesota is out because it doesn't make sense to you, you do not have all the information or understand the entire process.

 

[jovs]

It could be as simple as Cory just simply wanted to focus on the season and not distract from his play, or maybe he knows he is going to Minnesota to play with his brother but wants the attention and the press so he can build his profile and exposure. You can't determine Minnesota is out because it doesn't make sense to you, you do not have all the information or understand the entire process.

Focusing on the current season and waiting until the season is over to make a decision makes sense. Not sure why he needs to wait now. If you could figure out what he is waiting on you would know how he is leaning. Without that knowledge there is no way of knowing, could be anyone.

My guess is that it has something to do with who stays in the NBA draft and we will have to wait until the date in May that names can be removed from the draft.

 

[JackiO]

I thought Nova guards would produce in the tourney so I picked them to go to the championship game.

They sure did not produce this past March!

Other than that, I tend to agree with you. Nova makes the most sense to me but the ultimate question is this, "Does Cory want to play college ball with Devoe?"

I hope for the best. As someone else has mentioned, the Devoe "signing" was all about Texas until Devoe said "Minnesota"!

Go Gophers.

http://deadspin.com/5511973/villanova-syracuse-and-the-case-of-the-impregnated-girlfriends


Maybe this will shed some light on their demise, because it certainly happened and destroyed anything that they had going for themselves.

 

[[censored]]

As someone else has mentioned, the Devoe "signing" was all about Texas until Devoe said "Minnesota"!

Go Gophers.

Really? Well y'all sure did get anxious about him going to Texas for nothing seeing as how Texas never even offered Devoe. This talk of Devoe choosing Minnesota over Texas is all BS. He never had the choice to go to Texas.

 

[WanderingGopher]

Really? Well y'all sure did get anxious about him going to Texas for nothing seeing as how Texas never even offered Devoe. This talk of Devoe choosing Minnesota over Texas is all BS. He never had the choice to go to Texas.

That is correct, someone in one story mistook Texas for Texas A&M, and a couple people ran with that I think. However, a little school called Kansas did have a real offer out to Joseph and was thought to be our primary competition. His final schools were MN, Kansas, Texas A&M, and Va Tech.

Besides, the point remains the same: no one thought Devoe was going to pick Minnesota until he actually did. It should come as no surprise if Cory picks Minnesota. There would be a lot of good reasons to do so, starting with the fact that we have one of the best coaches in the country, we often run a 3 guard offense in which he'd start, we're going to have a good team, he'd play with his brother, and he'd be close to home (at least, closer than most of the other schools he's considering).

 

[Minnie Soda]

Besides, the point remains the same: no one thought Devoe was going to pick Minnesota until he actually did. It should come as no surprise if Cory picks Minnesota. There would be a lot of good reasons to do so, starting with the fact that we have one of the best coaches in the country, we often run a 3 guard offense in which he'd start, we're going to have a good team, he'd play with his brother, and he'd be close to home (at least, closer than most of the other schools he's considering).

Plus, his mom would be able to attend all of her sons' (yes, plural) games, because they'd both be on the same floor. I HOPE mom is pushing hard for Cory to sign with the Gophers!

 

[goldygo4]

Yes, it has been to me. I will be the first one to be optimistic, but in this case it just doesn't make any sense. As an example, I was totally optimistic on the recruitment of Marquieis Gray and Michael Carter. There wasn't a feeling that these guys were going another place at all.

I don't have any inside information. But unfortunately reading into the recruitment of Cory Joseph I find it hard to believe he will sign here.

Just stop and think about it for five minutes.....really think about it deep down and you know the conclusion that will happen. Be honest with yourself. This is a situation where the brother plays for the school, and he hasn't committed yet? Doesn''t seem like good odds IMO. Usually family gets a commit to sign or verbal earlier in the process. That combined with the fact that all the unsigned top guys are PGs - for the very reason that they are waiting for the dominos to fall - means that there is a slim (albeit a chance, sure) chance he will sign here. I would love to believe he will be here and I would love to be wrong - but I'm not some naive 21-year-old college student.

All the signs are pointing to him signing elsewhere.

Do you have any examples(outside the Barber family who love the U of M) where family usually signs early? Cory taking his time shows his maturity, not that he doesn't wanna come here. He's not one of those players who commits and de-commits. He's looking over all of his options and is going to choose the school that's right for him. Hopefully that school is Minnesota.

 

[XMan]

I thought it came down to Vanderbilt and Minnesota for Devoe.

 

[underground629]

Not sure what your 2nd sentence is about... it has nothing to do with anything I said, so I won't keep telling myself that... whatever that means. I'm not expecting Cory to come here. It's not holding my life up. All I was saying was that it's annoying when people state opinions as facts on here that they know will only piss everyone off. All that does is make the person look like an arrogant jacka$$. I can't count the number of people on here who throughout the season said we should give up hope on making the tournament because we were going to the NIT. I guess we all should've moved on with on with our lives by your logic because the chances of making the tournament weren't in our favor at the time.

Did I offend you by pointing out that CJ is barely ranked above those players who waited a long time to choose family over powerhouses?

Okay, buddy. I'm sure Myron knows that he will commit to the U but is not saying anything out of some sort of pre-determined agreement. You keep telling yourself that. Honestly dude, even Johnny Gopher has all but given up on Cory. Just move on with your life.

 

[rick4ever]

I TOLD EVERYONE... NO ONE BELIEVED MY SOURCE

I TOLD EVERYONE EARLIER THIS WEEK AND NO ONE BELIEVED MY SOURCE. NOW ITS HAPPENED HE'S GONE. QUIT WHINING AND CRYING ITS NOT GOING TO HELP.

SEE MY POST!!! CORY"S NOT COMING...

 

[Section201]

cens

Really? Well y'all sure did get anxious about him going to Texas for nothing seeing as how Texas never even offered Devoe. This talk of Devoe choosing Minnesota over Texas is all BS. He never had the choice to go to Texas.

I recall, for whatever reason, that "Texas" was the big competition just before Devoe committed. Perhaps it was bs. Most of the crap I see on the internet is!

Devoe Joseph, a 6-foot-3 guard from Ajax (ON) Pickering, has committed to Minnesota, according to Grassroots Canada AAU coach Ro Russell. Russell said that Joseph picked Minnesota over runner-up Texas, third-place Vanderbilt and fourth-place Virginia Tech.

http://minnesota.scout.com/a.z?s=17...dURL=http://minnesota.scout.com/2/704290.html

 

[tato2001]

From a review of the first 2 pages of posts on this thread, the original poster is owed about 25 apologies. Some even demanded the moderators remove this thread. Hilarious.

This thread is PRECISELY why internet forums exist. If you don't like rumors and anonymous opinions, you are in the wrong place folks.

 

[JackiO]

From a review of the first 2 pages of posts on this thread, the original poster is owed about 25 apologies. Some even demanded the moderators remove this thread. Hilarious.

This thread is PRECISELY why internet forums exist. If you don't like rumors and anonymous opinions, you are in the wrong place folks.

People here can hardly handle the truth. They think Tubby is a God and programs like Nova and Texas are nothing compared to our basketball program with him as coach. Maybe this will bring people back down to earth.

 

[scher215]

People here can hardly handle the truth. They think Tubby is a God and programs like Nova and Texas are nothing compared to our basketball program with him as coach. Maybe this will bring people back down to earth.

How quickly we forget the gophers last year recruiting class number 10 on ESPN. (Nova at 7, Texas at 2) id say finishing top 10 in the nation in recruiting class might mean you are starting to gain notiriaty ... (now we just need those recruits to play)

Again, just cuz cojo didnt come here, stop acting like all is lost, woe is us, no one likes us, we suck, we hate devoe, blah blah blah. id love to do a tally of all the 5 star recruits that have said, thanks, but no thanks, to duke, kansas, kentucky, etc etc etc much sooner than cory said it to the gophers. so chill, stop acting like the gopher basketball program revolves around cory joseph.

 

[JackiO]

How quickly we forget the gophers last year recruiting class number 10 on ESPN. (Nova at 7, Texas at 2) id say finishing top 10 in the nation in recruiting class might mean you are starting to gain notiriaty ... (now we just need those recruits to play)

Again, just cuz cojo didnt come here, stop acting like all is lost, woe is us, no one likes us, we suck, we hate devoe, blah blah blah. id love to do a tally of all the 5 star recruits that have said, thanks, but no thanks, to duke, kansas, kentucky, etc etc etc much sooner than cory said it to the gophers. so chill, stop acting like the gopher basketball program revolves around cory joseph.

That is not what I meant. at all. This has everything to do with the fact that when people were coming on here saying it was all Texas, people absolutely ripped in to them. How dare people thing a program like Texas will be able to out recruit us for Cory? How dare people say Texas is a better fit for Cory? I could go on and on but that is exactly the reaction everyone had here when people brought up the fact he would be signing with Texas. And with last years class, take away Minnesota's very Rare class of having two great prospects like that and it probably would have been more of the same like this year.