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Gary Parrish has updated his Top 25 (plus 1) preseason ranking, and the Gophers land at #16, third in the Big Ten:
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/12316643
Former Gopher target Alex Kirk ended his recruitment by declaring to stay at home with Steve Alford and the Lobos:
http://gary-parrish.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/6271764/17542285
Moving forward, I think Gopher fans expect the likes of Michigan State, Illinois, Purdue, and Indiana to be formidable recruiters-but Northwestern? It appears that Bill Carmody is close to elevating the talent level that steps onto campus in Evanston. It might give him a bit more leeway than many who claim his job is in jeopardy if the Wildcats fall shy of the NCAA tournament this year:
http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/2634
A couple stories here that serve as cautionary tales in modern recruiting. The first covers one of Billy Gillispie's recruits during his Kentucky days, Dakotah Euton, who committed before his sophomore year began. You wonder if his experience will give coaches (and parents) pause in the future to offer at such a young age.
http://www.courier-journal.com/arti...68/Dakotah+Euton+close+to+settling+his+future
The other story concerns top prep recruit Kyrie Irving who has been utilizing Twitter to communicate with fans. When Indiana was eliminated from his list, it turned fairly ugly:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/kevin_armstrong/09/29/twitter.irving/index.html
I found this article on Jim Calhoun to be amusing. First off, no controversy swirling around UConn? I guess the supposed NCAA investigation involving the former UConn trainer turned sports agent isn't making anyone sweat around Storrs. Also, Calhoun (and the writer's) confidence that UConn would have won the NCAA championship with a healthy Jerome Dyson seems a bit overconfident; I seem to recall a dominating run put together by UNC that I don't think would have been thwarted by UConn. Clear up the typos too, my goodness, you call yourself a newspaper!:
http://www.middletownpress.com/articles/2009/10/06/news/doc4acac318b1690834095803.txt
And finally, I think of myself as a pretty enlightened fellow, but I call major b.s. on this academic paper claiming that women's college basketball ticket prices being priced lower than men's basketball tickets equals gender equity. I did a quick check with UConn and Tennessee's season ticket prices and here's the whopping difference: UConn men $270, women $242; Tennessee men $170, women $160. Ohh, and at UConn, that's for 20 men's games and 19 women's; at Tennessee that's for 18 men's games and 17 women's games:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/...mes_price_gap_in_hoops_tickets_on_gender_bias
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/story/12316643
Former Gopher target Alex Kirk ended his recruitment by declaring to stay at home with Steve Alford and the Lobos:
http://gary-parrish.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/6271764/17542285
Moving forward, I think Gopher fans expect the likes of Michigan State, Illinois, Purdue, and Indiana to be formidable recruiters-but Northwestern? It appears that Bill Carmody is close to elevating the talent level that steps onto campus in Evanston. It might give him a bit more leeway than many who claim his job is in jeopardy if the Wildcats fall shy of the NCAA tournament this year:
http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/2634
A couple stories here that serve as cautionary tales in modern recruiting. The first covers one of Billy Gillispie's recruits during his Kentucky days, Dakotah Euton, who committed before his sophomore year began. You wonder if his experience will give coaches (and parents) pause in the future to offer at such a young age.
http://www.courier-journal.com/arti...68/Dakotah+Euton+close+to+settling+his+future
The other story concerns top prep recruit Kyrie Irving who has been utilizing Twitter to communicate with fans. When Indiana was eliminated from his list, it turned fairly ugly:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/kevin_armstrong/09/29/twitter.irving/index.html
I found this article on Jim Calhoun to be amusing. First off, no controversy swirling around UConn? I guess the supposed NCAA investigation involving the former UConn trainer turned sports agent isn't making anyone sweat around Storrs. Also, Calhoun (and the writer's) confidence that UConn would have won the NCAA championship with a healthy Jerome Dyson seems a bit overconfident; I seem to recall a dominating run put together by UNC that I don't think would have been thwarted by UConn. Clear up the typos too, my goodness, you call yourself a newspaper!:
http://www.middletownpress.com/articles/2009/10/06/news/doc4acac318b1690834095803.txt
And finally, I think of myself as a pretty enlightened fellow, but I call major b.s. on this academic paper claiming that women's college basketball ticket prices being priced lower than men's basketball tickets equals gender equity. I did a quick check with UConn and Tennessee's season ticket prices and here's the whopping difference: UConn men $270, women $242; Tennessee men $170, women $160. Ohh, and at UConn, that's for 20 men's games and 19 women's; at Tennessee that's for 18 men's games and 17 women's games:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/...mes_price_gap_in_hoops_tickets_on_gender_bias