Visit with Montana St. transfer G Darius Brown II

VanillaThunder · Apr 26, 2023

GopherOhana said:

Any updates after his visits?

GopherOhana · Apr 26, 2023

VanillaThunder said:
Any updates after his visits?

so far, no new tweets from either Brown or Pride

Spaulding!No! · Apr 26, 2023

Holy Man · Apr 27, 2023

GopherOhana said:
so far, no new tweets from either Brown or Pride

Quiet crossing t’s and dotting i’s I’m sure.

GopherOhana · Apr 27, 2023

Holy Man said:
Quiet crossing t’s and dotting i’s I’m sure.

or silent NIL auctions? 'sorry, your NIL is too low but i won't be deciding for two more days so you still have time'

Holy Man · Apr 27, 2023

GopherOhana said:
or silent NIL auctions? 'sorry, your NIL is too low but i won't be deciding for two more days so you still have time'

Sadly probably true.

fan of Ray Williams · Apr 27, 2023

GopherOhana said:
or silent NIL auctions? 'sorry, your NIL is too low but i won't be deciding for two more days so you still have time'

Looked a little on a Richmond forum and they were lamenting the lack of NIL
Pretty much like the comments on here.

howeda7 · Apr 27, 2023

fan of Ray Williams said:
Looked a little on a Richmond forum and they were lamenting the lack of NIL
Pretty much like the comments on here.

Richmond is to VCU what the Gophers are to St. Thomas.

GoldenMAV30266 · Apr 28, 2023

WriterGoph · Apr 28, 2023

Not a shock given he is following his coach.

USAF · Apr 28, 2023

WriterGoph said:
Not a shock given he is following his coach.

Nonsense. We cooled on him.

Spaulding!No! · Apr 28, 2023

Montana State beat down #2

Gofurgold · Apr 28, 2023

Been telling Ben for years, we gotta stop letting Ramburg host these visits

Bad Gopher · Apr 28, 2023

Well, shit. We lost out to Utah State!? Not trying to be dramatic, but this feels like a new low. Utah State has had its successes in recent years, but they have a new coach and an uncertain future. Brown had an opportunity to play in the Big Ten, for fuck sakes!

WriterGoph · Apr 28, 2023

Bad Gopher said:
Well, shit. We lost out to Utah State!? Not trying to be dramatic, but this feels like a new low. Utah State has had its successes in recent years, but they have a new coach and an uncertain future. Brown had an opportunity to play in the Big Ten, for fuck sakes!

Bigger is not always better. Do you know how many people select new jobs based on familiarity/previous experience with their manager/leadership? This is no different. Jumping to the biggest brand/company/conference is not the #1 deciding factor for lots of people.

I think as soon as reasonable people in this thread realized we were up against his previous coach at Utah State, it was assumed it was going to be an uphill battle for Brown. Your post making it seem like this was simply a comparison of schools/conferences is disingenuous at best.

PS. Utah State has been a tourney team for most of the past 5 years.

Bad Gopher · Apr 28, 2023

WriterGoph said:
Bigger is not always better. Do you know how many people select new jobs based on familiarity/previous experience with their manager/leadership? This is no different. Jumping to the biggest brand/company/conference is not the #1 deciding factor for lots of people.

I think as soon as reasonable people in this thread realized we were up against his previous coach at Utah State, it was assumed it was going to be an uphill battle for Brown. Your post making it seem like this was simply a comparison of schools/conferences is disingenuous at best.

PS. Utah State has been a tourney team for most of the past 5 years.

All true, but... Anyone can come up with any number of reasons why nobody would ever sign here. At the end of the day, if it didn't involve recruiting, it wouldn't be called recruiting. At the end of the day, who's on your roster, and how many games can you win?

Gophers7633 · Apr 28, 2023

WriterGoph said:
Bigger is not always better. Do you know how many people select new jobs based on familiarity/previous experience with their manager/leadership? This is no different. Jumping to the biggest brand/company/conference is not the #1 deciding factor for lots of people.

I think as soon as reasonable people in this thread realized we were up against his previous coach at Utah State, it was assumed it was going to be an uphill battle for Brown. Your post making it seem like this was simply a comparison of schools/conferences is disingenuous at best.

PS. Utah State has been a tourney team for most of the past 5 years.

Yep. Utah State was a tournament team most those years because of...Craig Smith. Then they hired a coach who had to do a complete rebuild, and made the tournament...in year two.

USAF · Apr 28, 2023

Prolly the huge NIL available in (checks wikipedia) Logan, Utah.

In the WAC.

CBJ just cant be expected to land these guys when heavyweights like USU enter the room.

WriterGoph · Apr 28, 2023

Gophers7633 said:
Yep. Utah State was a tournament team most those years because of...Craig Smith. Then they hired a coach who had to do a complete rebuild, and made the tournament...in year two.

How is Craig doing at Utah?

Off-GridTNgopher · Apr 28, 2023

WriterGoph said:
How is Craig doing at Utah?

Better than Ben at MN

formerlybis · Apr 28, 2023

USAF said:
Prolly the huge NIL available in (checks wikipedia) Logan, Utah.

In the WAC.

CBJ just cant be expected to land these guys when heavyweights like USU enter the room.

Utah St is in the Mountain West, finished 2nd in the conference to the national runner-up and made the tournament. They're just not a traditional name

GopherWeatherGuy · Apr 28, 2023

formerlybis said:
Utah St is in the Mountain West, finished 2nd in the conference to the national runner-up and made the tournament. They're just not a traditional name

Are we really trying to justify losing a recruit at a position of desperate need to a Mountain West school?

formerlybis · Apr 28, 2023

GopherWeatherGuy said:
Are we really trying to justify losing a recruit at a position of desperate need to a Mountain West school?

Yeah, no. I think the following-the-coach thing is a better justification.

Gophers7633 · Apr 28, 2023

WriterGoph said:
How is Craig doing at Utah?

About 150 spots higher in KenPom then the Gophers.

Bob_Loblaw · Apr 28, 2023

This is brutal. We need to land two more guards and one of them needs to be a good ball handler.

Gophers7633 · Apr 28, 2023

Bob_Loblaw said:
This is brutal. We need to land two more guards and one of them needs to be a good ball handler.

Don't worry Ben's gotta couple of Samuals' up his sleeve.

GopherWeatherGuy · Apr 28, 2023

Gophers7633 said:
Don't worry Ben's gotta couple of Samuals' up his sleeve.

Ihnen is a 1 and a 2

Off-GridTNgopher · Apr 28, 2023

Bob_Loblaw said:
This is brutal. We need to land two more guards and one of them needs to be a good ball handler.

We need to land guards who can fucking play....

Gophers7633 · Apr 28, 2023

GopherWeatherGuy said:
Ihnen is a 1 and a 2

Problem solved!

Crappie · Apr 28, 2023

WriterGoph said:
How is Craig doing at Utah?

Why? Jealous?

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