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Post by WorcesterGray on Apr 19, 2022 16:12:51 GMT -5
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Post by WorcesterGray on Apr 19, 2022 19:40:18 GMT -5
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Post by alum on Apr 20, 2022 7:38:04 GMT -5
So, if Pitino "loved" these two guys, why would he say one was lazy and the other slow? What a jerk.
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Post by football44 on Apr 20, 2022 8:58:24 GMT -5
So, if Pitino "loved" these two guys, why would he say one was lazy and the other slow? What a jerk. The jerk is Brett Nelson. Had the Trey James kid on campus yesterday and didn't even offer the kid. Pitino is a professional basketball coach who knows talent. Brett Nelson is a clown who wouldn't know talent if it slapped him in the face. This kid is WAY over his head and needs to move on. 6'10" (5) on campus and you don't know if he fits into "your" system. you mean the system that hasn't had a winning season in 3 years. Time to go Brett!!
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Post by Tom on Apr 20, 2022 9:07:15 GMT -5
So, if Pitino "loved" these two guys, why would he say one was lazy and the other slow? What a jerk. Had the Trey James kid on campus yesterday and didn't even offer the kid. Is this fact or speculation based on silence from standard sources?
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Post by football44 on Apr 20, 2022 9:15:35 GMT -5
Had the Trey James kid on campus yesterday and didn't even offer the kid. Is this fact or speculation based on silence from standard sources? Fact. And my sources are legit!! I don't speculate.
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Apr 20, 2022 9:47:36 GMT -5
So, if Pitino "loved" these two guys, why would he say one was lazy and the other slow? What a jerk. The jerk is Brett Nelson. Had the Trey James kid on campus yesterday and didn't even offer the kid. Pitino is a professional basketball coach who knows talent. Brett Nelson is a clown who wouldn't know talent if it slapped him in the face. This kid is WAY over his head and needs to move on. 6'10" (5) on campus and you don't know if he fits into "your" system. you mean the system that hasn't had a winning season in 3 years. Time to go Brett!! Unless HCBN has another guy lined up who he know he will land, I'm not sure why he wouldn't be offering James.
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Post by alum on Apr 20, 2022 10:02:39 GMT -5
So, if Pitino "loved" these two guys, why would he say one was lazy and the other slow? What a jerk. The jerk is Brett Nelson. Had the Trey James kid on campus yesterday and didn't even offer the kid. Pitino is a professional basketball coach who knows talent. Brett Nelson is a clown who wouldn't know talent if it slapped him in the face. This kid is WAY over his head and needs to move on. 6'10" (5) on campus and you don't know if he fits into "your" system. you mean the system that hasn't had a winning season in 3 years. Time to go Brett!! We might simply have a problem with terminology. Pitino is a jerk for trashing two guys thereby making it harder for them to land new gigs. Nelson is an incompetent if he thinks that this kid can't play fast enough to fit in with a system that plays slower than two thirds of the teams in the country. On the other hand, if BN invited James to campus to tell him he wouldn't fit in, he's both incompetent and a jerk.
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Post by football44 on Apr 20, 2022 10:05:16 GMT -5
The jerk is Brett Nelson. Had the Trey James kid on campus yesterday and didn't even offer the kid. Pitino is a professional basketball coach who knows talent. Brett Nelson is a clown who wouldn't know talent if it slapped him in the face. This kid is WAY over his head and needs to move on. 6'10" (5) on campus and you don't know if he fits into "your" system. you mean the system that hasn't had a winning season in 3 years. Time to go Brett!! Unless HCBN has another guy lined up who he know he will land, I'm not sure why he wouldn't be offering James. Listen Brett Nelson has no other big man that he's looking at in the portal. So everyone hears this from me (I) personally spoke on the phone with Trey James welcoming him on campus at Holy Cross yesterday. I know ALL of the details about his day on campus. This kid has 10 big time programs offering him right now and he drove up to campus from Iona to take a look at HC. He loved the campus. The kid scored like a 1400 on his boards and carries a 3.6 GPA at Iona. Brett Nelson has NO clue. We have a total of 6 guys on the Holy Cross basketball team as of today. Those 6 ain't going any where because no one wants them and their getting 80k a year free money to go to a prestigious school like HC. Stop making excuses for this program and its coach.
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Post by football44 on Apr 20, 2022 10:09:29 GMT -5
The jerk is Brett Nelson. Had the Trey James kid on campus yesterday and didn't even offer the kid. Pitino is a professional basketball coach who knows talent. Brett Nelson is a clown who wouldn't know talent if it slapped him in the face. This kid is WAY over his head and needs to move on. 6'10" (5) on campus and you don't know if he fits into "your" system. you mean the system that hasn't had a winning season in 3 years. Time to go Brett!! We might simply have a problem with terminology. Pitino is a jerk for trashing two guys thereby making it harder for them to land new gigs. Nelson is an incompetent if he thinks that this kid can't play fast enough to fit in with a system that plays slower than two thirds of the teams in the country. On the other hand, if BN invited James to campus to tell him he wouldn't fit in, he's both incompetent and a jerk. Pitino isn't trashing these kids. He just stating that their game doesn't fit the system that he's running at Iona. He actually likes both of these kids but realizes that they could play some where else because they're not getting time at Iona. This is BIG TIME ball not intramurals, don't let your feelings get hurt.
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Post by WorcesterGray on Apr 20, 2022 10:14:48 GMT -5
Wow, it's great having this kind of insider on the board. Since you know who Nelson is considering among those in the portal, please share some names.
I'd also be interested in the 10 "big-time programs offering [James] right now." Please share.
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Post by rgs318 on Apr 20, 2022 10:19:56 GMT -5
Just for the record, I don't recall Pitino in his quotes calling either athlete "lazy."
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Post by football44 on Apr 20, 2022 10:22:13 GMT -5
Wow, it's great having this kind of insider on the board. Since you know who Nelson is considering among those in the portal, please share some names. I'd also be interested in the 10 "big-time programs offering [James] right now." Please share. No challenge WorcesterGray! Just keep an eye on both Trey James and Coach Nelson and I'm sure you'll get ALL of the information you're looking for in the future.
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Apr 20, 2022 10:29:38 GMT -5
Some coaches from schools who have recently followed James on Twitter: Bryant, UMBC, Florida Southern, Wagner, CCSU, Merrimack, Louisiana-Monroe, Southern Indiana, Rice.
I don't think James is heading to a big-time program.
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Post by football44 on Apr 20, 2022 10:39:57 GMT -5
Some coaches from schools who have recently followed James on Twitter: Bryant, UMBC, Florida Southern, Wagner, CCSU, Merrimack, Louisiana-Monroe, Southern Indiana, Rice. I don't think James is heading to a big-time program. Okay whatever you say!
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Post by Tom on Apr 20, 2022 11:06:06 GMT -5
Is this fact or speculation based on silence from standard sources? Fact. And my sources are legit!! I don't speculate. You might be on the wrong board. We do lots of speculating around here
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Post by Tom on Apr 20, 2022 11:19:02 GMT -5
Unless HCBN has another guy lined up who he know he will land, I'm not sure why he wouldn't be offering James. So everyone hears this from me (I) personally spoke on the phone with Trey James welcoming him on campus at Holy Cross yesterday. . . . We have a total of 6 guys on the Holy Cross basketball team as of today. . If you are talking to potential recruits personally, you apparently have some inside track to the program. You say we have six guys on the team as of today., If we limit ourselves to scholarship players and omit Batcheider, Octave, and Kirkwood as not currently enrolled in the school, I still come up with seven (Gates, Montgomery, Coulibaly, Rabinovich, Dorsey, Kenney, and Lewis). Is someone else jumping ship that I am not aware of?
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Apr 20, 2022 11:20:36 GMT -5
Why would you invite a player to make an official visit but then not offer him a scholarship? Did we "work him out" and then determine that he is untalented? I should think that you invite a player to campus to sell him on the program and the school??
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Post by longsuffering on Apr 20, 2022 11:55:05 GMT -5
Why would you invite a player to make an official visit but then not offer him a scholarship? Did we "work him out" and then determine that he is untalented? I should think that you invite a player to campus to sell him on the program and the school?? Generally yes. But isn't this high stakes poker right now with the slowness of signings compared to the number of players in the portal indicating coaches are measuring twice and cutting once?
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Post by HC92 on Apr 20, 2022 11:57:31 GMT -5
I don’t blame Nelson for the reported botching of the Trey James recruitment as much as I blame the administration for leaving Nelson in place to botch it. Really hard to understand why we are where we are with this coach.
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Post by Sons of Vaval on Apr 20, 2022 12:00:33 GMT -5
Is it possible Nelson assumed he could get James through admissions, but then when he informed them of his intent to make an offer, they squashed it?
Really just guessing about why James would be invited to campus and then he left Worcester without an offer.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Apr 20, 2022 12:28:17 GMT -5
Are the players in the portal limited in the number of schools they can visit?
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Post by trimster on Apr 20, 2022 12:39:59 GMT -5
I think some people here might be getting a bit over the tips of their skis.
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Post by football44 on Apr 20, 2022 12:45:11 GMT -5
I don’t blame Nelson for the reported botching of the Trey James recruitment as much as I blame the administration for leaving Nelson in place to botch it. Really hard to understand why we are where we are with this coach. HC92 do not give BN a pass. He has absolutely no clue how to recruit and for that matter coach. I totally agree that KH should have made the move with BN right after the season. Now we will watch another horrifying bball season. Maybe after his 4th year the administration will realize they (MB) made a mistake.
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Post by football44 on Apr 20, 2022 12:51:23 GMT -5
I think some people here might be getting a bit over the tips of their skis. In what way?
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