Mickey Mitchell transferring from tOSU

[soonerjunky]

Agree - his size and quickness was an advantage in high school, not as effective at the high-major D1 level.

Isnt that most players problem? Adjusting to the speed of the game?

 

[campbest]

Isnt that most players problem? Adjusting to the speed of the game?

Mickey is different, he hasn't fully developed some necessary basketball skills to compensate for the lost advantage of being bigger/quicker than everyone in HS. The "speed of the game" is more of a mental hurdle.

 

[AdaSooner]

300 vs 100? Hardly, but, you're right in that the adjustment would be tough for those who like warm weather. I spent the first 42 years of my life in NY and the past 11 in NC. When I talk to people down here, the number one reason they never want to move back north is due to the cold...though I don't recall the number of days the sun is shining being in any conversation.

As for why those two guys are transferring or transferred, sometimes people are just followers. Kelvin Sampson lost his entire 2003 recruiting class (except his son who walked on) to transfer. I'm not sure how either that situation or the one in Columbus played out with two leaving/left so far, but guessing weather was not the primary factor.

I know exactly what you mean, WF. I left Michigan many years ago because I couldn't take the long, harsh winters anymore. Nothing, and I do mean NOTHING could ever convince me to go to a place where cold temperatures, ice and snow dominate your life for months on end again. No thanks, been there done that!

I'll take Oklahoma's hot summer everyday and on Sunday over what I see as gloomy, downright depressing winter lifestyles where bright, sunny days are rare. I'm an outdoors person who cannot take more than two to three days of being confined to the house. Ice fishing, snowmobiling, snow skiing do not appeal to me. Been there, done that too.

To each his own I suppose. But I can definitely see why a kid from the south would not be happy in a state like Ohio, Michigan and any state with long, harsh winters.