Visited Utah in lieu of NM last weekend.
Good interview with Thompson by James Hale. He talks about both programs - opportunity to play, style of play, etc. - and that he has family and friends in OK, among other things. Link for those with Insider access.
Good interview with Thompson by James Hale. He talks about both programs - opportunity to play, style of play, etc. - and that he has family and friends in OK, among other things. Link for those with Insider access.
I think he also has a Kevin Pittsnogle-esque tatoo on his arm...sign him.
If we can get this guy and Newell, then I'll feel a lot more positive about the future of OU basketball than I do right now.
Personally, I'd like to have a rebounding machine like Washington, too. We need players that WANT to rebound and WANT to play defense as much or more than they want to score.
Anytime you can take a good hard nosed defensive minded player, we need to get them. Everyone loves play offense, few like the def. end of the floor..!
I have a feeling Nick will pull the trigger for the GOOD GUYS by the end of the week...
Who?
There are just too many factors that we don't know about which affects slow playing recruits. If we were in the coaches' shoes, we might very well do exactly the same thing. Sitting on the outside, it is almost impossible to make that call.
Who says we are slow-playing the kid? It is just an assumption. Sorry, but when things look this bad from the outside, and in conjunction with issues we've had with JUCO kids over the last couple of years, I sort of like the idea of having the kid get healed up from injury and letting our staff view an individual workout. Strikes me as odd that guys who rip Capel for the guys he brought in who subsequently left the program, particularly JUCO's, now are accusing him of "slow-playing" a JUCO guy. I call it being more prudent in making offers, something I THOUGHT many people on here were clamoring for.
Who says we are slow-playing the kid? It is just an assumption. Sorry, but when things look this bad from the outside, and in conjunction with issues we've had with JUCO kids over the last couple of years, I sort of like the idea of having the kid get healed up from injury and letting our staff view an individual workout. Strikes me as odd that guys who rip Capel for the guys he brought in who subsequently left the program, particularly JUCO's, now are accusing him of "slow-playing" a JUCO guy. I call it being more prudent in making offers, something I THOUGHT many people on here were clamoring for.