No update on the TaShawn Thomas visit?

Sawyer said:
Seems fair, except if those were his two choices (business vs. fun decision), I'm not sure OU or Miami should be at the top.
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I think we've laid out the options for both. The fun schools basically included Oregon and miami due to having friends at the schools, and Miami as a cool city to live in.

OU sure you could list some more, but how many schools in Texas or Oklahoma, maybe even Louisiana where he is near home have an open forward spot, a solid coach, and a good tournament team to surround him with? Those options together limit the pool pretty drastically
 
dahldennsull said:
I think we've laid out the options for both. The fun schools basically included Oregon and miami due to having friends at the schools, and Miami as a cool city to live in.

OU sure you could list some more, but how many schools in Texas or Oklahoma, maybe even Louisiana where he is near home have an open forward spot, a solid coach, and a good tournament team to surround him with? Those options together limit the pool pretty drastically
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That's fair, but a true business decision wouldn't limit the options to Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana.

If he's as good as advertised, somewhere like Florida would seem like a decent option (assuming they have room). They win every year well above the levels (recently) of any other school he's considering. They have a good track record with post players. And they've done well with transfers. Others would make sense, as well.

Reality, IMO, is that the fun vs. business dichotomy doesn't exist. He's choosing based on the same reasons most guys choose, which is a little of both and probably a lot of other factors, as well. The implication that if he doesn't go to OU, he's just looking to have fun while he finishes his college career is a bit of a stretch.
 
Miami won the ACC regular season & tournament championships in 2013. They were a #2 seed who went to the sweet 16 in the NCAA tournament. Their coach Jim Larranaga took George Mason to the final four in 2006 and won AP national coach of the year for his 2013 Miami season. The ACC is a materially better basketball conference than the Big XII. Kruger has not win a single post season game at OU. Miami has 4 4 star recruits in their last two classes. OU has 0. Let's not kid ourselves that OU is a better basketball program than Miami with Larranaga there.
 
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bocabull said:
Miami won the ACC regular season & tournament championships in 2013. They were a #2 seed who went to the sweet 16 in the NCAA tournament. Their coach Jim Larranaga took George Mason to the final four in 2006 and won AP national coach of the year for his 2013 Miami season. The ACC is a materially better basketball conference than the Big XII. Kruger has not win a single post season game at OU. Let's not kid ourselves that OU is a better basketball program than Miami with Larranaga there.
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Larranaga and Kruger are actually pretty similar throughout their careers. They've both coached just a shade under 900 games (895 for Larranaga, 879 for Kruger). They've both won about 60% (Kruger slightly more, 537 vs. 531). Both have been a little up and down in their careers, flirting with greatness at their best but never sustaining it.

Miami's been slightly better in the past three years, but Larranaga took over a better situation. Miami averaged 20+ wins over the prior four seasons before Larranaga got there. Granted, they stunk when they got to conference play, but there was still some talent there. He had far less rebuilding to do than Kruger did (Larranaga basically took the team he inherited, added one player and had an ACC champion; OU had nothing like that).

Any difference between the two programs at this point is marginal at best.
 
I agree with you guys, I think I simply mistitled the scenarios as fun or business. I do think if he goes to a school where he doesn't know anyone and is just transferring for basketball he wants to be closer to home. It will make the transition easier. If further away it's good to have someone you know and trust already there, ala Oregon and Miami.
 
bocabull said:
Miami has 4 4 star recruits in their last two classes. OU has 0. Let's not kid ourselves that OU is a better basketball program than Miami with Larranaga there.
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Not to let facts get in the way of a good rant, but according to ESPN, Buford and Lattin are both 4* guys. None in 2013, but Hield was one in 2012 as well.
 
WTSooner said:
Not to let facts get in the way of a good rant, but according to ESPN, Buford and Lattin are both 4* guys. None in 2013, but Hield was one in 2012 as well.
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And jamuni is ranked ahead of lattin in the latest rivals update...
Poor boca!
 
I'm not saying you made them up.

I'm just saying those aren't the official rivals rankings. They're the rankings of Texas Hoops, which is one site owned by the rivals network and run by one guy. They're not the rivals rankings.

He doesn't have Lattin in the top 20, by the way.

Feel free to go with whatever ranking you want, but picking and choosing the rankings that make OU's players seem the best doesn't make the team better.
 
Sawyer said:
I'm not saying you made them up.

I'm just saying those aren't the official rivals rankings. They're the rankings of Texas Hoops, which is one site owned by the rivals network and run by one guy. They're not the rivals rankings.

He doesn't have Lattin in the top 20, by the way.

Feel free to go with whatever ranking you want, but picking and choosing the rankings that make OU's players seem the best doesn't make the team better.
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The thinking is that evaluators from Texas that see Lattin and McNease more than rivals national that has one evaluator, Eric Bossi, may have more insight on players.
 
Sawyer said:
I'm not saying you made them up.

I'm just saying those aren't the official rivals rankings. They're the rankings of Texas Hoops, which is one site owned by the rivals network and run by one guy. They're not the rivals rankings.

He doesn't have Lattin in the top 20, by the way.

Feel free to go with whatever ranking you want, but picking and choosing the rankings that make OU's players seem the best doesn't make the team better.
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Wasn't picking and choosing. Thought rivals Texas was rivals.

Maybe the Texas guys who see him more are a tad higher on him. This rivals site has him ahead of Lattin.
 
Sawyer said:
Feel free to go with whatever ranking you want, but picking and choosing the rankings that make OU's players seem the best doesn't make the team better.
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Picking and choosing any rankings at all doesn't make the team better or worse.
 
Feel free to go to the SEC when you can't win anything in the Big12...

Back to TaShawn,

Be a Sooner!
 
BigTime said:
Feel free to go to the SEC when you can't win anything in the Big12...

Back to TaShawn,

Be a Sooner!
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Chatted with goodman on twitter.. He said decision coming soon... UM fans think he's their key to a deep tourney run....
 
BigTime said:
Feel free to go to the SEC when you can't win anything in the Big12...
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CoachTalk said:
Chatted with Thomas on twitter.. He said decision coming soon... UM fans think he's their key to a deep tourney run....
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FIFY. He's been saying a decision is coming soon for over a week now. It has to come by Wednesday if he is going to sign a LOI with anyone. That's the end of the signing period.

Of course as a transfer, he doesn't have to sign a letter of intent. He can just show up and start school with whomever he picks.
 
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