Shake to smu

[bocabull]

Yeah Boca you need to layoff the drugs. Drugs are bad mkay.

How many NBA players has smu produced, how many tourney wins, don't even know where in Dallas they are and I've been to dallas at least twice a year for 20 years. Can't be that great of a school...especially for my last reason.

Then you obviously haven't been to "Dallas". DFW maybe. OU has produced 2 NBA players in 20 years. lol @ NCAA appearences. That sounds like something meaningless & corny an Aggie would bring up.

Sooner23 summed it up. $MU. 99% of every kid who lace em up will never smell the NBA. Larry Brown will give you a better chance than 99% of the coaches out there including Kruger. If not, your degree from $MU is worth 10 times what an OU degree is. Plus your living right down the street from Jerry Jones, George W Bush, Troy Aikman, Mark Cuban, etc etc.

It's a no brainier unless your a diehard sooner.

 

[NCCoach30]

Then you obviously haven't been to "Dallas". DFW maybe. OU has produced 2 NBA players in 20 years. lol @ NCAA appearences. That sounds like something meaningless & corny an Aggie would bring up.

Sooner23 summed it up. $MU. 99% of every kid who lace em up will never smell the NBA. Larry Brown will give you a better chance than 99% of the coaches out there including Kruger. If not, your degree from $MU is worth 10 times what an OU degree is. Plus your living right down the street from Jerry Jones, George W Bush, Troy Aikman, Mark Cuban, etc etc.

It's a no brainier unless your a diehard sooner.

Boca.......why the f#&k do you even post on here? Keep your DFW love in DFW...no one gives a rats a$$ about SMU, Baylor or any of the other programs you blow all the time. 99.9% of the people here post because they are OU fans. You just come be be an a$$hole......any moron with a pulse knows OU has a WAY more prestigious program AND history than SMU. The only reason they are even in the AAC is because they had nowhere to go and the AAC had no legit options when their conference fell apart. The entire conference is irrelevant outside of 2-3 basketball schools and those dont include SMU.

congrats to Larry Brown for getting Shake because they lost Mudiay....otherwise Shake would have likely gone elsewhere. I dont even know why I wasted my time on this thread because after recruiting is over I wont ever think of the kid again.....and SMU will still be irrelevant. Shake will be a solid player but I DOUBT he will be a dominant one. If he is...good for Larry Brown.

Now lets talk about players relevant to OKLAHOMA.

 

[big-hOUnd]

SMU is a more attractive option than OU now. The AAC is a basketball first conference, SMU has some swag in Dallas & their environment is way more exciting since Brown arrived and they upgraded the facility. It's like the difference between playing for the Knicks or the Kings in the NBA.

Good luck to the kid.

Well that explains it then. One of the top players in the AAC basketball first conference (and home to the current NC) leaves after 3 seasons as a starter for the NBA? No, to transfer to the lesser basketball school, OU, in the lesser competitive conference, knowing he will probably have to sit out a year, and all to be on a team he thinks has a good chance to make a run in the dance, and at the same time get the development he thinks will better his chances in the NBA draft? Got it!

No Boca, I do see your point, as I too live here in the Metroplex. SMU was a hot team last year and had a very nice season, and had a local buzz going about them. But if you look at the big picture, and the near future, I think OU is a better pick over SMU. But for players whose near future plans are the NBA, then SMU is probably a better fit.

 

[WTSooner]

lol @ Boca and his "big city" love.

At least he is consistent, I'll give him that.

 

[DenverSooner]

Then you obviously haven't been to "Dallas". DFW maybe. OU has produced 2 NBA players in 20 years. lol @ NCAA appearences. That sounds like something meaningless & corny an Aggie would bring up.

Sooner23 summed it up. $MU. 99% of every kid who lace em up will never smell the NBA. Larry Brown will give you a better chance than 99% of the coaches out there including Kruger. If not, your degree from $MU is worth 10 times what an OU degree is. Plus your living right down the street from Jerry Jones, George W Bush, Troy Aikman, Mark Cuban, etc etc.

It's a no brainier unless your a diehard sooner.

You don't lie NCAa appearances? Look at NBA all stars. Without even thinking about it the big 12 has Blake Griffin and Kevin Durrant. The big 12 had two of the top 3 or 4 in this years draft. Why domyounwant to sell te conference short?

 

[KBaden145]

What a foolish direction this thread has taken. No poster on this board mutters more utter BS than Boca. Ignore feature is my friend...


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[brettromar]

Kruger didn't have to tell him that. If the reports that Shake wanted to play the point are accurate, seems obvious to me that he didn't want to compete for the job with an established point guard who has three more years to play. We also know that LK will not promise a player he can be a starter at any position. Calvin Newell learned that from experience.

From the mouth of an Ou coach Shake thought brown could get him to the nba.

nothing was promised from either school. That is just speculation.

 

[skyvue]

nothing was promised from either school. That is just speculation.

Do you know for a fact nothing was promised? If so, from whom did you hear that? An OU coach wouldn't necessarily know if Brown made promises to Milton.

In any case, the implied suggestion that Kruger couldn't also get Milton to the NBA is silly. It'll be interesting to see how long Brown stays at SMU. My guess is Milton won't yet be in the NBA when Brown departs.

 

[CoachTalk]

From the mouth of an Ou coach Shake thought brown could get him to the nba.

nothing was promised from either school. That is just speculation.

The owasso head coach says different about smu promising...

 

[brettromar]

The owasso head coach says different about smu promising...

Sounds good I can only tell you what I have heard.

Of course you told me that SMU had no shot and was out of it over a month ago.

 

[CoachTalk]

Sounds good I can only tell you what I have heard.

Of course you told me that SMU had no shot and was out of it over a month ago.

You got me there! Smu got back in... Lol

 

[brettromar]

It's all good it is recruiting of 17 and 18 year olds. Things change a lot.

I just have known that kid and family a long time. It reminds me a lot of Stewart from union who chose KSU over Stanford and Ou. He wanted Stanford but his mom was sick and he decided KSU was close enough to get back home. I think he would have gone to Ou if Sampson had not got so butt hurt that he didn't commit on site when offered.

I haven't talked to Mark since last year. He probably knows. I was just passing along what the Ou coach said.

I would hope shake was smart enough not to buy into those type of promises if he was offered that but I am not his coach so He didn't ask me haha.

 

[campbest]

http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews...ets-are-they-really-the-hottest-in-town.html/

http://collegesportsblog.dallasnews...han-almost-any-mavs-home-game-this-year.html/

http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/co...irst-overnight-sensation-in-dallas-sports.ece

haha...links were conveniently ignored!

Do I think OU is a better basketball opportunity than SMU? No, I am not high on the AAC as a conference and the Big 12 alone puts OU on top. With all of that said, I can see why SMU is attractive to a recruit out of HS simply because of Larry Brown, a renovated Moody Coliseum and the program upside/excitement right now.

For some of the older fans, it's hard to imagine why a kid would choose SMU over a more traditionally proud program like OU, but you have to remember times have changed. Outside the blue-blood programs (UK, KU, North Carolina, etc) recruits don't care about tradition or what the school did 10 years ago. Does Blake Griffin help being a sooner bball alum? Somewhat, but not as much as you would think. Tradition matters less and less unless you are one of the elite and this is the case with OU basketball.

 

[zeptrey]

haha...links were conveniently ignored!

Do I think OU is a better basketball opportunity than SMU? No, I am not high on the AAC as a conference and the Big 12 alone puts OU on top. With all of that said, I can see why SMU is attractive to a recruit out of HS simply because of Larry Brown, a renovated Moody Coliseum and the program upside/excitement right now.

For some of the older fans, it's hard to imagine why a kid would choose SMU over a more traditionally proud program like OU, but you have to remember times have changed. Outside the blue-blood programs (UK, KU, North Carolina, etc) recruits don't care about tradition or what the school did 10 years ago. Does Blake Griffin help being a sooner bball alum? Somewhat, but not as much as you would think. Tradition matters less and less unless you are one of the elite and this is the case with OU basketball.

It's really Larry Brown vs Lon Kruger type thing. I think comparing the programs are way over blown because truthfully there is no comparison. Those articles really only describe how when the defending champs were in Dallas tickets were hard to find...which I'd like to think, probably wishful thinking, the LNC would be oh at least over half capacity last year which Moody 7K vs LNC 11.5K seating capacity. Also, the Pro teams down there in "Big D" weren't the greatest last year the Mavs squeeked into the Playoffs and made a decent series with San Antonio.

Anyway there's no excuse, Brown is still taking it to us all these years later...frickin' don't like that guy.

 

[152219]

I live in East Dallas, not far from SMU's campus. The links above are not hyperbole. There was about a month stretch when Moody Madness took hold of the Park Cities/Dallas last spring. Have a friend who sold his two tickets for the Louisville game for nearly $1,000. SMU has a fanbase in place if the Ponies would just give their fans something to consistently cheer for.

 

[Smash Williams]

Yeah Boca you need to layoff the drugs. Drugs are bad mkay.

How many NBA players has smu produced, how many tourney wins, don't even know where in Dallas they are and I've been to dallas at least twice a year for 20 years. Can't be that great of a school...especially for my last reason.

It's off Hwy 75 on Mockingbird.

I've never lived in DFW, or even visited over 40 times in 20 years, but I've stayed at a hotel near the SMU campus several times, and sometimes I would cut through the surrounding neighborhoods. It's a really nice area with a lot of money, and there appears to be more pride in SMU than you might expect. I imagine that's a large part of what was driving ticket prices for some of SMU's big games last season.

I doubt the fan base is very large, but it includes a disproportionately high percentage of upper-class people--the kind of people who often drive tastes in trendy places like Dallas.

 

[skyvue]

SMU got on a real hot stretch for a while there and they hadn't been good in decades, so I'm not surprised they could fill their small arena for a few games.

Of course, the same attendance number that amounts to a full house for them would inspire criticism here of our lukewarm fanbase.

 

[campbest]

I doubt the fan base is very large, but it includes a disproportionately high percentage of upper-class people--the kind of people who often drive tastes in trendy places like Dallas.

Dallafornia

 

[jerry]

Dallas is all about money and what is trending. The Cowboys are the only team in DFW that can get away with losing. SMU basketball is here today, but could disappear just as quickly.

 

[bocabull]

Dallafornia

Without the mountains, ocean & stars, but it's got the money, silicon & testosterone baby!!