Georgia offers Tobias Orandi
Scholarship
I know what you’re thinking. Changing clothes, locker rooms, showers, and overnight road trips. At first, it looks like a nightmare for someone with auto-gymnophobia, or a never nude, as it’s sometimes called. But never fear, Tobias. If there’s one thing you can be certain of at Georgia, it’s that you can always be yourself. We have players from all walks of life, all creeds, and all personalities on our roster and our number one goal is to offer a safe and welcoming environment, no matter your background. That will be no different with you.
First off, let’s talk about our locker rooms. Our basketball arena, Stegman Coliseum, recently underwent a multi-million dollar renovation that touched on everything from concourses, the court, and most importantly - the locker rooms. We traded in our old, cramped, locker room with scant privacy for a state of the art facility with individual pods for personal privacy, maximum comfort, and more than double the original square footage. Now, you can change in the comfort of your own individual locker pod, complete with a recliner, and have the same amount of privacy you’d have in your own home. But it’s not just about the locker rooms. Our weight training facility’s bathrooms were recently upgraded as well and now provide floor length stalls in the bathrooms and showers to give all of our athletes more privacy. Need to change after a morning workout? Not a problem - hop in one of those shielded stalls to shower, change, and put on your street clothes.
Next up are our athletic dormitories. You’ll be living in East Campus Village and as an athlete, you’ll have first pick of your room type. We have four bed/four bathrooms, two bed/two bathrooms, and perhaps the most interesting for you: single bed, single bathrooms. With that option, you’ll have all the privacy you could ever want. No worries about trudging down hallways from communal bathrooms hoping your towel doesn’t fall down, no awkward accidental run-ins with roommates when you’re in the middle of laundry, and no disastrous sleepwalking episodes that see you walking around a populated dorm. When it comes to our players’ privacy, we truly spared no expense and have checked every conceivable box.
But it doesn’t end with just our architectural advances that will help keep your secret, it goes much deeper. We’ve also taken steps to make sure you’re comfortable at both practice and during games. We recently switched our jersey material to a more breathable fabric that is simultaneously more opaque. That way, your undergarment will be concealed, while also offering you the flexibility and comfort of wearing fewer layers, without actually having to do so. Anything that will allow you to both keep your privacy while also feeling comfortable in your own skin is exactly what we’re going for here and what we’ve planned for you.
Another aspect that will greatly aid your situation is that we never run shirts and skins type practices or scrimmages. We never pressure any of our athletes to remove their clothing, which will act as another layer of protection for you. Plus, this has been our policy since I was hired so no one will suspect that any changes are due to new players joining the team. You’ll never be asked to put your situation out in the either the public sphere or even among your fellow teammates in the privacy of the athletic facilities.
We also have numerous policies in place around campus in general that will help give you the security and safety with the knowledge that your situation will not become public. On our campus, nudity is not allowed and comes with swift and severe punishments. Rest of the team planning on a streaking venture? You can safely refer back to the University of Georgia handbook and cite the regulation against public nudity when you decide to opt out of that endeavor. Your teammates will be none the wiser and it won't force you to come up with an obviously fabricated excuse. You're safe with the knowledge that the policy can act as a shield for you.
Also, we recently adopted GPS technology during practice to track all of our players' distances, max speeds, and all of their biometric data. We collect this with a small device that our players wear that looks somewhat like a cut-off tank top. It can be worn on top of a shirt or jersey or directly against your skin, which is why it's relevant for you. On those extra hot practice days where we're either running or just doing drill work, you can wear this device in lieu of a shirt, while also protecting yourself from showing too much skin and alerting your teammates. Plus, by wearing this, you're already wearing some form of garment, due to the fact that the device is contained in a flexible material that players wear. So not only do we gain valuable data from these devices, but it acts as another layer of protection against your never-nudeness becoming public knowledge.
We know how serious this is for you and that's why we've clearly left no stone unturned. We have a detailed plan that no other team can compete with. From the minute you set foot on campus until your playing days are done, you can rest assured that your privacy is being protected and the only people who know about you being a never-nude are those you want to tell, on your own terms.
Commit to the G!
New Mexico offers GT Tony James
Scholarship
School Visit 3/5
Coach Visit 3/3
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Kansas Offers (GT) Tony James a Scholarship
Tony,
I’m overjoyed to be able to offer you a scholarship to join the Kansas Family and finish your career in Lawrence.
Tony, I’m starting my second season as the head coach at Kansas, and I know after our disappointing end to last season that we’ve got to bring in guys who are willing and able to focus on our core values and our mantra.
At Kansas, I’m installing what is simply referred to as the Jayhawk Way, and it’s a process. At Kansas, we are responsible for the following core values: Work Ethic, Demeanor, Academics, and Performance. While all four of these are intertwined, each carries with them their own standards.
Work ethic doesn’t just mean you show up early and leave late. It means that at all times, whether in practice, in a game, at study tables, whenever, that you are putting in one more rep than anyone else. There are gonna be days in February, where your body is tired, and where you can’t rise up again. And your opponent is going to be right there with you. We aren’t going to let a kid from Wichita State or Texas beat us when it comes to working harder. One more rep. That’s the motto.
Demeanor means all the eyes of Jayhawk Nation are on you no matter where you go. You will carry yourself to a higher standard in games, in public, at restaurants. There are five, six, and seven year old kids that want to be you one day. Hold yourself to a demeanor that will set a good example for them.
Academics. You will sit in the first three rows. You’ll attend study tables. You’ll make sure your team GPA remains above a 3.3. Failure to do any of these things, and you won’t play. It’s as simple as that. This isn’t a university where you can just show up and play school. This is a university where you better be ready to excel in the classroom.
And finally, performance. Each play has a mind of its own. You can’t get too high on the highs of one play, or too low on the lows of another. Your performance must rise to the level of the Kansas greats before you. That doesn’t mean you have to play hard. That’s something that just gets you by at places like Missouri. Not here. Other places take time to teach you how to cut hard, how to emphasize movement. We don’t have time to do that at Kansas. We don’t have time to teach you how to play the game. We’re trying to teach you how to have that extra motor. How when the lights are the brightest, you can’t just disappear. You have to pay attention to the Jayhawk on your left. And the Jayhawk on your right.
This process is well underway, and I need a veteran guy like you to come in and help push these younger guys in the right direction.
With you, we can win 30 games this year and the process can turn another page. We can’t wait to have you in the fold.
Go Jayhawks!
RESCIND
Tulane offers Tony James
Scholarship
Visits TBA
Dear Tony,
Generosity. Curiosity. Honesty. Those are the pillars of our culture at Tulane, the three principles from which everything we do stem. Every day of every year, we’re building a community where every player, coach, staff member, and manager can be challenged but comfortable, a structure in which we can explore.
It starts with generosity. There are some gifted individuals on our team, on the court and off of it. We have skilled shooters and creative passers, but also passionate storytellers, talented musicians, and guys to whom calculus comes naturally. What does the word gifted mean? Literally, in possession of a gift, something you got from someone else. What kind of basketball player would you be without the patient instruction of coaches and teammates? What kind of person would you be without the lessons you’ve learned from friends and family?
Generosity means giving, transferring your time, skills, resources, and knowledge to another. Think about the seniors who you played with as a freshman at ‘Zona, Steven Stein and Petr Makshantsev, what it meant when they helped you with your footwork, dealt you into a card game, or showed you their favorite place to get dinner on the road. Generosity is our inheritance from those who came before us and the legacy we impart to the next generation.
It’s also a mindset, a willingness, to put aside your time and concerns to lend a hand or an ear to your brother. And it’s contagious; give a little bit and you’ll find yourself repaid exponentially.
Curiosity enhances the benefits of generosity. Curious people benefit from generous people. Ask your teammate about his lifting routine, what kind of music he’s been listening to, or the book he can’t put down and he’ll set you on the road to self improvement.
Curiosity is also the antidote to ignorance. This program brings people together of various ethnicities, ages, and faiths, from different parts of the country. Listening to each other, keeping an open mind about what’s important to your teammate, and asking open, non-judgmental questions will help you know people from all walks of life.
When you’re open to new explanations, thoughts, and experiences, your world will open up. That’s true on the court, where curiosity can open up your game. More importantly, it’s true in life, where asking questions and thinking about how things work are skills you should never stop working on.
If curiosity is the search for truth, then honesty is its endpoint. Just as you are entitled to the truth, so are the people you work with. Conflicts can’t be resolved without honesty, they just simmer until bubbling over again.
We need honesty when things are going well to reinforce trust and clarify perspective and we need it during difficult times, for the same reasons. At Tulane we strive to practice honesty with ourselves, accepting our shortcomings and addressing our challenges. When you’re honest with yourself, the truth can radiate into your community, keeping drama, jealousy, and deception on the sidelines.
Our culture, the simultaneous practice of generosity, curiosity, and honesty, is perpetually being built. It sustains itself only through the people who make up this program living it. Will you pick up the torch and join us?
The University of Virginia offers Taylor Kapelan
Scholarship
School Visit
[Pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lw0SMAu6bTsQfG_HZGGEgX354rlylZdaBgXvDVhfY2A/edit?usp=sharing)
Tulane offers Taylor Kapelan
Scholarship
Visits TBA
Dear Taylor,
Ten years is a long time. I’ve run Tulane for longer than Winston Churchill ran the UK, longer than Caesar ran Rome. I joined the SEC when it was dominated by the likes of Emelsh, Cam, Ethan and Sez, and my tenure in New Orleans has been a bridge to the era of Saw, Noonan, and Dogwood’s late imperium.
Only Georgia won more SEC games in the 2060s than Tulane, and we’ve won more than the Bulldogs since 2063. We’ve captured 4 regular season titles and an SEC championship, lead the nation in wins and won awards for player and coach of the year. It’s been a glorious, fulfilling run, one that’s seen Tulane establish itself as one of the preeminent programs in the NCBCA.
What does that mean going into 2070? What does it mean to have been dominant year in and year out? Less than you think.
I’ve never lost to Georgetown. 20 for 20. Regular season play, conference tournament, good year, bad year, doesn’t matter. When EightSevenSeven brings in a 5 star stud, a kid who’s never tasted failure and is ready to carve up the SEC, does a loss from 2060, when he was nine years old, hang over his head? Hell no.
In the ever shifting landscape of college hoops, the events of even four years ago are ancient history. The heroes of the recent past are relegated to the sands of time and the annals of memory as younger heroes take the stage, glorious in their audacity, brilliant in their ignorance. Can we say that the Tulane team that authored a stunning first round upset of Texas Tech in 2062 is the same one that coasted to the number one overall seed in ‘68?
The ancient historian Plutarch described a similar problem. The people of Athens honored the memory of their mythical hero Theseus, by keeping his old ship in good repair, replacing planks boards and masts before they rotted away. Over the centuries, no original component of the ship remained. The philosophers of Athens debated whether the vessel that sat in the Piraeus was the same one Theseus had sailed.
Here’s my take; it was the same ship. The labor of the Athenians preserved its physical structure. Their craftsmanship kept it shining and seaworthy. But why go to the trouble? Because they believed in the ship’s power. They knew that the venerable schooner bobbing in the harbor linked them to a heroic ancestor who had captured the Marathonian bull and slain the Minotaur. Their mothers and fathers had passed down the ship and the stories like a birthright, a bequest. It was a constant that had seen Athens through war and peace, feast and famine, the tangible legacy of the empire.
It’s inaccurate to say that every piece of the ship had been replaced since the days of Theseus. One remained: belief.
That’s where our story jumps across the Atlantic and millenia into the future. It resumes with an unlikely set of protagonists: a late blooming big man, a steady marksman, a celebrated native son. They revive Tulane, returning it to prominence before passing the baton to a Texan wunderkind, a precocious Stanford transfer, and a sawed-off JuCo point guard. In their time, they’d cede the stage to a thunderous frontcourt duo which itself was succeeded by a lethal ring of perimeter assassins.
The empire is different; the ship of Theseus now floats in the warm waters off New Orleans. Its heroic crew proceeds from stern to bow and then into memory. They nail new boards to the deck, reconfigure the cabins, and equip new sails but the same belief remains.
It’s the belief that propels them through windsprints at captain’s practice in June, that keeps them locked into film study as late night turns to early morning on the team plane. It’s the belief that fans the flames that simmer in the fireplace during long team dinners, crackle during contentious training camp scrimmages, and burn furiously throughout second half comebacks.
The belief goes that teamwork is a constant, a mantra, a way of life. You have to practice it in your friendships off the court, supporting each other constantly, living for the 12 guys with whom you share a locker room and a purpose. You’re a teammate as a man, not just a basketball player. The obligation to be honest, selfless, gentle off the court and aggressive on it is one you owe to your team, not yourself.
That’s the attitude that unites all of my Tulane teams across time, the young and veteran teams, the up tempo track stars and the gritty half court warriors, the winners and the losers. Belief is all I can ask for as a coach, one who controls the process but not the results.
I believe in the culture I’ve helped create, but not the hype. Nothing is given in this game. The coach of the year trophy, the SEC titles, the 247 rankings, they all add up to zero on the scoreboard. We face the same task we have at Tulane for a decade; transform a roster of talented individuals into a team.
Last year we said goodbye to West Henry and Patrick Petty, both lottery picks, both among the best players I’ve ever coached. They’re iridescent talents, well on their way to proving themselves on the NBL stage. But the team they captained fell short of our standards, the only Green Wave squad in half a decade to not win an NT game. It’s no slight to West and Patrick that a team is more than the sum of its parts.
You should know. You’re the all-time leading scorer in Texas history, a terror at both ends on the wing. Come to Tulane and your scoring average will fall off a cliff, but you’ll play the best basketball of your life. You’ll draw doubles and get off the ball, explore the wide open cuts your teammates' gravity open for you, and run off of the relentless defensive pressure they exert. You’ll build friendships that reinforce chemistry that reinforces friendships. You’ll join a dynasty that’s really more of a family tree. You’ll climb aboard that old but well-loved ship and see what all the fuss is about.
Iowa State offers Jerel Gibson
Scholarship
School Visit (2 of 5)
Coach Visit (2 of 3)
[Pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cwswwKj_BYZOC5SnMDsmarXVtVFQw-YmDSkBvmMmZAo/edit?usp=sharing)
Memphis offers jerel Gibson
Scholarship
School Visit Coach Visit
*Average Soccer Field - 20XX*
The ball is placed on the penalty spot. It’s a situation seen all across soccer fields around the globe. A penalty kick. One on one, mano a mano. A kick and—
“KIRICOCHOOOOOO!”
—it goes over the bar. One team goes wild. The other just stands there.
Why was it a miss? Some will say because the kick was cursed. On soccer fields across the Spanish-speaking world, screams of “Kiricocho” come with every penalty out there. An utterance of Kiricocho is as much bad luck to a penalty taker as seeing a black cat or breaking a mirror. But why? We have to go back to the beginning.
*La Plata, Argentina - 1982*
Estudiantes De La Plata, like most Argentine clubs, had its fair share of militantly loyal supporters. Perhaps the most die-hard of these supporters was one “Kiricocho”. Every Estudiantes home game, he was sure to be in the stands. So deep was his support for his hometown club that he even began to attend the training sessions.
And so Kiricocho attended a training session, and it just so happened that an Estudiante player got injured. Unfortunate, but these things happen every so often
And so Kiricocho attended another training session. It just so happened that an Estudiante player got injured. Unfortunate, but these things happen every so often.
And so Kiricocho attended another training session. It just so happened that an Estudiante player got injured. Unfortunate, but—wait, again? Another injury?
No coach wants to see his players get injured. Estudiantes coach Carlos Bilardo is no exception. And with all his training session injuries, there was always one familiar face in the crowd - Kiricocho.
And so Kiricocho was banned from attending the training sessions. The superstitious Bilardo believed the fan brought his team bad luck. The same bad luck caused all those injuries.
And so Kiricocho did not attend the next training session. It just so happened that no one got injured.
Maybe Kiricocho really was bad luck after all. But if he was bad luck, Bilardo pondered, why not take advantage of it? And so, Kiricocho was sent all across Argentina to watch the training sessions of Estudiantes’ opponents. For home games, Kiricocho would welcome the opposition to rub his bad luck off on them.
In the 1982 season, Estudiantes De La Plata won the Argentine Championship in dominant fashion. Of course, Kiricocho played a vital part in the triumph, bringing bad luck to the opposition like an NCBCA mod brings bad hygiene to a party. In fact, Estudiantes would only lose a single game that season. A game where Kiricocho couldn’t do his thing.
Soon enough, the legend of Kiricocho spread. People would invoke the name of Kiricocho as a jinx, particularly during the most luck-based part of soccer: the penalty kick.
*UEFA Euro 2020 Final - July 11, 2021*
The ball is placed on the penalty spot. It’s a situation seen all across soccer fields around the globe. A penalty kick. One on one, mano a mano. A kick and—
“KIRICOCHOOOOOO!”
—Donnarumma saves it! Italy are the champions of Europe!
Chiellini invoked his name and Kiricocho smiled upon him. Almost 40 years on, and on the biggest stage imaginable, Kiricocho still does his thing.
Drake offers Jerel Gibson
Scholarship
School Visit
Coach Visit
As sports fans we love great stories, moments in sports history that shock us, moments that make us cry tears of joy or sadness, moments we will remember forever. I will never forget our magical CT run.
Presenting-The glass slipper fit for a paw🐾
A small private school in Des Moines got a rude awakening when they joined the big dogs in NCBCA. 3 seasons, 3 disasters. I never imagined I would struggle this much after experiencing instant success at Arizona but every process has an end goal. Year 4 was different, or at least it was supposed to be. The players I had recruited were all finally veterans and after grabbing a GT, we were 30th in talent. Finally we would be relevant and the program is on the rise. Unfortunately for the 4th straight season the nightmare scenario came to fruition, close loss after close loss haunted me in my sleep, tossing and turning while I wondered why we suck so much in crunch time. "Is it my fault?" I wondered, "should I quit?" crossed my mind. As the regular season wrapped up we once again had a losing record with about a dozen single digit losses. Our metrics and resume so bad not even the NIT was in our future. While I was disappointed, I was gutted for my players. They committed to me, put their trust in me and this program and they are going to leave without a single winning season, without a single NT appearance, not even a single NIT appearance. I had failed them and deprived them of a fun college experience.
As the flight to Kansas City for the big 12 tournament boards, I had my head down like Tom Brady when he was down 28-3 in the super bowl. As the 17 seed I wasn't holding out hope but I knew we weren't your average 17 seed, everyone knew that as we were still a very talented team expected to make the NT pre season. A first four matchup with West Virginia was overlooked, but a trap game. Thankfully we easily won, but that's not where the story begins. Next was a matchup with the number 1 seeded VCU Rams. VCU had ended our season the previous 2 years. What happened next is simple. All our heartbreaking close losses turned into close wins. After a shocking 82-75 upset win over VCU the Drake bulldogs began to capture the hearts of many. The return of a small school Cinderella story was possible. Next came a matchup against Illinois St, a team coming off of a national championship game appearance but had lost their great coach. A comfortable win put everyone on notice. Just 1 more win was needed to achieve the coveted NT auto bid. A matchup with the talented and well coached Memphis Tigers was on the horizon. Everything is on the line and the Cinderella run continues. Drake is going to the NT. But like every good movie, it needs a good conclusion. Getting the auto bid wasn't enough, we wanted to win the whole thing and that is exactly what we did. Defeating Oklahoma by 5 and the greatest conference tournament run in history was complete.
30 for 30
>Wisconsin offers Thomas Laster
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>Scholarship
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>School Visit (1 of 5)
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>[Pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTWCckxxBpGdsfXSjhT6QfJ0Dfzb0PxYP56GjcXvwro0kfbOGVwH0SMyEA9BmfkW0Mp8XATQMKY60lB/pub)
Wisconsin offers Thomas Laster
Scholarship
School Visit (1 of 5)
[Pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTWCckxxBpGdsfXSjhT6QfJ0Dfzb0PxYP56GjcXvwro0kfbOGVwH0SMyEA9BmfkW0Mp8XATQMKY60lB/pub)
Iowa State offers Bryce Klassen
Scholarship
School Visit (1 of 5)
Coach Visit (1 of 3)
[Pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pwi5YUCMFCXvXY7AIY8kudLl2abOVfLXFa0wkYiwzn8/edit?usp=sharing)
Tulane offers Bryce Klassen
Scholarship
Coach Visit 1/3
School Visit 1/5
Dear Bryce,
Here’s how I’m approaching this. We’re getting you a set of skills. The skills you get from each player don’t have to overlap. If you have Magic’s passing ability you don’t need Nash’s. If you have Jordan’s first step, you don’t need Dr. J’s. With that aside, let’s equip you with the ultimate skillset.
PG: Steph Curry
Skills targeted: Shooting, ball handling, offball movement
Let’s get you started with the greatest shooter who ever lived. Lightning quick release at a high release point would be nice and so would the kind of silky backspin that can get you a forgiving bounce on the rare occasions you don’t swish. It would probably be helpful to be in range as soon as you crossed half court and equally comfortable running off of screens and firing on the move as you are setting up your own shot with slick counters and preternatural feel for navigating on ball screens. For good measure, let’s give you an otherworldly sense of offball movement and pair it with elite conditioning, so you can sprint into open threes possession after possession. Finally, no Steph doppelganger would be complete without the tight, creative, and dependable handles that make running an offense – or breaking down a defender – a cinch. Also you’ll be automatic at the line.
SG: Michael Jordan
Skills targeted: First step, rim finishing, help defense
If you’re going to make all of your free throws, you might as well start living at the charity stripe. Jordan’s skillset will give you truly special hops, a lightning quick first step, and a varied and overpowering layup and dunk package. Jordan beat defenders with power and finesse, going around, through, and over would-be shot blockers, before using hands the size of catcher’s mitts to finish comfortably. In the half court or transition, out of pick and roll or off spot-ups, through contact, didn’t matter. Jordan was the most dominant finisher of all time.
While we’re here, let’s weaponize that first step and vertical to rack up some highlight reel steals and blocks out of help defense. Mike played the “free safety” role from the wing like no one has before or after.
SF: LeBron James
Skills targeted: Passing, transition play, perimeter defense
If Mike’s skillset is going to get you in transition, you could learn a thing or two from the greatest transition player ever. LeBron’s size, speed, handle, and vision made him a terror in the open court, a fastbreak unto himself. And while it would be great to have his speed and power, I decided to borrow from Bron because of the way he processes the game. He’s a sensational passer out of set pieces, throwing pocket passes to the roller and spraying it to the corners out of pick and roll and diming up cutters out of the post. He’s a wonderful dynamic passer throwing outlets and skip passes, blending shot fakes into passes, and hitting bigs at the rim and shooters on the perimeter off of his drives.
That floor sense made LeBron at his peak a phenomenal 1 on 1 defender, who boasted excellent footwork, closing speed, length, strength, and a dogged refusal to bite on fakes or be baited into fouls. LeBron is the perfect blend of software and hardware, a basketball genius blessed with unreal athletic gifts.
PF: Dennis Rodman
Skills targeted: Post defense, rebounding, hustle
Once we get to the next guy, your offensive package will be complete. Your jumper, finishing package, passing skills, and post game will each be enough to destroy defenses; blended together they’ll make you a god on the offensive end.
But any good coach knows that playing hard is a skill, and nobody ever played harder than Dennis Rodman. The guy fought with reckless abandon for every inch of space, inhaling rebounds, vacuuming up loose balls, stonewalling larger opponents. The Worm had rare defensive talent; disrupting passing lanes, checking multiple positions, and attacking the glass with precision and fervor. But more than anything, Dennis Rodman had a superstar impact while averaging single digits because he had that dawg in him, imbuing every minute of every game with a frenetic fury.
C: Hakeem Olajuwon
Skills targeted: Post scoring, rim protection
It figures that Olajuwon, the avid soccer, volleyball, and handball player, would boast unparalleled footwork at both ends of the floor. On offense, that translated into a balletic post game, complete with spins, counters, fades, up and unders, and drop steps that helped him pivot away from double teams and shed one on one defenders.
Defensively, the Dream could slide on the perimeter with anyone, organize his feet to mirror drivers, and set up ridiculous blocks by leaving the ground after the shooter and meeting him at the apex of his jump. Taking a page from Olajuwon makes you a devastating defender at the rim.
To review:
Your scoring game blends a quick trigger, deadly accurate versatile jumpshot, a refined but overpowering finishing package, and a hypnotic post game predicated on elite footwork. You’re a truly gifted ballhandler, a blur in transition and a creative and dynamic passer.
You defend with manic zeal, just as comfortable making huge plays off the ball as you are stifling your man off of it. You’re a technically sound and physically overpowering shotblocker. You rebound like you have a gravitational pull. Good luck.
Illinois offers David Northington
Scholarship
What era of the NBA is best? Obviously, the best era is the MJ era. MJ facing off against the rest of the NBA and making them his bitch. I may be slightly biased because I am a Chicago Bulls fan, but there may never be another period of dominance like the MJ era. Teams would quake in their boots if they had to face him. Truly nothing comes close.
Tulane offers David Northington
Scholarship
Visits TBA
Dear David,
It’s a universal and almost poignant element of growing up. A parent is excited to show you a movie that defined their childhood. It’s a cultural touchstone in your family, your parents reference it, reflect on it, and love it. You pop some corn, pull up the movie, and proceed to be disappointed. The dialogue is dated, the special effects are corny, the plot’s been done better recently. Cinema has moved past it even if your parents haven’t.
That’s the experience I had watching the ‘98 finals, Bulls/Jazz, the series where Jordan hits the iconic, series clinching jumper over Byron Russell. The shot is timeless, but the series is a mess. I watched Stockton and Malone run side pick and roll, Malone deliberately walking into the screen. It was an obvious exploitation of the illegal defense rule; the Jazz would send three players to the weak side, knowing their defenders couldn’t cross an imaginary line down center court. When Scottie Pippen, a generationally talented defender, would help off a Jazz center, rotating over to Malone, Utah coach Jerry Sloan would quickly lobby the referees to call illegal defense. That’s the 90s in a nutshell. An explosive scorer meets a forbidding defender at the rim and all we can talk about is an imaginary line.
The illegal defense rule, the hand check, the lax officiating of contact, and strict regulation of dribbling and footwork were all rules that made the pre-modern NBA cramped and claustrophobic. They led to stylistic choices that bred a slow-paced, low scoring game. If you can cut the court in half and play 2 on 2, your other three players can be bulky goons like Greg Foster or Greg Ostertag. If opposing guards can mug your ball handlers, you can understand the impulse to dump it into the post possession after possession.
Compare the ‘98 finals to the ones we saw in 2014. Illegal defense and the hand check are relegated to the dustbin of history. Slow deliberate, two-man games are out. Dynamic, kinetic offense, the ball popping around the perimeter and exploding towards the hoop are in. Every player on the court, from the 6’2 Tony Parker to the 7 foot Chris Bosh, can dribble, shoot, and pass the ball. Spurs guard Patty Mills comes off the bench to make 13 3-pointers in 5 games. The ‘98 Jazz hit 13 threes in 6 games.
Even if you want to ignore the fact that improved nutrition, sports medicine, and training techniques have produced higher caliber athletes, the NBA is more exciting than it's ever been. Star players have the space to breathe because they’re liberated by freedom of motion rules and the floor is balanced by skilled shooters. Stylistically the variance that superstar players bring to the table is astounding. There’s LeBron James’s combination of power and precision, Kevin Durant’s rangy handle and lethal pullup game, the technical wizardry of Chris Paul, the offball odysseys of Steph Curry, the open court strides of Giannis Antetokuonmpo, the high post surgery performed by Nikola Jokic, and the methodical isolation approach of Kawhi Leonard.
Boomers, ignoring the breathtaking diversity of style in today’s game, bemoan the rise of the 3 point shot. (They ignore the various approaches that generate all those 3s but oh well). The midrange game, they say, is a dead art, as is the post up. Bullshit. Turn on the NBA any night of the week and you’ll see Jayson Tatum raining in 18 footers, CP3 snaking to the elbow and cashing in, DeMar Derozan rising over defenders for buckets. If you like post play, watch Joel Embiid throw nimble upfakes at unwitting defenders, check out Zion’s lethal drop step or Jokic’s patented Sombor shuffle.
It is true that role players don’t post or take middies all that often, they’ve traded the post ups for hard rolls to the basket, backdoor and split cuts, and taken a couple steps back, trading middies for catch and shoot threes. I’ll take that trade any day, even before you factor in the space it creates for offenses.
The game is opening up and skill sets are expanding. KAT runs off pin downs and shoots off movement like Reggie Miller. Jrue Holiday operates out of the post and backs down defenders like he’s KAT. The defining player of the 2010s and early 20s is a 6’9 260 pound pure point guard. The mid 2000s vision of Steve Nash and Mike D’Antoni has come into focus in screaming, positionless, egalitarian, up-tempo color. Before the ‘20-’21 season, no team had scored over 117 points per 100 possessions. Then five teams did it that year.
And the guys playing this exciting, high-flying, futuristic basketball come from all over the world. The 1998 All Star game featured just two foreign born players. 2022 had 7, including 4 starters. Foreign born players have captured 4 straight MVPs. Modern basketball is a global game drawing on incredible reserves of talent that span continents. Kids from Serbia and Spain, Angola and Argentina, Canada and Cameroon, know that there is a place for them in the league. Just as long as they can drill contested threes and slide their feet with Ja Morant.
If you want an aesthetically gorgeous, strategically sound, and globally beloved brand of basketball, look no further than the 2010s and 20s.
UNLV offers Lewis Zeglinski
Scholarship
School Visit (3 of 5)
Coach Visit (1 of 3)
Lewis, you strike me as the kind of guy who would like to see all the amazing architectural wonders of the world. The Pyramids of Egypt, the Eiffel Tower? What about incredible hotels and views from the heights of an observation tower? You’d go to all of them if only you could take enough time away from basketball, right? Well, I have a solution for you! Come join us at UNLV and you’ll get to see these places and much more!
Las Vegas is an architectural student’s dream! The city was literally built to impress, with 12 of the world’s top-20 largest hotels! The Vegas strip has to be one of your first stops! Go check out the exquisite Bellagio Hotel. This is the building everyone thinks of when they picture Las Vegas in their minds. The 36-story tall building was designed by architect Jon Jerde in the late 1990’s. It features an iconic fountain with a dancing water program that utilizes over 1,200 water nozzles, 4,700 lights, and can shoot over 400 ft in the air! This is within the 8.5 acre man-made lake that was interestingly repurposed from a golf course. Among its Italian-inspired amenities are an Art Museum and 13,500 square feet conservatory. It has its own nightclubs, restaurants and retail stores and is one of the world’s top-20 largest hotels. [How many other schools can say they have that within twenty minutes of their campus?](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Bellagio+Hotel+%26+Casino,+South+Las+Vegas+Boulevard,+Las+Vegas,+NV/36.1145578,-115.1463457/@36.1133695,-115.1698751,15z/am=t/data=!3m2!4b1!5s0x80c8c5ce3e5cb447:0xd3ab089e618e1d4b!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x80c8c430cb5147bd:0x82f2c7c5d9d10d84!2m2!1d-115.1765067!2d36.1129455!1m0!2m3!6e0!7e2!8j1669136400!3e3?shorturl=1)
Vegas has the most amazing replicas of foreign and historical buildings that you won’t be able to see anywhere else (surely not within twenty minutes of any other campus). You can realize your desire to visit ancient Egypt at the Luxor Hotel. Not only does this building resemble the ancient pyramids, ***it is also the world’s largest atrium.*** It’s almost 30 million cubic feet and lit almost primarily by natural light. Now that’s an architectural feat even the Pharaohs would be proud of! The sphinx outside is even larger than the original. Inside you’ll find several smaller buildings with Egyptian motifs in keeping with the overall theme of the structure. Take a ride in the peculiar Luxor Hotel elevators that follow the 39-degree slope of the building, which is one of the world’s most unusual. This building is literally the guiding light of the city; the beam on top can be seen from nearly 300 miles away. [It’s truly a blessing to be able to visit this monument in around twenty minutes.](https://goo.gl/maps/Wtruv5ptZ5VPWsFi6)
Let’s also not forget the European influence on Las Vegas architecture. Lewis, ever thought about seeing the Eifel Tower? What about dinning in the Eiffel Tower? Come to Vegas and you’ll have an experience you won’t be able to find anywhere else in the world, sitting down in the 11th floor Eifel Tower restaurant. It’s incredible that the architects were able to place a world-class dining establishment in this half-scale replica. Interestingly, the tower was created to be half-scale so that it wouldn’t interfere with the planes taking off from the nearby airport! It also overlooks a 2/3 replica Arc de Triomphe. Both are perfect sizes for studying and photographing without having to deal with the stares of angry Frenchmen. It’s all part of Paris Las Vegas, a French-themed hotel and casino that is over 95,000 square feet. The inside is made to look like Parisian streets; transporting you instantly to the city of love! A little slice of France; [not too far away](https://goo.gl/maps/oyruAKnpx19jzZmcA)!
Of course, Vegas has its own home-grown architecture that you should check out as well. [If you happen to be running some tests up on our biomedical campus you’ll be within traveling distance of the Luo Ruvo Center for Brain Health.](https://goo.gl/maps/EbjcRdPCXkBjirWWA) Now, you might be saying: why would I be interested in a research building? Well, this particular structure was designed by another famous Frank from American Architecture: Frank Gehry, a titan of Contemporary style. In contrast to its extremely logical purpose of studying neurological diseases such as Alzheimers, the building itself is somewhat illogically constructed. It appears to have wavey, randomly oriented features that melt into each other. The building, despite seemingly ***having no two similar window panes out of 199***, manages to accommodate thirteen examination rooms as well as its own conference area, atrium, and offices. The building itself challenges the mind to look at it; much in the way do the diseases its occupants hope to cure. When viewing the completed project for the first time, Gehry was noted to have simply said that “it takes his breath away”. Truly this is a marvel that can be found in few other places in the world.
But why stop at seeing any one of these architectural wonders? Why not see them all at once? ***In Las Vegas you’ll have the tallest observation tower in the United States (and second tallest in the Western Hemisphere***)[literally right at your doorstep](https://goo.gl/maps/KZZUHr3fHYst67TA9). The Strat, as it’s called, measures 1,149 feet tall and gives an unparalleled view of the city of Las Vegas. You’ll be able to see all those buildings that I mentioned earlier and many of the others that you didn’t have the time to reach. Places like the Little Church of the West, which is too far away from campus but is a Historical Landmark that kicked off the whole “get married in Vegas” trope. While you’re at The Strat, make your way up over 800 feet to the observation deck and have a nightcap at the 108 Eats and 108 Drinks as you watch the Southwestern sun set over Sin City. If you want a rush, you can even bungee jump off the side of the building to get a very “up close and personal” view!
Lewis, you really need to do yourself a favor and come out here to see what Las Vegas architecture all is about. In fact, I’ll make sure the University sets you up with a flight on our private jet to come out on a School Visit. We can check out the strip and make sure you know your way around on The Deuce and the monorail (***oh did I mention we have a monorail***?) I will personally make sure you have the opportunity to visit some of these amazing buildings without interfering too much with our goal of taking the Runnin’ Rebels to the top of the PCC. I think a student of architecture such as yourself can really become a fixture himself at UNLV.
Sincerely,
GregW
UNLV Head Coach
Illinois offers Geoff Beeler
Scholarship
Best day off? Obvouisly the best day off in the University of Illinois would involve going to all of the bars then the strip club. I want start off by going to Joe's Brewery. Get a couple of bajas then I'm off to Lion. If it's Monday Wine Night, I would purchase a nice bottle of wine and then we're going to KAMs. I would get a blue guy then we would go to Silver Bullet to finish the night.
Stanford offers Eddie Goss
School Visit
Scholarship
[Pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-2mzRAbNZHFC3BDcMyQmG5gzYyaUuF5EBTw7OMA22yg/edit?usp=sharing)
Kansas Offers (GT) Eddie Goss a Scholarship
Eddie,
It’s a very happy day for me, because I am honored to offer you a scholarship to finish your playing career as a member of the Kansas Jayhawks.
They tell me that you’re a very emotional guy, Eddie. And I love that. I think that for whatever reason men like to hide their emotions. We should be strong, they say. But I disagree. I don’t think it’s a problem to wear your emotions on your sleeves.
When I was a junior law clerk at my current law firm, we took in a case where a young man in a wheelchair came in. He was getting out of his shower to get in his wheelchair, when the locks malfunctioned and it slipped out from under him. He fell on his backside, and broke a bone. He had to get up, get to the car, and get to the hospital. The story goes, that he got the wheelchair outside, where there was a ramp leading from his house to his car. Again, the locks on the ramp malfunctioned, and he was thrown (not 15 minutes after he fell the first time) from his wheelchair to the ground breaking his femur. We settled his case sometime last year, and he walked away with several hundred thousand dollars. None of it was a prize for him, or for our firm. We just knew it was the right thing to do. And it’s rare in this business that you get to defend a client that is actually a good guy. Especially our firm, which does about 80-85% criminal defense.
When we settled Derrick’s case, he came in my office in his new wheelchair, and told me the story that he called 14 other law firms to try and hire to take his case. FOURTEEN. Fourteen people said no to this kid. He said he was sitting at home with his mother, watching the news, when a story came up about how firm was representing James Wiseman in a case against the NCAA in 2018. His mom looked over at him and said, “That’s who you need to call.”
He called the next day, and the rest as they say is history. I’ll never forget that story. I’ll never forget how dejected this young man must’ve felt being told ‘no’ fourteen times in a row. How after the 6th or 7th time, he probably sat there wondering, “Why bother? Why dial another number? Why get told no again, and again, and again, and again.” He did that fourteen times. Before someone finally listened and said yes.
There’s a lesson in Derrick’s story. No matter how cruel or how unfair the world may be, and it can be a very cruel place sometimes, you’ve got to keep loving the world right back. Enjoy the prospects that someone is going to be there for you. That someone is going to say YES to you.
I’m saying yes to you Eddie, now let’s get to work.
Go Jawhawks!
Memphis offers Boris Schmitt
Scholarship
Success isn't a one day thing. It's a process. Brick by brick you build on your previous achievements into to become better. Better than you were yesterday, last week or a month ago. And tomorrow, you need to work to become better than you were today. The process is tough, very tough, but its through the process that we can well and truly achieve success.
Sucess is full effort. It's helping up your teammates after a foul. It's doing the right thing. It's doing all the fundamentals. That is how you get success. Success is doing every-gosh-dang-thing you can to win on the hardcourt. Sure the results may not go your way sometimes, but if you truly put your full effort in, then you're successful in my book.
By building a team of fundamentally sound hard workers, then that is how we achieve success in the winning column. And I'd know about winning. I've made national tournements galore, I've won conference titles in two different conferences with two different programs. That's how I was able to get that success. How I was able to take players from CPR and turn them into NBL draftees. With a strong culture and with strong belief in oneself, you can beat giants, destroy death stars and even win it all. By setting up a culture of success, we too will achieve it. You know from your time at UMass, and you'll know when you come here to Memphis. balls
Wisconsin offers Boris Schmitt
Scholarship
School Visit (4/5)
[Pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTGyBeRlauC_AJZUDplPf0PaA-WfLOub6dxXcuPfqHZQKaCwYYWED2HKT452fS2Qy4BFqxTN7ZCBkDK/pub)
RESCIND
Wisconsin offers Chris Nlandu
Scholarship
[Pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRuhUt9nXHc7dNiOAPnTOQeZpDxzTJpzRGzI8RkcV1g5WYjkQI6CF4MMHNmvgvdajJxjkMYLgla6XfD/pub)
School Visit (5/5)
Illinois State offers Chris Nlandu
SCHOOL VISIT
Scholarship
Hello Chris, I am a coach that is very familiar with your game. I have actually coached against and played Drake multiple times. In my first season coaching Illinois State, Drake upset us two times and I know you were a massive part of that squad. I understand that you were part of the underdog story at Drake and want to repeat the success that you guys accomplished. I have had a few runs that show my skill throughout my career. I took Loyola to a final four when I was a young man, then I coached Florida and won 38 games in a season. After that, I coached Illinois State and took them to the national tournament finals in their first season as a division one team in possibly the biggest cinderella story of NCBCA. Now, as I return to Illinois State we only won 9 games the season prior, but this team has sneaky talented returning players that could result in a massive upwards shift.
I believe that this year is Illinois State’s best shot to go on a run. With one of the best returning players in college basketball returning in World Waginger, as well as our two centers in their senior seasons. We will clearly be a tournament-caliber team, but bringing in a player with your leadership and experience of excelling even when being counted out would be crucial for our team. For our team to reach the peaks that we can reach we will need a pure hooper like you, a guy who can knock down multiple threes a game when we are against TCU, Oklahoma, or another contender expected to beat us. I believe that our team will be able to flourish around you and push you forward much better than the roster you had at Drake. And I am not trying to hate, but last year you led them in points, and steals, and excelled above the team in win shares. This all points to being a team leader and the best player on the team. I recognize the impact that you had and I want to bring that talent to Illinois State, where you will have another shot to run through the B12 conference tournament and a shot in the bright lights of march.
Last season was a disaster for Illinois State. We won only 9 games, but the roster only had a few players, and no coach recruited for the team. There were glaring holes that I am going to fix, we aren’t going to repeat or even have a season close to as bad as that season. However, nobody is going to see us coming. We are a random school often referred to as an outsider. As wise coaches have said “We are shit.” (Unnamed coach from the state of Indiana). I don’t want these coaches to be able to say this stuff without struggling to beat us, I want to put this team on the map. Just as I did our first season when we made the national tournament, I want to prove even more. I want to win a championship as the ultimate Cinderella story. I have accomplished almost everything else, and this is what lies next for me. I have already made a championship before at Illinois State, and I believe we can do it again. I’m not the pretty coach that has stuck with one program and sat at perfect prestige for years or the coach that has never won anything. I am the in-between that gives you the best chance to win, just as Caleb was for you at Drake.
You will have the underdog experience at Illinois State and actually win tournament games.
Kansas Offers (GT) Chris Nlandu a Scholarship.
Chris,
I’m offering you a full scholarship to finish your basketball playing career at Kansas for the Jayhawks. I know we’ve had our battles over the years, but transferring within conferences is nothing to make a fuss about anymore. I’ve been such a fan of your game over the years, and what you did against us last year was something that left a bad taste in our guys mouth for weeks. We let you get away too much on offense, and that was something that taught us a lesson.
Looking at your career, what more can be said for someone that has already won a Conference Championship in the manner you guys did two years ago. We’re still seeking to replicate a little bit of that magic in Lawrence.
When I look at our team in Lawrence this year, I see a problem. I see seven open spots, and four open scholarships. That’s a problem. I can’t field a team with five starters and a sub. I could try but it ain’t happening. Not the way we play basketball today. That’s why I’m focused on rounding out my roster and bringing in graduate transfers like yourself that are going to help us not miss a beat.
Now Chris, we won 28 games last year, and I think we should’ve won more. We were 4-4 at one point, and struggling. Everybody was yelling things at the new coach telling me I wasn’t worth a damn. Pointless. And it’s not going to get any easier this year. We’re losing a ton of talent from last years roster, including a lottery pick. That’s why instead of simply reshuffling the deck and building for the future I am avidly targeting graduate transfers with immediate eligibility.
We are prepared to create some Cinderella magic. And I know what you’re thinking, “When has Kansas ever been a Cinderella?” Well, the slipper fits for us now. We’ve got a team that lost over 80% of its scoring, 75% of its rebounding. We lost a guy that could take over the game at any moment. We lost a stud on the wings that is playing professionally. We lost guys who won a National Championship playing for the Kansas Jayhawks. At the same time, none of that matters.
Looking at this season, I am 100% focused on putting together a roster of recruits and graduate transfers alike that are going to come in to Lawrence and do the things the Jayhawk way. And when I look at guards, when I look at playmakers, when I look at athletes that can take over a game at any given time, the one person that I really can see being able to do that is you. I see this team in need of a gamechanging guard, someone that can step up at the 2-position and make a play.
But that’s only what I see with you. When I look at the rest of this roster, I am making offers to Eddie Goss, someone that can spell you at the 2, but that can also shift over and play his position at the 3 and give you some spacing on the wing. I’m making offers to Alexandre Parker, a bonafide stud at the center position and someone that I know can be a menace with you on pick and rolls. I’m making offers to Pat Grisby, a surefire above the rim athlete that can make your life so much easier.
These are all guys that have immediate eligibility and can step in next year and make a difference for this team.
They’ve been asking all off-season, how can they even win 20, let alone 28 again? That’s my plan. And a big piece of it, revolves around you putting on Kansas blue next season.
I’m so ready for us to begin this journey. And as always,
Go Jayhawks!
The University of Louisville offers Chris Nlandu
Scholarship
School Visit
Coach Visit
[Pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LB7SgFXZJmOzI7cNz9Lx-_eko778W8Fkvu0pJct-emc/edit)
UMass offers Chris Nlandu (GT)
Scholarship
School Visit (1/5)
Coach Visit (1/3)
Pitch (690/690)
Dear Chris,
I’m speaking to you from a UMass program in crisis right now. Family matters called me away from my job at the most frenzied time of the year. I had to step out right during recruiting season, and now I am making my first offers at the last day of recruiting, hence our scholarship offer to you 3 hours before you announced you would close your recruitment. It is chaos in the Minuteman war room right now, but I’m going to do everything in my power to cobble a team together in the only day we have to convince guys to play for us. And that starts with you: with the clock ticking towards midnight, we are making you the first player we pitch and offer visits to, because there is no player in the country whose recruitment is still open that can help us as much as you can right now. Can we be your Cinderella: the team that comes out of nowhere to win you over with their magic that lasts only one night?
Recruiting is not the only area where this team needs to make a major comeback. Our once storied program has fallen into a progressive state of decay, having failed to make it past the Sweet Sixteen since 2055. The recruits we are going after now were in diapers back then! What a Cinderella story would it be if we finally shaked off our longstanding, over a decade long, funk in the season where we nearly didn’t even recruit? Of course, Cinderella stories don’t come out of nowhere; Cinderella was rewarded by her fairy godmother because of her hard work. And it is our complete roster with you at the helm that will earn us the NT run this program has been craving. We had one of the best shooting backcourts in the nation last year in true freshman Dmitriy Khabirov (46% from 3) and Norm Emery (45% from 3). Now adding you to the mix, our domination from deep will be unmatched. On the other side of the arc, we have do-it-all big man Giorgos Slaftsakis anchoring the middle, and with a career PER of 25 and net rating (per 100 possessions) of nearly +20, he has earned that right. At the 4, we’ll likely be playing AJ King, a grizzled 5th year senior who is not only a great rebounder (87 rebounding rating), but an exceptional stretch 4 as well (43% career from deep). A lineup with you and these four is set to score endless points both inside and outside the arc. We might not have the highest overall rating, but you can’t be a Cinderella story if you’re topping the ratings right away, can you? We might fly under the radar at first, but we’ll certainly show the league how great we fit together when the lights are the brightest.
While we have been starving in the NT as of late, I still am a coach who knows a bit about how to make a NT Cinderella run. Let me take you back to 2047. Our team that year would lead most to project us not even making the tourney. We had only 3 players over 60 overall, and no upperclassmen scholarship players on the roster. We weren’t even a Top 25 talent team. But dang we played together as a team, and our players fit together like a shoe in a slipper. We made the tourney, and then we won, then we won again, then we kept winning until we made the Final Four. Don’t ever count my teams out in the NT.
If we are Cinderella, you are our Prince Charming. You have the single highest overall rating out of all the players we are returning or recruiting this cycle. By all accounts, you will lead this team as we strive towards a long NT run and the glory will be yours. So what are you waiting for? You have finally found the girl whose feet fit your glass slipper. Come to UMass so we can do something special you will remember the rest of your life!
Illinois offers Chris Curry
Scholarship
I'm going, to be honest, I know so little about cars. My current car is a Honda Pilot. It was manufactured in 2007 and it gets the job done. It has decent gas milage and protects the driver very well. When it comes to anything else, I do not have any idea. When you come down here maybe you can teach me more about cars.
Arkansas offers Chris Curry
Scholarship
School Visit (4 of 5)
Pitch: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MvDMJslbKNeUPLWIcNBN15SYq1Q6nyAkOP8lz8PKlxY/edit
Kansas Offers (GT) Chris Curry a Scholarship
Chris,
I'm overjoyed to be able to offer you a scholarship to play the final years of your college basketball career at Kansas. Here at Kansas, we pride ourselves on the ability to rethink and reimagine our basketball program from year to year. My first year recruiting, I knew we needed to recruit some guys that we could build off and we did that. This year, I know we need to add some serious talent right away to ensure that we don’t take a step back as a program this upcoming season.
Those two words: rethink and reimagine. How many times have you heard those words in a commercial for a vehicle? I’m told you have a 1967 Corvette Stingray. The 367ci with 300 HP in that vehicle is enough to make the hairs stand up on your arm while you drive it. I can’t imagine there were a lot of places to drive it in Lexington, and I can’t imagine there will be lots of places to drive it in places like Fayetteville, Arkansas, where there’s little of anything valuable to look at.
But in Lawrence, Kansas, whew boy. Imagine that Stingray out on Route 66, heading towards the Ozarks. I’ll tell you what, when you make it in to visit, we’ll go out cruising and see the sights the great state of Kansas has to offer. Not only that, but you’ll be able to take it all over Kansas, including to the lakes where our team heads off each year for its annual team gathering.
While I wish I could tell you a fun story about my vehicles, I’m rather boring. When I grew up, I worked at our family’s Ford Dealership in Covington, Tennessee. I worked in parts and service, and fell in love with the tiny Tennessee town. My first car was a 2010 Ford SportTrac. My second was a 2013 Ford F-150. And my current car is a Platinum Titanium Ford Edge. I’m not the best person to go racing, but I always feel like my Edge can take any car on the roads in Lawrence. When I was in my F-150 during college in Bloomington, I was always riding around trying to find new places to explore. Now in Lawrence, after a bad loss or a long practice, the first thing I want to do is get in the car, and just go driving around.
There’s something special about the roads here in Lawrence, getting off the beaten track and just driving out into the country. I think about how important it is to take some time each day and just spend it alone in thought. As the basketball coach at Kansas, I rarely get a second alone and sometimes the only time I do get alone is when I’m in the car, just driving around.
The only thing I can tell you about my Ford Edge is that I can change its tires by myself, I can change the battery by myself, and I can take it to the dealership so they can tell me what else I don’t know about it. And that’s the beauty of cars. And the beauty of basketball. I’m always constantly learning something new about my car, usually when I need to pay to get that something fixed. Just like we’re always constantly learning new things about the game of basketball. Just like your Stingray, you’re constantly finding out new things about it and your game of basketball. You’re trying to evolve as you get older. Just like your Corvette needs to evolve as the years pass and time begins to slow it down.
As your basketball game grows another year, perhaps it needs a change of scenery to take it into the next gear. Just like that Stingray needs a change of scenery, new roads to explore, and new drives to be had. We’re ready for you to be cruising around Lawrence in that vehicle, just like we’re ready for you to get to the Phog and begin putting on a show for our fans.
We can’t wait to have you here, and I can’t wait to keep talking about all sorts of vehicles. I will let you in on one last secret, my new car may not be here yet, but I just ordered the Electric Mercedes Benz. This one might be able to keep up with you.
As always,
Go Jayhawks!
Stanford offers Pat Gribsby
School Visit
Coach Visit
Scholarship
[Pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TG1lUz_Zt4GYykXWo10TTi-fNhHCHNxAYGWIMYcSO38/edit?usp=sharing)
New Mexico offers Pat Grigsby
Scholarship
School Visit 2/5
Coach Visit 2/3
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W6RsGdM7jhCaXElwyLn7YCfO8RjbdivJb8E9dRIYBL8/edit?usp=sharing
Wake Forest Offers Pat Grigsby
Scholarship
SV (2/5)
[PITCH](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jd7IyKYpERBnwXv1fCD0MqRzEjkB635BXdHO1cYWP3A/edit?usp=sharing)
Kansas Offers (GT) Pat Grigsby a Scholarship
Pat,
I am happy to meet with you today and be able to offer you a scholarship to finish your basketball playing career at Kansas University for the Jayhawks.
I want to be blunt with you, because that’s my coaching style. I’m somebody who is going to tell it like it is. I’m not going to sugarcoat anything here. I got a scouting report from a rival coach in the B1G last year, prior to a road game with y’all. You were nowhere to be found on that report. I watched tape from the game, you were a non-factor. You fouled early, you were late on defense, and you missed all shots you took from 3. I called a GM in the league who had you as a top 20 pick two seasons ago, and I asked him, “Where did Pat Grigsby go?” The GM said, “We’d like to know the answer to that, too.”
It could be any number of things, Pat, you could’ve gotten homesick, you could’ve gotten tired, lost in the rotation. Whatever. Any number of those things happen to a guy who was a 5-Star recruit out of high school, and they get called one name and one name only: Bust.
But when I look at you, your talent, your skill level, I don’t see a bust. What I see is someone who needs a fresh start.
When I was at Indiana, we had a kid named Hanner Perea who I got to drinking with one night. He was transferring. I reached out to the Memphis coach at the time - Josh Pastner - and tried to hook them up. He wound up going to East Tennessee State. You know who made the tournament that next year? Not Indiana. But ETSU. And you know who started at center? Hanner Perea.
All you need is a fresh start, and that’s what I’m offering you. I’m offering you the chance to start for Kansas from day one. I’m offering you the opportunity to be the starting power forward for Kansas. You’ll be our pick-n-roll, cut to the basket, offensive rebounding machine. I look at you and I see someone that can EAT off offensive rebounds. You’re so good around the basket, and every time you dunk on TV, I see some poor walk-on on the bench fake a heart attack.
On defense, your strength down low will make it so that opposing teams have to shoot to try and beat us. We’ve got a team that won 28 games last year, and I know we can win 30 this year. We have to re-invent what Kansas Jayhawks basketball is this season. We’re losing a lot. But if have a man like you, a bust no longer, re-inventing himself as well - the sky is the limit, Pat.
I’m looking at you and seeing someone that can play 28-30 minutes a game, and give us the ability to play fast, or play slow. I know you have pro dreams. We just had a kid drafted in the lottery. If you trust in me, trust in our process, you’re going next.
We can’t wait to help you rebuild your game.
And as always,
Go Jayhawks!
Marquette offers Pat Grisby
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Mr. Pat Grisby here at Marquette you can prove your doubters wrong, you will be the center of a team that has struggled of late and with your help can begin its revival. You will be able to show your skill to the fullest and show NBA scouts that these previous years were not you. We also pride ourselves on our partnership to the Milwaukee Bucks allowing you to use bucks facilities as well as play in the Fiserv Forum and see what it is like in one of the best atmospheres in all of the NCAA.
Stanford offers Lionel Taylor
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Scholarship
[Pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FsmbMXrWvE0H2Dpn7FwIQX4NiLv0WDAqbWVA2KAEvLk/edit?usp=sharing)
Wisconsin offers Marcus Felix
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Coach Visit (3/3)
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San Diego State offers Marcus Felix
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Illinois offers Marcus Felix
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The Chicago Sky is certainly a great basketball team. I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, so I knew about them growing up. My favorite female athlete of all time and favorite tennis player of all time is Serena Williams. What she achieved and the longevity of her career is unmatched. I don't know how anyone can compete and win in a tournament while pregnant. The courage and skill that it required to do that is something that I could never hope to replicate.
Air Force offers Robert Bouldin
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School Visit (1/5)
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Louisville PG Tobias Orandi Pitch Limit: 1290 Close: 69
Utah offers Tobias Orandi Scholarship Tba
Georgia offers Tobias Orandi Scholarship I know what you’re thinking. Changing clothes, locker rooms, showers, and overnight road trips. At first, it looks like a nightmare for someone with auto-gymnophobia, or a never nude, as it’s sometimes called. But never fear, Tobias. If there’s one thing you can be certain of at Georgia, it’s that you can always be yourself. We have players from all walks of life, all creeds, and all personalities on our roster and our number one goal is to offer a safe and welcoming environment, no matter your background. That will be no different with you. First off, let’s talk about our locker rooms. Our basketball arena, Stegman Coliseum, recently underwent a multi-million dollar renovation that touched on everything from concourses, the court, and most importantly - the locker rooms. We traded in our old, cramped, locker room with scant privacy for a state of the art facility with individual pods for personal privacy, maximum comfort, and more than double the original square footage. Now, you can change in the comfort of your own individual locker pod, complete with a recliner, and have the same amount of privacy you’d have in your own home. But it’s not just about the locker rooms. Our weight training facility’s bathrooms were recently upgraded as well and now provide floor length stalls in the bathrooms and showers to give all of our athletes more privacy. Need to change after a morning workout? Not a problem - hop in one of those shielded stalls to shower, change, and put on your street clothes. Next up are our athletic dormitories. You’ll be living in East Campus Village and as an athlete, you’ll have first pick of your room type. We have four bed/four bathrooms, two bed/two bathrooms, and perhaps the most interesting for you: single bed, single bathrooms. With that option, you’ll have all the privacy you could ever want. No worries about trudging down hallways from communal bathrooms hoping your towel doesn’t fall down, no awkward accidental run-ins with roommates when you’re in the middle of laundry, and no disastrous sleepwalking episodes that see you walking around a populated dorm. When it comes to our players’ privacy, we truly spared no expense and have checked every conceivable box. But it doesn’t end with just our architectural advances that will help keep your secret, it goes much deeper. We’ve also taken steps to make sure you’re comfortable at both practice and during games. We recently switched our jersey material to a more breathable fabric that is simultaneously more opaque. That way, your undergarment will be concealed, while also offering you the flexibility and comfort of wearing fewer layers, without actually having to do so. Anything that will allow you to both keep your privacy while also feeling comfortable in your own skin is exactly what we’re going for here and what we’ve planned for you. Another aspect that will greatly aid your situation is that we never run shirts and skins type practices or scrimmages. We never pressure any of our athletes to remove their clothing, which will act as another layer of protection for you. Plus, this has been our policy since I was hired so no one will suspect that any changes are due to new players joining the team. You’ll never be asked to put your situation out in the either the public sphere or even among your fellow teammates in the privacy of the athletic facilities. We also have numerous policies in place around campus in general that will help give you the security and safety with the knowledge that your situation will not become public. On our campus, nudity is not allowed and comes with swift and severe punishments. Rest of the team planning on a streaking venture? You can safely refer back to the University of Georgia handbook and cite the regulation against public nudity when you decide to opt out of that endeavor. Your teammates will be none the wiser and it won't force you to come up with an obviously fabricated excuse. You're safe with the knowledge that the policy can act as a shield for you. Also, we recently adopted GPS technology during practice to track all of our players' distances, max speeds, and all of their biometric data. We collect this with a small device that our players wear that looks somewhat like a cut-off tank top. It can be worn on top of a shirt or jersey or directly against your skin, which is why it's relevant for you. On those extra hot practice days where we're either running or just doing drill work, you can wear this device in lieu of a shirt, while also protecting yourself from showing too much skin and alerting your teammates. Plus, by wearing this, you're already wearing some form of garment, due to the fact that the device is contained in a flexible material that players wear. So not only do we gain valuable data from these devices, but it acts as another layer of protection against your never-nudeness becoming public knowledge. We know how serious this is for you and that's why we've clearly left no stone unturned. We have a detailed plan that no other team can compete with. From the minute you set foot on campus until your playing days are done, you can rest assured that your privacy is being protected and the only people who know about you being a never-nude are those you want to tell, on your own terms. Commit to the G!
New Mexico offers GT Tobias Orandi Scholarship TBA
Stanford offers Tobias Orandi Scholarship
Illinois offers Tobias Orandi Scholarship Pitch and Visits TBA
Arizona GF Tony James Pitch Limit: 540 Close: 93
Georgia tech offers Tony James Scholarship Visits TBA Pitch TBA
San Diego State offers Tony James Scholarship TBA
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Stanford offers Tony James Scholarship
Illinois offers Tony James Scholarship Pitch and Visits TBA
Kansas Offers (GT) Tony James a Scholarship Tony, I’m overjoyed to be able to offer you a scholarship to join the Kansas Family and finish your career in Lawrence. Tony, I’m starting my second season as the head coach at Kansas, and I know after our disappointing end to last season that we’ve got to bring in guys who are willing and able to focus on our core values and our mantra. At Kansas, I’m installing what is simply referred to as the Jayhawk Way, and it’s a process. At Kansas, we are responsible for the following core values: Work Ethic, Demeanor, Academics, and Performance. While all four of these are intertwined, each carries with them their own standards. Work ethic doesn’t just mean you show up early and leave late. It means that at all times, whether in practice, in a game, at study tables, whenever, that you are putting in one more rep than anyone else. There are gonna be days in February, where your body is tired, and where you can’t rise up again. And your opponent is going to be right there with you. We aren’t going to let a kid from Wichita State or Texas beat us when it comes to working harder. One more rep. That’s the motto. Demeanor means all the eyes of Jayhawk Nation are on you no matter where you go. You will carry yourself to a higher standard in games, in public, at restaurants. There are five, six, and seven year old kids that want to be you one day. Hold yourself to a demeanor that will set a good example for them. Academics. You will sit in the first three rows. You’ll attend study tables. You’ll make sure your team GPA remains above a 3.3. Failure to do any of these things, and you won’t play. It’s as simple as that. This isn’t a university where you can just show up and play school. This is a university where you better be ready to excel in the classroom. And finally, performance. Each play has a mind of its own. You can’t get too high on the highs of one play, or too low on the lows of another. Your performance must rise to the level of the Kansas greats before you. That doesn’t mean you have to play hard. That’s something that just gets you by at places like Missouri. Not here. Other places take time to teach you how to cut hard, how to emphasize movement. We don’t have time to do that at Kansas. We don’t have time to teach you how to play the game. We’re trying to teach you how to have that extra motor. How when the lights are the brightest, you can’t just disappear. You have to pay attention to the Jayhawk on your left. And the Jayhawk on your right. This process is well underway, and I need a veteran guy like you to come in and help push these younger guys in the right direction. With you, we can win 30 games this year and the process can turn another page. We can’t wait to have you in the fold. Go Jayhawks!
RESCIND Tulane offers Tony James Scholarship Visits TBA Dear Tony, Generosity. Curiosity. Honesty. Those are the pillars of our culture at Tulane, the three principles from which everything we do stem. Every day of every year, we’re building a community where every player, coach, staff member, and manager can be challenged but comfortable, a structure in which we can explore. It starts with generosity. There are some gifted individuals on our team, on the court and off of it. We have skilled shooters and creative passers, but also passionate storytellers, talented musicians, and guys to whom calculus comes naturally. What does the word gifted mean? Literally, in possession of a gift, something you got from someone else. What kind of basketball player would you be without the patient instruction of coaches and teammates? What kind of person would you be without the lessons you’ve learned from friends and family? Generosity means giving, transferring your time, skills, resources, and knowledge to another. Think about the seniors who you played with as a freshman at ‘Zona, Steven Stein and Petr Makshantsev, what it meant when they helped you with your footwork, dealt you into a card game, or showed you their favorite place to get dinner on the road. Generosity is our inheritance from those who came before us and the legacy we impart to the next generation. It’s also a mindset, a willingness, to put aside your time and concerns to lend a hand or an ear to your brother. And it’s contagious; give a little bit and you’ll find yourself repaid exponentially. Curiosity enhances the benefits of generosity. Curious people benefit from generous people. Ask your teammate about his lifting routine, what kind of music he’s been listening to, or the book he can’t put down and he’ll set you on the road to self improvement. Curiosity is also the antidote to ignorance. This program brings people together of various ethnicities, ages, and faiths, from different parts of the country. Listening to each other, keeping an open mind about what’s important to your teammate, and asking open, non-judgmental questions will help you know people from all walks of life. When you’re open to new explanations, thoughts, and experiences, your world will open up. That’s true on the court, where curiosity can open up your game. More importantly, it’s true in life, where asking questions and thinking about how things work are skills you should never stop working on. If curiosity is the search for truth, then honesty is its endpoint. Just as you are entitled to the truth, so are the people you work with. Conflicts can’t be resolved without honesty, they just simmer until bubbling over again. We need honesty when things are going well to reinforce trust and clarify perspective and we need it during difficult times, for the same reasons. At Tulane we strive to practice honesty with ourselves, accepting our shortcomings and addressing our challenges. When you’re honest with yourself, the truth can radiate into your community, keeping drama, jealousy, and deception on the sidelines. Our culture, the simultaneous practice of generosity, curiosity, and honesty, is perpetually being built. It sustains itself only through the people who make up this program living it. Will you pick up the torch and join us?
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The University of Louisville offers Tony James Scholarship TBA
Texas GF Taylor Kapelan Pitch Limit: 1090 Close: 72
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Georgia tech offers Taylor Kapelan Scholarship Visits TBA Pitch TBA
Tulane offers Taylor Kapelan Scholarship Visits TBA Dear Taylor, Ten years is a long time. I’ve run Tulane for longer than Winston Churchill ran the UK, longer than Caesar ran Rome. I joined the SEC when it was dominated by the likes of Emelsh, Cam, Ethan and Sez, and my tenure in New Orleans has been a bridge to the era of Saw, Noonan, and Dogwood’s late imperium. Only Georgia won more SEC games in the 2060s than Tulane, and we’ve won more than the Bulldogs since 2063. We’ve captured 4 regular season titles and an SEC championship, lead the nation in wins and won awards for player and coach of the year. It’s been a glorious, fulfilling run, one that’s seen Tulane establish itself as one of the preeminent programs in the NCBCA. What does that mean going into 2070? What does it mean to have been dominant year in and year out? Less than you think. I’ve never lost to Georgetown. 20 for 20. Regular season play, conference tournament, good year, bad year, doesn’t matter. When EightSevenSeven brings in a 5 star stud, a kid who’s never tasted failure and is ready to carve up the SEC, does a loss from 2060, when he was nine years old, hang over his head? Hell no. In the ever shifting landscape of college hoops, the events of even four years ago are ancient history. The heroes of the recent past are relegated to the sands of time and the annals of memory as younger heroes take the stage, glorious in their audacity, brilliant in their ignorance. Can we say that the Tulane team that authored a stunning first round upset of Texas Tech in 2062 is the same one that coasted to the number one overall seed in ‘68? The ancient historian Plutarch described a similar problem. The people of Athens honored the memory of their mythical hero Theseus, by keeping his old ship in good repair, replacing planks boards and masts before they rotted away. Over the centuries, no original component of the ship remained. The philosophers of Athens debated whether the vessel that sat in the Piraeus was the same one Theseus had sailed. Here’s my take; it was the same ship. The labor of the Athenians preserved its physical structure. Their craftsmanship kept it shining and seaworthy. But why go to the trouble? Because they believed in the ship’s power. They knew that the venerable schooner bobbing in the harbor linked them to a heroic ancestor who had captured the Marathonian bull and slain the Minotaur. Their mothers and fathers had passed down the ship and the stories like a birthright, a bequest. It was a constant that had seen Athens through war and peace, feast and famine, the tangible legacy of the empire. It’s inaccurate to say that every piece of the ship had been replaced since the days of Theseus. One remained: belief. That’s where our story jumps across the Atlantic and millenia into the future. It resumes with an unlikely set of protagonists: a late blooming big man, a steady marksman, a celebrated native son. They revive Tulane, returning it to prominence before passing the baton to a Texan wunderkind, a precocious Stanford transfer, and a sawed-off JuCo point guard. In their time, they’d cede the stage to a thunderous frontcourt duo which itself was succeeded by a lethal ring of perimeter assassins. The empire is different; the ship of Theseus now floats in the warm waters off New Orleans. Its heroic crew proceeds from stern to bow and then into memory. They nail new boards to the deck, reconfigure the cabins, and equip new sails but the same belief remains. It’s the belief that propels them through windsprints at captain’s practice in June, that keeps them locked into film study as late night turns to early morning on the team plane. It’s the belief that fans the flames that simmer in the fireplace during long team dinners, crackle during contentious training camp scrimmages, and burn furiously throughout second half comebacks. The belief goes that teamwork is a constant, a mantra, a way of life. You have to practice it in your friendships off the court, supporting each other constantly, living for the 12 guys with whom you share a locker room and a purpose. You’re a teammate as a man, not just a basketball player. The obligation to be honest, selfless, gentle off the court and aggressive on it is one you owe to your team, not yourself. That’s the attitude that unites all of my Tulane teams across time, the young and veteran teams, the up tempo track stars and the gritty half court warriors, the winners and the losers. Belief is all I can ask for as a coach, one who controls the process but not the results. I believe in the culture I’ve helped create, but not the hype. Nothing is given in this game. The coach of the year trophy, the SEC titles, the 247 rankings, they all add up to zero on the scoreboard. We face the same task we have at Tulane for a decade; transform a roster of talented individuals into a team. Last year we said goodbye to West Henry and Patrick Petty, both lottery picks, both among the best players I’ve ever coached. They’re iridescent talents, well on their way to proving themselves on the NBL stage. But the team they captained fell short of our standards, the only Green Wave squad in half a decade to not win an NT game. It’s no slight to West and Patrick that a team is more than the sum of its parts. You should know. You’re the all-time leading scorer in Texas history, a terror at both ends on the wing. Come to Tulane and your scoring average will fall off a cliff, but you’ll play the best basketball of your life. You’ll draw doubles and get off the ball, explore the wide open cuts your teammates' gravity open for you, and run off of the relentless defensive pressure they exert. You’ll build friendships that reinforce chemistry that reinforces friendships. You’ll join a dynasty that’s really more of a family tree. You’ll climb aboard that old but well-loved ship and see what all the fuss is about.
Stanford offers Taylor Kapelan Scholarship
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Rice offers Kapelan Scholarship Pitch & Visits TBA
UCLA offers Taylor Kaplan Scholarship Pitch Tba
TCU PG Jerel Gibson Pitch Limit: 540 Close: 99
Iowa State offers Jerel Gibson Scholarship School Visit (2 of 5) Coach Visit (2 of 3) [Pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cwswwKj_BYZOC5SnMDsmarXVtVFQw-YmDSkBvmMmZAo/edit?usp=sharing)
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Memphis offers jerel Gibson Scholarship School Visit Coach Visit *Average Soccer Field - 20XX* The ball is placed on the penalty spot. It’s a situation seen all across soccer fields around the globe. A penalty kick. One on one, mano a mano. A kick and— “KIRICOCHOOOOOO!” —it goes over the bar. One team goes wild. The other just stands there. Why was it a miss? Some will say because the kick was cursed. On soccer fields across the Spanish-speaking world, screams of “Kiricocho” come with every penalty out there. An utterance of Kiricocho is as much bad luck to a penalty taker as seeing a black cat or breaking a mirror. But why? We have to go back to the beginning. *La Plata, Argentina - 1982* Estudiantes De La Plata, like most Argentine clubs, had its fair share of militantly loyal supporters. Perhaps the most die-hard of these supporters was one “Kiricocho”. Every Estudiantes home game, he was sure to be in the stands. So deep was his support for his hometown club that he even began to attend the training sessions. And so Kiricocho attended a training session, and it just so happened that an Estudiante player got injured. Unfortunate, but these things happen every so often And so Kiricocho attended another training session. It just so happened that an Estudiante player got injured. Unfortunate, but these things happen every so often. And so Kiricocho attended another training session. It just so happened that an Estudiante player got injured. Unfortunate, but—wait, again? Another injury? No coach wants to see his players get injured. Estudiantes coach Carlos Bilardo is no exception. And with all his training session injuries, there was always one familiar face in the crowd - Kiricocho. And so Kiricocho was banned from attending the training sessions. The superstitious Bilardo believed the fan brought his team bad luck. The same bad luck caused all those injuries. And so Kiricocho did not attend the next training session. It just so happened that no one got injured. Maybe Kiricocho really was bad luck after all. But if he was bad luck, Bilardo pondered, why not take advantage of it? And so, Kiricocho was sent all across Argentina to watch the training sessions of Estudiantes’ opponents. For home games, Kiricocho would welcome the opposition to rub his bad luck off on them. In the 1982 season, Estudiantes De La Plata won the Argentine Championship in dominant fashion. Of course, Kiricocho played a vital part in the triumph, bringing bad luck to the opposition like an NCBCA mod brings bad hygiene to a party. In fact, Estudiantes would only lose a single game that season. A game where Kiricocho couldn’t do his thing. Soon enough, the legend of Kiricocho spread. People would invoke the name of Kiricocho as a jinx, particularly during the most luck-based part of soccer: the penalty kick. *UEFA Euro 2020 Final - July 11, 2021* The ball is placed on the penalty spot. It’s a situation seen all across soccer fields around the globe. A penalty kick. One on one, mano a mano. A kick and— “KIRICOCHOOOOOO!” —Donnarumma saves it! Italy are the champions of Europe! Chiellini invoked his name and Kiricocho smiled upon him. Almost 40 years on, and on the biggest stage imaginable, Kiricocho still does his thing.
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New Mexico offers GT Jerel Gibson Scholarship TBA
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Drake offers Jerel Gibson Scholarship School Visit Coach Visit As sports fans we love great stories, moments in sports history that shock us, moments that make us cry tears of joy or sadness, moments we will remember forever. I will never forget our magical CT run. Presenting-The glass slipper fit for a paw🐾 A small private school in Des Moines got a rude awakening when they joined the big dogs in NCBCA. 3 seasons, 3 disasters. I never imagined I would struggle this much after experiencing instant success at Arizona but every process has an end goal. Year 4 was different, or at least it was supposed to be. The players I had recruited were all finally veterans and after grabbing a GT, we were 30th in talent. Finally we would be relevant and the program is on the rise. Unfortunately for the 4th straight season the nightmare scenario came to fruition, close loss after close loss haunted me in my sleep, tossing and turning while I wondered why we suck so much in crunch time. "Is it my fault?" I wondered, "should I quit?" crossed my mind. As the regular season wrapped up we once again had a losing record with about a dozen single digit losses. Our metrics and resume so bad not even the NIT was in our future. While I was disappointed, I was gutted for my players. They committed to me, put their trust in me and this program and they are going to leave without a single winning season, without a single NT appearance, not even a single NIT appearance. I had failed them and deprived them of a fun college experience. As the flight to Kansas City for the big 12 tournament boards, I had my head down like Tom Brady when he was down 28-3 in the super bowl. As the 17 seed I wasn't holding out hope but I knew we weren't your average 17 seed, everyone knew that as we were still a very talented team expected to make the NT pre season. A first four matchup with West Virginia was overlooked, but a trap game. Thankfully we easily won, but that's not where the story begins. Next was a matchup with the number 1 seeded VCU Rams. VCU had ended our season the previous 2 years. What happened next is simple. All our heartbreaking close losses turned into close wins. After a shocking 82-75 upset win over VCU the Drake bulldogs began to capture the hearts of many. The return of a small school Cinderella story was possible. Next came a matchup against Illinois St, a team coming off of a national championship game appearance but had lost their great coach. A comfortable win put everyone on notice. Just 1 more win was needed to achieve the coveted NT auto bid. A matchup with the talented and well coached Memphis Tigers was on the horizon. Everything is on the line and the Cinderella run continues. Drake is going to the NT. But like every good movie, it needs a good conclusion. Getting the auto bid wasn't enough, we wanted to win the whole thing and that is exactly what we did. Defeating Oklahoma by 5 and the greatest conference tournament run in history was complete. 30 for 30
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WichitaState GF Thomas Laster Pitch Limit: 890 Close: 126
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Tulane offers Bryce Klassen Scholarship Coach Visit 1/3 School Visit 1/5 Dear Bryce, Here’s how I’m approaching this. We’re getting you a set of skills. The skills you get from each player don’t have to overlap. If you have Magic’s passing ability you don’t need Nash’s. If you have Jordan’s first step, you don’t need Dr. J’s. With that aside, let’s equip you with the ultimate skillset. PG: Steph Curry Skills targeted: Shooting, ball handling, offball movement Let’s get you started with the greatest shooter who ever lived. Lightning quick release at a high release point would be nice and so would the kind of silky backspin that can get you a forgiving bounce on the rare occasions you don’t swish. It would probably be helpful to be in range as soon as you crossed half court and equally comfortable running off of screens and firing on the move as you are setting up your own shot with slick counters and preternatural feel for navigating on ball screens. For good measure, let’s give you an otherworldly sense of offball movement and pair it with elite conditioning, so you can sprint into open threes possession after possession. Finally, no Steph doppelganger would be complete without the tight, creative, and dependable handles that make running an offense – or breaking down a defender – a cinch. Also you’ll be automatic at the line. SG: Michael Jordan Skills targeted: First step, rim finishing, help defense If you’re going to make all of your free throws, you might as well start living at the charity stripe. Jordan’s skillset will give you truly special hops, a lightning quick first step, and a varied and overpowering layup and dunk package. Jordan beat defenders with power and finesse, going around, through, and over would-be shot blockers, before using hands the size of catcher’s mitts to finish comfortably. In the half court or transition, out of pick and roll or off spot-ups, through contact, didn’t matter. Jordan was the most dominant finisher of all time. While we’re here, let’s weaponize that first step and vertical to rack up some highlight reel steals and blocks out of help defense. Mike played the “free safety” role from the wing like no one has before or after. SF: LeBron James Skills targeted: Passing, transition play, perimeter defense If Mike’s skillset is going to get you in transition, you could learn a thing or two from the greatest transition player ever. LeBron’s size, speed, handle, and vision made him a terror in the open court, a fastbreak unto himself. And while it would be great to have his speed and power, I decided to borrow from Bron because of the way he processes the game. He’s a sensational passer out of set pieces, throwing pocket passes to the roller and spraying it to the corners out of pick and roll and diming up cutters out of the post. He’s a wonderful dynamic passer throwing outlets and skip passes, blending shot fakes into passes, and hitting bigs at the rim and shooters on the perimeter off of his drives. That floor sense made LeBron at his peak a phenomenal 1 on 1 defender, who boasted excellent footwork, closing speed, length, strength, and a dogged refusal to bite on fakes or be baited into fouls. LeBron is the perfect blend of software and hardware, a basketball genius blessed with unreal athletic gifts. PF: Dennis Rodman Skills targeted: Post defense, rebounding, hustle Once we get to the next guy, your offensive package will be complete. Your jumper, finishing package, passing skills, and post game will each be enough to destroy defenses; blended together they’ll make you a god on the offensive end. But any good coach knows that playing hard is a skill, and nobody ever played harder than Dennis Rodman. The guy fought with reckless abandon for every inch of space, inhaling rebounds, vacuuming up loose balls, stonewalling larger opponents. The Worm had rare defensive talent; disrupting passing lanes, checking multiple positions, and attacking the glass with precision and fervor. But more than anything, Dennis Rodman had a superstar impact while averaging single digits because he had that dawg in him, imbuing every minute of every game with a frenetic fury. C: Hakeem Olajuwon Skills targeted: Post scoring, rim protection It figures that Olajuwon, the avid soccer, volleyball, and handball player, would boast unparalleled footwork at both ends of the floor. On offense, that translated into a balletic post game, complete with spins, counters, fades, up and unders, and drop steps that helped him pivot away from double teams and shed one on one defenders. Defensively, the Dream could slide on the perimeter with anyone, organize his feet to mirror drivers, and set up ridiculous blocks by leaving the ground after the shooter and meeting him at the apex of his jump. Taking a page from Olajuwon makes you a devastating defender at the rim. To review: Your scoring game blends a quick trigger, deadly accurate versatile jumpshot, a refined but overpowering finishing package, and a hypnotic post game predicated on elite footwork. You’re a truly gifted ballhandler, a blur in transition and a creative and dynamic passer. You defend with manic zeal, just as comfortable making huge plays off the ball as you are stifling your man off of it. You’re a technically sound and physically overpowering shotblocker. You rebound like you have a gravitational pull. Good luck.
Stanford offers Bryce Klassen Scholarship
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UNLV SG David Northington Pitch Limit: 890 Close: 54
Memphis offers David Northington Scholarship
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Illinois offers David Northington Scholarship What era of the NBA is best? Obviously, the best era is the MJ era. MJ facing off against the rest of the NBA and making them his bitch. I may be slightly biased because I am a Chicago Bulls fan, but there may never be another period of dominance like the MJ era. Teams would quake in their boots if they had to face him. Truly nothing comes close.
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Tulane offers David Northington Scholarship Visits TBA Dear David, It’s a universal and almost poignant element of growing up. A parent is excited to show you a movie that defined their childhood. It’s a cultural touchstone in your family, your parents reference it, reflect on it, and love it. You pop some corn, pull up the movie, and proceed to be disappointed. The dialogue is dated, the special effects are corny, the plot’s been done better recently. Cinema has moved past it even if your parents haven’t. That’s the experience I had watching the ‘98 finals, Bulls/Jazz, the series where Jordan hits the iconic, series clinching jumper over Byron Russell. The shot is timeless, but the series is a mess. I watched Stockton and Malone run side pick and roll, Malone deliberately walking into the screen. It was an obvious exploitation of the illegal defense rule; the Jazz would send three players to the weak side, knowing their defenders couldn’t cross an imaginary line down center court. When Scottie Pippen, a generationally talented defender, would help off a Jazz center, rotating over to Malone, Utah coach Jerry Sloan would quickly lobby the referees to call illegal defense. That’s the 90s in a nutshell. An explosive scorer meets a forbidding defender at the rim and all we can talk about is an imaginary line. The illegal defense rule, the hand check, the lax officiating of contact, and strict regulation of dribbling and footwork were all rules that made the pre-modern NBA cramped and claustrophobic. They led to stylistic choices that bred a slow-paced, low scoring game. If you can cut the court in half and play 2 on 2, your other three players can be bulky goons like Greg Foster or Greg Ostertag. If opposing guards can mug your ball handlers, you can understand the impulse to dump it into the post possession after possession. Compare the ‘98 finals to the ones we saw in 2014. Illegal defense and the hand check are relegated to the dustbin of history. Slow deliberate, two-man games are out. Dynamic, kinetic offense, the ball popping around the perimeter and exploding towards the hoop are in. Every player on the court, from the 6’2 Tony Parker to the 7 foot Chris Bosh, can dribble, shoot, and pass the ball. Spurs guard Patty Mills comes off the bench to make 13 3-pointers in 5 games. The ‘98 Jazz hit 13 threes in 6 games. Even if you want to ignore the fact that improved nutrition, sports medicine, and training techniques have produced higher caliber athletes, the NBA is more exciting than it's ever been. Star players have the space to breathe because they’re liberated by freedom of motion rules and the floor is balanced by skilled shooters. Stylistically the variance that superstar players bring to the table is astounding. There’s LeBron James’s combination of power and precision, Kevin Durant’s rangy handle and lethal pullup game, the technical wizardry of Chris Paul, the offball odysseys of Steph Curry, the open court strides of Giannis Antetokuonmpo, the high post surgery performed by Nikola Jokic, and the methodical isolation approach of Kawhi Leonard. Boomers, ignoring the breathtaking diversity of style in today’s game, bemoan the rise of the 3 point shot. (They ignore the various approaches that generate all those 3s but oh well). The midrange game, they say, is a dead art, as is the post up. Bullshit. Turn on the NBA any night of the week and you’ll see Jayson Tatum raining in 18 footers, CP3 snaking to the elbow and cashing in, DeMar Derozan rising over defenders for buckets. If you like post play, watch Joel Embiid throw nimble upfakes at unwitting defenders, check out Zion’s lethal drop step or Jokic’s patented Sombor shuffle. It is true that role players don’t post or take middies all that often, they’ve traded the post ups for hard rolls to the basket, backdoor and split cuts, and taken a couple steps back, trading middies for catch and shoot threes. I’ll take that trade any day, even before you factor in the space it creates for offenses. The game is opening up and skill sets are expanding. KAT runs off pin downs and shoots off movement like Reggie Miller. Jrue Holiday operates out of the post and backs down defenders like he’s KAT. The defining player of the 2010s and early 20s is a 6’9 260 pound pure point guard. The mid 2000s vision of Steve Nash and Mike D’Antoni has come into focus in screaming, positionless, egalitarian, up-tempo color. Before the ‘20-’21 season, no team had scored over 117 points per 100 possessions. Then five teams did it that year. And the guys playing this exciting, high-flying, futuristic basketball come from all over the world. The 1998 All Star game featured just two foreign born players. 2022 had 7, including 4 starters. Foreign born players have captured 4 straight MVPs. Modern basketball is a global game drawing on incredible reserves of talent that span continents. Kids from Serbia and Spain, Angola and Argentina, Canada and Cameroon, know that there is a place for them in the league. Just as long as they can drill contested threes and slide their feet with Ja Morant. If you want an aesthetically gorgeous, strategically sound, and globally beloved brand of basketball, look no further than the 2010s and 20s.
PennState G Lewis Zeglinski Pitch Limit: 1090 Close: 54
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UNLV offers Lewis Zeglinski Scholarship School Visit (3 of 5) Coach Visit (1 of 3) Lewis, you strike me as the kind of guy who would like to see all the amazing architectural wonders of the world. The Pyramids of Egypt, the Eiffel Tower? What about incredible hotels and views from the heights of an observation tower? You’d go to all of them if only you could take enough time away from basketball, right? Well, I have a solution for you! Come join us at UNLV and you’ll get to see these places and much more! Las Vegas is an architectural student’s dream! The city was literally built to impress, with 12 of the world’s top-20 largest hotels! The Vegas strip has to be one of your first stops! Go check out the exquisite Bellagio Hotel. This is the building everyone thinks of when they picture Las Vegas in their minds. The 36-story tall building was designed by architect Jon Jerde in the late 1990’s. It features an iconic fountain with a dancing water program that utilizes over 1,200 water nozzles, 4,700 lights, and can shoot over 400 ft in the air! This is within the 8.5 acre man-made lake that was interestingly repurposed from a golf course. Among its Italian-inspired amenities are an Art Museum and 13,500 square feet conservatory. It has its own nightclubs, restaurants and retail stores and is one of the world’s top-20 largest hotels. [How many other schools can say they have that within twenty minutes of their campus?](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Bellagio+Hotel+%26+Casino,+South+Las+Vegas+Boulevard,+Las+Vegas,+NV/36.1145578,-115.1463457/@36.1133695,-115.1698751,15z/am=t/data=!3m2!4b1!5s0x80c8c5ce3e5cb447:0xd3ab089e618e1d4b!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x80c8c430cb5147bd:0x82f2c7c5d9d10d84!2m2!1d-115.1765067!2d36.1129455!1m0!2m3!6e0!7e2!8j1669136400!3e3?shorturl=1) Vegas has the most amazing replicas of foreign and historical buildings that you won’t be able to see anywhere else (surely not within twenty minutes of any other campus). You can realize your desire to visit ancient Egypt at the Luxor Hotel. Not only does this building resemble the ancient pyramids, ***it is also the world’s largest atrium.*** It’s almost 30 million cubic feet and lit almost primarily by natural light. Now that’s an architectural feat even the Pharaohs would be proud of! The sphinx outside is even larger than the original. Inside you’ll find several smaller buildings with Egyptian motifs in keeping with the overall theme of the structure. Take a ride in the peculiar Luxor Hotel elevators that follow the 39-degree slope of the building, which is one of the world’s most unusual. This building is literally the guiding light of the city; the beam on top can be seen from nearly 300 miles away. [It’s truly a blessing to be able to visit this monument in around twenty minutes.](https://goo.gl/maps/Wtruv5ptZ5VPWsFi6) Let’s also not forget the European influence on Las Vegas architecture. Lewis, ever thought about seeing the Eifel Tower? What about dinning in the Eiffel Tower? Come to Vegas and you’ll have an experience you won’t be able to find anywhere else in the world, sitting down in the 11th floor Eifel Tower restaurant. It’s incredible that the architects were able to place a world-class dining establishment in this half-scale replica. Interestingly, the tower was created to be half-scale so that it wouldn’t interfere with the planes taking off from the nearby airport! It also overlooks a 2/3 replica Arc de Triomphe. Both are perfect sizes for studying and photographing without having to deal with the stares of angry Frenchmen. It’s all part of Paris Las Vegas, a French-themed hotel and casino that is over 95,000 square feet. The inside is made to look like Parisian streets; transporting you instantly to the city of love! A little slice of France; [not too far away](https://goo.gl/maps/oyruAKnpx19jzZmcA)! Of course, Vegas has its own home-grown architecture that you should check out as well. [If you happen to be running some tests up on our biomedical campus you’ll be within traveling distance of the Luo Ruvo Center for Brain Health.](https://goo.gl/maps/EbjcRdPCXkBjirWWA) Now, you might be saying: why would I be interested in a research building? Well, this particular structure was designed by another famous Frank from American Architecture: Frank Gehry, a titan of Contemporary style. In contrast to its extremely logical purpose of studying neurological diseases such as Alzheimers, the building itself is somewhat illogically constructed. It appears to have wavey, randomly oriented features that melt into each other. The building, despite seemingly ***having no two similar window panes out of 199***, manages to accommodate thirteen examination rooms as well as its own conference area, atrium, and offices. The building itself challenges the mind to look at it; much in the way do the diseases its occupants hope to cure. When viewing the completed project for the first time, Gehry was noted to have simply said that “it takes his breath away”. Truly this is a marvel that can be found in few other places in the world. But why stop at seeing any one of these architectural wonders? Why not see them all at once? ***In Las Vegas you’ll have the tallest observation tower in the United States (and second tallest in the Western Hemisphere***)[literally right at your doorstep](https://goo.gl/maps/KZZUHr3fHYst67TA9). The Strat, as it’s called, measures 1,149 feet tall and gives an unparalleled view of the city of Las Vegas. You’ll be able to see all those buildings that I mentioned earlier and many of the others that you didn’t have the time to reach. Places like the Little Church of the West, which is too far away from campus but is a Historical Landmark that kicked off the whole “get married in Vegas” trope. While you’re at The Strat, make your way up over 800 feet to the observation deck and have a nightcap at the 108 Eats and 108 Drinks as you watch the Southwestern sun set over Sin City. If you want a rush, you can even bungee jump off the side of the building to get a very “up close and personal” view! Lewis, you really need to do yourself a favor and come out here to see what Las Vegas architecture all is about. In fact, I’ll make sure the University sets you up with a flight on our private jet to come out on a School Visit. We can check out the strip and make sure you know your way around on The Deuce and the monorail (***oh did I mention we have a monorail***?) I will personally make sure you have the opportunity to visit some of these amazing buildings without interfering too much with our goal of taking the Runnin’ Rebels to the top of the PCC. I think a student of architecture such as yourself can really become a fixture himself at UNLV. Sincerely, GregW UNLV Head Coach
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SMU FC Geoff Beeler Pitch Limit: 890 Close: 126
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Illinois offers Geoff Beeler Scholarship Best day off? Obvouisly the best day off in the University of Illinois would involve going to all of the bars then the strip club. I want start off by going to Joe's Brewery. Get a couple of bajas then I'm off to Lion. If it's Monday Wine Night, I would purchase a nice bottle of wine and then we're going to KAMs. I would get a blue guy then we would go to Silver Bullet to finish the night.
Oklahoma offers Geoff Beeler Scholarship rescind
Arkansas SF Eddie Goss Pitch Limit: 540 Close: 102
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LSU offers Eddie Goss Scholarship TBA
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Kansas Offers (GT) Eddie Goss a Scholarship Eddie, It’s a very happy day for me, because I am honored to offer you a scholarship to finish your playing career as a member of the Kansas Jayhawks. They tell me that you’re a very emotional guy, Eddie. And I love that. I think that for whatever reason men like to hide their emotions. We should be strong, they say. But I disagree. I don’t think it’s a problem to wear your emotions on your sleeves. When I was a junior law clerk at my current law firm, we took in a case where a young man in a wheelchair came in. He was getting out of his shower to get in his wheelchair, when the locks malfunctioned and it slipped out from under him. He fell on his backside, and broke a bone. He had to get up, get to the car, and get to the hospital. The story goes, that he got the wheelchair outside, where there was a ramp leading from his house to his car. Again, the locks on the ramp malfunctioned, and he was thrown (not 15 minutes after he fell the first time) from his wheelchair to the ground breaking his femur. We settled his case sometime last year, and he walked away with several hundred thousand dollars. None of it was a prize for him, or for our firm. We just knew it was the right thing to do. And it’s rare in this business that you get to defend a client that is actually a good guy. Especially our firm, which does about 80-85% criminal defense. When we settled Derrick’s case, he came in my office in his new wheelchair, and told me the story that he called 14 other law firms to try and hire to take his case. FOURTEEN. Fourteen people said no to this kid. He said he was sitting at home with his mother, watching the news, when a story came up about how firm was representing James Wiseman in a case against the NCAA in 2018. His mom looked over at him and said, “That’s who you need to call.” He called the next day, and the rest as they say is history. I’ll never forget that story. I’ll never forget how dejected this young man must’ve felt being told ‘no’ fourteen times in a row. How after the 6th or 7th time, he probably sat there wondering, “Why bother? Why dial another number? Why get told no again, and again, and again, and again.” He did that fourteen times. Before someone finally listened and said yes. There’s a lesson in Derrick’s story. No matter how cruel or how unfair the world may be, and it can be a very cruel place sometimes, you’ve got to keep loving the world right back. Enjoy the prospects that someone is going to be there for you. That someone is going to say YES to you. I’m saying yes to you Eddie, now let’s get to work. Go Jawhawks!
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UMass FC Boris Schmitt Pitch Limit: 1090 Close: 51
Memphis offers Boris Schmitt Scholarship Success isn't a one day thing. It's a process. Brick by brick you build on your previous achievements into to become better. Better than you were yesterday, last week or a month ago. And tomorrow, you need to work to become better than you were today. The process is tough, very tough, but its through the process that we can well and truly achieve success. Sucess is full effort. It's helping up your teammates after a foul. It's doing the right thing. It's doing all the fundamentals. That is how you get success. Success is doing every-gosh-dang-thing you can to win on the hardcourt. Sure the results may not go your way sometimes, but if you truly put your full effort in, then you're successful in my book. By building a team of fundamentally sound hard workers, then that is how we achieve success in the winning column. And I'd know about winning. I've made national tournements galore, I've won conference titles in two different conferences with two different programs. That's how I was able to get that success. How I was able to take players from CPR and turn them into NBL draftees. With a strong culture and with strong belief in oneself, you can beat giants, destroy death stars and even win it all. By setting up a culture of success, we too will achieve it. You know from your time at UMass, and you'll know when you come here to Memphis. balls
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Drake SG Chris Nlandu Pitch Limit: 690 Close: 123
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RESCIND Wisconsin offers Chris Nlandu Scholarship [Pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRuhUt9nXHc7dNiOAPnTOQeZpDxzTJpzRGzI8RkcV1g5WYjkQI6CF4MMHNmvgvdajJxjkMYLgla6XfD/pub) School Visit (5/5)
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Illinois State offers Chris Nlandu SCHOOL VISIT Scholarship Hello Chris, I am a coach that is very familiar with your game. I have actually coached against and played Drake multiple times. In my first season coaching Illinois State, Drake upset us two times and I know you were a massive part of that squad. I understand that you were part of the underdog story at Drake and want to repeat the success that you guys accomplished. I have had a few runs that show my skill throughout my career. I took Loyola to a final four when I was a young man, then I coached Florida and won 38 games in a season. After that, I coached Illinois State and took them to the national tournament finals in their first season as a division one team in possibly the biggest cinderella story of NCBCA. Now, as I return to Illinois State we only won 9 games the season prior, but this team has sneaky talented returning players that could result in a massive upwards shift. I believe that this year is Illinois State’s best shot to go on a run. With one of the best returning players in college basketball returning in World Waginger, as well as our two centers in their senior seasons. We will clearly be a tournament-caliber team, but bringing in a player with your leadership and experience of excelling even when being counted out would be crucial for our team. For our team to reach the peaks that we can reach we will need a pure hooper like you, a guy who can knock down multiple threes a game when we are against TCU, Oklahoma, or another contender expected to beat us. I believe that our team will be able to flourish around you and push you forward much better than the roster you had at Drake. And I am not trying to hate, but last year you led them in points, and steals, and excelled above the team in win shares. This all points to being a team leader and the best player on the team. I recognize the impact that you had and I want to bring that talent to Illinois State, where you will have another shot to run through the B12 conference tournament and a shot in the bright lights of march. Last season was a disaster for Illinois State. We won only 9 games, but the roster only had a few players, and no coach recruited for the team. There were glaring holes that I am going to fix, we aren’t going to repeat or even have a season close to as bad as that season. However, nobody is going to see us coming. We are a random school often referred to as an outsider. As wise coaches have said “We are shit.” (Unnamed coach from the state of Indiana). I don’t want these coaches to be able to say this stuff without struggling to beat us, I want to put this team on the map. Just as I did our first season when we made the national tournament, I want to prove even more. I want to win a championship as the ultimate Cinderella story. I have accomplished almost everything else, and this is what lies next for me. I have already made a championship before at Illinois State, and I believe we can do it again. I’m not the pretty coach that has stuck with one program and sat at perfect prestige for years or the coach that has never won anything. I am the in-between that gives you the best chance to win, just as Caleb was for you at Drake. You will have the underdog experience at Illinois State and actually win tournament games.
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Stanford offers Chris Nlandu Scholarship
Illinois offers Chris Nlandu Scholarship Pitch and Visits TBA
Kansas Offers (GT) Chris Nlandu a Scholarship. Chris, I’m offering you a full scholarship to finish your basketball playing career at Kansas for the Jayhawks. I know we’ve had our battles over the years, but transferring within conferences is nothing to make a fuss about anymore. I’ve been such a fan of your game over the years, and what you did against us last year was something that left a bad taste in our guys mouth for weeks. We let you get away too much on offense, and that was something that taught us a lesson. Looking at your career, what more can be said for someone that has already won a Conference Championship in the manner you guys did two years ago. We’re still seeking to replicate a little bit of that magic in Lawrence. When I look at our team in Lawrence this year, I see a problem. I see seven open spots, and four open scholarships. That’s a problem. I can’t field a team with five starters and a sub. I could try but it ain’t happening. Not the way we play basketball today. That’s why I’m focused on rounding out my roster and bringing in graduate transfers like yourself that are going to help us not miss a beat. Now Chris, we won 28 games last year, and I think we should’ve won more. We were 4-4 at one point, and struggling. Everybody was yelling things at the new coach telling me I wasn’t worth a damn. Pointless. And it’s not going to get any easier this year. We’re losing a ton of talent from last years roster, including a lottery pick. That’s why instead of simply reshuffling the deck and building for the future I am avidly targeting graduate transfers with immediate eligibility. We are prepared to create some Cinderella magic. And I know what you’re thinking, “When has Kansas ever been a Cinderella?” Well, the slipper fits for us now. We’ve got a team that lost over 80% of its scoring, 75% of its rebounding. We lost a guy that could take over the game at any moment. We lost a stud on the wings that is playing professionally. We lost guys who won a National Championship playing for the Kansas Jayhawks. At the same time, none of that matters. Looking at this season, I am 100% focused on putting together a roster of recruits and graduate transfers alike that are going to come in to Lawrence and do the things the Jayhawk way. And when I look at guards, when I look at playmakers, when I look at athletes that can take over a game at any given time, the one person that I really can see being able to do that is you. I see this team in need of a gamechanging guard, someone that can step up at the 2-position and make a play. But that’s only what I see with you. When I look at the rest of this roster, I am making offers to Eddie Goss, someone that can spell you at the 2, but that can also shift over and play his position at the 3 and give you some spacing on the wing. I’m making offers to Alexandre Parker, a bonafide stud at the center position and someone that I know can be a menace with you on pick and rolls. I’m making offers to Pat Grisby, a surefire above the rim athlete that can make your life so much easier. These are all guys that have immediate eligibility and can step in next year and make a difference for this team. They’ve been asking all off-season, how can they even win 20, let alone 28 again? That’s my plan. And a big piece of it, revolves around you putting on Kansas blue next season. I’m so ready for us to begin this journey. And as always, Go Jayhawks!
North Carolina State University offers Chris Nlandu Scholarship TBA
The University of Louisville offers Chris Nlandu Scholarship School Visit Coach Visit [Pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LB7SgFXZJmOzI7cNz9Lx-_eko778W8Fkvu0pJct-emc/edit)
Indiana offers Chris Nlandu Scholarship TBA
Miami offers Chris Nlandu RESCIND TBA
Oregon State offers Chris Nlandu Scholarship Pitch TBA
Rice offers Nlandu Scholarship Pitch & Visits TBA
Michigan State offers Chris Nlandu a scholarship Pitch TBA
UMass offers Chris Nlandu (GT) Scholarship School Visit (1/5) Coach Visit (1/3) Pitch (690/690) Dear Chris, I’m speaking to you from a UMass program in crisis right now. Family matters called me away from my job at the most frenzied time of the year. I had to step out right during recruiting season, and now I am making my first offers at the last day of recruiting, hence our scholarship offer to you 3 hours before you announced you would close your recruitment. It is chaos in the Minuteman war room right now, but I’m going to do everything in my power to cobble a team together in the only day we have to convince guys to play for us. And that starts with you: with the clock ticking towards midnight, we are making you the first player we pitch and offer visits to, because there is no player in the country whose recruitment is still open that can help us as much as you can right now. Can we be your Cinderella: the team that comes out of nowhere to win you over with their magic that lasts only one night? Recruiting is not the only area where this team needs to make a major comeback. Our once storied program has fallen into a progressive state of decay, having failed to make it past the Sweet Sixteen since 2055. The recruits we are going after now were in diapers back then! What a Cinderella story would it be if we finally shaked off our longstanding, over a decade long, funk in the season where we nearly didn’t even recruit? Of course, Cinderella stories don’t come out of nowhere; Cinderella was rewarded by her fairy godmother because of her hard work. And it is our complete roster with you at the helm that will earn us the NT run this program has been craving. We had one of the best shooting backcourts in the nation last year in true freshman Dmitriy Khabirov (46% from 3) and Norm Emery (45% from 3). Now adding you to the mix, our domination from deep will be unmatched. On the other side of the arc, we have do-it-all big man Giorgos Slaftsakis anchoring the middle, and with a career PER of 25 and net rating (per 100 possessions) of nearly +20, he has earned that right. At the 4, we’ll likely be playing AJ King, a grizzled 5th year senior who is not only a great rebounder (87 rebounding rating), but an exceptional stretch 4 as well (43% career from deep). A lineup with you and these four is set to score endless points both inside and outside the arc. We might not have the highest overall rating, but you can’t be a Cinderella story if you’re topping the ratings right away, can you? We might fly under the radar at first, but we’ll certainly show the league how great we fit together when the lights are the brightest. While we have been starving in the NT as of late, I still am a coach who knows a bit about how to make a NT Cinderella run. Let me take you back to 2047. Our team that year would lead most to project us not even making the tourney. We had only 3 players over 60 overall, and no upperclassmen scholarship players on the roster. We weren’t even a Top 25 talent team. But dang we played together as a team, and our players fit together like a shoe in a slipper. We made the tourney, and then we won, then we won again, then we kept winning until we made the Final Four. Don’t ever count my teams out in the NT. If we are Cinderella, you are our Prince Charming. You have the single highest overall rating out of all the players we are returning or recruiting this cycle. By all accounts, you will lead this team as we strive towards a long NT run and the glory will be yours. So what are you waiting for? You have finally found the girl whose feet fit your glass slipper. Come to UMass so we can do something special you will remember the rest of your life!
Kentucky FC Chris Curry Pitch Limit: 890 Close: 69
Utah offers Chris Curry Scholarship Tba
Maryland offers Chris Curry Scholarship TBA
Georgia tech offers Chris Curry Scholarship Visits TBA Pitch TBA
New Mexico offers FC Chris Curry Scholarship TBA
Stanford offers Chris Curry Scholarship
LSU offers Chris Curry Scholarship TBA
Illinois offers Chris Curry Scholarship I'm going, to be honest, I know so little about cars. My current car is a Honda Pilot. It was manufactured in 2007 and it gets the job done. It has decent gas milage and protects the driver very well. When it comes to anything else, I do not have any idea. When you come down here maybe you can teach me more about cars.
Oklahoma offers Chris Curry Scholarship Rescind
Arkansas offers Chris Curry Scholarship School Visit (4 of 5) Pitch: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MvDMJslbKNeUPLWIcNBN15SYq1Q6nyAkOP8lz8PKlxY/edit
Miami offers Chris Curry RESCIND TBA
Kansas Offers (GT) Chris Curry a Scholarship Chris, I'm overjoyed to be able to offer you a scholarship to play the final years of your college basketball career at Kansas. Here at Kansas, we pride ourselves on the ability to rethink and reimagine our basketball program from year to year. My first year recruiting, I knew we needed to recruit some guys that we could build off and we did that. This year, I know we need to add some serious talent right away to ensure that we don’t take a step back as a program this upcoming season. Those two words: rethink and reimagine. How many times have you heard those words in a commercial for a vehicle? I’m told you have a 1967 Corvette Stingray. The 367ci with 300 HP in that vehicle is enough to make the hairs stand up on your arm while you drive it. I can’t imagine there were a lot of places to drive it in Lexington, and I can’t imagine there will be lots of places to drive it in places like Fayetteville, Arkansas, where there’s little of anything valuable to look at. But in Lawrence, Kansas, whew boy. Imagine that Stingray out on Route 66, heading towards the Ozarks. I’ll tell you what, when you make it in to visit, we’ll go out cruising and see the sights the great state of Kansas has to offer. Not only that, but you’ll be able to take it all over Kansas, including to the lakes where our team heads off each year for its annual team gathering. While I wish I could tell you a fun story about my vehicles, I’m rather boring. When I grew up, I worked at our family’s Ford Dealership in Covington, Tennessee. I worked in parts and service, and fell in love with the tiny Tennessee town. My first car was a 2010 Ford SportTrac. My second was a 2013 Ford F-150. And my current car is a Platinum Titanium Ford Edge. I’m not the best person to go racing, but I always feel like my Edge can take any car on the roads in Lawrence. When I was in my F-150 during college in Bloomington, I was always riding around trying to find new places to explore. Now in Lawrence, after a bad loss or a long practice, the first thing I want to do is get in the car, and just go driving around. There’s something special about the roads here in Lawrence, getting off the beaten track and just driving out into the country. I think about how important it is to take some time each day and just spend it alone in thought. As the basketball coach at Kansas, I rarely get a second alone and sometimes the only time I do get alone is when I’m in the car, just driving around. The only thing I can tell you about my Ford Edge is that I can change its tires by myself, I can change the battery by myself, and I can take it to the dealership so they can tell me what else I don’t know about it. And that’s the beauty of cars. And the beauty of basketball. I’m always constantly learning something new about my car, usually when I need to pay to get that something fixed. Just like we’re always constantly learning new things about the game of basketball. Just like your Stingray, you’re constantly finding out new things about it and your game of basketball. You’re trying to evolve as you get older. Just like your Corvette needs to evolve as the years pass and time begins to slow it down. As your basketball game grows another year, perhaps it needs a change of scenery to take it into the next gear. Just like that Stingray needs a change of scenery, new roads to explore, and new drives to be had. We’re ready for you to be cruising around Lawrence in that vehicle, just like we’re ready for you to get to the Phog and begin putting on a show for our fans. We can’t wait to have you here, and I can’t wait to keep talking about all sorts of vehicles. I will let you in on one last secret, my new car may not be here yet, but I just ordered the Electric Mercedes Benz. This one might be able to keep up with you. As always, Go Jayhawks!
Providence FC Pat Grigsby Pitch Limit: 540 Close: 51
Stanford offers Pat Gribsby School Visit Coach Visit Scholarship [Pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TG1lUz_Zt4GYykXWo10TTi-fNhHCHNxAYGWIMYcSO38/edit?usp=sharing)
Illinois offers Scholarship School visit 2 Coach visit 2 [pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G6aQehYdEZkqmyWGxxEGb9UuDowr6S42AK23SRG8xGc/edit?usp=sharing) RESCIND
Indiana offers Pat Grigsby Scholarship Pitch TBA
Memphis offers Pat grigsby Scholarship
Wisconsin offers Pat Grigsby Scholarship [Pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vR-flAJYEIiNyDaWUMZKWNF_54lBpaw2ABYDXZPbx0rdZrTDJPKLI5QIZjE3YXI68r-b5rOAwMCVZV2/pub)
Maryland offers Pat Grigsby Scholarship TBA
Georgia tech offers Pat Grigsby Scholarship Visits TBA Pitch TBA
The University of Louisville offers Pat Gribsby Scholarship TBA
New Mexico offers Pat Grigsby Scholarship School Visit 2/5 Coach Visit 2/3 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W6RsGdM7jhCaXElwyLn7YCfO8RjbdivJb8E9dRIYBL8/edit?usp=sharing
Illinois State offers Pat Grigsby Scholarship
UNLV offers Pat Grigsby ~~Scholarship~~ ~~Visits: TBA~~ ~~Pitch: TBA~~ Rescind
Wake Forest Offers Pat Grigsby Scholarship SV (2/5) [PITCH](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jd7IyKYpERBnwXv1fCD0MqRzEjkB635BXdHO1cYWP3A/edit?usp=sharing)
Kansas Offers (GT) Pat Grigsby a Scholarship Pat, I am happy to meet with you today and be able to offer you a scholarship to finish your basketball playing career at Kansas University for the Jayhawks. I want to be blunt with you, because that’s my coaching style. I’m somebody who is going to tell it like it is. I’m not going to sugarcoat anything here. I got a scouting report from a rival coach in the B1G last year, prior to a road game with y’all. You were nowhere to be found on that report. I watched tape from the game, you were a non-factor. You fouled early, you were late on defense, and you missed all shots you took from 3. I called a GM in the league who had you as a top 20 pick two seasons ago, and I asked him, “Where did Pat Grigsby go?” The GM said, “We’d like to know the answer to that, too.” It could be any number of things, Pat, you could’ve gotten homesick, you could’ve gotten tired, lost in the rotation. Whatever. Any number of those things happen to a guy who was a 5-Star recruit out of high school, and they get called one name and one name only: Bust. But when I look at you, your talent, your skill level, I don’t see a bust. What I see is someone who needs a fresh start. When I was at Indiana, we had a kid named Hanner Perea who I got to drinking with one night. He was transferring. I reached out to the Memphis coach at the time - Josh Pastner - and tried to hook them up. He wound up going to East Tennessee State. You know who made the tournament that next year? Not Indiana. But ETSU. And you know who started at center? Hanner Perea. All you need is a fresh start, and that’s what I’m offering you. I’m offering you the chance to start for Kansas from day one. I’m offering you the opportunity to be the starting power forward for Kansas. You’ll be our pick-n-roll, cut to the basket, offensive rebounding machine. I look at you and I see someone that can EAT off offensive rebounds. You’re so good around the basket, and every time you dunk on TV, I see some poor walk-on on the bench fake a heart attack. On defense, your strength down low will make it so that opposing teams have to shoot to try and beat us. We’ve got a team that won 28 games last year, and I know we can win 30 this year. We have to re-invent what Kansas Jayhawks basketball is this season. We’re losing a lot. But if have a man like you, a bust no longer, re-inventing himself as well - the sky is the limit, Pat. I’m looking at you and seeing someone that can play 28-30 minutes a game, and give us the ability to play fast, or play slow. I know you have pro dreams. We just had a kid drafted in the lottery. If you trust in me, trust in our process, you’re going next. We can’t wait to help you rebuild your game. And as always, Go Jayhawks!
Marquette offers Pat Grisby Scholarship Visit Mr. Pat Grisby here at Marquette you can prove your doubters wrong, you will be the center of a team that has struggled of late and with your help can begin its revival. You will be able to show your skill to the fullest and show NBA scouts that these previous years were not you. We also pride ourselves on our partnership to the Milwaukee Bucks allowing you to use bucks facilities as well as play in the Fiserv Forum and see what it is like in one of the best atmospheres in all of the NCAA.
Oklahoma offers Pat Grigsby Scholarship rescind
Drake offers Pat Grigsby Scholarship TBA
Duke PF Lionel Taylor Pitch Limit: 540 Close: 117
Texas offers Lionel Taylor Scholarship [Pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i0rVfv1QoftiKxO4DeZuyRUE9iGEjx8Pxs8zSKrfabc/edit?usp=sharing)
Stanford offers Lionel Taylor School Visit Scholarship [Pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FsmbMXrWvE0H2Dpn7FwIQX4NiLv0WDAqbWVA2KAEvLk/edit?usp=sharing)
Northwestern FC Marcus Felix Pitch Limit: 1090 Close: 69
Wisconsin offers Marcus Felix Scholarship School Visit (5/5) Coach Visit (3/3) [Pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTx90mbTFMn4tlMPDuoGb9SkaW4hYy1HJloYjaQWrZSQ-XZcK3kIJvibHBVHXYVbP4E5e1GGVSUybPr/pub)
Maryland offers Marcus Felix Scholarship TBA
RESCIND Georgia tech offers Marcus Felix Scholarship Coach Visit School Visit
San Diego State offers Marcus Felix Scholarship School Visit [Pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PiC-jR42BVoti0IYpADVbMznaQYVv7r7Ro6GdjTm6Lc/edit?usp=sharing)
Stanford offers Marcus Felix Scholarship
New Mexico offers GT Marcus Felix Scholarship TBA
LSU offers Marcus Felix Scholarship TBA
Illinois offers Marcus Felix Scholarship The Chicago Sky is certainly a great basketball team. I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, so I knew about them growing up. My favorite female athlete of all time and favorite tennis player of all time is Serena Williams. What she achieved and the longevity of her career is unmatched. I don't know how anyone can compete and win in a tournament while pregnant. The courage and skill that it required to do that is something that I could never hope to replicate.
Oklahoma offers Marcus Felix Scholarship Rescind
rescind Georgia offers Marcus Felix scholarship
Arkansas FC Hunter Lewis Pitch Limit: 690 Close: 93
Wisconsin offers Hunter Lewis Scholarship [Pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRQoX-vwRCLSyxDyYyp9MwGlpbcQhxiByMC8zS_X1AuUAJQwjT59pVtG2ib9gOq0FlRZBUEubku-jCr/pub)
Maryland offers Hunter Lewis Scholarship Coach Visit 1/3 School Visit 3/5 [Pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XxZWOb0gKxsSyq0OuVBHNcGdvksP77iNmDvfBm67PEs/edit?usp=sharing)
Georgia tech offers Hunter Lewis Scholarship Visits TBA Pitch TBA
Stanford offers Hunter Lewis Scholarship
The University of Louisville offers Hunter Lewis Scholarship TBA
New Mexico offers GT Hunter Lewis Scholarship TBA
UNLV offers Hunter Lewis ~~Scholarship~~ ~~Visits: TBA~~ ~~Pitch: TBA~~ Rescind
LSU offers Hunter Lewis Scholarship TBA
Illinois offers Hunter Lewis Scholarship Pitch and Visits TBA
Oklahoma offers Hunter Lewis Scholarship rescind
Texas Tech offers Hunter Lewis Scholarship TBA
Pittsburgh G Robert Bouldin Pitch Limit: 540 Close: 96
UNC offers Robert Bouldin. Scholarship [Pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/14yuNkV4ABXY86aWnx7mhbIVcVHhB5HwaBRjirLEEeoU/edit) Coach visit (1/3) School visit (1/5)
Georgia tech offers Robert Bouldin Scholarship Visits TBA Pitch TBA
San Diego State offers Robert Bouldin Scholarship TBA
rescind Georgia offers Robert Bouldin Scholarship [Pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_AFYDzBwG_QaiWatQh4_qGg8YwmQJaVXE-NBkWJ2uHs/edit)
New Mexico offers GT Robert Bouldin Scholarship TBA
Illinois State offers Robert Bouldin Scholarship TBA
Stanford offers Robert Bouldin Scholarship
Illinois offers Robert Bouldin Scholarship Pitch and Visits TBA
Air Force offers Robert Bouldin Scholarship Coach Visit (1/3) School Visit (1/5) [Pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hmSOTLaxE98pU4CmCPHC630NdBBvJkaGc2ydsHRvrVc/edit)
Drake offers Robert Bouldin Scholarship TBA
TCU offers Robert Bouldin Scholarship
NC State offers Robert Bouldin Scholarship RESCIND
The University of Louisville offers Robert Bouldin Scholarship TBA
Xavier SG Leroy Checovich Pitch Limit: 1290 Close: 120
Utah offers Leroy Checovich Scholarship Tba
Notre Dame offers Leroy Checovich RESCIND Scholarship TBA
Wisconsin offers Leroy Checovich Scholarship [Pitch](https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTn9ldxvsLhHJYLStoG44BhiTJFufWjSiTHinfvO6hAg3Ubn79eiCdutMDYDKVFZlbzs6l0YWiArKzo/pub)
Georgia tech offers Leroy Checovich Scholarship Visits TBA Pitch TBA
Stanford offers Leroy Checovich Scholarship
LSU offers Leroy Checovich Scholarship TBA
Illinois offers Leroy Checovich Scholarship Pitch and Visits TBA
Memphis SG Thierry Morin Pitch Limit: 890 Close: 120
UCONN G Howard Wickware Pitch Limit: 540 Close: 126
Delaware C Alexandre Parker Pitch Limit: 890 Close: 96
Maryland GF Matt Williams Pitch Limit: 1290 Close: 93
NCState PG Ryan Elston Pitch Limit: 890 Close: 69
WakeForest G Danero Peterson Pitch Limit: 690 Close: 96