The basketball program that is. After his official visit last weekend, Jabari Bird has canceled his other trips and will announce his decision at his school (Salesian) tomorrow!

that would be awesome if it happened. good get Monty!

calumnus;841939747 said:

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The basketball program that is. After his official visit last weekend, Jabari Bird has canceled his other trips and will announce his decision at his school (Salesian) tomorrow!

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And we didn't have to pay guys to visit

Thank you for posting this. I needed some good (make that great) news after this past weekend.

BTW, does Bird also play QB, WR, or DE?

GO BEARS!

GoldenYears;841939786 said:

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What is the source of this good news?

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.. and hopefully not from a BI relentlessly embargoed competitor, most relevant current events are these:

source:
http://seattle.sbnation.com/2012/9/4/3292956/washington-cal-arizona-oregon-colorado-basketball-recruiting-jabari-bird

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Washington Basketball Recruiting: Jabari Bird Cancels Visit, Announces Decision Tomorrow

Sep 04 7:36p by Avinash Kunnath

The [U]Washington Huskies have suffered a significant blow to their recruiting efforts[/U] [boo-hoo] as one of their top targets has canceled his official visit. Salesian forward Jabari Bird is set to decide which school he's committing to tomorrow.

Bird's visit to Cal is the only one he's made. He was scheduled to trip to Colorado, Oregon and Washington later in the month, but he's decided to nix all those visits. It has to pit California as the overwhelming favorite to land one of the top college basketball targets from the Bay Area.. .. ..

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Nothing is final, if the Shaq episode shows anything. Is UW's basketball coach going to hire one of our assistants away?

Lol.....could roman hire Jon Montgomery? that could make for an awkward Holiday meal!

Sounds like its back to the old days of "at least it's almost
Basketball season."

The fact that we're beating out the mutts for Jabari would make this extra sweet.

Huzzah for Monty!

Its comforting to know that we are finally a basketball school again. All is right with the world again.

ducky23;841939939 said:

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Its comforting to know that we are finally a basketball school again. All is right with the world again.

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Yes, that's a great silver (or gold) lining.

Is he the one and done type?

Best news.....

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Jeff Faraudo ‏@CalBearsBANG

Talked with seemingly Cal-bound Jabari Bird tonight: "Pretty much everybody has a general idea where I'm going. They'd probably be right."

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https://twitter.com/CalBearsBANG

Cal basketball gets commitment from Salesian High star Jabari Bird

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RICHMOND -- Salesian High's Jabari Bird, one of the nation's top basketball prospects, announced Wednesday he will attend Cal a year from now.

The 6-foot-6 wing, regarded as a five-star recruit, settled on Cal days after making a weekend campus visit. Bird had previously narrowed down his choices to Cal, Washington, Oregon and Colorado.

Oral commitments cannot become official until the national letter-of-intent signing period, Nov. 14-21.

Rated as the nation's No. 15 overall prospect by Scout.com and No. 20 by Rivals.com, Bird is one of the top recruits Mike Montgomery has lured to Cal in his five seasons as coach.

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http://www.mercurynews.com/cal-bears/ci_21472735/cal-basketball-gets-commitment-from-salesian-high-star?source=rss&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

Davidson;841940133 said:

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Is he the one and done type?

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MB thinks he's a 2-3 year player.

This guy sounds like BBall's version of BTreggs. Awesome player and recruiter. He's trying to lure in Marcus Lee who is another bigtime recruit and potentially Gordon.

But after the whole To$h fiasco, Im not banking on anything until the dotted line on the LOI is signed.

ducky23;841939939 said:

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Its comforting to know that we are finally a basketball school again. All is right with the world again.

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When Randy Duck was roaming Harmon and then the Oakland Coliseum, we were a basketball school.

Adrian The Cal Bear;841940151 said:

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MB thinks he's a 2-3 year player.

This guy sounds like BBall's version of BTreggs. Awesome player and recruiter. He's trying to lure in Marcus Lee who is another bigtime recruit and potentially Gordon.

But after the whole To$h fiasco, Im not banking on anything until the dotted line on the LOI is signed.

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One guy makes HUGE difference in basketball where there are only 5 starters instead of 22 and one guy can take over games. If he is able to bring with him two more top 30 recruits? That would be something like landing 12 Five-Star recruits in football!