bearsandgiants said:
SFCityBear said:
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So, what's the verdict on this commitment? Yea or Nay?
In my uninformed opinion he looks like he has high upside. He has several years of eligibility so we'll find out unless he's poached.
According to Rivals, Yeanay had offers from Alabama, ASU, Florida, TT, Houston, Wake, Auburn, Florida State and Kansas, among others, and eventually committed to ASU. He then decommitted in March 2024. He hardly played at GCU. But he could be a diamond in the rough. We'll see.
That is an impressive list of schools who made him an offer (according to Rivals).
So why did he end up attending and playing for GCU? Did all those other schools back out? Was he injured? Or what?
For folks wondering about gcu, they are an online school whose top marketing tactic appears to be the basketball team which they pump a lot of money into. They always have good teams now and pay well, for nil, so no surprise someone might pick them over a blue blood school. We have a penchant for landing formerly injured players with mixed results at best. If that's the case here, I hope we get lucky. Seems like a great player if healthy.
Thanks for the explanation.
As to your second point, a tragedy of modern college basketball is that we seldom will see that greatness in a player. If he signs with us, he may not show it until his second year, third year or beyond. Players naturally mature at different ages. Big men are slow maturing. Richard Solomon did not become a dominant player and rebounder until his final year at Cal. Jorge Guiterrez was a loose cannon, a bull in a china closet his first year, but matured quickly to become a force. Jerome Randle as a freshman was talented, but had some bad habits he needed to break, and he did not mature a good amount until his junior year. And with the Portal always beckoning the young players to try elsewhere, they too often are seduced to leave. No longer will we get many chances to watch our young recruits mature and improve year by year. We will pay the money to sign them, and then watch them leave after a season for maybe a better offer.
