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Originally Posted by
Saratoga2
I for one prefer sticking more with facts in this thread, since speculation could sometimes be seen as an affront to potential recruits or their families. The facts include, who did we offer, who will visit us and others, when are recruits saying they will decide, what recruits say about how many schools and which schools are on their short list. Speculation is more along the line of someone suggesting a player is leaning one way or another for a variety or usually poorly supported reasons.
Facts in a recruiting thread? There may be lots of facts (e.g. what did Recruit A's brother's friend's cousin's sister say about where Recruit A may be going), but really nothing matters until these 15-18 year old (or 22 year old in Shabazz' case?) kids get to weigh everything out, visit the schools, build relationships with the coaches, change their minds a million times if they want or can't decide and finally make their decisions.
I agree that suggesting a player is leaning one way or another may be supported poorly, but I don't think it is unreasonable (based on the too much I have read about his recruitment) to assume, for example, that Jones is likely to be leaning Duke's way. The problem, of course, is that unofficial and official visits can, and should, influence a player's recruiting decision and a recruit is free to change his/her mind many times when thinking about the great opportunities that he/she is presented with and the great coaches, staffs and players he has met and built relationships with. In the end, who was leading or how much ground did a school make up, doesn't matter.
That said, I will still follow this thread listening to what shoes Recruit B's coach was wearing the other day and whether that is a key to where Recruit B will be going, I just won't expect anything of actual importance until the recruits themselves tweet or pick one hat over the others or announce on ESPN or whatever (no skype, please.)
“Those two kids, they’re champions,” Krzyzewski said of his senior leaders. “They’re trying to teach the other kids how to become that, and it’s a long road to become that.”