AOC Transfers to Creighton

[jimsumner]

Duke could easily have played Hurley, McCaffrey, Hill, Hill and Laettner in '92. McCaffrey wanted to get drafted and that meant point guard and that meant a transfer and he wanted to be the primary cog in the machine and that meant transfer.

[brevity]

Has there been any reporting on potential destinations for AoC? I have to think he'll get interest from many Top-25 caliber programs...

There are some tweets out there from prep recruiting types, and they all seem to get their info from Jake Weingarten, owner of Stock Risers. I've included his tweets (and links) below. Please take these with a grain of salt.

Jake @jakeweingarten
Georgetown, Georgia, Dayton, Xavier, are amongst the early programs to show interest in Duke transfer Alex O’Connell, a source told @Stockrisers.
Averaged five points on 40% shooting last season with the Blue Devils.
10:07 PM · Mar 21, 2020

Jake @jakeweingarten
Memphis and Cincinnati are the latest programs to reach out to Duke transfer Alex O’Connell, a source told @Stockrisers. No shortage of suitors for the guard.
9:48 AM · Mar 22, 2020

Jake @jakeweingarten
Memphis has now offered Duke transfer Alex O’Connell, a source told @Stockrisers. As of now he’s a sit one, play one. Tigers love his game.
6:11 PM · Mar 22, 2020

[lotusland]

Georgia would be a home town favorite. Beyond that Georgetown might be a nice fit.

[CameronBlue]

Jake @jakeweingarten
Memphis has now offered Duke transfer Alex O’Connell, a source told @Stockrisers. As of now he’s a sit one, play one. Tigers love his game.
6:11 PM · Mar 22, 2020

Would love to see Alex stay at Duke but Memphis is pretty boss. In an alternate reality I will die of alcohol poisoning in an alley off Beale Street with a Gibson L-200 in my embrace.

[stedge]

Would love to see Alex stay at Duke but Memphis is pretty boss. In an alternate reality I will die of alcohol poisoning in an alley off Beale Street with a Gibson L-200 in my embrace.

cute guitar.

I'm more a van nuys schecter and cranked hiwatt (a la..) kinda guy. Hence my tinnitus.


I have family in GA who really like him, too. Hope he goes there so they can cheer him on, live. Will miss him here. He was pretty explosive and fun.

[Ggallagher]

I also saw Williams play along with seeing Robinson, Mantle, Maris, Groat, koufax and most of the other greats of the era. Baseball was a way of life then.

Wow, that list brought back memories. My stepdad took me to a home run derby in eastern North Carolina, I think it might have been in Kinston - probably about 1961 or 1962. I still have the baseball that I got autographed Roger Maris, Brooks Robinson and Jim Gentile. Certainly was a different time. I just walked into the locker room after they finished up and started asking for autographs. I'm not sure you can do that anymore.

[devildeac]

Wow, that list brought back memories. My stepdad took me to a home run derby in eastern North Carolina, I think it might have been in Kinston - probably about 1961 or 1962. I still have the baseball that I got autographed Roger Maris, Brooks Robinson and Jim Gentile. Certainly was a different time. I just walked into the locker room after they finished up and started asking for autographs. I'm not sure you can do that anymore.

Were they all smoking RJR products?

[jv001]

yep, and back in those days you could find the white players eating in one restaurant and the black players eating in a different one. I guess their taste in food varied!

Regarding Stan Musial, I was a Dodger fan and attended a doubleheader in which Stan hit four home runs, much to my dismay...also saw a very young Sandy Koufax pitch (1957) that day, he threw very hard but to no spot in particular.

If I'm not mistaken, Stan hit 5 home runs in a double header against the Giants one time. I believe it may have been the Dodgers that nicknamed him Stan The Man. Those were good days.

GoDuke!

[budwom]

If I'm not mistaken, Stan hit 5 home runs in a double header against the Giants one time. I believe it may have been the Dodgers that nicknamed him Stan The Man. Those were good days.

GoDuke!

yes, I recall that he did. Seeing him four in one day was enough for me, he hit several of them into laundry hanging on a clothesline behind the right field seats.

[Truth&Justise]

Sometimes I wish there was a metric to track how off-topic a thread can get. I was checked out from DBR over the weekend, saw the headline about AOC in the transfer portal and came here. Lo and behold, the latest on this topic is some extended reminiscing about Stan Musial.

To be clear: not calling anyone out, this is a charming and fun aspect of DBR, and sometimes there's only so much to say on a given topic. Just funny how predictably unpredictable this can be.

[jv001]

Sometimes I wish there was a metric to track how off-topic a thread can get. I was checked out from DBR over the weekend, saw the headline about AOC in the transfer portal and came here. Lo and behold, the latest on this topic is some extended reminiscing about Stan Musial.

To be clear: not calling anyone out, this is a charming and fun aspect of DBR, and sometimes there's only so much to say on a given topic. Just funny how predictably unpredictable this can be.

I agree and we sometimes discuss; beer, uncheats, BBQ but that's part of what makes DBR the greatest.

GoDuke!

[MarkD83]

I agree and we sometimes discuss; beer, uncheats, BBQ but that's part of what makes DBR the greatest.

GoDuke!

Some would say we have short attention spans...look a squirrel just ran across my lawn

[jv001]

Some would say we have short attention spans...look a squirrel just ran across my lawn

And at this point in time, we don't have the NCAAT to discuss. I for one sure do miss it.

GoDuke!

[devildeac]

I agree and we sometimes discuss; beer, uncheats, BBQ but that's part of what makes DBR the greatest.

GoDuke!

My *loose* understanding of some DBR "rules" is that BBQ and the cheats are always on topic but sadly, Ymm, Beer, though quite popular, has been relegated to the Off Topic Board.

[arnie]

My *loose* understanding of some DBR "rules" is that BBQ and the cheats are always on topic but sadly, Ymm, Beer, though quite popular, has been relegated to the Off Topic Board.

I think all threads eventually include the horrific cheating scandal south of I-40 from Durham. And that’s probably a good thing.

[jv001]

My *loose* understanding of some DBR "rules" is that BBQ and the cheats are always on topic but sadly, Ymm, Beer, though quite popular, has been relegated to the Off Topic Board.

Oh no!

[Indoor66]

Some would say we have short attention spans...look a squirrel just ran across my lawn

I saw a bunny with a pancake on it's head!

[cato]

Sometimes I wish there was a metric to track how off-topic a thread can get. I was checked out from DBR over the weekend, saw the headline about AOC in the transfer portal and came here. Lo and behold, the latest on this topic is some extended reminiscing about Stan Musial.

To be clear: not calling anyone out, this is a charming and fun aspect of DBR, and sometimes there's only so much to say on a given topic. Just funny how predictably unpredictable this can be.

I believe there is a scale, from playing time discussions on one end, to Duke v Kentucky on the other.

[Tappan Zee Devil]

I saw a bunny with a pancake on it's head!

pancake bunny.jpg

[Steven43]

yes, I recall that he did. Seeing him four in one day was enough for me, he hit several of them into laundry hanging on a clothesline behind the right field seats.

Did Musial hit those home runs against the New York Giants at the Polo Grounds? And was there really laundry hanging on a clothesline behind the right field seats? There were residences that close to the stadium?