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Nope. Jordan/Carter was at the AAU level. Not Shiloh.Was Okogie attributable to the Jordan-Robert Carter connection considering he was a Shiloh kid?
Nope. Jordan/Carter was at the AAU level. Not Shiloh.Was Okogie attributable to the Jordan-Robert Carter connection considering he was a Shiloh kid?
Pretty sure MGH was a top 75 kid, possibly higher.
Okogie was highly respected in-state, but was off the national radar, as he was the 3rd wheel on a really high end CP3 squad. They were able to close him before he continued his rise. At minimum, he was a Rivals 150 kid & Dan McDonald viewed Okogie as pretty underrated.
ETA: Double checked - MGH was only Top 75 on ESPN. Was top 100 elsewhere.
Dollar helped deliver them, but as much as BG seemed MIA on the recruiting trail, he was supposedly in to see MGH at 6AM when recruiting opened after he arrived at GT and I saw him watching Okogie in almost every game.Ok thanks for that info. So they were higher rated than I thought. I guess my point stands that I'm hoping the good of them coming here was less a result of Chad dollar and more the result of something else. Picturing a bizzaro world where they both went to Georgia is unnerving.
I'll be surprised if penny is successful.For FL Gator and NBA player Mike Miller has agreed to join Penny Hardaway's staff in Memphis.
This makes his current staff former Memphis player (and Penny Teammate)- Tony Madlock - who spent the last 4 yrs at Ole Miss and Miller who played 7 seasons with the Memphis Grizzlies and like Penny has an AAU program composed mostly of kids from the Memphis area.
i suspect the third asst will be a former HC, guess we will see. Hard to see much of anyone other than Memphis getting much talent from that area. They have 2 guys with direct ties to local AAU programs and all 3 have extensive Memphis backgrounds.
we will certainly get to see how much you can win with memphis kids.
I won’t be. Not based on anything other than I think he will do well.
I think he'll have a lot of on-paper talent for sure. May be a lot like Avery Johnson at Bama. Will have juuuust enough success to not be on the hot seat but won't really make much of a real dent.
I get that Memphis has a decent amount of talent but I'm not sure you're winning at a high level with 99% of your team being from that city/area. Miller on staff with the other Memphis-centric guy smells like an over-rating of this whole Memphis thing.
I would agree with this. I’ll be interested in how they schedule. You can almost see them as a damn 23 win bubble team. First four type program...
Given a choice between cherry picking Atlanta talent or Memphis talent, I'll take cherry picking Atlanta talent all day.
I agree but, even so, I couldn't see a consistent winner being built exclusively on Atlanta talent and ATL talent >>>>> MEM talent IMHO.
This screams let's cheat like cal did @ Memphis.One other Memphis note. There is still talk that Penny wants to hire Larry Brown for the last asst spot, but that the AD is so far not allowing him to.
IMO the biggest issue with memphis talent isn't that there isn't enough talent to win consistently. I'ts all the ego and surrounding nonsense that makes the situation near toxic imo.
So..... we're thinking Penny will schedule teams like Texas Rio Grande, NC A&T, Wofford, Bethune Cookman, Florida A&M, North Texas, Grambling, Wright State, Coppin State and Yale?