Francis Okoro Projection
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Up to 4 predictions for Purdue on 247. Obviously still means nothing, but that’s a lot of smoke!
I mean, I’m sure it depends on your location ... here in Chicago, obviously, I’d completely disagree with your brand assessment.
I recommend he enroll at Purdue, take dual credit courses to finish high school and start at Purdue.
Stop. Bitter whining is one thing. Preemptively bad mouthing a potential Purdue player just in case he might pick someone else is pathetic.
Grow up
I agree with you and I apologize. I was being snarky, and making a comment on recruiting in general. I realized after reading your comment that I had actually thrown dirt on a potential Boilermaker unintentionally. Thanks for pointing that out. I will change the message to remove the nonsense.
It sure is nice when someone admits a mistake and then apologizes.
I didnt necessary see it as a dig on a potential Purdue recruit, but as a pretty honest summary of college recruiting in general. Sadly, history has proven you right at many of the big name programs. More than likely if you had said it in a general recruiting thread, nobody would have made it an issue.
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Mathboy is a good guy. No problem with him.
I think people look for reasons to have their feelings hurt or be offended. That is why I responded. I saw nothing accusing a potential recruit.
Indeed. I.E. Caleb Biggie Swanigan. He reclassified. It pisses me off to admit this, but all kids with any NBA aspirations reclassify simply due to every damn NBA team wanting 16,17,18 year old kids on their teams. If you play 4 years of college basketball these days, you’re considered old when you enter the draft. Swanigan knew his path and what he needed to achieve in order to continue on the path he chose. He added a year to his basketball career and ultimately to his lifetime income simply by reclassifying.
a lot of guys who reclassify were held back to begin with to stand out more
As you would expect, he had good things to say to the local guys (article from oregonlive): http://www.oregonlive.com/recruiting/index.ssf/2018/04/francis_okoro_2019_4-star_cent_1.html
From the article: Okoro intends to end his recruitment "between now and May,"
I'm proud of you. BIG men admit mistakes . and bigger men take action to correct them.
And not surprisingly there is now a crystal ball prediction in Oregon's favor. It is from an Oregon Insider, of course.
They have no bearing on passing high school, but they do have bearing on being accepted into college. For example, he wouldn't be accepted at Purdue with an 800 on the SAT even if he passes all of his high school diploma requirements.
Oh yeah that's makes sense. Didn't look at it that way.
Unless that was his score for the math section and they just ignored the language/writing portion.
Yeah you have to have an ACT/SAT "score" to get into college, sounds like he just has not taken it yet. Most of the time these tests are taken in school during the end of the junior year in high school.
Wow that's kinda harsh . Wole is far from stupid,
I like that he is deciding very soon. If we don't land him, we aren't wasting any summer months recruiting him and not someone else.
Watching the vids in the Oregon article he reminded me of Chris Weber. Ridiculous physique, effortless explosion from the floor, good handle for mid range moves to the rim, and authoritative finish once there.
Well sure. Had it been as widely accepted to have your kid go to kindergarten twice back in 1979, I wouldn’t have ended up a 17 year old freshman at Purdue. Regardless of that entirely different issue, kids know their NBA chances rely heavily on their age, which is why we see the wave of them for basketball players. If the NFL has similar standards, kids would be doing it for football as well, but we don’t see that. The NBA has their dirty mitts in the party.
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