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Are we still recruiting him hard? If we get a commit from Xavier Henry do we need him?

TigerDrew Wrote:Are we still recruiting him hard? If we get a commit from Xavier Henry do we need him?

You always need players of his caliber. I know we are still recruiting him but I suspect he will go somewhere else. No real inside information to go with that. It just seems like he doesn't have the buzz for Memphis like some of the others recruits have and we have had a hard time keeping locals home lately. We do a little better with the kids from public schools. It seems kids from private schools aren't as enamored with Memphis.

From talking to different people, Keith and others, it seems as if McDonald is looking elsewhere.

It would be nice if we could get Xavier Henry and Lance Stephenson over Leslie Mcdonald anyday. That would include Duke signee Elliott Williams. Hometown guys that don't want to be here we can and will survive without you. At least we are landing the top players from all over the country I do not want to hear about private schools either. Go on and take Tennstud and the barbershop to UT with you!

I have no inside connections, but if you believe what the McDonald family is saying, my opinion is that we have no shot. He has stated he wants to study Architecture. We do not have an Arch. undergraduate program, there is a grad program just getting started. Academics are limiting our ability to recruit an athlete, no exageration.

This is why we need our own BOR and our own programs.

Knoxville does have an undergrad Arch. program.

tigerengineer Wrote:I have no inside connections, but if you believe what the McDonald family is saying, my opinion is that we have no shot. He has stated he wants to study Architecture. We do not have an Arch. undergraduate program, there is a grad program just getting started. Academics are limiting our ability to recruit an athlete, no exageration.

This is why we need our own BOR and our own programs.

Knoxville does have an undergrad Arch. program.

In the article in the CA yesterday, I think it talked about both the grad and undergrad programs;

"It's a very exciting development, and all the architecture community has been sending congratulations," said Richard Ranta, dean of the U of M's College of Communication and Fine Arts.

Added local architect and part-time U of M instructor Frank Ricks: "We've been pushing for this ever since I can remember."

With the new program, students will now be able to complete both their undergraduate and graduate studies in architecture at the university, Ranta said.

The elevation to department status should also increase awareness of the program, Ranta said. "The department designation itself doesn't necessarily mean more students, but it does give it more visibility."

Ricks believes the changes will increase the available talent pool.

"It will attract new students to the city," he said. "That's a good thing for the architectural community here."


Cal is now working the academic angle's for the University....If we can only get him to push the OCS concept as well !!!

Are you sure we have no architecture program? I'm pretty sure I have had a friend here the last two years and he's been saying that it is his major for these last two years....

Did not think we did, must have been wrong. I know that the Arch. Technology program has been around awhile, but that is a completely different animal. Maybe since it just was elevated to department status is why it was under the radar.

Seems like everyone I run into in the Briarcrest "know" always say he's going to NC ...

I think I'm at the point now if these "Memphis" kids want to leave so be it..... Where as before Cal got here and the first couple years he was here it bothered me. But if guys like Thad, Elliott Williams, McDonald want to go elsewhere so be it. Give me the guys who want to be here. He can go to UT play in the SEC for a year or two, get drafted and probably won't even get to study "archeology" but a couple of years anyway. If he goes to UT, he'll get to enjoy maybe making the Sweet 16 (as far as on the court success goes)

If Cal wants a local player, so do I. If that player doesn't want to stay, we move on. No big deal anymore, as long as they don't start heading to Knoxville.

The local players will start to see the appeal of staying home as we continue to go deep in the tournament and other teams don't. If Thaddeus Young had come here, we could have been final four last year, and he knows that now. If we keep going deeper than Duke, Williams will see what he could have done here. Eventually the success will start to overcome the pressure on kids to leave town.

ChattTiger Wrote:If Cal wants a local player, so do I. If that player doesn't want to stay, we move on. No big deal anymore, as long as they don't start heading to Knoxville.

The local players will start to see the appeal of staying home as we continue to go deep in the tournament and other teams don't. If Thaddeus Young had come here, we could have been final four last year, and he knows that now. If we keep going deeper than Duke, Williams will see what he could have done here. Eventually the success will start to overcome the pressure on kids to leave town.

The current middle school kids and younger are loving Memphis basketball and the excitement surrounding this program. They are watching their current heros going to the Final Four and competing for national titles, and wishing and hoping someday themselves of donning the Memphis blue. Its simply part of the evolution of an elite program that Cal has turned this program into.

AMEN!

I would like the Memphis kids to stay home but as long as the kids from Detroit, Chicago, Philly and around the country keep coming, I'll be able to deal with it.

80sTiger Wrote:Seems like everyone I run into in the Briarcrest "know" always say he's going to NC ...

I talked to one of his teammates recently and I was also told North Carolina.

This maybe a little pre-mature, but Memphis will soon be known across the nation as as "One-and-Done" U if we keep landing these Top 5 players year after year!

...and I don't mind it at all!

(Remember ptmg as being the first to coin that phrase.)

mphsfan Wrote:[quote=80sTiger]
I talked to one of his teammates recently and I was also told North Carolina.

UNC does not have the undergraduate Architcture program in North Carolina, NC State has it. So, one can't blame the academic programs on the UofM for this one.

80sTiger Wrote:Seems like everyone I run into in the Briarcrest "know" always say he's going to NC ...

my BCS sources tell me he definately wants a good education to go along with playing ball

tigerengineer Wrote:Did not think we did, must have been wrong. I know that the Arch. Technology program has been around awhile, but that is a completely different animal. Maybe since it just was elevated to department status is why it was under the radar.

my girlfriend is in the arch. program as a junior dude

ptmg Wrote:This maybe a little pre-mature, but Memphis will soon be known across the nation as as "One-and-Done" U if we keep landing these Top 5 players year after year!

...and I don't mind it at all!

(Remember ptmg as being the first to coin that phrase.)

we were "Commit-and-Never Show-Up" U