NU offered Nick Martinelli
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Pretty surprising that a first team all-stater in Illinois would not have received even one offer from any of the top 10 conferences - until NU made its offer.
Any chance this is a PWO offer and not a scholarship offer? Wasn’t his brother a PWO at NU for one season?
A) He committed to Elon early before there was an understanding of all his possibilities.
B) The Elon coach was hired by Duke as an assistant, so the kid opened up his recruiting.
C) I'm not sure he's more than a mid-major player. But I can see him as a 12th or 13th schollie and you hope he can develop. However, you can only have so many of those guys on your roster.
B) The Elon coach was hired by Duke as an assistant, so the kid opened up his recruiting.
C) I'm not sure he's more than a mid-major player. But I can see him as a 12th or 13th schollie and you hope he can develop. However, you can only have so many of those guys on your roster.
Yes we had his brother Dom for a season. I think he was a walk-on? He didnt play and transferred to St. Thomas in Minnesota. Dom must like purple.
Lets go with the optimistic scenario... Nick wasn't getting much interest and committed to Elon. He then grew and improved significantly in his senior season. Only schools with open slots in their recruiting classes were able to consider him. Maybe we got lucky.
I think you nailed it. Right now NU doesn't have enough warm bodies to even scrimmage in practice.
For this reason, and because NU has probably seen him a few times, I hope he commits.
I also wonder if Harry Good and Casey Cortez still have eligibility.
I saw him play once against Niles West before we left for the winter. He was quite impressive but Niles West was terrible. My son and grandson saw him play several times over the winter in the big games like Glenbard West, Simeon, New Trier, etc. and tell me other than the big guy from Glenbard he was the best guy on the floor.
He is about 6-8 but needs to fill out. However, what 17 or 18 year old doesn’t. They played about four Public League teams and he handled them.
I think you also have to remember that Drew Crawford was a spring recruit. This as I understand it involved him getting released from his letter of intent. By the way this is no cinch deal because other big schools are involved.
A body is better than an open roster slot at this stage, but doesn’t exactly inspire confidence that Collins is going to reel in any good players from the portal. There are like 1700 in the portal now I believe so hard to fathom he couldn’t sell one or two on NU…
Think there are 350 schools so roughly 5 kids per program transferring- only having young leave so far is good I suppose.
I presume that the elimination of the mandatory year on the bench has improved the quality of transfer players, but the portal is for role players, not stars.
Good programs will continue to be built through recruits identified at 15-16-17, not through the Horizon League guy choosing to bet on himself and the big time.
NU could build a tremendous 14th place team with Taylor, Turner, Audige, Swopshire, and Kreisberg. (I’m sure there are more, but, well…)
Also, an embittered Elon fan had fun with the Wiki page for former Phoenix head coach Mike Schrage.
“Mike Schrage (born April 2, 1976) is an American basketball coach, currently a special assistant to the regional manager at Duke University.”
“Mike Schrage (born April 2, 1976) is an American basketball coach, currently a special assistant to the regional manager at Duke University.”
This might play a bigger part in the decision process than anything else especially if more Power 5 offers come along. Let's face it, NU does not have much size right now so any talented player over 6'6 is a real need.
This column about NU basketball from Teddy Greenstein (NU grad) is about two years old, before he left the Chicago Tribune for an online gambling company... Grrenstein didn't have a crystal ball, but you can see that he had a pretty good handle on our program, with some advice and some well-expressed concerns.
Love this line: "Hunter Johnson is a stud quarterback who figures to take every meaningful snap for the next two to three years." I think we all felt that way.
Teddy nailed it on the lack of development.
Yeah, he veered out of his lane on Hunter Johnson, but thats football versus basketball...
I still can't believe how much hype there was around Hunter and how bad he looked in the opener at Stanford. I was talked into making that trip - people were so excited about the team.
At least I got to play Pasatiempo. The Cal Club, Olympic and SFGC. Stanford was bad and NU worse
not sure where your seats were, but that was the hottest I have ever been at a football game.
An article about Martinelli, long but not much in the way of his current line of thinking.
One of the appeals of Elon was that he wanted to be part of the first EU team to make it to the NCAA tournament. D’oh!
He’s visiting Miami (Oh.) this weekend.
Miami was 14-18 (8-12) last season.
One of the appeals of Elon was that he wanted to be part of the first EU team to make it to the NCAA tournament. D’oh!
He’s visiting Miami (Oh.) this weekend.
Miami was 14-18 (8-12) last season.
Another Martinelli update. Nothing really interesting. Some hazy indication that he had some hazy offer for Duke after the Elon coach joined the staff. No other mention of P6 offers and no indication that B1G status gives NU a leg up.