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freewillie07

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Haywood's post got me excited. I don't have anything in the way of inside info, but I was interested to see these visits marked by 247Sports. I assume there are other visits lined up that are not publicly reported.

Jared Jones: Sept. 14 (his first visit, followed by Georgia, Minnesota and Mississippi State)
Yavuz Gultekin: Oct. 12 (his first visit, followed by Minnesota, TCU and Nebraska)

Getting those two guys on board would go a LONG WAY to making me feel better about the state of this recruiting class. Would allow Collins to just concentrate all his effort on finding another lead guard. I hope the coaches can seal the deal with the new arena and get Jones and Gultekin to shut down their recruitment after visiting Evanston.
 
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xxxbobxxx

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Mar 12, 2005
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freewillie07 said:
Haywood's post got me excited. I don't have anything in the way of inside info, but I was interested to see these visits marked by 247Sports. I assume there are other visits lined up that are not publicly reported.

Jared Jones: Sept. 14 (his first visit, followed by Georgia, Minnesota and Mississippi State)
Yavuz Gultekin: Oct. 12 (his first visit, followed by Minnesota, TCU and Nebraska)

Getting those two guys on board would go a LONG WAY to making me feel better about the state of this recruiting class. Would allow Collins to just concentrate all his effort on finding another lead guard. I hope the coaches can seal the deal with the new arena and get Jones and Gultekin to shut down their recruitment after visiting Evanston.
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Heck, get one of those guys that weekend and recruiting probably gets easier. Feels like the first good get is that huge coefficient of static friction that we are struggling against.
 
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freewillie07

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Aug 22, 2017
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xyzbobxyz said:
Heck, get one of those guys that weekend and recruiting probably gets easier. Feels like the first good get is that huge coefficient of static friction that we are struggling against.
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Jones will have in-home visits with a handful of schools before he takes his first official visit, to NU. There's a good chance he'll know he likes NU more than the others by that time. I wouldn't knock a kid for taking all the OVs he can, but it would be great for him to start the class off early if he knows NU is for him.

 
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NJCat

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Mar 7, 2016
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xyzbobxyz said:
Heck, get one of those guys that weekend and recruiting probably gets easier. Feels like the first good get is that huge coefficient of static friction that we are struggling against.
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Got a good get. Overcame high static friction coefficient.
 
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cedricmelons

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Dec 13, 2001
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freewillie07 said:
Jones will have in-home visits with a handful of schools before he takes his first official visit, to NU. There's a good chance he'll know he likes NU more than the others by that time. I wouldn't knock a kid for taking all the OVs he can, but it would be great for him to start the class off early if he knows NU is for him.

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Rivals profile says he had offers from UNC and UVA. Is that accurate???
 
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Jonny2TheP

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Dec 11, 2007
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cedricmelons said:
Rivals profile says he had offers from UNC and UVA. Is that accurate???
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I believe he was a guy that was recruited heavily as a Sophomore in high school by all the big boys, but some backed off a little bit when he didn't develop as much as they had hoped. Still a great get for NU, but I think the early interest/offers from the blue bloods cooled off a little, so some of those early offers may have been pulled by this point.
 
Max_Power

Max_Power

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May 29, 2001
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Jonny2TheP said:
I believe he was a guy that was recruited heavily as a Sophomore in high school by all the big boys, but some backed off a little bit when he didn't develop as much as they had hoped. Still a great get for NU, but I think the early interest/offers from the blue bloods cooled off a little, so some of those early offers may have been pulled by this point.
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Based on the magic of Google with the help of the Chicago Tribune, his recruiting trajectory seems to have been halted by a knee injury and then it restarted when he recovered. Here is a story following a offer from South Carolina.

https://www.thestate.com/sports/col...carolina/usc-recruiting/article217281785.html.
 
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