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Posted Monday October 27, 2008, About: Phoenix wing commits to Texas

I was referring to his first two years at Kansas, and the lack of McD All-Americans those two years. Solid recruiting classes, but it did take two years before he convinced Julian, Mario and Brandon to come to Lawrence. Calm down buddy, I was praising him.....as I'm a Jayhawk for life. lol.

Posted Friday October 24, 2008, About: Phoenix wing commits to Texas

Barnes is having to convince guys to play basketball in a state where high school football gets more attention the most college basketball. And Self has the same struggles that Roy had at Kansas, as far as convincing guys to come to the a lil town in the middle of nowhere. But already, Self has recruited more mcd's all-americans then Roy did, but also won a championship with that talent. Roy never could do that at Kansas, and his one championship came with a team of all Daugherty's players.

Posted Friday October 24, 2008, About: Phoenix wing commits to Texas

Not to mention that the fact that Michael Jordan went to UNC, and considering he is the best basketball player of all time......almost every teenager (even now, with Jordan being retired for over 5 yrs and most of these recruits having been 10 yrs and younger when Jordan was in his prime) wants to go there for that simple fact.

Posted Friday October 24, 2008, About: Phoenix wing commits to Texas

Roy didn't get the top talent at Kansas. He had several solid recruiting classes, that were focused on players that fit his style of basketball at that time. But he never got the "top" talent while he was at Kansas (except maybe Paul Pierce). And even before Roy got to Carolina, they were pulling the "top tier" guys with the likes of Bill Guthridge and Matt Daugherty. So, it has very little to do with Roy's recruiting abilities at this point, to get those top guys to go to UNC.

Posted Friday October 24, 2008, About: Phoenix wing commits to Texas

Probably the most football-crazed state? Is the most football-crazed state. And I agree as far as Barnes being a beast in the recruiting department. Big 12 has the two best recruiters in the country in Bill Self and Barnes.

Posted Tuesday July 10, 2007, About: Who's on 'next Vince Young's' list

MAYBE HE SHOULD GO TO TEXAS. MACK HAS ALREADY SHOWN HE KNOWS HOW TO SHOWCASE A QUARTERBACK WITH THAT KIND OF TALENT AND WOULDN'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT BEING MISUSED AS MISSOURI DID WITH BRAD SMITH OR HOW TEXAS A&M DID WITH REGGIE MCNEIL. NOT TO MENTION THAT WITH BASKETBALL ALSO A PRIORITY, AND KEVIN DURANT JUST LEAVING, HE MIGHT BE ABLE TO FILL A HOLE THERE TOO.