2014 C Goodluck Okonoboh (6-9, 220, 4.3★) | Overall Rank: 30 | Position Rank: 4 has trimmed his list, and removed Marquette from consideration. - Per Adam Finkelstein, ESPN - See more at: http://verbalcommits.com/schools/marquette#sthash.wPFPS9w1.dpuf
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It's ok, he was soft, wouldn't have fit into Buzz's system, didn't have the motor we need at MU....
top 30 player in the country at any position is a great get..., and we need a big. Would have loved to have him.
Only 6-9 not a big
Drat. Who's next up? Visit from the SA big guy next weekend. Let's hope it stays hot so it feels like home.
Quote from: augoman on August 21, 2013, 03:06:10 PM
top 30 player in the country at any position is a great get..., and we need a big. Would have loved to have him.
Cmon man; we all know that the guy was soft, played on the perimeter did not like to mix it up, so we stopped recruiting him. Besides, we will "probably" snap up a quality big later on. Keep going hard for the guards.
Quote from: willie warrior on August 21, 2013, 03:15:32 PM
Cmon man; we all know that the guy was soft, played on the perimeter did not like to mix it up, so we stopped recruiting him. Besides, we will "probably" snap up a quality big later on. Keep going hard for the guards.
We only stopped when he lost interest in us. This is one we lost out on....very different than Paul White.
But you can keep pretending they are the same.
I drove past MU today and saw the campus with lots of freshman coming in to go to school. I was wondering what do the students do in that cement jungle after they are left off? Who
ever Buzz gets to MU is a god send. You have to be a tremendous recruiter, that is for sure!
Quote from: BCHoopster on August 21, 2013, 03:22:29 PM
I drove past MU today and saw the campus with lots of freshman coming in to go to school. I was wondering what do the students do in that cement jungle after they are left off? Who
ever Buzz gets to MU is a god send. You have to be a tremendous recruiter, that is for sure!
You're saying it's hard to find something to do in a big city? ::) Wow. Maybe you should stay in the suburbs.
Anyone ever notice that Willie doesn't think we recruit enough bigs ?-(
Quote from: BCHoopster on August 21, 2013, 03:22:29 PM
I drove past MU today and saw the campus with lots of freshman coming in to go to school. I was wondering what do the students do in that cement jungle after they are left off? Who
ever Buzz gets to MU is a god send. You have to be a tremendous recruiter, that is for sure!
yep, because we are not Duke, Ky. or even Georgetown.
Quote from: BCHoopster on August 21, 2013, 03:22:29 PM
I drove past MU today and saw the campus with lots of freshman coming in to go to school. I was wondering what do the students do in that cement jungle after they are left off? Who
ever Buzz gets to MU is a god send. You have to be a tremendous recruiter, that is for sure!
Well most bars per capita in the country so there's always a bar to go to. No1 catholic party school so there's always something going on. We're a mile and a half from the beach so there's that right now. There's the casino, paintball, indoor mountain biking, concerts, I have a ton more things. Done being a hater?
speaking of campus anyone know if Kampus foods closed and has that CVS opened?
From what I understand, we lost out on Goodluck Okonoboh when he found out that Kampus Foods had closed and he did not receive any confirrmation for how soon CVS would open.
Quote from: swoopem on August 21, 2013, 04:46:22 PM
speaking of campus anyone know if Kampus foods closed and has that CVS opened?
Building not razed just yet. New apartments with CVS on first floor set to open in a year.
We wanted Goodluck but he decided to go to a different school....nobody would say otherwise
This kid is visiting next week.....clearly the staff wants him.....hopefully the visit will go well and he will verbal...if not...life will go on and Buzz will try to find somebody else.....
http://purdue.scout.com/2/1316396.html
Seriously Kampus Foods closed? Man, they were always sooo nice, allowing you take a back pack in and load it up with a 30 rack of Busch light in the store so no one at Schroeder saw you doing it right outside their store.
Yeah Pilarz is really boxing out all the underage drinkers. No more real underage bars or places to buy beer on campus. Now they'll have to go to westtown or national to get their fix.
Quote from: Strokin 3s on August 22, 2013, 11:21:12 AM
Seriously Kampus Foods closed? Man, they were always sooo nice, allowing you take a back pack in and load it up with a 30 rack of Busch light in the store so no one at Schroeder saw you doing it right outside their store.
I'd always walk around into the alley and load em into my back pack there.
Quote from: BagpipingBoxer on August 21, 2013, 04:32:02 PM
Well most bars per capita in the country so there's always a bar to go to. No1 catholic party school so there's always something going on. We're a mile and a half from the beach so there's that right now. There's the casino, paintball, indoor mountain biking, concerts, I have a ton more things. Done being a hater?
Don't forget Real Chili, which is the only restaurant holdover left from my MU days.
I remember resorting to stopping by Dany's on a Thursday morning so I could sneak beer into McCormick before they started checking backpacks.
Quote from: swoopem on August 22, 2013, 11:29:19 AM
Yeah Pilarz is really boxing out all the underage drinkers. No more real underage bars or places to buy beer on campus. Now they'll have to go to westtown or national to get their fix.
If they go off campus, they'd better watch out for intrepid JS reporter Don Walker. "COLLEGE KIDS DRINKING AT NIGHTCLUBS AND BARS!" will scream the headlines, for sure.
Quote from: BagpipingBoxer on August 21, 2013, 04:32:02 PM
Well most bars per capita in the country so there's always a bar to go to. No1 catholic party school so there's always something going on. We're a mile and a half from the beach so there's that right now. There's the casino, paintball, indoor mountain biking, concerts, I have a ton more things. Done being a hater?
Where is the indoor mountain biking? I must try it.
Quote from: Terror Skink on August 22, 2013, 12:53:09 PM
I remember resorting to stopping by Dany's on a Thursday morning so I could sneak beer into McCormick before they started checking backpacks.
The bottom of my golf bag was my favorite delivery vehicle of malted adult beverages.
Quote from: Sunbelt15 on August 22, 2013, 02:52:47 PM
Where is the indoor mountain biking? I must try it.
http://www.raysmtb.com/mke/
In the end does it really matter who lost interest? The fact remains the same: Dude aint coming to Marquette.
Just like if you dump a girl or the girl dumps you, chances are your just playing with your hand as the end result anyways
Quote from: KenoshaWarrior on August 22, 2013, 07:29:43 PM
In the end does it really matter who lost interest? The fact remains the same: Dude aint coming to Marquette.
Just like if you dump a girl or the girl dumps you, chances are your just playing with your hand as the end result anyways
If you do the dumping, hopefully you are playing with another girl. If she dumps you, then you're taking Rosie Palm to dinner
Quote from: KenoshaWarrior on August 22, 2013, 07:29:43 PM
In the end does it really matter who lost interest? The fact remains the same: Dude aint coming to Marquette.
Just like if you dump a girl or the girl dumps you, chances are your just playing with your hand as the end result anyways
There's always a big fish trying to get hooked even if after you take the hook out you throw that big fish back in the water.
Quote from: BagpipingBoxer on August 22, 2013, 11:44:46 AM
I'd always walk around into the alley and load em into my back pack there.
Well that explains the "food poisoning"
The fact that we can't land a decent big is pathetic. At this point, i'm not holding my hopes high on landing a top big recruit for 2015. Hopefully we can find someone from JUCO.
Quote from: Rockmic87 on August 23, 2013, 06:21:11 PM
The fact that we can't land a decent big is pathetic. At this point, i'm not holding my hopes high on landing a top big recruit for 2015. Hopefully we can find someone from JUCO.
Yeah, God our combination of Chris O'2Chainz and Davante Ox Gardner sucks. I hate that we can't land a single decent big, ever. It's embarrassing and pathetic.
Quote from: Rockmic87 on August 23, 2013, 06:21:11 PM
The fact that we can't land a decent big is pathetic. At this point, i'm not holding my hopes high on landing a top big recruit for 2015. Hopefully we can find someone from JUCO.
You're wrong. Keep focusing on Guards/Switchables and the bigs will come.
Quote from: MuMark on August 21, 2013, 05:20:36 PM
We wanted Goodluck but he decided to go to a different school....nobody would say otherwise
This kid is visiting next week.....clearly the staff wants him.....hopefully the visit will go well and he will verbal...if not...life will go on and Buzz will try to find somebody else.....
http://purdue.scout.com/2/1316396.html
Interesting, MU seems to be up against Purdue for both Ben Lammers and Jabari Craig. (I'm not saying that either or both players are down to just Purdue and MU, just that PU and MU are in the mix for both.)
We've obviously been out on him for awhile, but he committed to UNLV today
Quote from: TAMU Eagle on October 03, 2013, 11:36:28 PM
We've obviously been out on him for awhile, but he committed to UNLV today
I'm very happy he chose UNLV over the BIG schools.
Maybe he likes the bright lights of Vegas
With a 1st name like Goodluck, he could make a killin!!!! ;D
The IU boards had a couple of posters who were saying he was a lock for the Hoosiers.
Well he's always wanted to play for Lon Kruger. UNLV is hoping that he signs before he discovers that their billboard was a fake.
Quote from: tower912 on October 04, 2013, 05:54:12 AM
The IU boards had a couple of posters who were saying he was a lock for the Hoosiers.
The Ohio State boards said the same thing, especially with Lebron James on campus the same weekend they were hoping it would "close the deal".
No one is a "lock" for anywhere and many IU faithful thought he was going to OSU the last few days. Easy to pick a few posters that say one thing and ignore others that say something else. No one knows.
Quote from: willie warrior on August 21, 2013, 04:29:41 PM
yep, because we are not Duke, Ky. or even Georgetown.
Looking at Georgetown's recent NCAA history, I'd much rather be MU. All those bigs don't mean a damn for them.
Quote from: MUCrew on October 04, 2013, 05:02:19 AM
I'm very happy he chose UNLV over the BIG schools.
I was hoping he pick Ohio St so he would be a thorn in the side for both Indiana and UW.
Quote from: wadesworld on August 23, 2013, 06:32:32 PM
Yeah, God our combination of Chris O'2Chainz and Davante Ox Gardner sucks. I hate that we can't land a single decent big, ever. It's embarrassing and pathetic.
It will be after next year, when Ox departs.