http://www.dailypress.com/sports/dp-spt_recruitcolumn_0427apr27,0,7203478.column
The article makes it sound like MU set the no BE school condition before giving TT his release, instead of stating that it's a BE rule.
It was granted last week under the condition that Taylor, who averaged 10 points per game last season for the top ranked team in the USA Today Super 25 national rankings, wouldn't attend any other Big East school.
And Marquette should jump all over that to clear the air - we need to take aggessive postures in cases like this so it is clear to other potential recruits that we are fair, and that in this case it is a Big East rule. I mean, we should communicate that sentiment to the author.
Quote from: Daniel on April 28, 2008, 03:17:21 PM
And Marquette should jump all over that to clear the air - we need to take aggessive postures in cases like this so it is clear to other potential recruits that we are fair, and that in this case it is a Big East rule. I mean, we should communicate that sentiment to the author.
No one cares. This isn't some big controversy. This happens at every school when the coach leaves.
So it's an "oral committment to KU":
Tyshawn Taylor commits to KU basketball team
By J. BRADY McCOLLOUGH
The Kansas City Star
LAWRENCE | Kansas basketball received its seventh commitment of the 2008 recruiting class when St. Anthony (N.J.) point guard Tyshawn Taylor gave an oral commitment to the Jayhawks on Tuesday morning, according to St. Anthony coach Bob Hurley.
Taylor, rated a four-star prospect and the No. 77 overall player by Rivals.com, originally signed a letter of intent with Marquette in the fall. But when Marquette coach Tom Crean left for Indiana, the school released Taylor from his letter. Kansas had gotten in the game late with Taylor in the fall, but a door opened for the Jayhawks yet again.
Taylor, like Russell Robinson four years before him, chose KU over Georgia Tech in the end.
"He was going to schedule a visit to Kansas (in the fall) and didn't do it," Hurley said. "With this, it was almost like fate."
In Taylor, Hurley says, the Jayhawks are getting a player who knows how to win. He was the primary ball-handler for St. Anthony, which went 32-0 and brought home the mythical high school national championship. Taylor averaged 12 points, five rebounds and five assists per game.
"He's long, 6-foot-3, a very very good player going to the basket," Hurley said. "He's a good finisher, a very good pick and roll player, which Kansas likes."
With Taylor's commitment, the Jayhawks are now one over their limit of 12 scholarships. But if either Darrell Arthur or Mario Chalmers decides to stay in the NBA Draft, KU will be even.
Taylor, from Jersey City, N.J., will be the fourth player in next year's five-man freshman class with New Jersey connections – power forward Quintrell Thomas is from Elizabeth, N.J., and twins Marcus and Markieff Morris attend Apex Academies in Pennsauken, N.J.
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But I guess that it's a given that either Arthur or Chalmers will land in the NBA. But if they don't...*snicker, snicker*
Arthur's a lottery pick.....he'd be foolish to come back.
Quote from: 77ncaachamps on April 29, 2008, 06:33:12 PM
In Taylor, Hurley says, the Jayhawks are getting a player who knows how to win.
Huh, you'd think he would have wanted to play with a coach that runs a "winning" offense. He must have missed that in Buzz's pitch.
again, the quote about the commitment comes from wet nurse Hurley. I'm so glad his son was an abject failure in the NBA.
Quote from: ecompt on April 29, 2008, 10:45:28 PM
again, the quote about the commitment comes from wet nurse Hurley. I'm so glad his son was an abject failure in the NBA.
Which I'm sure wasn't related to the near-fatal automobile crash he was involved in.
I'm certainly not happy about the crash. But he was never going to be an NBA player. Too frail and he would have been abused on defense.