Diamond Stone's dad explains Maryland decision

[brewcity77]

That can be worse than a knee....

No injury will stop Stone from being a high draft pick.

The only scenario that has him staying at Maryland more than one year is he wants too.

Even if he sucks he'll still get drafted.  See Cliff Alexander at Kansas.  He was ranked in the top 5 coming to the Jayhawks and he was awful and missed the last 7 games because of a NCAA investigation.  Given all this he is still projected to get drafted between the late first round and mid second round.

Stone will get drafted regardless, but your own example shows that he could tumble quite a bit out of the lottery if he's a flop.

Off topic a bit, but Illinois fans must feel Alexander got a healthy dose of karma after his hat swap commitment.

[Canned Goods n Ammo]

That can be worse than a knee....

No injury will stop Stone from being a high draft pick.

The only scenario that has him staying at Maryland more than one year is he wants too.

Even if he sucks he'll still get drafted.  See Cliff Alexander at Kansas.  He was ranked in the top 5 coming to the Jayhawks and he was awful and missed the last 7 games because of a NCAA investigation.  Given all this he is still projected to get drafted between the late first round and mid second round.

Yes, but Noel played the majority of the season. If in the second day of practice, Stone has a season ending injury, he might not be a first round pick, in which case he may choose to come back and play as a soph and/or junior.

I don't say any of this as some sort of worry-wart kind of guy, I'm just saying that if Ammo was advising the recruit, I'd make sure they look a few years into the future and make sure they like what they see. 1 and done is a nice plan, but it can go sideways.

As far as Non-rev athletic programs, again, there is a lot to unpack. If Northwestern was spending as much as Alabama, had Chip Kelly as their coach, and had all of the same facilities as Bama, then you might see kids saying: "Hey, at the end of the day, Northwestern is just as good of a program, and a waayyyyy better school. I'm going there."

It's a bit of chicken or the egg. Is Johns Hopkins good at lacrosse because tops kids are going there for the academics, or is Johns Hopkins good at lacrosse because they have top coaches, good facilities AND good academics/school experience, so kids want to play there?

At the end of the day, in college athletics, there are kids on both ends of the spectrum. Some one and done kids are merely using school as a way to the professional ranks. On the other end, you have kids trying to use athletics to get them access to a top school.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

If that's the case, he should be goin' to Georgia Tech, I'm really a badger fan?

That's  a mean word substitution.

[Tugg Speedman]

Yes, but Noel played the majority of the season. If in the second day of practice, Stone has a season ending injury, he might not be a first round pick, in which case he may choose to come back and play as a soph and/or junior.

You mean like Kyrie Irving who played like 8 or 9 games against "buy teams" and then missed nearly the entire season, he was a lottery pick.

Fact is Stone will be drafted next year on potential.  Injury means he still has potential.  Not a problem.

What hurts him is if it turns out he's really not that good.  Does anyone really believe this will happen?  I don't.

[4everwarriors]

Stone will be as good as he wants to be. Hasn't had to work his ass off up to now. If that motis operandi continues, he'll turn out to be pedestrian. Bottom line is he's likely to get paid 'cause it's a big man's game, ai na?