Hearing Williamson...
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I think it is safe to say he is ours. Nice get for sure.
The only open question is if he will take the next two visits prior to making it known publicly.
The only open question is if he will take the next two visits prior to making it known publicly.
Personally if it is taking him this long to make a decision about the hometown school they need to pull his offer.
Williamson will announce his decision at 7 PM EST tonight.
We just need to land Watts and Igeihon and that will be a SOLID class!
Beat out Kansas ,OK, TT funny how the CM cant recruit media have been very silentHe commits to Louisville.
We land those 2 and this class is way beyond solid. That would be huge for Mack's first real recruiting class.
Also: Add David Johnson for a 6 man class.
Spots are filling up, better get on board.
I am extremely impressed. I thought Coach Mack would be begging 3 star players to sign until the FBI fallout is officially over. So far I was wrong and I couldn't be happier about that.
I dont think people get how big this is! We stand to have a top 10 or better class his first year in lieu of EVERYTHING that is hanging over our heads. "IF" CM can keep the current roster together with these incoming recruits we are back to a top 10 power way quicker than original thought! I was thinking 2021-22 or so.
He'll have to coach them up. The 3 that have verballed are 4 star recruits which isn't bad, but they will need coaching. They're not elite 5 star recruits where the coach only has to roll the ball out then sit down.
The video of Williamson is impressive, really fluid smooth shooter and looks very athlethic. Loved to see the two blocks on the defensive end where he was on the guy's hip while he drove the lane and went up and blocked it without fouling. He will immediately help this team next year!
Don't get too caught up in stars. Based on what I've heard, CCM goes after folks that fit his system. Dozens of examples every year where the "star" system is far from accurate....hell look at Mitchell.
Which fits what I was saying in another thread Cue. He's going after guys that will be coachable and willing to accept a role, but still talented.
This year, Mack's recruiting at or around the level that Pitino did. If that continues and he can coach anywhere close to Pitino, we'll be fine. But that's TBD...
I've been wrong about Mack being about to recruit with the FBI cloud, so keep that in mind. I am very impressed with Coach Mack's recruiting so far. However, I think this is going to be a very tough season. If Mack can hold it all together through that storm, and land this class, the program is going to recover much more quickly than any of us anticipated.
I said this before - I thought Mack would be begging 3 stars within the city of Louisville to come play, and holding tryouts, for the 2019-20 season. Happy to be wrong.
The key going forward, imo, for CM is the players buying what the coach is selling.
This season could be a perfect testament to his ability to do that.
It's a bit of a mad scramble this season. What better circumstances to see what he's got. Getting guys to accept the role their coach wants them to play will begin soon.
This season could be a perfect testament to his ability to do that.
It's a bit of a mad scramble this season. What better circumstances to see what he's got. Getting guys to accept the role their coach wants them to play will begin soon.
In his first year after having to deal with the sh*t show Pitino left behind. I look for Mack to recruit much better than Pitino did with his all star classes of guys like Telfair and Caracter.
I never overreact to the fallout that's predicted or feared after bad publicity. The American mind has too little attention span. 15 minutes is all it takes for erasure. And that applied to whether Mack or Pitino was in the basketball job.
I could similarly argue that it's never been easier to recruit to U of L. Not when you have to beat out the lightly recruited guys on our current roster for PT.
And I'll start to get concerned if Mack lands much better recruits much as I did with Pitino. In The Master's case, it was because he didn't know how to coach them. In Mack's case, it's because we don't know if blue chip kids are clean, at least not until the FBI is done.
You ain't a OAD program although some of our fans have that identity crisis...
I could similarly argue that it's never been easier to recruit to U of L. Not when you have to beat out the lightly recruited guys on our current roster for PT.
And I'll start to get concerned if Mack lands much better recruits much as I did with Pitino. In The Master's case, it was because he didn't know how to coach them. In Mack's case, it's because we don't know if blue chip kids are clean, at least not until the FBI is done.
You ain't a OAD program although some of our fans have that identity crisis...
