After Michael Jordan turned down Duke

[albanycuse]

Coach K sent him this.

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[orangefog]

Wow, what a jerk.

 

[CuseFaninVT]

Didn't he have anyone proof read this before he sent it? Left a word out there. - "on whatever (team) you choose." Apparently USMA boys aren't sooo smart.

 

[Marsh01]

They have shown this letter before. Pretty neat

 

[albanycuse]

They have shown this letter before. Pretty neat

F Marsh01 ; )


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[Zelda Zonk]

A cheap hedge against a decommit? Not as if K actually sat down with a legal pad and wrote this himself... "Classy move?" I'm sure this is very common in recruiting. it's just "neat" that it's Jordan and K. What i think is most "neat" is that Jordan lived on Gordan.

Michael: Sounds like a good dentist.
Dwight: Oh yeah...
Michael: What's his name?
Dwight: (lying) Crentist.
Michael: Your dentist's name is Crentist?

 

[CuseTroop]

A cheap hedge against a decommit? Not as if K actually sat down with a legal pad and wrote this himself... "Classy move?" I'm sure this is very common in recruiting. it's just "neat" that it's Jordan and K. What i think is most "neat" is that Jordan lived on Gordan.

Michael: Sounds like a good dentist.
Dwight: Oh yeah...
Michael: What's his name?
Dwight: (lying) Crentist.
Michael: Your dentist's name is Crentist?

I bet Cal doesnt send these out

 

[HoustonCuse]

I bet Cal doesnt send these out

Cal doesn't recruit.

 

[jekelish]

Does anyone know if JB does similar stuff? I'm sure when the kids eliminate us and do it via phone, he wishes them well, just curious.

That's pretty cool of K. I have to assume he still does this.

 

[Marsh01]

I bet Cal doesnt send these out

Cal sends out copies of cancelled checks and says "sorry but this could have had your name on it"

 

[HoustonCuse]

Does anyone know if JB does similar stuff? I'm sure when the kids eliminate us and do it via phone, he wishes them well, just curious.

That's pretty cool of K. I have to assume he still does this.

Nope. JB just unfriends them on facebook.

 

[CuseTroop]

Cal sends out copies of cancelled checks and says "sorry but this could have had your name on it"

haha awesome

 

[jncuse]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I want stuff to feed my hate for Duke.

 

[JohnCuse44]

Interesting and all by why is this relevant?

 

[armory]

Seems like something every team gives every recruit that commits elsewhere... or do i have an excessively optimistic perspective of the human race?

 

[cuseinseattle]

Does anyone know if JB does similar stuff? I'm sure when the kids eliminate us and do it via phone, he wishes them well, just curious.

That's pretty cool of K. I have to assume he still does this.

A friend of mine went to Syracuse and was a decent high school basketball player. He tried out for Syracuse and almost made the team as a walk on but was cut. He did become good friends with Ryan Blackwell and I want to say Etan Thomas. Anyway Blackwell told him that Boeheim called him after he commited to Illinois and said basically the same thing that is in this letter. Blackwell claimed when the coach at Illinois got fired he decided to go to Syracuse because it was his 2nd choice and the staff was so nice when he decided to go elsewhere. Most kids gets these letters. My brother is a college basketball coach and you spend all this time watching the kid play and then you meet his parents and you really get to know them. I know my brother takes it hard when someone basically says they like someone else better than you but he always says something to the tune of I hope it works out for him because he is a really great kid. I don't think it's bullshit or anything.

 

[PoppyHart]

This was in a pre-internet, pre-cell phone era. I really doubt it's done anymore. Phone calls/texts likely suffice.

 

[strumpfasaurus]

The classiest thing coach K did was allow Mike G. to come here. A player transferring to your future rival, if he said no it would have been understandable but he did not fight it at all.