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Message: [QUOTE="Henny & Coke, post: 1360000, member: 323"] Well, this is officially the (SU-related) recruit decision that I understand the very least - after about 10 or so years of closely following this stuff. Rochester kid. SU was on him as early as 3-4 years ago, recruiting him first & often. A former high school teammate & friend plays for SU. Kid was participant at Elite Camp 3 years in a row. His mother badly wanted SU & publicly said so, even going so far as to mocking other schools. His godmother lives in Syracuse & is a big SU basketball fan. JB publicly (seemingly) alluded to SU having a 5th verbal commitment earlier this season that most people thought to be Bryant. There is a great opportunity for Bryant to play here & play major minutes, esp with CM going pro. Bryant is friends with many of the players on SU, even Malachi Richardson, a McDonald's AA who was helping to recruit Bryant to SU all last week. And those are just the pro-SU items. The anti-Indiana items include: Fact their head coach is often thought of as being on the hot seat. They lost in the 1st round of the NCAA Tournament this year. They have major roster turnover. They got into the recruitment of Thomas Bryant pretty late. This quote from Bryant's mom from article in just this past Nov (article saying SU was the leader for TB): [I]As for Indiana, Bryant said she and her son have been turned off by[URL='http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/columnists/gregg-doyel/2014/11/03/doyel-crean-failing-these-hoosiers-on-and-off-court/18439637/'] the Hoosiers' recent spate of bad news,[/URL] issues that have included failed drug tests and underage drinking. Six of Indiana's 13 scholarship players have been implicated in one or the other over the past year. "They have a lot going on," Linda said. "It seems like we went down there under false pretenses. They didn't tell us anything about failed drug tests or that type of thing going on. My son doesn't need to be around that stuff."[/I] I mean, I understand this more if rumors about Bryant wanting to be away from home are true...if he picked Kentucky instead. I'd def understand that. But Indiana? W. T. ? There has just got to be more to this story than what we are currently hearing. Just doesn't make any sense to me at the moment. Only thing I can think of is that, with news of SU not having spoken with Thomas for months, that the NCAA bs somehow got in the way of having room for Bryant. I don't know, that's really all I can think of right now. But, as it stands, the Thomas Bryant recruitment will now forever hold place of "#1 strangest SU-related recruitment/decision" to me. [/QUOTE]

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