Kenny Anderson: "I wanted to go to Syracuse."

[GooseMutt]

Can you imagine Kenny throwing all the ooops to ALL of those guys?
Plus Dave Johnson & Richie Manning.
He probably would have averaged a double/double for the entire season.
Sigh.

Wonder if he ever thinks about it

 

[Eric15]

In one of the big profiles of Boeheim during the 1996 Final Four run, Anderson's mom was quoted as saying of JB and Syracuse: "It's cold there, and that man is too."

I mean, that's probably accurate. That was before Boeheim was cool.

 

[OrangeDW]

3 lottery picks, another first rounder and a darn good college player in Thompson in one lineup. That talent would have been unreal.

Yeah, and not only 3 lottery picks but 3 top 3 picks!

Plus Dave Johnson off the bench. Loaded.

 

[CusefanATL]

In one of the big profiles of Boeheim during the 1996 Final Four run, Anderson's mom was quoted as saying of JB and Syracuse: "It's cold there, and that man is too."

ugh. I have so many things to say about this. But I am going to refrain from saying anything negative about a single mom.

 

[Brooky03]

ugh. I have so many things to say about this. But I am going to refrain from saying anything negative about a single mom.

 

[Toga]

1989-90

Anderson
Thompson
Coleman
Owens
Ellis

1990 NC

1990 NBA title

 

[CusefanATL]

Yeah, and not only 3 lottery picks but 3 top 3 picks!

Plus Dave Johnson off the bench. Loaded.

UK kind of had 3 top 3 picks over 2 years... but 1 never suited up. and the 3 didnt play on the same team as 1990 would have.

and 1990 was back in the days that college wasnt a 1 and done stepping stone.

 

[IthacaMatt]

That 1990 team would have been insane with Kenny Anderson instead of Michael Edwards.

They would have been national champions.

 

[gilardino]

No doubt we would have faced off with UNLV in the finals. That 90 team bowed out to the Gophers in the 90 sweet 16.

I remember Kenny Anderson as a junior saying "Billy Owens and I will be rocking the Carrier Dome"

It was set for Kenny to take over for Sherman.

I still feel the 89 team was the best team we ever had.

 

[Madbiker]

“I wanted to go to Syracuse University, but my mother went to visit Georgia Tech with me, and on the way home she said: You’re going to Georgia Tech. Coach Cremins will take care of you,” he says in the film.

Kenny Anderson’s relationship with his mother (and his money) profiled in new film ‘Mr. Chibbs’

Cremins was a used car salesman. A great one. Could sell ice to Eskimos. A real con man.

 

[jordoo]

Thomas Bryant's mother liked us - lotta good that did.

Yep and he wanted to be much further than an hour away from Rochester.

 

[cuse10]

Cut the check.

I hope some of you in the recruiting threads understand that it isn't these kids making the decisions in some of these cases. Even if he wanted to go to SU and committed, his mother could have stopped it from happening by not signing the NLI.

 

[RF2044]

Cut the check.

I hope some of you in the recruiting threads understand that it isn't these kids making the decisions in some of these cases. Even if he wanted to go to SU and committed, his mother could have stopped it from happening by not signing the NLI.

On the other hand, I hope some of you in the recruiting threads understand that sometimes it IS these kids making the decisions. See: Thompson, Taurean -- who wanted to attend SU all along, but had to fight an uphill battle with his mother who wanted him to go anywhere but Syracuse.

There's no hard and fast rule. There are examples of kids making the decisions by themselves, families being influential, handlers from outside the family being influential, and every point in between on the continuum.

 

[Briancuse]

Cut the check.

I hope some of you in the recruiting threads understand that it isn't these kids making the decisions in some of these cases. Even if he wanted to go to SU and committed, his mother could have stopped it from happening by not signing the NLI.

At the end of the day its the kids decision, remember when Landon Collins picked Bama, and his mom wanted him to go to Lsu badly, and disagreed on national tv.

 

[realorange]

At the end of the day its the kids decision, remember when Landon Collins picked Bama, and his mom wanted him to go to Lsu badly, and disagreed on national tv.

I think you have already been given examples of when that is not true.

 

[Briancuse]

I think you have already been given examples of when that is not true.

Your signing your Loi, they can't physically hold you down and force you to sign it.

 

[realorange]

Your signing your Loi, they can't physically hold you down and force you to sign it.

Calling Kenny Anderson.

 

[iommi]

And isn't Cremmins on the NCAA sanctions committee or whatever it's called. That says a lot about the NCAA.

 

[Briancuse]

Calling Kenny Anderson.

He could have come to Su, he chose not too.

 

[MSOrange]

And isn't Cremmins on the NCAA sanctions committee or whatever it's called. That says a lot about the NCAA.

Yes he is and he recused himself from our case because he and JB are friends.

 

[JOC44]

Calling Kenny Anderson.

And calling Sean Higgins.

 

[Jake]

That 1990 team would have been insane with Kenny Anderson instead of Michael Edwards.

I recall Vitale saying something to the effect "if Syracuse gets Kenny Anderson, everyone else is playing for second place", before he announced.

Everyone thought we were getting him. Kenny too apparently.

 

[Briancuse]

If anyone is in the Nyc are, Kenny Anderson is going to be on Daily news live on sny in a bit.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

Your signing your Loi, they can't physically hold you down and force you to sign it.

Parents must sign as well

 

[Briancuse]

Parents must sign as well

Most parents will sign if that is really where the kid wants to go.