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Brown update

No kidding. One of my best friends from my time at UK was from Big Rapids and when to Ferris St prior to transferring to UK.

Huge UM fan and had the misfortune of being the target of the entire fraternity any time something bad happened to the Wolverines. Also was at the 1993 Final Four with us and was truly conflicted.

Nice little town and nice little D2 school.

Something tells me he wasn't as conflicted in 2014.
 
Like everyone else, I hope its true, but leading for and committed to, is two completely different things !!
 
Hey Hailtoyourvictor, your not from Grand Rapids are you ? I spent sometime in that area one fall , which was really pretty , then winter started, OH MY was it Cold !!
 
1. Yesterday, Bacari Alexander (Michigan assistant) sends a tweet congratulating the Big Ten on a good recruiting season.
2. This morning, Matt Jones states he received a text message from an ATL number saying UK leads for Brown.
3. Sam Webb (Michigan's #1 recruiting insider) confirms the text was legit and says he does not feel confident about Brown anymore.
4. Bacari Alexander deletes the tweet from yesterday and is no longer following Jaylen Brown.


Read into that how you want, but I'm about ready to congratulate you guys.
Matt Jones received a text from who? Is the person reliable, a friend, and enemy, a rando m person trying to make him look like an idiot?
 
Actually a Michigan recruiting article said that an uncle who lives in the Michigan area called the coaching staff telling them that Brown had family in the area and would be interested in talking with them if they had interest. The staff said they had no inkling that Brown had relatives in the area. But the mother was a former MSU student, so I guess she doesn't hate Michigan.

LOL, if you believe that I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you...and if it is true they should lose him just for being that stupid.

I do believe - JMO - that JB was probably surprised that 7 guys left UK, and that UK did not get Newman or Ingram. Don't think he wanted to play with either of them. I think he probably had considered UK out of it because he expected Lyles and/or Booker to come back, and when they didn't he had to take another look at UK because there is an obvious spot for him now. So I would give him plenty of time here, as Cal seems to have done. He is essentially starting his recruitment all over again.

Also if it is true he grew up a UNC fan he may be waiting for the NCAA show to drop there before ruling them out - or in. I would not count them out at all, even if Michigan blew it with him.
 
JB is following only one coach on Twitter - too obvious?
Who's the coach? I just looked through all his follows and there were no coaches I saw. He does follow Julius Randle and Skal though...along with many other top players from other schools/NBA.
 
I looked on KSR and the message was sent by a random person who lives in Atlanta. Its probably a random person trying to make Matt Jones look bad and crush Kentucky fans spirits
 
Well, CatPhight ... since I'm not on Twitter and can't check for myself, and because this recruiting season has been so screwy, would you please just go ahead and state the obvious for us and tell us which coach Jaylen Brown is following on Twitter? Please.

This guy - plus he's also now following Jamal Murray


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Hey Hailtoyourvictor, your not from Grand Rapids are you ? I spent sometime in that area one fall , which was really pretty , then winter started, OH MY was it Cold !!

I went to school about 45 miles north of GR. I'm from the U.P. (the northern half of Michigan that no one knows exists) and GR is to the U.P. what Texas is to Kentucky, weatherwise. Terrible.
 
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FWIW, Cal has always been the only coach Brown followed. The only Michigan person he followed was Austin Hatch and still does.
 
But now it's May ! The whole month of April was one big April Fools joke!

Hah. That's what it feels like, man.

All the texts sent in the shadow of night from anonymous sources, insiders that were once confident in Michigan getting Brown now wavering, odd twitter behavior from Michigan assistants, UK fans slowly but surely getting their hopes up... and yet the fact that it's no longer the awful month of April is the only reason I have any real confidence at all.
 
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Thank you for the info. Wow, UK could be very VERY good with a slasher/scorer like Brown on the wing. You can't tell me a team with the #1 PG, #1 SF and #1 overall C isn't the favorite to win it all. And that's not even counting Poy, Lee, and Ulis!
 
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FWIW...THe Jamal murray he's following is not the real Jamal murray
 
Hopefully the rumors and momentum wind up being true. It does seem that this year when it got close to a player's decision there was usually a lot of buzz or rumors of him going to a certain school. Just hoping this holds true in this case as well. I am hesitantly optimistic about this one. Time will tell.
 
15-25 I'd say.

No doubt--with Walton, Levert back and healthy, and experienced gained by Dawkins and Abdur Rahkman, Chatman, Irvin, Doyle, and the space 4 man from Germany Mortiz Wagner. Throw in Spike Albrecht and this is going to be a top 3 team in Big 10 with Michigan St and Maryland (no I am not buying IU hype although Thomas Bryant will help them)
 
Hopefully the rumors and momentum wind up being true. It does seem that this year when it got close to a player's decision there was usually a lot of buzz or rumors of him going to a certain school. Just hoping this holds true in this case as well. I am hesitantly optimistic about this one. Time will tell.

Is that anything like "Spurts of consistency"?
 
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1. Yesterday, Bacari Alexander (Michigan assistant) sends a tweet congratulating the Big Ten on a good recruiting season.
2. This morning, Matt Jones states he received a text message from an ATL number saying UK leads for Brown.
3. Sam Webb (Michigan's #1 recruiting insider) confirms the text was legit and says he does not feel confident about Brown anymore.
4. Bacari Alexander deletes the tweet from yesterday and is no longer following Jaylen Brown.


Read into that how you want, but I'm about ready to congratulate you guys.

I know it'll be of little consolation to you if Brown does indeed end up picking UK in the end, but as much as missing out on Brown would bum me out, I'd much rather see you guys land him or any other elite recruits over the likes of Kansas (I know he already cut him) or UNC. I'm sure my opinion would change if I checked your boards, seeing as everyone talks trash, especially if you're successful, but I've never actively disliked Michigan. Pulled for you guys in the 2013 tourney and would have pulled for you the rest of the way in 2014 had you beat us.
 
It should be a no-brainer on Brown's part.

I'm no trying to get my hopes up since he;s still a lil of a wildcard, but things seem to be trending in the right direction.

He's the missing piece.
 
Now I await with bated breath for a new rumor to leak out, crushing what little new found optimism we've just re-gained just as the momentum seemed to shift back in Michigan's favor last night once we were stating to feel confident. This board desperately needs Brown. It's been in total meltdown mode post-Final Four.
 
I suppose you guys are assuming UNC ( Brown's dream school via his own words) is out because of the academic "scandal"?
 
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