Silver Maple
Postdoc
Posts: 3770
Loc: Westfield, New Jersey
Reg: 11-23-04
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08-31-17 01:41 PM - Post#232527
In response to Penndemonium
Easy, boys.
Always in motion the future is.
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Tiger69
Postdoc
Posts: 2814
Reg: 11-23-04
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08-31-17 03:23 PM - Post#232530
In response to westphillywarrior
I hear that he is secretly awaiting for a commitment from MH. 
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gopenngo
Masters Student
Posts: 487
Reg: 01-30-06
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09-01-17 02:15 AM - Post#232538
In response to Tiger69
I hear that he is secretly awaiting for a commitment from MH.
from My Hand?
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Jeff2sf
Postdoc
Posts: 4466
Reg: 11-22-04
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09-01-17 10:01 AM - Post#232543
In response to gopenngo
folks, i did the hard work of going through the followers of matt cotton/following list.
He isn't followed/following Jarrod or Jelani and they aren't following him. a commitment can't occur without that. and for those asking, it's necessary but not sufficient to ensure commitment.
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yoyo
Senior
Posts: 363
Reg: 03-25-09
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09-01-17 11:51 AM - Post#232550
In response to Jeff2sf
Fake News
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Jeff2sf
Postdoc
Posts: 4466
Reg: 11-22-04
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09-01-17 12:42 PM - Post#232552
In response to yoyo
BELIEVE ME!
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Penndemonium
PhD Student
Posts: 1896
Reg: 11-29-04
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 09-01-17 12:58 PM - Post#232553
In response to Jeff2sf
I have to say that is brilliant, jeff2sf.
Only caveat is that he wouldn't have met them on a campus visit (yet?) since school hasn't started yet. So the question would be whether he has taken a visit already and if so whether he is connected on social media with our sophs (Goodman, Betley, Brodeur, and co.). After the start of school, you're right that it's about Jarrod, Jelani, and Eddie.
Nice work!
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westphillywarrior
Sophomore
Posts: 196
Age: 43
Reg: 01-08-11
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09-01-17 03:36 PM - Post#232556
In response to Jeff2sf
PennFan10 is as connected as connected can be. I trust him.
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Silver Maple
Postdoc
Posts: 3770
Loc: Westfield, New Jersey
Reg: 11-23-04
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09-01-17 03:54 PM - Post#232558
In response to westphillywarrior
Considering what he's saying, I hope he's right.
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Jeff2sf
Postdoc
Posts: 4466
Reg: 11-22-04
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09-01-17 04:04 PM - Post#232559
In response to Silver Maple
pf10 is definitely connected. i did 11 minutes of twitter stalking that means little.
But to be clear, "good news" can refer to lots of things of varying levels of goodness. it'd be good if Shortie Johnson a 5'7 crafty point guard with a high motor plus a 4.0 GPA and 1600 on his SATs committed. But that might not meet my or your standards of good news.
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Silver Maple
Postdoc
Posts: 3770
Loc: Westfield, New Jersey
Reg: 11-23-04
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09-01-17 04:34 PM - Post#232561
In response to Jeff2sf
Maybe he's referring to the 'good news' of the Gospel?
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TheLine
Professor
Posts: 5597
Age: 60
Reg: 07-07-09
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09-02-17 10:49 AM - Post#232569
In response to Silver Maple
Jeff, in most contexts I'd find what you're doing as troubling behavior. In this one we thank you for your service.
I don't completely understand recruiting rules but I'm guessing that there may be limits with what players on the team can do. There would be no such limit with what another recruit can do since they're not enrolled.
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AsiaSunset
Postdoc
Posts: 4358
Reg: 11-21-04
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09-02-17 11:36 AM - Post#232570
In response to TheLine
You might be confusing booster rules with players connecting with recruits or other recruits connecting with each other via Twitter or otherwise.
Jeff has made a solid observation. Perhaps the "expected needs" relates to another player - perhaps Andrew Funk or someone else and not Matt Cotton.
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PennFan10
Postdoc
Posts: 3584
Reg: 02-15-15
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09-02-17 12:01 PM - Post#232571
In response to Jeff2sf
folks, i did the hard work of going through the followers of matt cotton/following list.
He isn't followed/following Jarrod or Jelani and they aren't following him. a commitment can't occur without that. and for those asking, it's necessary but not sufficient to ensure commitment.
It doesn't appear he is following any other players of current college teams, except J'Quan Newton of Miami. He IS following Steve Donahue and Joe Mihalich. To be fair he is also following Rutgers, Towson, LaSalle and a couple others as well. So what does that tell you? Hmmmm....
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91Quake
PhD Student
Posts: 1125
Reg: 11-22-04
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09-02-17 08:04 PM - Post#232588
In response to PennFan10
Matt Cotton is linked with Andrew Funk. This piece makes our chances with Andrew Funk sound pretty good.
http://phillysportsnetwor k.com/2017/09/01/big-5-re...
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besnoah
Masters Student
Posts: 803
Reg: 12-14-05
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2018 recruiting
09-04-17 01:53 PM - Post#232611
In response to 91Quake
Verbal Commitsâ€
2018 Roselle Catholic (NJ) G Ithiel Horton has received an offer from Penn.
Adam Zagoriaâ€
Official visits for 2018 Roselle Catholic G Ithiel Horton
9/8 - Lafayette
9/15 - Delaware
9/22 - Penn
Transferred to Roselle after St. Anthony's closed.
Edited by besnoah on 09-04-17 01:55 PM. Reason for edit: No reason given.
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besnoah
Masters Student
Posts: 803
Reg: 12-14-05
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09-04-17 02:01 PM - Post#232613
In response to besnoah
Possibly related to this:
Andrew Funkâ€
Thank you to all the schools that have recruited me, but I am very excited to announce my commitment to Bucknell University! #GoBison
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mrjames
Professor
Posts: 6062
Loc: Montclair, NJ
Reg: 11-21-04
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Re: 2018 recruiting
09-04-17 08:05 PM - Post#232623
In response to besnoah
FWIW, my wife (taught at St. Ant's until it closed) raves about Ithiel's character and academic drive. Obviously, that's not a basketball scouting report, but assuming that side is there, Penn would be getting an amazing kid.
She was very excited to hear that Penn was on his list - said it was very well deserved.
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Mike Porter
Postdoc
Posts: 3618
Loc: Los Angeles, CA
Reg: 11-21-04
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2018 recruiting
09-05-17 07:52 AM - Post#232624
In response to mrjames
Disappointing another target didn't choose Penn (not that there is any shame to losing a kid to Bucknell since they are a great program). That said, it is kind of interesting that Funk spoke so highly of Penn in that last article, but hadn't visited officially yet and would be visiting "in the near future". Then, without an official visit he picked Bucknell.
That could of course simply be that he loved Bucknell and wanted to go for it (new offer to Horton seems to indicate that this wasn't expected). I have no inside info whatsoever, but I wonder where he was in priority for Penn staff because we have a lot of offers to wings. For now I'll just be curious to see how it all plays out...
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DJ Jazzy Jeff
Freshman
Posts: 58
Reg: 07-22-16
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Re: 2018 recruiting
09-05-17 09:32 AM - Post#232628
In response to mrjames
I appreciate the off the court scouting report on Mr. Horton. It obviously begs the question of, what is the on the court scouting report? Now I can read between the lines if you want and say, if all we're talking about is his personality, then maybe he's not THE one we're waiting for. This reminds me of a time in my single life (before Mrs. Jazzy Jeff) when I was once asked to go on a blind date with a friend of my friend's girlfriend. Being a young man, my first question was "how does she look"? The response was, "she's a nice girl and has a great personality"? I immediately declined the date... Are we in the same situation here?
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