conns7901 wrote:
long time guy wrote:
conns7901 wrote:
long time guy wrote:
Ayo isn't my "guy" either. Neither is Nick Irvin. I am however confident in saying that there is no way he would be playing for Illinois had he remained at Westinghouse. I also am confident in saying that he would not be on the radar for the NBA if he'd remained at Westinghouse.
Morgan Park has one player in the NBA right now and he played four games in a late season call up when the G league ended.
Nice trick. How many does Rolling Meadows have?
How many DI or College Basketball Players has Rolling Meadows placed over the past 5 years?
How many have Simeon, MP, or WY placed?
Let's compare and contrast and see what we get?
How many of those players were "developed" all four years by those schools. Morgan Park the number maybe zero. They are glorified AAU programs.
You do not have to go to a CPS school to play D1 or professionally. The numbers prove that.
Show me where I said that?
Since you asked i will provide info (some for you)
Billy Garrett did all 4 years at Morgan Park.
Talen Horton Tucker did all 4 at Simeon
Charlie Moore did all 4 at MP.
Norvell all 4 at Simeon.
Ayo did 3 at MP and when he walked in he #5 in the city and by the time he left he was #1 in the state top 30 in the country. Obviously he "developed" at MP
Antonio Reeves walked in without a college scholarship offer last year and left as an All State mid major player
Contrary to your belief they aren't taking a ton of transfers. They take elite transfers. By the way every school (including your cherished Rolling Meadows) takes transfers. I'm sure their coaches have scoured the circuit since Christie has been there in the hopes of finding guys to play with him.
Check the list of kids that will all of a sudden simply start showing up over the next couple of years just to play with him.
What you fail to mention (and will never mention) is that kids leave these programs also.
Morgan Park has two top 100 kids that left their program after their freshman year. One will probably play in the McDonald's game and the other is a high major prospect.
What you also fail to mention is that a number of kids that were placed in Div 1 programs were placed there by virtue of playing for those programs.
That's one of the main reasons that they fail to make noise once they reach college. Playing at these particular schools provided kids with a profile and status that the Rolling Meadows of the world cannot.
Never discount how important it is for kids to play Div 1 ball. Never discount how important it is for kids to play high level High School basketball.
Nick Irvin didn't "steal" Ayo from Westinghouse. The kid was going to transfer anyway. They didn't need to be persuaded. Kid wanted to play big time ball and Nick Irvin provided it for him.
I know this because I know one of the schools that he was considering. This particular school and coach didn't take him because Ayo had a rep for being a headcase that had a dickhead for a father.
He wanted no part of it.
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