Just an observation.
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Just an observation.
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I know, it is interesting that when Matt Mitchell's name first surfaced, people were automatically down on him because he originally signed with Cal State Fullerton. We then see some highlights of his performance on the AAU circuit where nobody plays defense so that everyone has great offensive stats and all of a sudden Mitchell is a major recruiting miss. He was 6 months removed from his best offer being Cal State Fullerton.Originally Posted by justaute
That context does help lessen the blow a bit but its pretty clear the staff wanted Mitchell more than the Caldwell kid. It still counts as a miss and the misses are mounting up.
yah...don't disagree. I'm hopeful the kid does well. That said, the contexts between Caldwell and Mitchell are a bit different. Mitchell was a high school kid and committed early. Caldwell has already played one year at JC. Given how our P12 brethren are recruiting, sans Washington State, I wish we'd be doing better. LK admitted as such.
In any event, it's all academic now. My pitchfork won't come out, if at all, until after the on-the-court results. Go Utes!
Plus, Mitchell certainly got a lot of interest from better programs this time around after the initial Cal State Fullerton signing.
that doesn't mean much. could have been a panic pickup for SDSU as well. Still our recruiting appears to be becoming pathetic.
It appears that way, but I followed what was happening with him a bit on twitter and most of the hype was coming from his AAU supporters and others in his camp. i don't know that he didn't have interest from other programs, but I wouldn't necessarily take what was hyped on twitter to be gospel.
I guess the point is that we wanted him and didn't get him. It's one thing to lose guys to Arizona and Duke. it's another to lose guys to TTech and SDSU.
He was probably afraid he couldn't hack it academically at Utah.
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