no, the blurb did not mention recruits.

10/15/2008 2:16:44 PM

somebody pass out fliers to the sororiety houses stating free cocaine buffet at reynolds inside Derrick Favors cack

10/15/2008 2:44:41 PM

This needs to be on page two for motivation. Wouldn't it be awesome to see Favors sporting the Red & White.

10/15/2008 2:58:32 PM

Please, no more terrible photoshops.

10/15/2008 4:56:01 PM

http://www.wralsportsfan.com/ncsu/video/3738647/

Sidney Lowe seems confident. Around the 16:10 mark he says "hey we could bring in the top player in the country". You could take that to mean Wall or Favors, so the NCAA can't say shit about him talking about a recruit. He doesn't mention anyone by name and he could have just been talking theoretically when he's talking about highly talented players coming into the program and its effect on players accepting their roles.

10/15/2008 5:23:03 PM

UNC already probably has lawyers analyzing the verbiage that Lowe used

10/15/2008 5:37:17 PM

I posted the links for the other recruits on the last page. You people should definitely chant for the other recruits. This thread was created before we knew the others were coming.


They will all be sitting in a group probably. a general "we want you" to all of them may be nice.

10/15/2008 5:48:19 PM

Quote :

"UNC is gay.already probably has lawyers analyzing the verbiage that Lowe used"

fixed.

10/15/2008 8:52:51 PM

So John Wall will be in attendance for both the FSU game and the practice on Saturday. Show him some love guys. Let's get these guys to come to State!

10/15/2008 9:09:45 PM

fuckin' right!!!!

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=178&f=2515&t=3209452

10/15/2008 11:26:38 PM

bump for reminder's sake

10/17/2008 12:49:25 PM

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"it will probably make him feel like he is bigger than the school other schools won't do this and he'll be more impressed with their confidence"

Quote :

"In Los Angeles, there will be no hysteria, madness or anyone particularly grateful after UCLA Coach Ben Howland gets down to the business of coaching defensive principles and USC Coach Tim Floyd starts tutoring newcomers such as DeMar DeRozan and Leonard Washington about the rigors of scoring against, say, UCLA's defense. The Bruins will practice from 8 to 11 tonight in a locked-down Pauley Pavilion. USC will begin at 7 p.m. without TV cameras or students filling the stands at Galen Center to welcome a new basketball season. Howland has never embraced the idea of Midnight Madness, which makes the first day of NCAA-sanctioned team practices more like a televised recruiting show than a workout. What Howland wants when practice is officially allowed is, well, practice. "There's not much time until the first game," Howland says. "I don't want to waste a practice." USC's Floyd had held Midnight Madness the last three years. "We have a shortened calendar," Floyd said. "Our season opens Nov. 15 and that really doesn't give us much time to get prepared. I want to go have a real practice and not a carnival atmosphere. I guess I figure we're on TV enough, there's enough other stuff going on in our city now, we don't need it. We did it, we loved it, I just prefer to have good practices.""

10/17/2008 3:48:29 PM

bump

10/17/2008 11:31:09 PM

this is the most important day for wolfpack basketball in my tenure as a student here.

i hope people come out

10/17/2008 11:31:49 PM

i hope students read that technician article.

and i hope people put fliers up around campus.

10/18/2008 12:35:33 AM

hope doesn't get the job done

10/18/2008 12:43:45 AM

indeed. i'll be doing my part.

10/18/2008 1:44:00 AM

you could drop angelina jolie on his lap but it wouldn't change the fact that he'd be coached by Sidney Lowe.

10/18/2008 1:58:41 AM

ill be there

10/18/2008 2:19:38 AM

oh now you gone and done it.

10/18/2008 2:20:12 AM

Bring your $$$$ for the envelope stuffing.

10/18/2008 2:22:10 AM

bttt...I'll be there

10/18/2008 8:30:22 AM

headin out soon.... figured this was gonna happen, all week we talk about it then saturday mornin nobody answers their cell phones...

GO PACK

10/18/2008 10:40:25 AM

You're right, Sidney Lowe could even save him from that infested vag of angelina jolie

10/18/2008 10:40:41 AM

just woke up...hungoverrrrr ahh

10/18/2008 11:14:09 AM

well i was plannin on goin but i wake up and my ride bails on me so now im stuck at my apartment

10/18/2008 11:24:04 AM

We need to get the hottest UT sluts up in that coliseum to show Wall what kind of "perks" he will be getting when he commits...

10/18/2008 11:45:38 AM

ill check it out

10/18/2008 12:04:47 PM

just woke up, about to roll

10/18/2008 12:06:46 PM

I haven't seen either

10/18/2008 12:14:00 PM

how many ppl are in the stands?

10/18/2008 12:41:38 PM

prolly close to 800-1000


wall, favors, leslie, and someone i didnt recognize were all sitting together and seemed to be having a good time.

costner is crazy thin compared to last year.

10/18/2008 1:37:30 PM

on the far right side was bishop daniels, but there were a couple people between him and favors (parents maybe). daniels is a HS soph who just joined wall/leslie's Word of God team. we offered him recently.

on the far left side was ryan harrow, and then to the left of leslie were a few guys i didn't recognize, possibly from Word of God.

10/18/2008 2:09:12 PM

John Wall and C.J. Leslie got standing ovations when they stood up and flashed the wolfpack sign. Favors looked kinda bored but then again it was practice.

10/18/2008 2:23:08 PM

favors looked bored until wall showed up, then he perked up a tad. he didn't give much reaction to the people chanting for him after awhile, but then someone screamed "i love you derrick" or something like that and he started laughing.

10/18/2008 2:28:50 PM

Any of you take pics? What does Favors look like in person? Was he pretty stout?

10/18/2008 2:30:06 PM

nah he wasn't really that stout. looked a little leaner than levi watkins, but he's definitely bigger than leslie. not quite as beastly as hickson, but i'm sure he'd still dominate the paint if he came here. (there's a pic of favors at the top of this page)

[Edited on October 18, 2008 at 2:35 PM. Reason : ]

10/18/2008 2:35:04 PM

I heard he is an outstanding rebounder and can block pretty well. He really owns the paint supposedly.

10/18/2008 2:36:02 PM

he put the pic there man lol, I think he meant like size wise in comparison to the others

10/18/2008 2:36:26 PM

Yeah sometimes you can't really tell how a person is physically until you see them in person. Like some girls look hot in pictures, but aren't really all that when you see them in person. Then there's girls that are much better looking in person than in pictures.

10/18/2008 2:39:21 PM

I did like the brandon rush do that John wall had going

10/18/2008 2:40:08 PM

lol didn't notice he was the one that posted the pic. it was hard to gauge his frame b/c he was wearing a really baggy t shirt.

10/18/2008 2:51:07 PM

was it fun for them? was it fun for the fans?


or was it an epic fail?

10/18/2008 2:52:29 PM

I think they had fun, crowd really got into it when they were doing the wolfpack signs... I thought about it and wondered how I would feel if I was a player and the fans were doing that, but I think they started playing harder once the fans got into it.

10/18/2008 2:53:41 PM

i think the players all know how important these recruits are for the program, even if some of them won't be around when they got here anyway. i suppose the practice could have been viewed as boring by the average fan, but it's a practice. and once they got to scrimmaging the crowd got more into it. favors looked fairly stoic on the sideline but leslie and wall were more animated. favors smiled/laughed at times when people were chanting at him and stuff.

10/18/2008 2:57:16 PM

I would assume people cheered for the team as well right? If not, thats kind of sad.

10/18/2008 3:01:23 PM

yeah, I just over analyze everything, they only chanted for recruits during a break in action, once they were actually scrimmaging, the focus was on them.

10/18/2008 3:02:18 PM

It was a pretty good time, the scrimmages were fun to watch. Horner and Fells were really lighting up the 3 and Degand showed some flashes of quickness and he's definitely not afraid to go all out on that leg, but he was wearing a big brace on it still.

McCauley was hustling well enough but he was a little off with his hook, he picked it up toward the end and made some great assists. Costner looks better but he didn't get the ball all that often and his shot wasn't great.

After the scrimmages and everybody left the guys just started playing around, Costner made a half court bank shot throwing it over his head backwards, and Fells and Costner both made a few more running half court shots, but at that point the were just shooting fts and goofing around for the most part, even interacting with some of the fans.

One of the recruits had a ball and he threw it back and forth with a guy in the stands once or twice....

We looked good with some things but some things still need work, like ft shooting.

10/18/2008 3:03:03 PM

everyone was cheering for just about everything

10/18/2008 3:03:34 PM

they looked good today, but we could def use Favors.
i can't wait til bball season gets going. i'm so over football already.

10/18/2008 3:03:58 PM