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"^ You could say the same thing about Wall with us."

you could, but it would be incorrect. I have the feeling that Wall and Favors have drastically different personalities and goals.

Wall has some ambition in him that wants to be a star. But he also loves his momma and has some modicum of respect for the area.

Favors really doesn't care about being THE MAN, I don't think, at least not as much as Wall does.

[Edited on November 5, 2008 at 1:56 PM. Reason : I'll crap on myself if we get either.]

11/5/2008 1:56:11 PM

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"I'll crap on myself if we get either."

11/5/2008 2:38:09 PM

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" I'll crap on myself if we get either. "

11/5/2008 2:52:12 PM

If either come you must put photos to prove you really did crap yourself.

11/5/2008 3:00:13 PM

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"I'll figuratively crap on myself if we get either."

11/5/2008 3:03:16 PM

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"I'll figuratively crap on myself if we get either."

11/5/2008 3:23:01 PM

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"I'll crap on myself vicariously if we get either."

11/5/2008 3:40:19 PM

Melvin Tabb recently picked up an offer from Wake Forest. Wake joins ECU, Baylor, and Clemson in offering Tab. We have had Tabb visit State unofficially. Tabb currently plays at Enloe out of Raleigh.

Power forward
Raleigh (NC) Enloe
AAU: Carolina Raptors Select
Ht: 6-foot-8
Wt: 220 lbs
Class: 2010

Scout - **** - #15 PF - #73 overall
Rivals - **** - #13 PF - #52 overall


Schools Interested (known offers in italics)
Wake Forest
Baylor
Clemson
East Carolina
Boston College
Florida
Florida State
North Carolina
N.C. State
Oklahoma
Stanford
South Carolina
Virginia
Virginia Tech

11/5/2008 3:44:38 PM

We definitely need big men in this class.

11/5/2008 3:54:37 PM

Hopefully he turns out more like Chris Wilcox than Mike Bell

11/5/2008 4:06:19 PM

[Edited on November 6, 2008 at 11:50 AM. Reason : Already posted in other thread]

11/6/2008 11:49:32 AM

http://www.zagsblog.com/2008/11/04/favors-to-decide-any-day-now/

well, it least we're mentioned in this one, and says memphis and fsu are out of it

11/6/2008 6:22:13 PM

^they were never in iirc

11/6/2008 7:22:09 PM

ha in the replies below the article there is a kid from Seton Hall bitching.

[Edited on November 6, 2008 at 8:08 PM. Reason : no a]

11/6/2008 8:07:54 PM

We offered to LaQuinton Ross.

Rivals has him as a 6'8" SG, and #1 player in the class of '11.

Scout has him as the #2 SF in the nation.

http://basketballrecruiting.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?pr_key=68956&Sport=2

(apologies if this has already been posted, but i think the offer was recent, and i didn't see anything on the last few pages)

11/7/2008 10:39:12 AM

thats a HUGE SG

good Lord

reminds me of that guy from Florida a few years back.

i think with the next few years it all depends on Wall/Favors and how we do with them.

11/7/2008 10:41:19 AM

yeah, he's big for a SG, and he's only about 16 years old. He's been compared to Tracy McGrady and Kevin Durant.

Here's another little blurb.


http://basketballrecruiting.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=843390

11/7/2008 11:02:04 AM

^mom has been seen wearing a NCSU shirt

11/7/2008 12:05:51 PM

we've been on him for a while.

i like that they're not holding any reservations on who they recruit.

11/7/2008 12:16:38 PM

Sweet, someone else reads zagsblog. Zagoria is the absolute best college bball recruiting authority in NYC and the northeast...

11/7/2008 1:38:05 PM

The Ross offer is [old]

11/7/2008 3:40:50 PM

what do you expect from a noob? First he argues that criticizing the basketball team on TWW will hurt recruiting and then he posts some old recruiting news...typical.

11/7/2008 3:54:14 PM

Sorry "armorofsleep", I'm not a seasoned veteran like yourself with all of your 562 posts. Jerk.

I know that someone was offered last week, read the article somewhere, can't remember who it was and I can't find the article again.

11/7/2008 4:04:01 PM

I hate you guys so much. every time this thread goes to the top I get a boner. you would think I would have learned by now.

11/7/2008 4:05:54 PM

Did you forget we're NC State? You're going to have blue balls hanging down to the floor by March...

11/7/2008 4:26:38 PM

NC State, we hope for the best but expect the worst

11/7/2008 4:43:24 PM

Hi Bullet welcome to TWW and Sports Talk. It's good to have new posters. Yes the Ross offer is old, I reported it on here a good while ago, but it's always good to have a reminder about who we're going after and more discussion or else this thread would go nowhere until prospects actually visited or committed. Zagsblog said that Ross' mom was seen wearing a bright red N.C. State shirt at the Boost Mobile Elite 24 event at Harlem’s Rucker Park, in which LaQuiton played.

http://www.zagsblog.com/2008/08/24/laquinton-ross-has-options-3/

Ross would be a great pickup for us. I hope we can land him. I would have felt better if he had transferred to Word of God.

11/7/2008 4:59:36 PM

the lulz continue

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"“Right now, I don’t see Derrick signing on [the first day of the signing period],” South Atlanta coach Michael Reddick said. “But he could commit to a school sometime next week and sign before the end of the early period [Nov. 19], or he could wait.”"

http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/cfbrecruit/entries/2008/11/06/basketball_will.html

11/7/2008 6:34:26 PM

Some of the GT people are talking some shit on there, when they really have no room to.

11/7/2008 7:02:18 PM

This guy's been brought up on here earlier, and this article's over a week old, but I didn't see it here.

http://ncstate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=868672

7-foot '09 Russian Center Ruslan Pateev apparently made an official visit to Raleigh last Tuesday. He's got offers from ASU and Fl-St, in addition to us. A PP headline states that he's narrowed his decision to three, but of course, I can't read it all.

Hopefully we'll have Mr. You-know-who filling the center spot, but looks like we've got a possible Plan-B.

11/9/2008 12:10:35 PM

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"Some of the GT people are talking some shit on there, when they really have no room to."

Haha, we might as well shut down internet forums then. Especially anywhere State fans post. We talk shit to UNC all the time with no real reason for it considering they dominate us in every single facet of every major sport...

11/9/2008 12:27:06 PM

Yeah, but the GT fans are talking shit about our tradition. Like they have any room to downgrade us.

11/9/2008 12:46:52 PM

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"they dominate us in every single facet of every major sport."

not quite

11/9/2008 2:32:40 PM

^ but close.

11/9/2008 3:57:25 PM

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"7-foot '09 Russian Center Ruslan Pateev "

Ha I read that first as 7' 09"

11/9/2008 5:18:10 PM

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"We talk shit to UNC all the time with no real reason for it considering they dominate us in every single facet of every major sport..."

I apologize in advance for being an argumentative noob, but I think you have confused every facet of every major sport with basketball in general. The reason for talking shit (and it is a very real one) is that we generally hate them for their success and bandwagon fan base in basketball as well as the general beauty and availability of females that populate their campus (in addition, all the guys that go to UNC are gay, making it even easier to talk shit for most of nc state's homophobic redneck fans).

11/9/2008 6:08:46 PM

I certainly don't hate the ladies at chapel hill ... it's not like unc girls are off limits or anything.

11/9/2008 8:06:43 PM

I was reading a quote from Wall in my new Wolfpacker magazine that said he really values having his mom and sisters see him play, and that they are his biggest fans. That in and of itself was making it hard for him to contemplate leaving, and possibly staying close to home to play. Let's just hope that that means he's going to come to State rather than Duke.

11/10/2008 10:50:40 AM

I think the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has no actual information on favors, but they like to print articles about him every other day. Oh yeah, and the title of the article is "Basketball: Georgia Tech or UGA for Favors?"

http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/cfbrecruit/entries/2008/11/10/basketball_all.html

11/10/2008 11:07:40 AM

^I've seen them print that article probably 6 or 7 different times now...

11/10/2008 11:18:00 AM

^^best part is that the article still lists all 3 schools haha, just local paper trying to sway a decision

[Edited on November 10, 2008 at 11:19 AM. Reason : ]

11/10/2008 11:19:03 AM

We should call them out on it in the comments section. I've never seen the Charlotte Observer or the News & Observer blantantly try and push a kid to a school or two. Do they favor a school sometimes, yes, of course. We've seen that first hand, but they don't get involved in recruiting too much.

11/10/2008 12:14:18 PM

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"Go to State Favors and get fed the ball by John Wall. Just imagine what Beasely and Rose could have accomplished had they played on the same team. Hey AJC, why are you guys so blantantly pushing the man to stay in-state rather than just reporting which schools he’s going to choose? Every article is titled “GT or UGA for Favors?”, even though he’s considered other schools in the past, and while now his final 3 include UGA and GT, he’s also strongly considering NC State, yet you leave them out of the title. I’ve never seen a paper so blantantly try to push a kid to choose certain schools than you guys have. The fact that Sidney Lowe has had such success recruiting in the ATL area should show how serious a player NC State is in the recruitment of Favors. Will he choose State, probably not, but they are right there in the thick of things."

11/10/2008 12:31:28 PM

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"I apologize in advance for being an argumentative noob, but I think you have confused every facet of every major sport with basketball in general. The reason for talking shit (and it is a very real one) is that we generally hate them for their success and bandwagon fan base in basketball as well as the general beauty and availability of females that populate their campus (in addition, all the guys that go to UNC are gay, making it even easier to talk shit for most of nc state's homophobic redneck fans)."

That's fine. But right now they are head of us in Men's basketball, women's basketball, football and baseball. Those are what I define as the four "major" sports and the four biggest moneymakers (someone please correct me if I'm wrong).

I'm an UNC apologist, admittedly. The enemy of my enemy is a friend type of thing since I grew up hating Duke... but I'm also an unbiased State fan (objectivity coming at you!) who can realistically call things as I see it.

That said, a little Internet shit talking isn't so bad...

11/10/2008 12:40:57 PM

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"someone please correct me if I'm wrong"

you included women's basketball.

11/10/2008 1:27:19 PM

With the ESPN and FSN television contracts I'm sure it's a money maker for most BCS conference schools.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm one of the biggest haters of women's basketball out there, but it is one of the top 5 revenue producing sports in college I'm sure...

11/10/2008 1:42:33 PM

i thought it was generally a huge loss (bigger than I expected when I read this article that my mind may or may not have made up) but I could be totally off base here as I cant find anything to back that up. I swear I read that recently.

[Edited on November 10, 2008 at 1:52 PM. Reason : ]

11/10/2008 1:50:44 PM

Let's please not talk about women's basketball in this thread or any other thread for that matter.

Fuck the AJC by the way.

11/10/2008 1:50:50 PM

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"Even the dynastic Lady Vols basketball program, which this year won its eighth national title under coach Pat Summit, is financially touch and go. "Women's basketball has a chance to break even or make money each year," UT Athletics Director Mike Hamilton said. "The other sports, except football and men's basketball, do not."

and that's at tennessee.

11/10/2008 1:53:17 PM

I have one last womens basketball comment. The N&O reported on sunday that there was a girl from both Duke and UNC who could touch the rim, and that the girl from Duke could touch the rim with her left hand while getting a rebound with her right. Thats some exciting news right there!!!!

11/10/2008 4:46:55 PM