Comments on: Basketball: Big recruiting weekend approaches — Bird, Lee and Gordon to visit Berkeley on Sept. 1

By: Rey from Napa

Rey from Napa — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 13:05:53 +0000

Why dont we convert the upstairs hoop floors in the RSF into practice only facilities?

By: Juancho

Juancho — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 02:37:38 +0000

Steve jalapenos. Agree with eric.

By: SteveNTexas

SteveNTexas — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 02:04:27 +0000

Yoda – weren’t you one of the posters saying Cal had a better program than IU a couple of years ago?

I may have been wrong about the practice facilities if so I’m sorry but Cal has alot to attract players- that’s the major point.
I mention IU because I like them also and there is a wealth of info on the team and its recruiting.
Sorry you’re so angry… but you probably won’t get help for that here.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:11:46 +0000

By the way, I think this is the most “buzz” for basketball recruiting I have seen in years. That counts for something, right?

By: Yoda

Yoda — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:36:27 +0000

Steve, you’re still full of it. Cal’s facilities for basketball are okay, not particularly good. Cal needs a practice facility, something most Pac-12 schools have or are building. But hey, any chance to blame the coach you don’t like and to tout Indiana, where there is nothing else at all to do. I get that.

By: steveNTexas

steveNTexas — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:13:25 +0000

Juancho -considering your diet you probably disagree with everyone after a meal.

Que prefieres? Jalapeno,. Habanero o Cayennes?

Anyway we do have the facilities, we do have a great campus, conference and media market.

The reason the North Carolinas,Kansas’ Indianas, Dukes are better programs is because they attracted coaches that made basketball important. It may be a chicken and the egg argument Was Indiana naturally a basketball state or did Branch McCracken then Knight then Crean make it such?

By: steveNTexas

steveNTexas — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:02:44 +0000

Well Crawford now you’ve pushed me to the other side. Calipari is sort of like a minor league coach. He likes the “one and done” kid and to Calipari education is of little value. I wouldn’t want that for us.

There is a large middle ground however between the Kentucky model and Montgomery’s results the past few years.

Crean at IU is big on education- he probably won’t be able to keep Zeller another year after this however.

By: Crawford

Crawford — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 06:31:55 +0000

If John Calipari were the coach at Cal we’d land all three….

By: Juancho

Juancho — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 03:07:47 +0000

After eating dinner i disagree with myself. Why not dream and think that maybe these three all end up at Cal. Why the heck not. Great school great facilities. Gordon if you read this think to yourself how you and kline can bring all the spotlight to cal.

By: Juancho

Juancho — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 02:19:08 +0000

This quote is from jabari bird via the seattle times blog. Talking about playing with Gordon. Im more worried gordon will be visiting to push washington on sept 1.

“Yeah, we definitely mentioned it to each other all the time,” Bird said. “We hopefully plan on going to the same school on the college level, which is one of the reasons why Washington is one of my favorites.”