7th Woods, this is the player we are getting...ENJOY!
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Wow! Just wow! The epitome of a UNC type of player.
Thanks for sharing the great article.
Thanks for sharing the great article.
Gonna warn ya right now, this one is long even by my standards but I got a lot to say and dad gumit I am gonna say it!
Ya know you see it all the time now days, these really good looking talents that come from high school that tell us how much they value education but they are looking to package themselves together with a buddy or 2 they met playing in these all star formatted AAU or EYBL leagues. They are going to be one & done and they are going to play for the program that meets their demands of who comes in to play with them, how often the ball plays thru them, playing time had to be there, can't be a talented guy ahead of them in the rotation. Demand after demand is placed on the coaching staff for the school that kid finally commits to. The words mentioned by one recruit lately was "I want to use a school rather than they use me". And yet all the while draped over all that is the words of how much they value their education? One kid we have discussed a lot said that but that is the thinking of many if not most of the other kids with talent like this, they just have been coached in what to say the right thing so they can craft their "brand" for wider appeal.
To often now days the top 50 talents are making business decisions as if they are CEO of fortune 500 companies when they consider where they commit to play college ball. They have played so many games for so long in their minds they already know how to play, they are already better than anyone currently playing in college and they know better than a coach can who that coach they commit to needs to bring in with them. They know what position on the floor they will play, the coach is not suppose to decide what position on the floor they play. They know how often the ball should run thru them, they know how many minutes they deserve, and they know who should start for that team, they don't need a coach to decide that. Just bring him in and who ever he wants with him, meet all his demands while not publically acknowledging that you are, just Mr head coach, don't get in the way of that one & done dream. Mr head coach, just get out of the way and stay out of the way and your prized freshman will make you look good but act like a coach and you don't get my services or those of my boys.
And let a coach get that commitment and that schools fans go crazy with anticipation, oh how wonderful our program is, oh how wonderful our coach is, why we have the best coach in the game so of course all the best players want to play for him. And yet what did that coach actually do, well he agreed to stay out of the way and let that freshman dictate how that coach does his job. It is amazing isn't it, how that head coach gets all those kudos for deferring or at least agreeing to defer many of his duties to a kid that has never played the first game of college ball?
And of course the next wave of one & done kids watch this stuff and they see that coach that is willing to meet their demands and they line up to be next, let the current wave pass thru that program and they will become the dictates of the next wave. So the coach not only gets his guys now he has them lining up to be next and his recruiting is done for him. That coach wins a lot of games like this, his players may not be as well coached but he has the talent advantage and winning at any level depends on talent. That school's fans love it because after all it is all about winning, college fans live by the Lombardi creed, "winning is not the most important thing, winning is the ONLY thing". It doesn't matter to those fans what has to happen to get that talent in the door, as long as they don't have to read about violations coming at their school by the NCAA they don't really care what has to happen to get that kid, they just would rather not know about it and celebrate the wins they get.
And even if their beloved program does not win at the level they expect they have this next crop of great talents on the way so next year they will be great. They wrap themselves up in this blanket of "what a great kid he is", "what a great coach we have", and looky see, we told ya he would be a great student because he was 4.0 in that one semester he had to take college classes in? Now don't ask hard questions about that 4.0GPA as in how hard it was to obtain from this kid that came from one of those grade point factories that the NCAA has red flagged for turning out kids not at all prepared for college level class work. Ya see the narrative now is the ONLY school in the nation those types of questions can be asked of is UNC because UNC cheated and artificially keeps their players eligible by giving them false grades in false classes.
And what is it really, it is a sham and it is a shame that it is. One pf the power conferences has long been known for the creed it ya ain't cheatin ya ain't tryin. And yet every member school of that conference tries to sell us on how well their student athletes are being educated? Fans of schools in that league led the finger pointing at UNC when the NCAA got involved with us, look UNC is cheatin, UNC don't educate its athletes like we do, see, look at them, NO don't look at us. look at them. That is the only way UNC could win like they did, they had to be cheatin and now we caught them. Don't worry about how we are pushing out 4.0 GPAs to kids that could not cut it in high school, don't worry how our kids have ot take the SAT 3 or 4 times to get a qualifying score, don't worry that the same kid that could not get thru admissions at UNC was able to get in to our program, don't worry about what is really inside the box, look at the pretty wrapping paper?
And then along comes a kid like 7th Woods, talented enough that he could have played for any prep school in the country on scholarship. Talented enough that he could have played on a power program against the very best schools in the country and the very best competition in the country, schools that have most of their players getting major D-1 schollys every year. Heck, 7th could have went to Eau Clair high school, same school that turned out Jermaine Oneal and several other great talents. Heck he would have been 4.0 there no doubt. no matter than less than 5% of the kids that graduate from that school are deemed prepared for college level classes.
But rather than give lip service to education for their son 7th Woods parents really insisted their son be well educated, rather than allow him to play for one of those grade point factory power prep programs and not being well off themselves, 7th Woods parents cared more about their son and his education, they cared about the quality of young man he would become more than they worried about basketball. Not that they limited his playing basketball but he was going to get an education as well so they enrolled him in a private school where he would have to work as hard to cut it in the class room as he has to work on his skills to play ball. In other words 7th Woods parents didn't just talk the talk of education they made their son walk the walk of education. And at first it was not where 7th wanted to be, he was a kid, he just wanted to be with his friends, and he just wanted to play ball. he didn't care what a quadratic equation was and learning about it was not going to help him play ball any better. But his parents were not going to hear that and 7th was raised as a kid that did what his parents told him to do. Gosh, what a weird notion in today's world of talented ball players and kid that values more than just the dream of getting to the NBA, a kid that actually now himself values being educated because that is what his parents want for him?
I titled this thread "7th Woods, this is the kid we are getting, ENJOY" because we are getting much more than just a really talented kid, we are getting a kid that will represent this school and this program really well, as a similar kid named Marcus Paige just spent his last 4yrs doing. Now I don't know what kind of player 7th Woods will be for us, I don't know how many points he will score, how many honors he will receive for playing, when the NBA will come calling for him, or even that his head will not blow up and priorities change from those so well instilled him him by his parents. We can't know those things until some times has passed but I do know this much, this kid has been set on the right path much the same as Marcus was at the same age. I do know the groundwork is there for this young man to develop, not just as a player but develop as a young man matured and educated as well as well coached and his game expanded from where it is to where it can go. It is up to him to put in the work, both in the class as well as on the court and it is up to him to follow the principles forged within him by his family and I will bet on this kid no matter what to represent us well, to represent the program well, to represent his family well, and in the end represent himself well.
7th Woods, I am going to enjoy this young man's development, I hope that he will develop in to a great player for us but I fully believe this is a high character kid that will one day become a very successful young man that will succeed no matter what he earns a living at. We need more 7th Woods type of of kids out there, these are the kinds of kids that give me hope for our future, not just as a basketball program but as a world.
I am PROUD of 7th Woods already and he has not played his first game for us and I can't wait to see him develop both on the court as well as off of it. Yeah, I am gonna ENJOY, so will you, no matter how he plays next season, bet on this kid, he is worth it and then some!
Ya know you see it all the time now days, these really good looking talents that come from high school that tell us how much they value education but they are looking to package themselves together with a buddy or 2 they met playing in these all star formatted AAU or EYBL leagues. They are going to be one & done and they are going to play for the program that meets their demands of who comes in to play with them, how often the ball plays thru them, playing time had to be there, can't be a talented guy ahead of them in the rotation. Demand after demand is placed on the coaching staff for the school that kid finally commits to. The words mentioned by one recruit lately was "I want to use a school rather than they use me". And yet all the while draped over all that is the words of how much they value their education? One kid we have discussed a lot said that but that is the thinking of many if not most of the other kids with talent like this, they just have been coached in what to say the right thing so they can craft their "brand" for wider appeal.
To often now days the top 50 talents are making business decisions as if they are CEO of fortune 500 companies when they consider where they commit to play college ball. They have played so many games for so long in their minds they already know how to play, they are already better than anyone currently playing in college and they know better than a coach can who that coach they commit to needs to bring in with them. They know what position on the floor they will play, the coach is not suppose to decide what position on the floor they play. They know how often the ball should run thru them, they know how many minutes they deserve, and they know who should start for that team, they don't need a coach to decide that. Just bring him in and who ever he wants with him, meet all his demands while not publically acknowledging that you are, just Mr head coach, don't get in the way of that one & done dream. Mr head coach, just get out of the way and stay out of the way and your prized freshman will make you look good but act like a coach and you don't get my services or those of my boys.
And let a coach get that commitment and that schools fans go crazy with anticipation, oh how wonderful our program is, oh how wonderful our coach is, why we have the best coach in the game so of course all the best players want to play for him. And yet what did that coach actually do, well he agreed to stay out of the way and let that freshman dictate how that coach does his job. It is amazing isn't it, how that head coach gets all those kudos for deferring or at least agreeing to defer many of his duties to a kid that has never played the first game of college ball?
And of course the next wave of one & done kids watch this stuff and they see that coach that is willing to meet their demands and they line up to be next, let the current wave pass thru that program and they will become the dictates of the next wave. So the coach not only gets his guys now he has them lining up to be next and his recruiting is done for him. That coach wins a lot of games like this, his players may not be as well coached but he has the talent advantage and winning at any level depends on talent. That school's fans love it because after all it is all about winning, college fans live by the Lombardi creed, "winning is not the most important thing, winning is the ONLY thing". It doesn't matter to those fans what has to happen to get that talent in the door, as long as they don't have to read about violations coming at their school by the NCAA they don't really care what has to happen to get that kid, they just would rather not know about it and celebrate the wins they get.
And even if their beloved program does not win at the level they expect they have this next crop of great talents on the way so next year they will be great. They wrap themselves up in this blanket of "what a great kid he is", "what a great coach we have", and looky see, we told ya he would be a great student because he was 4.0 in that one semester he had to take college classes in? Now don't ask hard questions about that 4.0GPA as in how hard it was to obtain from this kid that came from one of those grade point factories that the NCAA has red flagged for turning out kids not at all prepared for college level class work. Ya see the narrative now is the ONLY school in the nation those types of questions can be asked of is UNC because UNC cheated and artificially keeps their players eligible by giving them false grades in false classes.
And what is it really, it is a sham and it is a shame that it is. One pf the power conferences has long been known for the creed it ya ain't cheatin ya ain't tryin. And yet every member school of that conference tries to sell us on how well their student athletes are being educated? Fans of schools in that league led the finger pointing at UNC when the NCAA got involved with us, look UNC is cheatin, UNC don't educate its athletes like we do, see, look at them, NO don't look at us. look at them. That is the only way UNC could win like they did, they had to be cheatin and now we caught them. Don't worry about how we are pushing out 4.0 GPAs to kids that could not cut it in high school, don't worry how our kids have ot take the SAT 3 or 4 times to get a qualifying score, don't worry that the same kid that could not get thru admissions at UNC was able to get in to our program, don't worry about what is really inside the box, look at the pretty wrapping paper?
And then along comes a kid like 7th Woods, talented enough that he could have played for any prep school in the country on scholarship. Talented enough that he could have played on a power program against the very best schools in the country and the very best competition in the country, schools that have most of their players getting major D-1 schollys every year. Heck, 7th could have went to Eau Clair high school, same school that turned out Jermaine Oneal and several other great talents. Heck he would have been 4.0 there no doubt. no matter than less than 5% of the kids that graduate from that school are deemed prepared for college level classes.
But rather than give lip service to education for their son 7th Woods parents really insisted their son be well educated, rather than allow him to play for one of those grade point factory power prep programs and not being well off themselves, 7th Woods parents cared more about their son and his education, they cared about the quality of young man he would become more than they worried about basketball. Not that they limited his playing basketball but he was going to get an education as well so they enrolled him in a private school where he would have to work as hard to cut it in the class room as he has to work on his skills to play ball. In other words 7th Woods parents didn't just talk the talk of education they made their son walk the walk of education. And at first it was not where 7th wanted to be, he was a kid, he just wanted to be with his friends, and he just wanted to play ball. he didn't care what a quadratic equation was and learning about it was not going to help him play ball any better. But his parents were not going to hear that and 7th was raised as a kid that did what his parents told him to do. Gosh, what a weird notion in today's world of talented ball players and kid that values more than just the dream of getting to the NBA, a kid that actually now himself values being educated because that is what his parents want for him?
I titled this thread "7th Woods, this is the kid we are getting, ENJOY" because we are getting much more than just a really talented kid, we are getting a kid that will represent this school and this program really well, as a similar kid named Marcus Paige just spent his last 4yrs doing. Now I don't know what kind of player 7th Woods will be for us, I don't know how many points he will score, how many honors he will receive for playing, when the NBA will come calling for him, or even that his head will not blow up and priorities change from those so well instilled him him by his parents. We can't know those things until some times has passed but I do know this much, this kid has been set on the right path much the same as Marcus was at the same age. I do know the groundwork is there for this young man to develop, not just as a player but develop as a young man matured and educated as well as well coached and his game expanded from where it is to where it can go. It is up to him to put in the work, both in the class as well as on the court and it is up to him to follow the principles forged within him by his family and I will bet on this kid no matter what to represent us well, to represent the program well, to represent his family well, and in the end represent himself well.
7th Woods, I am going to enjoy this young man's development, I hope that he will develop in to a great player for us but I fully believe this is a high character kid that will one day become a very successful young man that will succeed no matter what he earns a living at. We need more 7th Woods type of of kids out there, these are the kinds of kids that give me hope for our future, not just as a basketball program but as a world.
I am PROUD of 7th Woods already and he has not played his first game for us and I can't wait to see him develop both on the court as well as off of it. Yeah, I am gonna ENJOY, so will you, no matter how he plays next season, bet on this kid, he is worth it and then some!
Everything I've read/heard about 7th indicates he brings a warrior mentality to the game. With Joel, Theo, and 7th leading the way, I don't think team toughness will be lacking. I hope some of that attitude will rub off on Kennedy.
Actually, I had to cut a 3 paragraphs out of this one cause they limit you on how many words you can post at one time. I may be the only person on the rivals network that knows that...LOL
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