The Blue Board

NC State > Kansas
KSU < UConn
Pitt < Texas
WVU > Miami
Arkansas > Boise St, I guess

Yes.

Wouldn't you?

WVU/Arkansas/Miami/BSU should not be in any SOS discussions this year. Congrats, the crappy teams on your schedule are better than the ones on ours.

NC State = Kansas
KSU = UConn = Pitt = Texas

There's not a lot of difference between the schedules IMO, other than differences in travel.

This is a pretty weak schedule for MSU.

You guys feeling good about Parker? I didn't think Michigan was going to get McGary with Duke after him. I believe Coach K made an in-home visit the week before his decision. I thought that locked him down. I have more faith in Beilien locking down his top targets than I did before.

Heard its about 51/49 leaning towards izzo, he'll be deciding in December

Total kick in the nuts. Broke my heart when I heard what a great visit he had to Durham.

I said it a year ago after our third straight win over Sparty ... Izzo's slowing down and his best years are behind him. He's like the Lloyd Carr of college basketball and Beilein is his Tressel.

I feel that we'll likely land him. He's been leaning green for a long time. Has a very familiar feel to Izzo's battle against Crean for Gary Harris. Izzo has yet to miss on one of his 'zoned in' targets, so I'm not inclined to think he will now (FTR, the closest he probably ever came to missing on a 'zoned in' target was probably Manny Harris). There have been rumblings for a long time that Izzo would pull out Parker, and those rumors heated up after Izzo's in-home visit with him (which was after Coach K's). Parker's parents both very much like Izzo, and Parker is a big fan too. Drake Harris also has somewhat regular interactions with Parker, and had already been a friend of his. Now he is recruiting him pretty hard.

Cliff Alexander (the 2014 recruit I mentioned in my other post) is a top 5 guy in his class, and has stated that MSU leads for him. He is good friends with Jabari, and they are on the same AAU team. There have been rumors that they have essentially recruited each other over the course of the process. Alexander cited Jabari for one of the main reasons he was interested in MSU in the first place.

Bold statement about a coach that can't get it done in March. If he can't put up a run soon recruits are going to stop going to Michigan.

So much disdain in your tone when discussing Beilein. You really don't like him. It must have crushed your soul to lose 3 of the last 4, and have to share a conference crown with him.

Must be tough.

Izzo's slowing down? From 2010-2012, he had ESPN's 10th, 17th, and 9th ranked recruiting classes. He's got a good shot at filling his lone 2013 opening with arguably the best player in the nation. He is recruiting so well in 2014 that he has a good shot at landing three 5* players (#2, #4, and #7 in the nation, per 247), and that doesn't even count 4* Drake Harris, who he helped Dantonio secure.

Izzo isn't slowing down, he's speeding up, and I think the two main motivators for that have been Draymond and B_____ getting UM back up to a decent level.