Chris McCullough - Forward - Salisbury School (CT)- New York, NY - SYRACUSE

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Re: Chris McCullough - Forward - Salisbury School (CT)- New York, NY
« Reply #380 on: August 02, 2012, 05:19:21 PM »
When you're a top 30 recruit without character or grade issues does it really matter who offers?  You can pretty much go where you want to go.  Just takes one phone call.  Who's going to turn a player like Chris down?

Agreed.   Now it becomes a question of, if a kid can choose any school in the country... literally any program he wants, will he choose SJU ?
How would you answer that question if you were him?


Lots of factors to account for.  Just like you are different than I.  Personally when I went to college I wanted to stay local.

Agreed.  Local vs. Getting away from home, relationships with potential coaches/teammates, track record of coaches in improving skills and placing in the NBA, weather preference, importance of hot girls on campus, there are so many factors that each kid will react differently to.

A good season this year with a few players showing you can be a star in NY certainly won't hurt.

Yea, I agree with you guys, lots of factors to consider.  Being local was important for me as well.
I do think that the balance can change when the truly elite programs get involved though.   It's one thing to choose to stay home and be a star rather than be in snowy Syracuse, or College Park Maryland.   But I think there's a special tug on kids when Kentucky and UNC come calling.    And it sounds like they have (or will soon) for both Lawrence and McCullough.

Hope coach Lavin and the staff can build a relationship, because that and location are going to be the best things we have going for us.   

Re: a place like UNC.

Harrison Barnes was #1 player in country and went to UNC and because the team was loaded he had to wait an extra year to leave.  Just have to wonder if factors like that come into play.  Do I go where I will be a cog in the wheel or THE MAN.

Barnes would have been a lottery pick had he came out

Higher than where he was picked this year?  I don't think he would have been higher.

I think he would have been at least as high as he was this year. Brandon Knight went 8th and three foreigners went right before him.
*wipes ketchup from his eyes* - I guess Heinz sight isn’t 20/20.

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Re: Chris McCullough - Forward - Salisbury School (CT)- New York, NY
« Reply #381 on: August 02, 2012, 09:12:51 PM »
“@NYPost_Brazille: Team SCAN's Chris McCullough hearing most from UCLA, Kansas, Syracuse, West Va., Rutgers. He will take several visits this month #boyshoops”

Not us?    I'm not reading too much into it, but that's a little curious.   Considering as far as we know someone from the staff has been out to see as many SCAN games as possible. 
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Re: Chris McCullough - Forward - Salisbury School (CT)- New York, NY
« Reply #382 on: August 02, 2012, 09:43:50 PM »
Lavin seems to try not to smother kids.
When you're a kid from New York and you do it in New York, that lasts forever!

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Re: Chris McCullough - Forward - Salisbury School (CT)- New York, NY
« Reply #383 on: August 02, 2012, 09:48:27 PM »
Lavin seems to try not to smother kids.

Exactly.
Hearing much and favorites are two entirely different things.
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Re: Chris McCullough - Forward - Salisbury School (CT)- New York, NY
« Reply #384 on: August 02, 2012, 09:55:40 PM »
Lavin seems to try not to smother kids.

Exactly.
Hearing much and favorites are two entirely different things.

Ditto

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Re: Chris McCullough - Forward - Salisbury School (CT)- New York, NY
« Reply #385 on: August 02, 2012, 11:11:51 PM »
Normie is going hard

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Re: Chris McCullough - Forward - Salisbury School (CT)- New York, NY
« Reply #386 on: August 03, 2012, 02:23:06 AM »
Normie is going hard

That traitorous prick!

Re: Chris McCullough - Forward - Salisbury School (CT)- New York, NY
« Reply #387 on: August 03, 2012, 10:46:17 AM »
Normie is going hard

That traitorous prick!

He's been called worse.

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Re: Chris McCullough - Forward - Salisbury School (CT)- New York, NY
« Reply #388 on: August 03, 2012, 01:20:57 PM »
In good company! Congrats Chris!

“@5starbasketball: Congratulations to @__iamCHRIS on being a 2012 Five-Star Basketball 3rd Team Summer All-American: http://t.co/XTqYLRRb

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Re: Chris McCullough - Forward - Salisbury School (CT)- New York, NY
« Reply #389 on: August 07, 2012, 07:29:28 AM »
“@__iamCHRIS: NC State & TCU is showing intrest” Good luck TCU!

“@__iamCHRIS: Commiting to a University is going to be the hardest decision of my life.”

Obviously a tough battle ahead for Johnnies. Trust in Lavin!

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Re: Chris McCullough - Forward - Salisbury School (CT)- New York, NY
« Reply #390 on: August 08, 2012, 05:07:13 PM »
34m 

Zach Braziller  @NYPost_Brazille   

Top rising junior prospect Chris McCullough will visit Memphis Aug. 27 and attend Syracuse elite camp Aug. 29, per his AAU coach. #boyshoops

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Re: Chris McCullough - Forward - Salisbury School (CT)- New York, NY
« Reply #391 on: August 10, 2012, 03:06:01 PM »
Adam Zagoria ‏@AdamZagoria

2014 F Chris McCullough will visit Seton Hall Sunday, his coach Terrance 'Munch' Williams tells @SNYtv

Re: Chris McCullough - Forward - Salisbury School (CT)- New York, NY
« Reply #392 on: August 10, 2012, 05:03:54 PM »
Adam Zagoria ‏@AdamZagoria

2014 F Chris McCullough will visit Seton Hall Sunday, his coach Terrance 'Munch' Williams tells @SNYtv

http://www.zagsblog.com/2012/08/10/mccullough-talks-seton-hall-syracuse-memphis-visits/#more-77878

For St. John’s coach Steve Lavin, McCullough might just be a must-get. He could anchor the program for a year before potentially going pro.

“It would be good because the Garden is one of the big stadiums to play at,” he said. “St. John’s, I always like them, I always watched them.”

McCullough also has a bond with former St. John’s guard Dwight Hardy.

“He lives in the same building as me,” he said.




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Re: Chris McCullough - Forward - Salisbury School (CT)- New York, NY
« Reply #395 on: August 12, 2012, 02:20:12 PM »
The thought of that is just so vile and disgusting.

Re: Chris McCullough - Forward - Salisbury School (CT)- New York, NY
« Reply #396 on: August 12, 2012, 11:19:20 PM »
I'm nauseous.

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Re: Chris McCullough - Forward - Salisbury School (CT)- New York, NY
« Reply #397 on: August 13, 2012, 01:04:48 AM »
Lmao

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Re: Chris McCullough - Forward - Salisbury School (CT)- New York, NY
« Reply #399 on: August 13, 2012, 09:46:06 AM »
There is a lot of time for Mccullough and Whitehead.

When all is said and done, I think we end up with 1/3 if not 2/3

Chris STJ
Whitehead SYR
Lawrence ? but think he ends up with us