Tobias Harris Announcement Open Thread
by Sean Keeley on Nov 19, 2009 5:30 PM EST
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PrintBecause you'll need a place to vent and talk about how overrated he is when he chooses Tennessee. Or to talk about how amazing he is if he chooses Syracuse.
Announcement on or around 6pm ET.
Update (5:51pm) - "Tons" of Syracuse fans at ESPNZone for the announcement. Now I only hope Tobias chooses SU just so we can avoid a full-scale riot in Times Square.
Update (5:55pm) - Still no sign of Tobias. That's fine, ESPNU is still showing the Penn State/UNC-Wilmington game. Still some time left in that one so we might be sitting here for a while.
Update (5:57pm) - Tobias Harris has arrived. I repeat, Tobias has arrived. Some ""Choose Cuse'' chants go up.
Update (6:12pm) - Penn State just got beat, freeing up ESPNU. Let's see if the day can get even better...
Update (6:22pm) - And it's Tennessee. Well...if Syracuse fans need a reason to feel good, I've actually give them four: Fab Melo, Dion Waiters, C.J. Fair and Baye Moussa Kieta
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is there a place to watch the press conference online?
For the record
this will be the first time I’ve ever watched a signing presser, for both hoops and gridiron.
Few things irk me more than those goobers from South who tie up sports talk radio shows asking about the progress on some 3-star OT from backwoodseyville Arkansas
The 'Cuse is in tha house, oh my God oh my God.
i wish there was a place to watch online, I’m stuck at work too.
I checked channelsurfing and justin.tv… no luck
I'm guessing the U is wating for this epic wilmington/penn st game to finish?
The 'Cuse is in tha house, oh my God oh my God.
One of the schools…SU or UTenn knows tat they DIDN’T get a letter of intent from Harris. You would think the news would be out by now.
ESPNU
http://www.justin.tv/atlbossplaya1117
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Either way Cuse will be fine with or without him. I’m hoping cuse can grab him though, following him on twitter he only ever talked to the cuse players on there. Might be something…
by KyleMcintoshStiffarm on Nov 19, 2009 5:43 PM EST reply actions
Everyone was hearing louisville for Fab Melo and that turned out fine, so who knows
by KyleMcintoshStiffarm on Nov 19, 2009 5:44 PM EST reply actions
His game is so much like Melo’s, (not saying he’d be the next melo just the same style of play) why wouldn’t he want to come to a system that proved to be the ultimate fit for that style?
by KyleMcintoshStiffarm on Nov 19, 2009 5:48 PM EST reply actions
If he’s chosen Tennessee, more power to him. Unless we play UT in the NCAA Tournament, I wish him well.
Without him, this is a great class that will lead this team to great things. With him, it’s a phenomenal class that’ll lead this team to great things. So… yeah. If he comes here, great. If he doesn’t, we’re still good.
yeah if he does good luck to him, seems like a good kid who’s got a great support system around him, I just hate bruce pearl…
by KyleMcintoshStiffarm on Nov 19, 2009 5:50 PM EST reply actions
“Tobias, congrats and best of luck to you. Feel proud of the hard work you did to put yourself in this position! Enjoy the moment”
Someone from UT just tweeted this at Tobias. Name is Dave Telep. Tobias responded “Will you still be following me after my announcement?”
…Maybe not UT?
Jonny Flynn is a chronic LOL overuser
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Sounds rhetorical
Like, “Will you still be following me after my announcement? LOL i dunno! It depends what I do! I’m so secretive it’s obnoxious!” Yeah, that’s all.
I hope he comes to the Cuse, obviously. And I think people are reading into these little things way too much. Even that trip to see a UT bball game the other day…who cares? He is probably going to be at the Garden tonight! Haha.
same with the NFL draft...
I used to follow that pretty closely until I realized the only thing it does for me is that I know where a bunch of NFL players went to college.
Rivals.com and Scout.com take up hours of my day sometimes
by KyleMcintoshStiffarm on Nov 19, 2009 5:54 PM EST reply actions
Is it me or this kid gonna be high maitenance wherever he goes?
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I think this is the first time we have all followed a recruitment this closely.
I’m guessing none of this is at all out of the ordinary. So I don’t know that he will be any more high maintenance than other big names we’ve gotten.
Shhhhh not yet!
Too soon…wait for him to sign first…that kid is all over twitter and the interwebs. I’m sure he’s been reading TNIAAM with his smartphone. And since it has taken this long to decide, he might be teetering on the brink. That would suck if your comment pushed him to Tenn.
(Obviously kidding. I can’t tell if he’s a good kid, as everyone attests to…or an attention whore. Or both. I think it’s the last choice. Which is fine. But I hope he doesn’t go Donte Greene and just start winging hideous 3 pointers and never passing or playing D – unless he goes to UT.)
They should have all stepped out with cuse gear on
by KyleMcintoshStiffarm on Nov 19, 2009 5:59 PM EST reply actions
This Penn St game cant end fast enough
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"Penn State not gonna quit"
ugh. QUIT!
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I'm missing possible Call of Duty time
between presser and game
The 'Cuse is in tha house, oh my God oh my God.
Why would he make the announcement in NYC when the ’Cuse is playing in MSG unless he is choosing SU?
Waiting for UNC-W and Penn State game to end on ESPNU.
Tobias is mic’d up and ready. MW
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"Harris wearing orange button down with gray suit. "
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the penn state basketball team probably walks around campus like the syracuse crew team does. i.e. unnoticed
by KyleMcintoshStiffarm on Nov 19, 2009 6:06 PM EST reply actions
Let's go Seahawks!
Home of the Other-Other-Other 12th man
The 'Cuse is in tha house, oh my God oh my God.
Seriously, if he doesn't Cuse
those fans there are gonna boo the shit out of this kid
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yes
and I would be ok with it. Players like to be the center of attention. Future recruits would see the dedication of Syracuse fans and how we always got their back.
I wish there was a way for josh pace to pull greg paulus
by KyleMcintoshStiffarm on Nov 19, 2009 6:08 PM EST reply actions
the first time i'm pissed class is ending 10 minutes early
now i have to walk back to my dorm to avoid sitting here awkwardly while everyone else leaves, and might miss the announcement!!
FML
I'd say I've never hated Penn State basketball more
but I don’t remember ever having a nemotional attachment to them before
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New Theory for why Tobias went to UT
He wanted to break up with Bruce Pearl in person. He’s a gentleman.
UNC Wilmington
has very quaint fans
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Oh Good, Tennessee State-Eastern Illinois!
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I am building myself up
to be broken down…
Beat Cal and I will be happier regardless of what he does!
Regardless of how this turns out
Thank you Tobias “Page Views” Harris.
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You should have had a promotion that said that the more times your advertisers are clicked on,
the better chance he’d sign with us
The 'Cuse is in tha house, oh my God oh my God.
"Tobias Harris commits to XXX"
That is the current headline on Syracuse.com/sports. There you have it – he’s not going to college, he’s doing porn.
Tobias will pick Tennessee
Bruce Pearl will then come out to shake his hand. Harris will pick up his chair, and then smash it over Pearl’s head. He’ll rip off his suit to reveal a Syracuse jersey. Boeheim will come out and raise his hand as ESPNU goes to commercial
by wildcatlh on Nov 19, 2009 6:16 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Agreed.
Then Boeheim will appear in the roof with a bullhorn with Tobias preening behind him. BRUCE PEARL…THERE’S NO PEARL IN THIS OYSTER, BABY….WOOOOOOO….
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Actually, I chance my mind
That scenario would only work if Jim Ross was there to do commentary. “NO DAMMIT! NO DAMMIT! WHY? WHY?”
That would be the best announcement ever
by KyleMcintoshStiffarm on Nov 19, 2009 6:16 PM EST reply actions
they said a few moments a few moments ago
by KyleMcintoshStiffarm on Nov 19, 2009 6:17 PM EST reply actions
There's a cake there for Tobias
what are the chances that cake has orange frosting on it?
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Orange Tie.
It is closer to our orange than the Tennessee “Creamsicle”
The 'Cuse is in tha house, oh my God oh my God.
Tobias looked nervous. It may be because he is surrounded by Syracuse fans and he’s gonna say, “I’m All Vol!”
Yeah
He might just pull a last-second switcheroo just to make sure he lives
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Or because he's an overgrown 17 year old on ESPN
…without a basketball in his hands.
Cal fan here… Good luck with your recruit
Word from our beat writer is that Theo Robertson, our most consistent senior starter (who shot 49% from three last year — on 115 3PAs) is very doubtful with an undiagnosed foot injury. I feel we have 0% of winning the game without him; I consider him to be the best player on our team and, by far, the most versatile. Anyway, good luck to you guys tonight. You won’t need it =P
WHAT'S YOUR DEAL?
Interesting...
Good luck to you guys, looking forward to it
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this was the first thing that came to mind when i found out the info
WHAT'S YOUR DEAL?
by Thoroughbred on Nov 19, 2009 6:21 PM EST up reply actions
They know we're all watching for Harris
May as well wait til 6:59 for the announcement so we all switch to ESPN at 7 for the game!
That NJ-looking Cuse fan with the jersey behind him...
…might snap if he doesn’t go to Cuse.
M-E-H
MEH.
We’ll just have to crush the Vols in the 2011 National Championship Game.
Who knows. We’re still on Selby’s list of the final 5, right? He’d work too. :)
Fab Melo, Dion Waiters, C.J. Fair and Baye Moussa Kieta
That is all.
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Yo...that's pretty damn good
Fact is, if Kris and/or Wes stay…is Tobias Harris an upgrade? I don’t really know that it is. I’m glad I never wasted time watching recruiting clips of him, but if those were his best clips for ESPN…he looked slow. Just rationalizing, but that was the first thing that hit me when I saw those clips (pre-UT commit).
Absolutely
That class hasn’t changed for a year. And it doesn’t matter. It’s still amazing. It’s even getting better, since Fair has looked like he’s all the way back from that injury.
The scary thing for the rest of the Big East is… Kieta is the least heralded prospect of the bunch. But if he ends up playing up to the level of his talent, he could be the best player in this class of recruits, easily.
not to mention
triche, wes, ricky, KJ, mookie, scroops, and the rest…we’ll be alright
Here's what i don't get...
Why in the world would he schedule his press conference for ESPNZone in Manhattan the same night that the Cuse is playing at MSG? Surely the Cuse/Cal game was on the schedule as he planned this attention-grab. If he wasn’t sure that he was going to Cuse, why go out of his way to announce when they are in town? When rabid fans would be around en masse. I thought it was absolutely hilarious when the Cuse fans drowned out his voice with boos.
Theory: too many cooks in the kitchen. The class is stacked as it is – maybe he’s worried about touches? If so, good luck at UT…Cuse doesn’t need that crap anyway.
Easy
He lives on Long Island. All the ESPN cameras are at MSG for the games tonight. When they scheduled the announcement, they probably asked him to do it this way.
Definitely a requirement
to do it at ESPNZone
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hate, hate, hate, hate...
luckily NOLA and I had a very good inkling that this was going to happen so we started the hate fest hours ago.
Maybe he likes snitching (Bruce Pearl did on Illinois), and snitching is something we don’t advocate at Cuse.
He better enjoy the spotlight now, because he will be buried in the SEC beneath coverage of the Big East/ACC/Big Ten lovefest that ESPN has anyways.
Good luck losing to Kentucky every year.
If he wants to play on a court named for the WOMEN’S coach, be my guest. In an arena that’s on a street named for a football coach.
Going to Tennessee is almost as bad as going to a school in…NEW JERSEY!
F—- Tennessee!
anybody got any others?
Just head on over...
to one of the lower-class Kentucky boards (Catspause — Rupp Rafters, for example), and you can pick up lots more overused unoriginal material.
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." A. Bartlett Giamatti
Glad to know
us hillbillies weren’t the only ones glued to the TV/Interweb/radio waiting for this announcement.
Y’all will probably end up with Selby- not a bad consolation prize.
Ball, oskie, cover, block, cut and slice, pursue and gang tackle... for this is the WINNING EDGE.
by pound the rock on Nov 19, 2009 10:12 PM EST reply actions
I am SU ‘06 grad, my mom is a UT grad, I have family in Knoxville, and I try to make a UT football game every year or so. Still love the football program, I gave up the hoops program in the early 00s and obviously adopted the Cuse when I came there. I think I have a unique perspective on both schools’ athletic programs. So my reaction is this: DUMMMMMMBBBBBBB
UT will never be a big-time program. He will be not even second-banana, but third-banana at Tennessee behind football and biting tongue the ladies. Bruce Pearl will bail on that program the second a better job opens up (Illinois, USC, etc). He’s not a Tennessee guy, that is a stepping-stone job for him. People in Tennessee care about men’s basketball the way most SU students care about SU lacrosse. No matter how good it gets, it will never get recognition. Think about it, if a bunch of girls get more respect, things must be pretty bad.
Illinois will never have Pearl
nor would he want to take that job, for obvious reasons. He’s been a persona non grata in Illinois for the last 2 decades. When he took UW-Milwaukee to the sweet 16 against Illinois in 2005, played in the state for that matter, boy did they let him have it. Interesting point you raise, but I don’t see Pearl leaving UT for a while, he really had to work his way back up after that incident, toiling away in D-II then working his way up to the Horizon League. Now that he’s being paid very well and in a power conference, he may have found a home.
They’ll run a good program, but I agree that they may never be a big time program, especially with the limited exposure for SEC basketball only reserved for a few teams which have been down, but Kentucky looks to be back (even if they sold their soul to the devil), and Florida should come out of their slumber some time soon, and that will push UT down in the SEC. But since the SEC is not really that deep, UT should consistently finish in the top half or top quarter of the league. Seriously what are the consistently relevant basketball programs of the SEC? I can name really only Kentucky, Florida, UT lately at least, LSU and maybe Miss. State.
But where would he go? He’s got the backing of a big state school with resources now. I could see him taking a job in maybe the Pac-10 or the ACC if something attractive opened up, but some of those schools could be considered a step down from UT, IMHO. He’s got a good situation right now and for years to come it looks like. At this rate, UT will overtake Memphis as the premier basketball program in the state in the next decade. I doubt Memphis will stay hot with recruiting and their new coach, also I feel some violations for them coming soon.
Anyways, I rather have Tobias go to UT and in the SEC than some other school in the Big East. This is the last we cuse fans will be talking about him for a good while. Unless we meet in a tournament game somewhere down the line…
I was just rattling off a midwest school—where he probably would go next—and a west coast school, but points well taken. Tennessee has a big state school and resources, yes, but most if not all of the resources are going to FOOTBALL. They are in the middle of a huge renovation of Neyland Stadium, have the highest paid football coaching staff in the country, and they already have a great indoor practice facility. Men’s and women’s basketball is low on the totem pole especially in a state whose taxes are going up and up.
I was there...
30-40 of us Cuse fans on the way to the garden booed the hell out of that kid… for the hell of it… was a good pregame warmup for that schallacking of Cal at the garden… he couldn’t keep a straight face for a while… LOL
I DVRed it and it looked like you guys got to him… it was a dumb decision to do that at ESPNZone, or at least to do it with fans in the background. There are plenty of other studios and cameras in the building without doing it in the main restaurant area with fans right behind him. Look at the bright side: the 25 hard-core Tennessee basketball fans in America were really excited.
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