Will Today Be Fab Melo Or Just Plain Mellow? (Updated)
by Sean Keeley on Aug 4, 2009 3:27 PM EDT
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Let's all get up to speed on the Fab Melo doins'.
Fabricio De Melo, if you don't already know, is kinda a big deal.
A couple weeks back, The Orange Fizz spoke with his high school coach who said it was down to Louisville, Syracuse, UConn and Florida State.
Last week word came out that Fab had probably whittled his list down to SU and L'ville and a decision was coming this week. If Melo were to come to SU, he's arguably be turning what's already one of the best 2010 classes in the nation into the very best.
Last night, our friend Matt McClusky of ESPN 1410's Matt Mc's Sports Fix tweeted the following:
From a source of mine - yes a source of mine! - Recruit Fabricio De Melo to committ to Syracuse Orange tomorrow @ 10 a.m. presser.
That set off a firestorm on the message boards and Twittertubes. Curiously, there was one other possibly innocuous tweet around the same time from Syracuse Assistant Coach Rob Murphy:
WOW! There are LOTS of commitments going on around the country. Love to see guys make decisions on their basketball futures! Who's next???
Could be nothing. Then again...
This morning, the 10am deadline came and went. No word from Melo, his coach, his school or SU. No other media sources picked up the story. As one imagines, doubt settled in. Matt reiterated that although the specifics didn't work, his source maintains that the news is coming. He even backed up his initial confirmation with another one.
Just spoke with 'Southie' (what do you think for a source name?) and he says there is more confirmation that Melo is coming to the 'Cuse.
Then, Rob Murphy checked in again and this time his tweet was slightly less innocuous:
Mike (Hopkins) has pulled a Mike (Jordan) like performance! Your one of the BEST Hizzy! Keep up the Great work!!!!! Go Cuse!
Hizzy did what? What did he do? Did he confirm Melo? Did he order a great turkey sandwich? WHAT? (We'll get to the fact that Hopkins' nickname is Hizzy, which is fantastic, another time).
And FINALLY, news that Fab Melo will make his announcement has come down. And so we wait...
Update: MELO RETURNS (NOT REALLY BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN) TO SYRACUSE! Ha-yuge get for the Orange. Ha-yuge get for Hizzy. Ha-yuge get for Matt McClusky, all growns up.
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Fingers crossed...
…wow. Adding Melo to Waiters and Fair and Keita, plus this year’s class holding over… the 2010-2011 season could be something very, very special.
Fab to Cuse!
Just reported by Jeff Goodman at Fox Sports.
Fab at the 5,
6-11 athletic and runs like a deer Baye Moussa Keita, CJ Fair and seniors Wes and Ricky… wow thats an long athletic front line… 6’3" Triche playing the point and 6’3" Dion Waiters at the 2 – all those guys have NBA size and athleticism. Forget Jonny and Donte, this class blows them out of the water!
Blah
I forgot 6-11 DaShonte Riley!… I hope some of or 6’7" guys can transition to the 2 because we are not looking deep at the guard positions.
p.s. does anyone know why signed LOI is not checked for DaShonte?
No love for Matt from any writer I've seen so far.
They get so bent out of shape when no one gives them credit but they’re so quick to discount those outside their circle when those folks get a scoop.
Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician - The Syracuse blog that cares.
No one has thinner skins
than many in the media. Big time get for Matt – working away up there in Watertown.
Well, Geeeze, Nunes....
….He said 10am!!! And it’s SOOOO NOT 10am anymore!!! Some source….
(Please note HEAVY DOSE of sarcasm)
That's how you get it done. That's how you recruit.
Dear HCDM,
The basketball program is overshadowing your football program at the exact time we should all be focused on you and your team. How does that make you feel?
Now, please don’t take me the wrong way. You’ve done a great job building some energy and enthusiasm, especially with recruiting and off-season conditioning, which is exactly where you need to be. However, after the past several futile years of wishing for better than wanton discombobulation, we cannot pay you the level of excitement that we currently exalt for our basketball program.
If you would like to gain this level of excitement from your fanbase, then please ensure your team plays like they actually care about the game of football, the tradition of the University, and the emotional investment of your fanbase — realizing that many of us, through childhood, forged our collective and individual identities based on the peformance of the teams we religiously follow.
As such, when Syracuse Football is disorganized, out of shape, and soulless, so are the children of Central New York.
Do you know what this begets? Crime. Violence. Drugs. Homicide. Suicide.
Your players owe it to themselves, Mr. HCDM. More importantly, they owe it to the children.
Please save the children.
Live Ridiculously,
RenegadePumpkin
by TheRenegadePumpkin on Aug 4, 2009 4:41 PM EDT reply actions
That is exactly
why they should have released the numbers on the lobster eating!!! They would create a category on the ESPN Scroll Bar!
It's 10am somewhere
Congrats on the scoop Matt!
by brendoh on Aug 4, 2009 6:08 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
You just made my day
I can smell those championships in 10-11. This is just unfair. I almost feel bad for the other Big East competition.
I love how we go from no talented players above 6’9, even playing a 6’3 player at PF…to having too many centers 6’10 and above.
Is this too good to be true?
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