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Post by sharkey on Jun 21, 2017 1:25:39 GMT -5
Was just asked by a college hoops writer, about a crazy tweet by Mathew Steinbrink, who covers PITT basketball. He tweeted that 6'7'' Samson George, from First Loves prep will be visiting PITT, and is down to them and St. Bonaventure.
Does he have the wrong player?
Did George leave the program, and that's where the extra scholarship is coming from?
Really hope this is not true.
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Post by IONA86 on Jun 21, 2017 2:14:56 GMT -5
Samson's former Rens/First Love Christian teammate and fellow Nigerian, 7'1" Chris Efretuei, just visited Pitt.
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Post by sharkey on Jun 21, 2017 11:51:59 GMT -5
Very strange situation. Numerous tweets from writers covering PITT hoops, that George is visiting there this Saturday.
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Post by gregcrow on Jun 21, 2017 11:53:11 GMT -5
Yep. Second week of November...
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Post by jerseygael on Jun 21, 2017 12:21:26 GMT -5
Didn't George sign a letter of intent? If so we would have to give him his release and if that's the case I'm surprised we haven't heard even a hint about this.
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Post by gregcrow on Jun 21, 2017 12:29:35 GMT -5
Didn't George sign a letter of intent? If so we would have to give him his release and if that's the case I'm surprised we haven't heard even a hint about this. My understanding was that he was already enrolled in classes. www.zagsblog.com/2016/10/15/samson-george-iona/ |
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Post by sharkey on Jun 21, 2017 12:34:17 GMT -5
Didn't George sign a letter of intent? If so we would have to give him his release and if that's the case I'm surprised we haven't heard even a hint about this. Agreed sounds crazy. Now the guy Steinbrink, who posted the original tweet, is posting on the PITT board that Iona needed to clear a scholarship and George was the way to achieve that goal. Very hard to believe the staff would run off George, when he filled a very important role. I guess we will find out the deal this weekend, if there are reports that George is visiting the PITT campus. Was told PITT recruited George and Siena recruit Prince Oduro, but never offered. Apparently, PITT had kids transfer and are in need of bodies. Still find it hard to believe this is true |
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Post by iona85 on Jun 21, 2017 13:00:59 GMT -5
Seems like this is a very similar situation to Cam Beidscheid a few years back. Commmitted and a few weeks later had writers on twitter going over his visits to other schools which no one was aware of
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Post by iona1970 on Jun 21, 2017 13:07:45 GMT -5
Didn't George sign a letter of intent? If so we would have to give him his release and if that's the case I'm surprised we haven't heard even a hint about this. Agreed sounds crazy. Now the guy Steinbrink, who posted the original tweet, is posting on the PITT board that Iona needed to clear a scholarship and George was the way to achieve that goal. Very hard to believe the staff would run off George, when he filled a very important role. I guess we will find out the deal this weekend, if there are reports that George is visiting the PITT campus. Was told PITT recruited George and Siena recruit Prince Oduro, but never offered. Apparently, PITT had kids transfer and are in need of bodies. Still find it hard to believe this is true so we ran off a kid that was enrolled at Iona and that Pitt is interested in? very strange!!! |
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Post by sharkey on Jun 21, 2017 13:09:40 GMT -5
Seems like this is a very similar situation to Cam Beidscheid a few years back. Commmitted and a few weeks later had writers on twitter going over his visits to other schools which no one was aware of I think the big difference is that George is enrolled at Iona, and practiced with the team while on scholarship for an entire semester. The staff has invested a scholarship and practice time so far. |
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Post by sharkey on Jun 21, 2017 13:13:05 GMT -5
Agreed sounds crazy. Now the guy Steinbrink, who posted the original tweet, is posting on the PITT board that Iona needed to clear a scholarship and George was the way to achieve that goal. Very hard to believe the staff would run off George, when he filled a very important role. I guess we will find out the deal this weekend, if there are reports that George is visiting the PITT campus. Was told PITT recruited George and Siena recruit Prince Oduro, but never offered. Apparently, PITT had kids transfer and are in need of bodies. Still find it hard to believe this is true so we ran off a kid that was enrolled at Iona and that Pitt is interested in? very strange!!! Agreed, the whole situation doesn't make any sense. The fact that the coach of First love prep re-tweeted he is visiting PITT this weekend, makes it look like there might be something to this. I guess we will know in a couple of days |
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Post by Cjb on Jun 21, 2017 13:22:03 GMT -5
Anyone remember Clyde Vaughn?
NRHS kid, too chubby for Pat Kennedy.
Went on to Pitt and held the BE scoring record for years.
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Post by chelseadal on Jun 21, 2017 15:11:41 GMT -5
I remember him well. A stud!
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Post by gregcrow on Jun 21, 2017 15:24:18 GMT -5
Who knows what happened? If we did indeed "run him off" Then that would hint that there is somebody better that we are ready to sign?
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Post by iona1970 on Jun 21, 2017 15:36:56 GMT -5
Who knows what happened? If we did indeed "run him off" Then that would hint that there is somebody better that we are ready to sign? better than a akid from Pitt? i hope so or did the ukrainian take his scholly |
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