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After reading about his exploits, seeing him in action in 2 games, I believe he is the best recruit at UNC since Jordan. And that includes some great ones. What sets him out is not just the bb ability, but the desire and intelligence to max his talents.

For a comparison at this stage, he is very slightly less athletic than mj, but a very slightly more refined player than mj.

Your opinions? P

But if Barnes is as smart as everyone seems to indicate, whichever team has the best upcoming year will not be a factor, particularly among UNC, Duke, Kansas. He will see through that as those teams are always going to have good years, just some better than others.

His most pressing concern might well be just where he might fit after the year as teams reshape with graduation and early departures. But then again, he may succomb to the lure of some program and say to heck with waiting.

But all are not the same. Some actually go to most if not all of the big time tournaments, and even many of the smaller ones. However, there are some well know national gurus who basically plagiarize the work and opinions of the experts who make on site evaluations. These copying evaluators add a twist or 2, view tapes and then express opinions as if they had been at actual events.

The evaluators with Prep Stars go to the actual sites to view the players, traveling many air miles in a year. What you get is what they have actually seen.

Disclaimer--I do not work for Prep Stars and am in no way a talent evaluator. Just posting a point many interested people do not know. PLus, no names will be given.

If this is true, the self proclaimed king of basketball is really just a pawn. Too much ego, too much money. And this on top of not shaking hands with the Orlando Magic after his team was eliminated from the playoffs. Pawn James himself.

http://www.freep.com/article/20090708/HSS/90708089/1238/Detroiter+Jordan+Crawford+dunks+on+LeBron+James

Were there 7 point guards in the NBA draft better than Ty Lawson, who was the 8th pg chosen? Personally, I think this will be a Sam Bowie-Michael Jordan fiasco for some teams, however on a smaller scale. Thoughts?

For all of the Izzo aficionados, Roy Williams got just as much out of his talent as Izzo did. Just look at the scores in the 2 games that the heels beat mich st this past basket ball season.

Now if only RW would stop referring to himself in the 3rd party, as in "Roy Williams aint that good", he might move to the head of the class where he belongs.

Izzo is a class act, but RW in spite of what B Clifton says is a pretty decent person himself.

1 Tom Izzo Michigan State Head Coach
The Spartans beat two No. 1 seeds to reach the title game.
2 Roy Williams North Carolina Head Coach
He led UNC to its second national title in five years
3 Mike Anderson Missouri Head Coach
He had the Tigers one win from their first Final Four berth.
4 Bill Self Kansas Head Coach
5 Jay Wright Villanova Head Coach
Wright led Villanova to its first Final Four since 1985.
6 Jim Calhoun Connecticut Head Coach
7 Rick Pitino Louisville Head Coach
Michigan State upset the Cardinals in the Midwest Regional final.
8 John Calipari Kentucky Head Coach
His Memphis tenure ended with a loss in the Sweet 16.
9 Jamie Dixon Pittsburgh Head Coach
10 Mike Krzyzewski Duke Head Coach
Villanova throttled Duke in a regional semifinal.
11 Jeff Capel Oklahoma Head Coach
Oklahoma reached the South Regioinal final before losing to UNC.
12 Trent Johnson LSU Head Coach
13 Lorenzo Romar Washington Head Coach
Washington lost in the second round of the tournament.
14 Matt Painter Purdue Head Coach
15 Ben Howland UCLA Head Coach
UCLA failed to respond to the physical style of Villanova.
16 Jim Boeheim Syracuse Head Coach
Syracuse arguably played its best at the end of the season.
17 Bo Ryan Wisconsin Head Coach
Wisconsin pulled a first-round upset over Florida State.
18 Mark Few Gonzaga Head Coach
Few led the Zags back into the Sweet 16.
19 Bruce Weber Illinois Head Coach
A surprising season ended with a disappointing loss.
20 Sean Miller Arizona Head Coach
Miller led Xavier to the Sweet 16 before heading to Arizona.
21 Herb Sendek Arizona State Head Coach
22 Fran McCaffery Siena Head Coach
Siena advanced beyond the first round for the second straight year.
23 Bob Huggins West Virginia Head Coach
West Virginia was knocked out in the first round of the tourney.
24 Brad Stevens Butler Head Coach
25 Thad Matta Ohio State Head Coach

Head Coaches dropped from last stock exchange entry:
Jeff Lebo, Leonard Hamilton, Mike Montgomery

My problem is not with whether a player can be released (Indiana did that last yr), but with the repercussions of released players following a coach. They can become bargaining chips then in searching for a new position. But maybe my most pressing concern is the impact this kind of scenario would have on existing players where the new coach would bring his players. Many of these players might would have gone someplace else if they had seen this happening in a normal recruiting situation. As far as Memphis, if they left an out clause in the LOI, then they have no complaints about eventual releases.

There are those who wish the players to have freedom to break a loi and leave if they wish, but want the school to still be bound by the loi offer. It just does not work that way. That is the problem now with our society, too many people want others to be bound but not them, or wish to have their cake and eat it too. If the school is bound by the loi to issue a scholarship, so should the player be bound. Unless of course both parties agree to part ways.

However, beyond that, if they let Calipari get away with this, then no school or it's players could feel safe for the near future. Bedlam indeed.

1. Can a school accept a LOI that has an out clause for the player if the coach leaves, and is it valid? Or does the ncaa have power to control that?

2. Should a coach be allowed to take players to his new school when they have already signed loi's with his old school, out clause or not?
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Okay, if a school accepts that kind of provisional LOI, they should have to honor it. They would not be seen as a party to an agreement that was not sophisticated or competent.

The problem in my opinion is that these kind of clauses open up extreme leverages for coaches who seek new positions, and who use the "following" recruits as bartering coins. The NCAA is going to have to regulate these kind of agreements to prevent more chaos than already exists.

The other problem is the collateral damage to the existing players on the team the coach is moving to. By bringing in an array of new highly regarded players, and who were used as leverage to get the new position, there may be a scholarship crunch, making existing players expendable. There could be very bad reprecusions from all this.

Desperation time for K rat and Duke. The heels have been kicking his butt too often in the waning stages of his career.