The buzz on Antonio Reeves
Last night Davis Mosely, the new basketball insider for 247, held whatever Twitter calls it when you can listen to a live audio conversation. He said two interesting things that I haven't seen discussed.
First, while Mosely didn't say so explicitly, he strongly implied that if Reeves enters the portal he intends to transfer to Michigan.
Second, he said that Kentucky is holding things up by threatening to somehow block Reeves using an NCAA rule that may or may not apply, or might not even exist. Recall that Reeves began his career at Illinois State before transferring to Kentucky. Putting Michigan admissions shenanigans aside, that means that Reeves would need a waiver to be immediately eligible at Michigan unless he comes in as a grad transfer. That's Reeves' plan, except that he reportedly will take his last few credits at Illinois State and graduate from there.
This is where things get tricky. Davis said that Kentucky told Reeves he can't do so--that the NCAA wouldn't allow Reeves to go back to ISU, not be on the ISU roster, yet transfer from ISU to Michigan. But it doesn't seem that anyone has attempted this move, so it's not clear whether it's allowed despite there being no clear NCAA prohibition. Nor is it clear whether Kentucky is just giving Reeves advice or threatening to seek action from the NCAA, either in the hopes of persuading Reeves to stay.
Last, to the extent that Reeves' status is unclear for much longer, it would put Michigan in a pickle--wait to see if Reeves is cleared or take another player without comparable problems. Plus, to the extent that the NCAA drags its feet (if it actually has any say), Reeves wouldn't be able to practice with the team while Michigan waits for the NCAA to determine his status.
I assume that Reeves could ask the NCAA for guidance in advance, but someone who knows NCAA rules better than I do will have to answer that.
Stay tuned, I suppose, in the latest bizarre twist in Michigan's attempt to field a competitive basketball team.
Does anyone have Tom Mars on speed-dial?
I could barely follow the thread on the above. Imagine Tom needing to fill his wall with pictures and red string just to sort this thing out. I don't know how maximum difficulty transfer works when the simple stuff does not.
The narrative has been altered, as of this evening, a look at UMHoops suggests. He is absolutely enrolled at ISU, and things could be looking good for the UM.
Lawyer up, do what you want, and tell Kentucky/NCAA to go fuck off.
I prefer Howard Hamlin’s license plate.
NAMAST3
Poor Howard 😔
At least Mike Ehrmantraut give Howard some dignity while dumping his body in the burial pit with Lalo.
Namast3 indeed.
OT from the original post. I am on a re-watch of Better Call Saul. On a second watch, it becomes very apparent how brutally poorly paced the final season of the show is. Too bad. If the show had ended 5 episodes earlier, I actually think it would have been the best television show of all time. All of the wait to find out about "Gene" and it ends up coming close to ruining the show. It does not ruin the show, mind you, but it does come close.
Yeah I could have done without any of the flash forward episodes. Similarly I thought the last season of Barry was by far it's worst. It was just boring with it mostly being him sitting around looking sad.
The thing about the last episodes of Better Call Saul is that up to the flash forwards it was the best TV I’ve ever seen. I got the feeling they didn’t even want to have to deal with the flash forwards but they had to and didn’t know what to do with it.
Does that license plate belong to Trump
/no politics
WTF is he trying to do?
Impersonate a human?
Trying to show us that he is a better dancer than Elon....
Not sure, but the hand gesture looks NSFW.
Pantomiming jerking off two dicks at the same time? Maybe four dicks if you put the dicks tip-to-tip?
This is the way, and something we'll see more and more
He also seems to think Michigan has a real shot (top 3) for Mulcahy as well from the same space
Having not watched Reeves closely - who would we prefer if we had to get one or the other?
Reeves. He averaged around 14 ppg and he shot around 40% from 3 on a good amount of attempts (around 5/6). He's smaller than Paul, but we need offense and he can actually score.
I'd agree with this. Though they're (Davis) saying the two wouldn't really step on each other's toes play wise and rather complement each other, which is being pitched to them both. I'm not incredibly in the loop on either's film but I do know adding Mulcahy to the bunch we already have would make a pretty wild defensive squad.
We'd be Rutgers with a better PG (Dug) but probably overall a worse defense.
We would take both. Reeves is a dynamic wing shooter with some secondary playmaking ability. Would instantly become our leading scorer. Mulcahey does everything else well other than score. Elite passer, great on D. Adding two proven high major players to the 2/3 would be massive.
I'm sure everything will go smoothly as usual for Michigan basketball. No worries.
Nicely put. Michigan struggles when the degree of difficulty is low.
Shenanigans
Hard to overcome these…especially if someon called them.
Thank you for saving me some snark.
Honestly, I'd be shocked if there were any hiccups whatsoever.
All that matters is that Reeves graduates from ISU. Once he is a grad transfer he is free to go wherever he wants.
He needs 120 credits to graduate and currently has 96. That is one of the many reasons why he will move into his dorm at Kentucky on Monday. If he gets 24 credits in one summer at ISU, I’ll stand corrected. It will be shocking if he doesn’t end up at Kentucky.
The NCAA needs to pass the 'one-time free transfer' rule and 'second-time transfer sit-out 1 year' rule because this is getting so ridiculous. Transfer, to not transfer, to blocking a transfer, to hopefully he gets in the portal because if he does transfer, he'll transfer here, transfer. Guy on his 5th school in 4 years because he can never win a job and its never been his fault, so he'll totally win the job this time transfer. Not getting my hopes up though.
It is getting ridiculous. The further it goes, the more I really REALLY wish Michigan would have got the title in 2013 or 2018 because I am not entirely sure how much longer I am going to care about this.
The portal has killed college basketball in record time. You know what was best of the 2013, 18, and to a large extent the 2021 teams were we got to see those kids grow through the program.
We got to see players like Burke go from really good to NPOY. Jordan Morgan, Tim Hardaway Jr. 2018 we saw the growth of Simpson, MAAR and Wagner; the latter who went from barely used as a freshman to a stone cold beast in 2018. 2021 there was Brooks, Livers, Wagner, and Johns’ growth. In 2018 we did have the help of 2 transfers (D-Rob and Matthews) but both of those sat out a year and we got 3 and 2 years out of them. 2021 was a little different because both Smith and Chaundee were one year guys, but there were still a lot of familiar faces.
We won’t see that anymore in this landscape. NIL and the Portal just has killed a lot of what made college basketball great.
And yet I'm getting negged for advocating for that sentiment as well. Forgive me for wanting guys to be more like Kobe Bryant instead of Journeyman Jeff Green. I'm all for a one-time free transfer, but college guys getting more freedom than the actual professionals? Nah, that is hard to get on board every year trying to cheer for a bunch of mercenaries.
College basketball has become almost unwatchable, just like the NBA.....
I watched a fair amount of Denver’s playoff run. Jokic is special. Regular season NBA may still be meh, but if you like basketball, you really should check out the Nuggets.
There is exceptional basketball played every night in the NBA.
Basketball is fun and the NBA is fun.
I just don't get this sentiment that the NBA is so terrible, a view that seems to be fairly common around here. Especially coming from anyone that likes college basketball, where seems the vast majority of the games are slogs where one team or the other (or both) routinely go 5+ minutes without a field goal. I guess scoring is bad, under the guise of "playing defense"? I'll grant that defense in the NBA can be a bit questionable for stretches of the regular season, but the defense is definitely there during the playoffs.
The NCAA needs to pass the 'one-time free transfer' rule and 'second-time transfer sit-out 1 year' rule
That's the rule right now. The only exception is for grad transfers.
So what's the deal with Nimari Burnett? He's a junior on his 3rd program. In football, JT Daniels is about to play for his 4th school in 5 years?
I don’t know about Daniels but Burnett just graduated from Bama.
Technically - the rule is called a "one-time transfer exception" and has parameters set forth around it however players have been able to transfer multiple times without sitting because of Legislative Relief Waivers due to a whole list of things i.e. the run-off rule, discontinuation of sport, mental health, financial hardship, loss of family, C19...the list goes on and on....as long as the player can prove any of those and is in good academic standing, most cases are approved by the NCAA.
In D1 football, the NCAA has passed a one-time use of the transfer portal and is disallowing a second use of the transfer portal unless under severe mitigating circumstances, meaning many of the waivers will no longer be approved. Stay tuned.
The NCAA had better reform or cease to exist. Given all of the shenanigans with NIL turning into more of a bribery and graft show why have any rules at all and at least be honest about. What are they afraid of? That somehow an improper transfer would impugn the academic integrity of these august education institutions or that of the right and honorable NCAA. That ship sailed a long time ago.
Yeah, I'm not buying the Kentucky higher moral ground here. That bastion of amateurism that stands firmly on the pillar of recruiting hoops signees that promise to be student athletes for 4 to 5 years can stick this firmly where the sun doesn't shine.
Just let him go without complications and bring in your next 1 and done or mega transfer, Coach Cal.
I don't get why these schools are so intent on holding onto players who want to leave. It also annoys me that any other school besides Michigan can't be affected by these vindictive twats at UK or UNC because they're not hung up on whether the previous school will give them a degree. I'd make sure players know when they're being recruited that certain schools will do all they can to limit your ability to make the best decision for yourself down the line, however.
It would help immensely if UM could just get on the same track as seemingly every other major school in the country and have some realistic credit transfer process. I get that there are going to be differences between courses between schools but most of them are taught with largely the same course material covering the same topics - physics in Lexington is the same in Ann Arbor - and so having a system where 85-90% of your credits transfer through makes way more sense than the current one, which seemingly treats most courses as bespoke to the University and non-transferable from any other institution.
Also, nothing shocks me about UK and UNC being petty assholes about other athletes. Especially Calipari, who may be on a bit of a hot seat at UK given how mediocre his postseason performance has been recently and the amount of turnover he's experienced.
It would help if we had a coaching staff that knew the standards for admission and recruited accordingly.