Quickzips Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 No idea if we are still on Dylan's consideration list, but his twitter account confirms that he will make a verbal commitment on Saturday. I may be the only one, but I've still been kind of hoping he would find his way back to us some how. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jalapeño Zippy Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 Quickzips said: No idea if we are still on Dylan's consideration list, but his twitter account confirms that he will make a verbal commitment on Saturday. I may be the only one, but I've still been kind of hoping he would find his way back to us some how. You're not the only one, I'm with you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Let'sGoZips94 Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 Me three. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachTheZip Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 I get the feeling that the team has moved on from Ennis. We kept recruiting and getting other players, even after we ran out of spots. Still, we really do need a PG in this class. Desperately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quickzips Posted September 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 Seems the Zips are no longer in the running. Ennis down to TCU, Rice and Santa Clara. http://www.chicagohoops.com/articles1/ennislist.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akzipper Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 Quickzips said: Seems the Zips are no longer in the running. Ennis down to TCU, Rice and Santa Clara. http://www.chicagohoops.com/articles1/ennislist.html Doesn't make sense to me. I would understand if he narrowed it down to better schools than UA, but those 3 are terrible. TCU was 13-19 last year. really is that impressing? Rice hasn't made the tourney since 1970. 8-23 last year with only 1 C-USA win. Santa Clara? 11-21(3-11 WCC) really man? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachTheZip Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 He should have stuck with the Zips. he opened up his recruitment, so we opened up ours and brought in players to replace him. We have the luxury of not needing to wait on a waffling high school kid to build our recruiting strategies around. Still wish we could have had a PG in the 2011 class. Maybe we can get his brother in 2012. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quickzips Posted September 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 akzipper said: Quickzips said: Seems the Zips are no longer in the running. Ennis down to TCU, Rice and Santa Clara. http://www.chicagohoops.com/articles1/ennislist.html Doesn't make sense to me. I would understand if he narrowed it down to better schools than UA, but those 3 are terrible. TCU was 13-19 last year. really is that impressing? Rice hasn't made the tourney since 1970. 8-23 last year with only 1 C-USA win. Santa Clara? 11-21(3-11 WCC) really man? Doesn't make much sense to me either. Of course a lot of big program coaches said the same thing about Zeke when he committed to us. Too many variables go into recruiting, and we may never really know what lead Dylan away from the Zips and to one of these other schools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jalapeño Zippy Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 Quickzips said: akzipper said: Quickzips said: Seems the Zips are no longer in the running. Ennis down to TCU, Rice and Santa Clara. http://www.chicagohoops.com/articles1/ennislist.html Doesn't make sense to me. I would understand if he narrowed it down to better schools than UA, but those 3 are terrible. TCU was 13-19 last year. really is that impressing? Rice hasn't made the tourney since 1970. 8-23 last year with only 1 C-USA win. Santa Clara? 11-21(3-11 WCC) really man? Doesn't make much sense to me either. Of course a lot of big program coaches said the same thing about Zeke when he committed to us. Too many variables go into recruiting, and we may never really know what lead Dylan away from the Zips and to one of these other schools. Jim Christian bad mouthing us, jk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 We guess about a lot of things we don't really know about. We don't really know if KD went lukewarm on Ennis or the other way around, or maybe it was mutual. For example, if Ennis wasn't getting strong vibes from UA, it would only be natural to cancel the verbal and explore other possibilities. His hometown sportswriters can talk all they want about his stock rising. But the reality is that if his stock had really risen, it's unlikely that all three programs on his short list would be losing programs. Consider these final 2009-10 RPI rankings: 98. Akron 187. TCU 232. Santa Clara 311. Rice In any case, I don't plan to worry about the Zips apparent shortage of PGs after this season unless I see KD say that he's concerned. I suspect that we'll eventually learn something previously unknown that will clarify the Zips future PG plans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akzipper Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 Quickzips said: akzipper said: Quickzips said: Seems the Zips are no longer in the running. Ennis down to TCU, Rice and Santa Clara. http://www.chicagohoops.com/articles1/ennislist.html Doesn't make sense to me. I would understand if he narrowed it down to better schools than UA, but those 3 are terrible. TCU was 13-19 last year. really is that impressing? Rice hasn't made the tourney since 1970. 8-23 last year with only 1 C-USA win. Santa Clara? 11-21(3-11 WCC) really man? Doesn't make much sense to me either. Of course a lot of big program coaches said the same thing about Zeke when he committed to us. Too many variables go into recruiting, and we may never really know what lead Dylan away from the Zips and to one of these other schools. Well look at us. Zeke saw a great school, plenty of chances to make the tourney, great coach, and of course we can win. Rice had 8 wins all year! I don't see how a kid would pick a college destined for failure. But hey I guess thats the thinking behind Can't students decisions... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zip37 Posted September 24, 2010 Report Share Posted September 24, 2010 If he picks Rice, it will, no doubt, be for the academics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zippyman23 Posted September 25, 2010 Report Share Posted September 25, 2010 Sounds like it is going to be Rice. If nothing else, he will be playing in a better conference. They already have a 4-star SG committed to them for 2011, so Ennis isn't the only one buying what their coach is selling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akzipper Posted September 25, 2010 Report Share Posted September 25, 2010 zippyman23 said: Sounds like it is going to be Rice. If nothing else, he will be playing in a better conference. They already have a 4-star SG committed to them for 2011, so Ennis isn't the only one buying what their coach is selling. He must be selling something they can smoke? if you think your making the tournament with 8 wins good luck. I've never thought of that as an at large bid, but who knows the tournament could expand to 200 teams and they will make it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valpo Zip Posted September 25, 2010 Report Share Posted September 25, 2010 Ennis verballed to the zips at some point in time and then backed up after what happened to Sullivan, Steward, and Humpty. I thought that this was worth mentionning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue & Gold Posted September 25, 2010 Report Share Posted September 25, 2010 skhorbotly said: Ennis verballed to the zips at some point in time and then backed up after what happened to Sullivan, Steward, and Humpty. I thought that this was worth mentionning. What do you mean by, "after what happened to Sullivan, Steward, and Humpty,"? Sullivan wasn't quite good enough to get any PT. Steward was, very unfortunately, chronically injury-prone. Humpty was a good player and received a lot of PT. The fans were strongly supportive of all three. Could you please flesh-out your observation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZachTheZip Posted September 25, 2010 Report Share Posted September 25, 2010 skhorbotly said: Ennis verballed to the zips at some point in time and then backed up after what happened to Sullivan, Steward, and Humpty. I thought that this was worth mentionning. I don't get it. Wouldn't that make him far more likely to see playing time since we hardly have any guards on the team now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted September 25, 2010 Report Share Posted September 25, 2010 If anything, you'd think the early departure of three Zips PGs would have made UA even more attractive to Ennis, as that would have likely opened up more early playing time for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quickzips Posted September 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2010 Ennis verbals to Rice http://www.slamonline.com/online/college-h...commitment-q-a/ Also some good insight in the interview as to why Dylan de-committed from the Zips. Some people who really have no clue what they are talking about need to read it. Ennis has nothing bad to say about UA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave in Green Posted September 25, 2010 Report Share Posted September 25, 2010 He really sounds like a good kid, and I wish him luck. Sounds like the Rice program has a similar "family atmosphere" to UA's. Apparently he also liked the idea of playing in Conference USA versus the MAC, even if it meant going with a lower-rated team than the Zips. It will be interesting to see how he performs there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valpo Zip Posted September 26, 2010 Report Share Posted September 26, 2010 Not trying to pick a fight with any of the "too sensitiive" people on this board, but to answer your question, think about it this way: If you had job offers at different work places and one of those places went and fired 3 of their employees at your same position, would that make you lean towards the other places? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zip37 Posted September 26, 2010 Report Share Posted September 26, 2010 FIRED?!!!!! What are you smoking/shooting/snorting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zip Watcher Posted September 26, 2010 Report Share Posted September 26, 2010 Someone here is mis-informed as to what actually happened the past several months. This is all moot. Mr. Ennis has chosen a different path. To play for Ben Braun @ Rice. Fact is the spots here were filling up. We wish him well and move on with the guys have chosen to be here. B) B) Go Zips! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akzipper Posted September 26, 2010 Report Share Posted September 26, 2010 skhorbotly said: Not trying to pick a fight with any of the "too sensitiive" people on this board, but to answer your question, think about it this way: If you had job offers at different work places and one of those places went and fired 3 of their employees at your same position, would that make you lean towards the other places? More like the 3 employees left and there were 3 positions open at a better job. But he picked a "job" at a worse company so whatever... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z.I.P. Posted September 26, 2010 Report Share Posted September 26, 2010 zippyman23 said: Sounds like it is going to be Rice. If nothing else, he will be playing in a better conference. They already have a 4-star SG committed to them for 2011, so Ennis isn't the only one buying what their coach is selling. There's history on Akron's side for an Akron target transferring back from Rice: Wendell Bates! Mac nuts to whoever remembers his high school, and grad year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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