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  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?

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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.

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  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.

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  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.

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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.

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  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...

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  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.

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  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?

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  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?

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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.

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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?

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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) B) B)

Go Zips!

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  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...

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  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. :D

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