Did we lose him, or did we not put on the full court press at the end?
.
2026 Recruiting: Abdou Toure update from aaron torres
- Thread starter husky99
- Start date
- Joined
- Aug 26, 2011
- Messages
- 98,959
- Reaction Score
- 391,062
Huskyforlife
Akokbouk
- Joined
- Feb 19, 2013
- Messages
- 13,277
- Reaction Score
- 56,768
Probably a good reason to still recruit him despite our offer being less as of now.
- Joined
- Sep 3, 2011
- Messages
- 5,406
- Reaction Score
- 20,958
This could be a good story. We treat PC as our little brother minor league system. Stay in touch, text him a bit, have him over for some DP dough over the break. Let Kim give him some PT freshmen year, and when he's ready to make a leap to the bigs, we're there for him.
Issue is he's not going to PC.
- Joined
- Oct 26, 2018
- Messages
- 7,791
- Reaction Score
- 27,336
If we’re getting 2 recruits then I’m Hoping for 1. Mingo and 2. County, because County (backup PG) fills a definite hole (Smith) and Landrew (backup W) doesn’t (Furphy and Ross are both returning unless they transfer out). If we get Mingo and County then hopefully next summer we’d just need a transfer C or better yet a transfer PF/C.
Demary / County
Ball / Furphy
Mingo / Ross
Stew / Transfer
Reibe / Transfer
Why will he be fired?
- Joined
- Sep 3, 2011
- Messages
- 5,406
- Reaction Score
- 20,958
Can we get the minutes distribution too please? This feels incomplete.
No Keita ? Made his short list
- Joined
- Aug 26, 2011
- Messages
- 1,826
- Reaction Score
- 11,195
Why did English double down on trying to get Hopkins to stay after he he did them dirty for an entire season? I am genuinely asking.That would seem to be awful for the programs culture and team chemistry. If I am a PC fan, I have to question not only the judgement of English, but also anyone else involved in the decision around the program to up the offer to bring him back after that debacle last season. He had to be shown the door as soon as the season is over regardless of how talented he is. I think the program is better off going forward without him even if it sucks to lose his talent.
My Arkansas buddy is hearing its pc
Because he stinks
- Joined
- Oct 26, 2018
- Messages
- 7,791
- Reaction Score
- 27,336
Borges said 1 or 2 “prep” commitments and Keita plays professionally but you’re right I I’d prob rather have Keita than a transfer to fill the other definite need at backup PF/C
Last edited:
- Joined
- Sep 16, 2011
- Messages
- 53,305
- Reaction Score
- 196,229
He's not?
- Joined
- Sep 3, 2011
- Messages
- 5,406
- Reaction Score
- 20,958
Unless someone is intentionally FOS. Let’s put it this way - a teenager a friend of mine knows well is tight with Toure’s BF. Word from the horses mouth is Arkansas.
- Joined
- May 27, 2015
- Messages
- 15,452
- Reaction Score
- 104,612
I guess we'll see, every national insider and report is saying Providence
- Joined
- Aug 17, 2011
- Messages
- 18,374
- Reaction Score
- 106,381
Your source versus the "247Sports Staff" with their "VIP Scoop". May the best source win. 😀
Abdou Toure's Crystal Ball Predictions
247sports.com
- Joined
- Sep 16, 2011
- Messages
- 53,305
- Reaction Score
- 196,229
But there's a teenager who is a friend of a friend and he has a friend who is a friend of Toure.Your source versus the "247Sports Staff" with their "VIP Scoop". May the best source win. 😀
Abdou Toure's Crystal Ball Predictions
- Joined
- Sep 3, 2011
- Messages
- 5,406
- Reaction Score
- 20,958
I guess so. Cal in the Toure kitchen a week ago would have aligned well with that report, but who knows. Maybe English found some change in his couch to up the anty. This will be interesting.
We can certainly squash Ant's big theory that he wants "far away" out of state if PC is the choice. It would fully confirm $$ the sole driver, as was straight out of TM's mouth. What makes sense is that PC is so desperate they'd push all chips in this early. Arkansas is going to have to pay lot of players.
And LongJohns, it was one degree of separation to someone who knows Toure's best friend well. If it was frothy, wouldn't have even bothered. But who knows, maybe they're slinging dookie to throw the scent off the gossip trail.
- Joined
- Dec 29, 2011
- Messages
- 2,745
- Reaction Score
- 34,407
Last week the talk has been all Providence.
I think English needs to make the tournament this year. Providence is willing to spend on a new coach.
I think English needs to make the tournament this year. Providence is willing to spend on a new coach.
- Joined
- May 27, 2015
- Messages
- 15,452
- Reaction Score
- 104,612
I agree in that I thought it was Arkansas last week too. But Kim English was visiting him last night, a day before he was supposedly telling coaches the decision which seems just as relevant
- Joined
- Oct 12, 2016
- Messages
- 2,329
- Reaction Score
- 13,334
English with the home visit yesterday seems like it clinched it.
- Joined
- Aug 10, 2025
- Messages
- 506
- Reaction Score
- 2,069
In Ant’s defense. He said it’d take a lot of money to keep him home. They wouldn’t be able to just match Arkansas offer. May have been what happened here.
I don't know the actual number, but the Providence offer appears to be pretty substantial, at least relative to where Toure is ranked.
A hypothetical which can make the Toure situation make sense.
If you have 5x million to spend on freshmen, and you're a school who is not traditionally able to recruit a 5*, then you have like 3x to spend on a high 4* and maybe 1x+1x on two others in your class for a 3 man class.
And then let's say another school with a higher budget (say 6x) is able to actually get a 5* to commit, but they potentially need to spend 4x on that 5*. That leaves them with only 2x for another player, which is less than 3x. So even though they have a higher budget, if the player isn't their top priority, they can be outbid by schools with slightly less but still healthy budgets.