2020 Recruiting: Cam Thomas Visiting October 11

[bendm]

Not trying to be harsh. You don’t have to be bitter and jaded but you don’t have a good feel for things a lot of the time.

i dont think ive ever made an actual prognostication regarding what might happen, i just express opinions and hopes and fears and discuss hypothetical scenarios within the realm of possibility, and of course debate other points of view. isnt that the lane i should stay in as an 'outsider'?

 

[Psolo12]

This thread has gotten to the point where reading it is painful.

 

[bendm]

it's last thread i'll ever inadvertently derail here

 

[2Infinity]

you're no fun. there's a fascinating potential scenario in play. let's say jackson commits here on 9/30 after his iowa visit and lane commits on 10/8. at that point Thomas hasn't even arrived for his OV yet....

what then? center is our biggest need but how can you turn cam away if he's ready to verbal and cliff isnt a sure thing? either way this stuff is fun to think about no matter what you say.

I wouldn’t lose any sleep worrying about that scenario.

so jackson and lane arent committing [here] in the next 2.5 weeks. you heard it here first folks.

what do you mean ALL the commitments i built into my scenario? it was based on 2 commitments- jackson and lane committing here in the next 2.5 weeks which is when cam thomas takes his OV.

in response chief said not to worry. soooooo logically he must be implying that jackson and lane arent gonna commit here in the next 2.5 weeks. i didnt suggest they will never commit.

So you outline a scenario where Jackson and Lane verbal and then a third, Thomas, is here and ready to verbal..so what do we do then?!? Chief responds and says he wouldn't worry about that scenario happening. You take that to specifically mean that BOTH of the first two won't be committing?? That is one HUGE stretch and not accurate at all!

It's one thing to disagree with someone when they suggest that the various pieces of a scenario may not come to pass. However, in no way was he responding that ALL three verbals will not occur (and there were three potential verbals discussed by you). It only takes one link in a chain to fail in order for the whole chain to fail. That could be one of the verbals not occurring OR the timing of one of them to be off. It wasn't him suggesting that two of the verbals would not happen, it was you and then you tried to pin that comment on him. That is really weak man!

 

[Scrutineer]

i'm derailing a recruiting thread by discussing recruiting?

when i started posting here almost 1 year ago i was optimistic and enthusiastic. i day-dreamed about great recruiting classes when i was bored at work, which was/is often. but then i started getting shot down for it. i was told to stop wasting my time and breath even though i have plenty of both to spare. eventually it wore me down to the point where i became bitter and jaded like many of the old grumpy people here. so i started expressing my fears and concerns instead. even though i never called for anyone to be fired (like several others did during the hysteric board meltdown 2 weeks ago) somehow the backlash for that was even more severe. so now i've come full circle. i'm trying to be happy and optimistic again. but low and behold, the criticisms keep coming no matter what i say!

You need to capitalize your I's and all will be forgiven.

 

[polycom]

Y’all are weird

 

[ctchamps]

Will revisit Cam closer to his OV.

 

[Fishy]

It's not a bad thing to have an unexpressed thought every now and again.

Moving on.