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2025 Recruiting: Chris Cenac

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@temery, I guess the pinned post at the top isn't getting enough attention. Sigh. :)

“I’m looking for a school that will develop me the most and help me get to the next level,” he told Shaw. “I’ll want to have a great relationship with the coaches, trust there. And I’ll want to be looking for an NBA type system, spreading the floor, playing four or five out. I’m open to any school around the country really, location won’t matter.”

 
HooperScooper said:
@temery, I guess the pinned post at the top isn't getting enough attention. Sigh. :)

“I’m looking for a school that will develop me the most and help me get to the next level,” he told Shaw. “I’ll want to have a great relationship with the coaches, trust there. And I’ll want to be looking for an NBA type system, spreading the floor, playing four or five out. I’m open to any school around the country really, location won’t matter.”

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Pinned posts are where threads go to die.
 
Fwiw. UConn never seemed to show serious interest.

Chris Cenac — the 6-foot-10, 230-pound big man out of Link Academy — announced his Top 7 schools on Wednesday.

Cenac is considering Kentucky, Auburn, Tennessee, Arkansas, Houston, LSU and Baylor.

He cut Alabama, Louisville, Michigan State, Texas and UConn from his previous list of 12.

www.zagsblog.com

Five-star big man Chris Cenac Jr. announces Top 7 schools | Zagsblog

By ADAM ZAGORIA & SAM LANCE Chris […]
www.zagsblog.com
 
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If there’s one coach I truly respect other than Hurley it’s Sampson. He is a culture and team builder.

Were we ever REALLY involved in this kid or did he just like the look of a Husky on his marketing image of 30 teams?

On a slightly separate topic, AJ resetting the market:

 
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RuffRuff said:
If there’s one coach I truly respect other than Hurley it’s Sampson. He is a culture and team builder.

Were we ever REALLY involved in this kid or did he just like the look of a Husky on his marketing image of 30 teams?

On a slightly separate topic, AJ resetting the market:

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And the team that wins the title his one season very likely has an entire roster that costs less than him (of course that team is going to be a UConn roster full of NBA draft picks, just not 1-1).
 
RuffRuff said:
If there’s one coach I truly respect other than Hurley it’s Sampson. He is a culture and team builder.

Were we ever REALLY involved in this kid or did he just like the look of a Husky on his marketing image of 30 teams?

On a slightly separate topic, AJ resetting the market:

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He better be a LeBron James for that money.
 
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i find it difficult to justify that price tag unless you are really literally having too much money and nowhere to spend it. BYU is actually the place that should spend the most money given their other natural or artificial disadvantages, and their level of ambition. all other programs are better off just spending 3 million each on 3 5 stars. the benefit for BYU isn't even winning but putting the program on the map/prestige cred. with the way AJ doesn't play defense most of the time idk if he's even a winning player in college.
 
RuffRuff said:
If there’s one coach I truly respect other than Hurley it’s Sampson. He is a culture and team builder.

Were we ever REALLY involved in this kid or did he just like the look of a Husky on his marketing image of 30 teams?

On a slightly separate topic, AJ resetting the market:

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If someone pays him $7-9 million that's the biggest waste of money ever. At least Dennis Kozlowski's $15,000 umbrella stand kept his umbrellas standing upright.
 
HooperScooper said:
And stay for more than 1 year because the odds of his team winning the title in his one year are pretty low.
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Intrigued at the strategy of what this one year run at BYU will yield. The likelihood is that AJ will come and go before he figures it out enough to really make a mark, BYU has a decent season but nothing earth shattering.

Perhaps it’s to get BYU on the broader radar of future recruits. This is precedent setting stuff, so really curious as to the why. If it’s to win for one year, I’d get ready for disappointment. If it’s a longer term strategy, let’s see what happens.
 
superjohn said:
If someone pays him $7-9 million that's the biggest waste of money ever. At least Dennis Kozlowski's $15,000 umbrella stand kept his umbrellas standing upright.
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Do you have some personal connection to Tyco? Because that's an interesting go-to when you need an example of a waste of money
 
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RuffRuff said:
Intrigued at the strategy of what this one year run at BYU will yield. The likelihood is that AJ will come and go before he figures it out enough to really make a mark, BYU has a decent season but nothing earth shattering.

Perhaps it’s to get BYU on the broader radar of future recruits. This is precedent setting stuff, so really curious as to the why. If it’s to win for one year, I’d get ready for disappointment. If it’s a longer term strategy, let’s see what happens.
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Read Jim McMahon autobiography if you want to know what attending BYU is like for an athlete. I highly encourage all recruits to read it. Of course, I guess any situation can be bearable for the 8 months a one-and-done would be there. Not like they're staying four years anymore.
 
UCTitleTown said:
Read Jim McMahon autobiography if you want to know what attending BYU is like for an athlete. I highly encourage all recruits to read it. Of course, I guess any situation can be bearable for the 8 months a one-and-done would be there. Not like they're staying four years anymore.
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Remember the basketball player who was dismissed from the team for admitting he was having sex with his girlfriend?

www.espn.com

Report: Brandon Davies case about sex

BYU officials confirmed Wednesday that starting forward Brandon Davies wasn't involved in anything criminal that resulted in his dismissal from the team.
www.espn.com www.espn.com
 
superjohn said:
If someone pays him $7-9 million that's the biggest waste of money ever. At least Dennis Kozlowski's $15,000 umbrella stand kept his umbrellas standing upright.
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No kid is worth -$7M to $9M. If someone disagrees, wherever he winds up, I’ll take the field to win it all vs where he’s heading.
 
FearThePups said:
No kid is worth -$7M to $9M. If someone disagrees, wherever he winds up, I’ll take the field to win it all vs where he’s heading.
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How did it even escalate that high? For a kid to double his originally ask there had to be a bidding war. There’s no point in bidding over market for the hell of it. Is KSt being equally the fool?

I can’t see any established and winning program shelling out this kind of dough for a OAD, so it would be amongst the desperate (a very Jerry Jones thing to do).
 
Jerry Jones has been notoriously cheap , the last time he spent big money on a free agent was in 2012. The guy is bargain basement shopper, that’s an awful analogy.
 
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HooperScooper said:
And stay for more than 1 year because the odds of his team winning the title in his one year are pretty low.
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Why? I’d say the majority of the money he’ll get isn't even for playing the season, it’s so if this kid turns out to be Jordan/Lebron/Kobe level then for the rest of his career he’s always associated with that school. They‘ll get more notoriety, better recruits in the future. UNC is still getting recruits because of Jordan 40 years later.
 
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Why? I’d say the majority of the money he’ll get isn't even for playing the season, it’s so if this kid turns out to be Jordan/Lebron/Kobe level then for the rest of his career he’s always associated with that school. They‘ll get more notoriety, better recruits in the future. UNC is still getting recruits because of Jordan 40 years later.
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What's the probability of him being at that level?

Durant went to Texas but what has it done for them? Does anyone think about Texas when talking about Durant? He was there for only 1 year. I bet most people can't even remember what he did there. And he was really good his 1 year.

Curry went to Davidson. What has it done for them? And he was there for more than 1 year.

I completely disagree with you that spending $7-$9 million on Dybantsa will be worth it.
 
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HooperScooper said:
What's the probability of him being at that level?

Durant went to Texas but what has it done for them? Does anyone think about Texas when talking about Durant? He was there for only 1 year. I bet most people can't even remember what he did there. And he was really good his 1 year.

Curry went to Davidson. What has it done for them? And he was there for more than 1 year.

I completely disagree with you that spending $7-$9 million on Dybantsa will be worth it.
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I’m pretty sure if Davidson knew what Steph Curry would turn out to be and their options were to pay 9 mil to have him on the team or not have him on the team they‘d easily pay, he’s the greatest thing that’s happpend to that school. If you looked at the population of people who know of Davidson outside North Carolina, 99% probably know of it because of Steph.
 
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I’m pretty sure if Davidson knew what Steph Curry would turn out to be and their options were to pay 9 mil to have him on the team or not have him on the team they‘d easily pay, he’s the greatest thing that’s happpend to that school. If you looked at the population of people who know of Davidson outside North Carolina, 99% probably know of it because of Steph.
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O.K. I will give you that. They were already an elite liberal arts school though. But it definitely helped their profile as an academic institution and helped their basketball program move to a better conference. But a school like Davidson isn't getting Dybantsa.

What do you think the probability is that Dybantsa is as good as Curry or Durant?

I will agree that schools like BYU and Kansas State might want to pay that much to help the profile of their programs in the short term so they can get better players. We'll see what happens if he goes to either school.
 
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9 million is more than every CBB teams total budget. Kansas and Arkansas aren’t even that high. This just seems absurd to spend that on a single player
 
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