Without a doubt it's Under Armour, sure UConn and a ton of other schools get money from Nike and Adidas but Maryland and Oregon's relationships with UA and Nike is absolutely unlike any others.
I didn't see him say Under Armour bought their players. It's pretty well known Maryland is the UA school and Oregon is the Nike school, if you don't think that's helped both schools immensely in recruiting I don't know what to tell you.
and as we learned, the strength of your relationship with a shoe company has a major impact on recruiting. seems to me, nike is content with the marketing exposure it gets from uconn being on tv. name 1 recent recruit who chose uconn becuase of nike and their persuasion.
momentum? really. in regards to stone, can't get much more momentum than wisconsin had the past few years. there is absolutely no one on this board who would have claimed momentum if drummond(our stone) had picked kentucky.
My point is that momentum had nothing to do with Diamond Stone choosing Maryland.
He was a UW lean from day 1 until under armour, I mean Maryland, burst on the scene late. I used Drummond as a hypothetical if for some unforeseen reason he decided to commit to a school like Kentucky. If that happened, I am sure no one would have claimed momentum as his reasoning. This hypothetical is essentially what happened to UW.
Fair enough. I disagree, but you are right that no one really knows.
They funnel tons of $$$$ to the AAU coaches who gather talent and then the coaches become the kids pimp.
Ok Thanks. That makes sense. So the AAU coach has incentive to send kids to the school that wear the shoes that are giving him the money.
