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OT: Trentyn Flowers , Louisville commit, going to Australia

Oh, boy. The Louisville fans were giddy when he committed. Their savior is going down under.
 
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They’re longing for those vacated championship days over there
 
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Odd decision and even more odd timing. He kinda screwed Louisville. Such a shame……
 
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Pretty big jerk move from him but can’t say I’ll lose sleep over it :)
 
uconngb said:
Odd decision and even more odd timing. He kinda screwed Louisville. Such a shame……
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He wanted to start at pg, after summer workouts/practices he realized he wasn't going to start over Skyy Clark so he bailed
 
HooperScooper said:
In my book not enough bad things can happen to Louisville.
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Refresh my memory (I seriously don't follow close enough to know) - I know Pitino was involved, but what else brings the hate on Louisville?
 
temery said:
Refresh my memory (I seriously don't follow close enough to know) - I know Pitino was involved, but what else brings the hate on Louisville?
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How much time do you have? :)
 
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Obviously he didn't really want to be in college. Which is probably why he chose Louisville in the first place. :)

“In my opinion it was an opportunity of a lifetime,” Flowers told 247Sports. “When the opportunity came there was only a certain window for me to make that decision. For me it was about locking in and being able to fully focus on basketball. Being down here for my first two months at Louisville, I saw it’s a phenomenal place and I love everybody here. It’s just in college in general there’s a lot of distractions so it’s really just about locking in and perfecting my craft. Also I’m going there to play the point full time which was something I couldn’t pass up.”

247sports.com

Trentyn Flowers talks decision to leave Louisville

Trentyn Flowers talks decision to leave Louisville
247sports.com 247sports.com
 
HooperScooper said:
Obviously he didn't really want to be in college. Which is probably why he chose Louisville in the first place. :)

“In my opinion it was an opportunity of a lifetime,” Flowers told 247Sports. “When the opportunity came there was only a certain window for me to make that decision. For me it was about locking in and being able to fully focus on basketball. Being down here for my first two months at Louisville, I saw it’s a phenomenal place and I love everybody here. It’s just in college in general there’s a lot of distractions so it’s really just about locking in and perfecting my craft. Also I’m going there to play the point full time which was something I couldn’t pass up.”

247sports.com

Trentyn Flowers talks decision to leave Louisville

Trentyn Flowers talks decision to leave Louisville
247sports.com 247sports.com
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Yeah, I can't imagine "distractions" at Louisville include "classes".

Guessing he signed for something between $400K-$1M, the latter which is pretty much the individual player cap in the NBL. Maybe Flowers didn't want to work for NIL $.
 
HooperScooper said:
Obviously he didn't really want to be in college. Which is probably why he chose Louisville in the first place. :)

“In my opinion it was an opportunity of a lifetime,” Flowers told 247Sports. “When the opportunity came there was only a certain window for me to make that decision. For me it was about locking in and being able to fully focus on basketball. Being down here for my first two months at Louisville, I saw it’s a phenomenal place and I love everybody here. It’s just in college in general there’s a lot of distractions so it’s really just about locking in and perfecting my craft. Also I’m going there to play the point full time which was something I couldn’t pass up.”

247sports.com

Trentyn Flowers talks decision to leave Louisville

Trentyn Flowers talks decision to leave Louisville
247sports.com 247sports.com
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It’s tough to argue when you look at it from the kids view. He wants to train for basketball for 9 months, not be in college.
 
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I can post this here (but not on my own board) because no one on the Underground knows what poster I am over there:

He gave word to the CU staff that he was committing to us. Louisville was on his list and he told them they were out. They responded by asking what our NIL offer was, and then asked him to delay his decision statement.

They then turned around and offered him 1.3 million. Or so Flowers said anyway.

He came back to CU and said this is what they’re offering. We said, we can’t pay that. Flowers’ camp said we figured that, we’d take 600k from CU to go there.

We said, We could theoretically do that but we won’t due to all the apple carts that would upset, you aren’t walking in here and getting that because that’s not how we roll.

That afternoon he committed to Louisville. And now this. Good riddance, dude.
 
Mr. French said:
It’s tough to argue when you look at it from the kids view. He wants to train for basketball for 9 months, not be in college.
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Going to Louisville to play basketball isn’t going to college, let’s be real. Hell going to Louisville as a regular student is barely going to college.
 
storrsroars said:
Yeah, I can't imagine "distractions" at Louisville include "classes".

Guessing he signed for something between $400K-$1M, the latter which is pretty much the individual player cap in the NBL. Maybe Flowers didn't want to work for NIL $.
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And other "distractions"....at least when Pitino was there. But I think those female "distractions" were only provided until the LOI was signed.
 
BlueJayFan said:
I can post this here (but not on my own board) because no one on the Underground knows what poster I am over there:

He gave word to the CU staff that he was committing to us. Louisville was on his list and he told them they were out. They responded by asking what our NIL offer was, and then asked him to delay his decision statement.

They then turned around and offered him 1.3 million. Or so Flowers said anyway.

He came back to CU and said this is what they’re offering. We said, we can’t pay that. Flowers’ camp said we figured that, we’d take 600k from CU to go there.

We said, We could theoretically do that but we won’t due to all the apple carts that would upset, you aren’t walking in here and getting that because that’s not how we roll.

That afternoon he committed to Louisville. And now this. Good riddance, dude.
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Interesting. He may have been bluffing, Louisville's NIL offer was probably no bigger than CU's. He was shopping for money, when leveraging you up didn't work he figured he'd burned his bridges at CU and switched to L'ville, but he kept shopping, and Australia turned up.
 
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