I didn't want to add this to the Jake Sullivan/AAU thread because:
1. I don't know Jake Sullivan personally.
2. I don't know anything about his AAU team, or the personalities involved.
3. I really don't care. Nothing personal, but this whole controversy won't affect my life one bit.
What did catch my attention was a comment on that thread disparaging Jake because he apparently hasn't been deferential to ISU basketball enough and directed all his good players to be favorable to recruiting by ISU.
I want to say this without any animosity, and in a calm manner so that no one will get excited........If you think that Jake Sullivan should be obligated to talk up ISU to all his players, then you've got pig manure where your brains should be.
Jake Sullivan is not an agent of ISU basketball. He's an AAU coach who charges parents for coaching their kids in basketball. In this role, his first priority should be the best interests of the kid. OK, maybe he's a jerk who took too much influence from the worst that Natty Lite Larry threw at him, and maybe he DOES use the kids to promote himself. How does that make him any different from 99% of all AAU coaches?
If Jake Sullivan took direction from this portion of the fanbase and steered all his kids to ISU, he would have absolutely ZERO credibility left with the parents. After all, how can you tell if Jake honestly thinks that your child would be a good fit at ISU if he refers ALL the kids to ISU? And while being known as a "feeder program for ISU basketball" might appeal to the small market of people who are determined to have a child play basketball in Hilton above all else, how will this appear to parents who would be happy to see their child succeed at schools like Wartburg, Southern Illinois, Drake or even (GOD FORBID) Kansas?
And, considering my personal feelings about GMac's performance as the coach of ISU, I hardly consider an ex-ISU player/AAU coach who recognizes that the ISU MBB program was a "dumpster fire" during the last couple of years to be disloyal to the program.....more like he's....... Paying. Attention. To. Current. Events.
Like I said earlier, I don't care. I just don't like it when our fanbase starts acting like Hawkeyes or Jayhawks. We should be better than that.
1. I don't know Jake Sullivan personally.
2. I don't know anything about his AAU team, or the personalities involved.
3. I really don't care. Nothing personal, but this whole controversy won't affect my life one bit.
What did catch my attention was a comment on that thread disparaging Jake because he apparently hasn't been deferential to ISU basketball enough and directed all his good players to be favorable to recruiting by ISU.
I want to say this without any animosity, and in a calm manner so that no one will get excited........If you think that Jake Sullivan should be obligated to talk up ISU to all his players, then you've got pig manure where your brains should be.
Jake Sullivan is not an agent of ISU basketball. He's an AAU coach who charges parents for coaching their kids in basketball. In this role, his first priority should be the best interests of the kid. OK, maybe he's a jerk who took too much influence from the worst that Natty Lite Larry threw at him, and maybe he DOES use the kids to promote himself. How does that make him any different from 99% of all AAU coaches?
If Jake Sullivan took direction from this portion of the fanbase and steered all his kids to ISU, he would have absolutely ZERO credibility left with the parents. After all, how can you tell if Jake honestly thinks that your child would be a good fit at ISU if he refers ALL the kids to ISU? And while being known as a "feeder program for ISU basketball" might appeal to the small market of people who are determined to have a child play basketball in Hilton above all else, how will this appear to parents who would be happy to see their child succeed at schools like Wartburg, Southern Illinois, Drake or even (GOD FORBID) Kansas?
And, considering my personal feelings about GMac's performance as the coach of ISU, I hardly consider an ex-ISU player/AAU coach who recognizes that the ISU MBB program was a "dumpster fire" during the last couple of years to be disloyal to the program.....more like he's....... Paying. Attention. To. Current. Events.
Like I said earlier, I don't care. I just don't like it when our fanbase starts acting like Hawkeyes or Jayhawks. We should be better than that.
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