Going to take a wild guess. Is his last name the same as a former president?

Great guess by dmvpiranha. Daniel Nixon it is!

Beating Georgetown for a recruit and Dayton looking up at us in the A-10? Things are good at this moment. What a difference a day makes!

It is amazing how quickly JC was able to recognize that he got an opening for next year and recruit somebody over georgetown.  Am I to really believe that JNJ was not effectively told “you can play out this year, but we are moving on next year.”  And then JNJ decided to leave.

I make no moral judgment on this, and am excited about the recruit.  But it is awfully coincidental that it happened so quickly

danjsport wrote:

It is amazing how quickly JC was able to recognize that he got an opening for next year and recruit somebody over georgetown. Am I to really believe that JNJ was not effectively told “you can play out this year, but we are moving on next year.” And then JNJ decided to leave.

I make no moral judgment on this, and am excited about the recruit. But it is awfully coincidental that it happened so quickly

Danjsport, that's some next level conspiracy stuff. Have you ever considered a career in screenwriting?

Absolutely not what happened. According to my sources, GW had been recruiting Daniel Nixon all along but he was not committing early (November) and GW didn't have a spot for him then. It was only when JNJ left that a spot opened up and JC acted quickly to secure a commitment. No cause and effect other than JNJ decided to leave and that opened a spot. If that was JC's intention he would have waited to the end of the year to tell JNJ after he had signed Nixon. By the way they don't play the same position anyway.

Gwrising, stop with the people bashing.

There was very clearly a cause and effect.  Nixon could not have signed without JNJ leaving.  Maybe Nixon would have waited until the end of the year and the announcement of a player leaving (I’d expect others to leave, given the state of college basketball).  It may be unrelated. 

The fact that they play different positions is not relevant.  To the contrary, JNj was losing minutes at guard.  Amir is baxk next year (maybe?), Lindo is added next year, ball and brelsford are here and brayon is coming in.  So if JNJ was already losing minutes, it was not likely to improve.  And, of course, the guard heavy team could use another forward.  Again, maybe it was serendipity that right after Nelson left, Nixon was ready to sign and made his decision.  That’s great if that’s what your sources say.  You’re very clearly more connected to the program than I am.  But the thought that these two events are not connected in any way ignores the plain reality that one could not have happened without the other.

That said, I’m excited that JC got a guy he wants and who looks good.  Hopefully yesterday’s win is the start of a good trend forward

danjsport wrote:

Gwrising, stop with the people bashing.

There was very clearly a cause and effect. Nixon could not have signed without JNJ leaving. Maybe Nixon would have waited until the end of the year and the announcement of a player leaving (I’d expect others to leave, given the state of college basketball). It may be unrelated.

The fact that they play different positions is not relevant. To the contrary, JNj was losing minutes at guard. Amir is baxk next year (maybe?), Lindo is added next year, ball and brelsford are here and brayon is coming in. So if JNJ was already losing minutes, it was not likely to improve. And, of course, the guard heavy team could use another forward. Again, maybe it was serendipity that right after Nelson left, Nixon was ready to sign and made his decision. That’s great if that’s what your sources say. You’re very clearly more connected to the program than I am. But the thought that these two events are not connected in any way ignores the plain reality that one could not have happened without the other.

That said, I’m excited that JC got a guy he wants and who looks good. Hopefully yesterday’s win is the start of a good trend forward

So let me get this straight. You ascribe some speculative sinister motive to JC without a shred of evidence other than timing and I'm the one that is people bashing. Interesting.

It's nice GWRising that you can speak with such authority but unless you are JC himself, I'm not sure that your "facts are facts" rhetoric are definitive.  For example, you don't really know that JC wanted JNJ to stay for the long term.  He would never say that he didn't publicly; I suspect that only he and his assistants would ever know.  By the way, nothing about this is personal.  This is all from a basketball perspective.  

Maybe, just maybe:

1) JC had seen enough to know that JNJ would never be able to comfortably run his offense from the point.
2)  JC wanted more size at the 2 guard.
3) JC wanted better outside shooting from the 2 guard position.
4) James Bishop's arrival meant that some of the skills which JNJ brought to the table were being applied by James, making JNJ expendable.
5) Perhaps JNJ thought of himself s a 30+ minute player per game, as he was last year, and that as JC upgraded the talent on this team, he knew that he would not be able to provide this to JNJ, as has already been the case.

Forget about the phrase "running him off the team" which is nonsense.  What isn't nonsense is that JC did in fact recruit over JNJ by bringing James in.  That's OK if he believes the move will make the team better; his won-loss record absolutely matters.  But, it's not the same thing as your saying that JC did not want JNJ to leave.  Perhaps he did, for the betterment of his team as well as to allow JNJ to find a more suitable opportunity for himself.  Frankly, if this is the case, I don't think that you would ever hear JC say that he really didn't have a role for JNJ, or anything to this effect, because I think JC would diplomatically keep this to himself and/or a very limited circle.

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Gwmayhem - Have I ever posted a thing here that wasn't correct about what was going to happen? Recall that I posted about JNJ leaving before it was announced. You will just have to trust me at some level when I tell you what happened. That's all I can say.

Separately, JC did not recruit Bishop to play over JNJ. He in fact recruited him to play with JNJ as both could be combo guards in his offense, giving GW versatility and making it difficult for teams to guard two versatile guards who each could play 30+ minutes. It admittedly did not work out as planned but we were just seven games into the process. Again it should be repeated that it was not JC who pulled the plug. 

Yinka dont Stinka wrote:

I don't get this discussion. Gaspare reclassified over a month ago. There was a spot for Lincoln regardless of JNJ transferring or not.

Yes and no. Not sure there has been a formal decision on Gapare yet as to when he will arrive. Believe it will be 2022 but don't think that's definite yet. And theoretically he could classify back if things change. If you are JC you can't foreclose that happening.