Tennessee Colonial.. I guess thats your opinion. But I find recruiting to be interesting. In Gapare's case he's someone we are all very familiar with and my guess is there are people on here who would be interested in where he ends up.. So feel free to not read the thread if its a "waste of time". You must have been somewhat interested to click on the Gapare thread. Happy New Year

HOW DARE YOU ALL SPEAK HIS NAME. HE ISN'T COMING HERE SO HE DOESN'T EXIST. 

This looks less and less like a situation that turns out to be a win-win. 

The win-win thing sounded silly at the time, looks silly now, and while it may end up being the case, I would bet up to $8.28 that it will be silly looking back.

Dayton signed someone from Mongolia the other day I believe

Looks like Tafara is playing for Team Melo on the EYBL circuit. He had 11 points in the first two contests in Orlando yesterday.

Box Score vs. Team Durant
Box Score vs. City Rocks
 

Just noticed he's now a 2023.  He was born in 2003 so he'll be 20 as a freshman.  Makes sense for him to go straight to the pros.

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a lot of offers lately...

jf, assuming some sarcasm in your post, unless you had a problem with keeping a spot open for someone who was described as a legitimate NBA prospect at the time GW was doing this, I can only respond by saying that hindsight is 20/20.  Our program is such where you have to be willing to take a big swing, even if this means missing, when such an opportunity presents itself.  

As for holding the spot, I do know that GW has very stringent academic requirements for international students.  Am guessing this is something that CC may have raised before taking the job and that subsequent guidelines will hopefully be more lax moving forward.  Gapare had not prepped in the U.S. at the time he reopened his recruitment (this has since changed) which did not help matters.  But regardless of what's happened since, at the time, Gapare's handlers had likely heard enough and decided to move on.  Also worth mentioning that Nima was a primary contact and he had also moved on.  

So, you may find fault with GW for it's academic requirements.  Or, you may find fault with Nima being asked to leave, which is difficult without fully knowing what happened there.  But, I can't find fault with JC keeping a spot open for someone with this player's "upside."  Particularly since he did verbally commit to GW at some point.

Am not saying that any part of this was a major surprise.  Your comment about academics does not make much sense to me.  Just because someone is a questionable academic admit does not automatically mean that they will not get into the school.  The hope is that the player will do what they need to do as a student to get themselves qualified, with the school's guidance which I am sure was provided.  

Moreover, what would you have liked the school to do under these circumstances?  GW has a realistic chance at landing a Top 100 player but there are some evident obstacles.  Better to just walk away when there still was a possibility that things would work out?  And, what was the harm in hanging in there?  Am not sure there was ever a point in time where a projected 13 scholarships would be taken with Gapare using one of these.  And even if that wasn't the case, we all can clearly see what the transfer portal has looked like the past couple of seasons.  Not everyone stays, practically anywhere.  So in reality, it's not like we were denying another player by waiting on Gapare's situation.