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Francis Okoro
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dçamden03 May 15 2018, 09:22 AM Post #16
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Especially for high level recruits, like Okoro is, I find the academic talk to usually be lip service. It would be interesting to know what % of top-50 players get a degree outside of the typical degree athletes get. In sounds good, and so many athletes talk about how important education is, but for the elite players, that's not typically a priority once they reach campus. I realize I'm on my soap box here, but that's a pet peeve of mine, whether it's an IU recruit, PU recruit, or otherwise.

Did he reclassify for '18 or is he going to be a 2019 recruit?
‘18.

Seems like a prime transfer candidate after two seasons.
“He’s always been a guy — maybe to a fault — he would always try to do what I said. That seems like something simple in coaching, but those are the guys I hang my hat on. We’ve had some guys in our program, we had a couple guys that felt I had a bias towards E’Twaun Moore. And they were right — I do have a bias towards E’Twaun Moore. I like guys that go to class, that are academic All-Americans, that come early, that stay late, that love the game of basketball. I am biased towards those guys. And I’m biased towards Rob Hummel. But I’m also biased towards their habits, their work ethic, and how they carry themselves."

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brumdog44 May 15 2018, 05:54 PM Post #17
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obatskii
May 15 2018, 12:24 AM
Especially for high level recruits, like Okoro is, I find the academic talk to usually be lip service. It would be interesting to know what % of top-50 players get a degree outside of the typical degree athletes get. In sounds good, and so many athletes talk about how important education is, but for the elite players, that's not typically a priority once they reach campus. I realize I'm on my soap box here, but that's a pet peeve of mine, whether it's an IU recruit, PU recruit, or otherwise.

Did he reclassify for '18 or is he going to be a 2019 recruit?
‘18.

Seems like a prime transfer candidate after two seasons.
Or he might think be he is looking that he is a pro player after two years. Reclassifying forward usually seems to be about that (unless the situation is unusual like Race Thompson, who was a 80s ranked prospect for his class and redshirted).

Anyway, I think kids too often are much too optimistic about their future pro prospects. But Okoro is already 19 years old I believe (he was born in Nigerian and moved to the US in seventh grade) which would mean if he didn't reclassify he'd be a 20 year old freshman.
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