Nate Britt Announces to UNC, and So Maryland Goes All-In on the Harrison Twins

but I dont think i have ever wanted anything this much

Is it just me, or is there a lack of good PG’s on a lot of college teams this year? Maniscalso showed us what a great PG can do for a team.
The recruitment of the twins could get down and dirty with Cadillac Cal. Hopefully the father will oversee their decisions.
Is it certain that both will go to the same school?

I’m actually glad he didn’t chose the Terps. Why? Because of his stated reasons. He said that he wanted to wait until the beginning of the basketball season to evaluate how Turg coached. He didn’t like the way Turg coached apparently, so I’m glad as heck that he didn’t chose the Terps. Turg, I think, is going to surprise Mr Britt.

…Britt said his second choice was Arizona.

The chants last night during the game was tasteless and immature to be chanted on national TV. Nate Britt committing to UNC is not going to break Maryland basketball. He was not the one guy that this team needed in order to compete. Maryland fans should be better then that.

I do not really see it as surprising that he did not want to come here. Its clear neither that he had real fan support or playing time in his future.

First, its clear that we consider him a silver medal to the Harrison twins. That is all over this site. At least no one at UNC is saying that they would “settle” for Britt. Why would anyone want to come into an environment where the fans see you as a silver medal when you are as good as he is?

Second, its also not clear that he would get PT right away. Let’s say we get the Harrison’s — who exactly would we be benching? Assuming Stoglin and Faust do not leave early, you have bench Stoglin, Faust, or a Harrison to get him starters minutes (and that assumes Layman to the 4 and Allen and Len do not pan out). Sure, on the team now Nate Britt would play right away, but he is not being recruited to be a part of the team now. Its not clear that by the time he comes in he would be guaranteed starters minutes.

Finally, I do not see why we should be bitter or care. Everyone here (including myself) wants the twins more than him and this only helps us with recruiting the twins; contrarily had he committed it would have hurt us with them. Its good for us. And its good for him, even if he came here and the twins did not, he would always be a silver medal to us (or worse, we might consider him the reason we did not get the twins). Why would anyone want to come into that situation?

Good luck to him at NC.

with stoglin, howard coming back next year and allen coming in not hard to second guess britt’s decision going to unc. i don’t think this has anything to do with the recruiting ability of any md coaches. just seems like a smart move for britt.

Change the record…..it’s the same song and dance for MD recruting for the past 8 years and so far Turge hasn’t done anything to change that. Don’t get me wrong, I love Turge, he’s a great coach, but if anyone here actually thinks we’ll get the Harrison Twins, then whatever your smoking, I would LOVE a hit. It’s not going to happen…..I say focus on Aquille Carr and hope he grows 2 more inches by the time he get’s to College Park, and close the book on the Harrison twins. We NEVER land these big time recruits, but were always in the running??? which to me means only one thing….were wasting to much time on recruits who aren’t coming to MD…..I say waste that time on those mid to lower 4 star recruits and high 3 star recruits. The sooner we all can except that, the sooner we can stop living in these day dream hazes that a big time 5 star top 10 recruit is going to come to MD.

Go National. Local talent can’t appreciate a gem of a school. Maryland has a lot to sell to outside recruits. A great institution in a great location.

Come on guys. Whenever the words “point guard” and “Coach Cal recruiting them” enter the conversation, its over. I’m not saying we shouldn’t try and that we don’t have a strong recruiting staff I am just saying its not realistic to compete with those types of guys we are going against right now. It will take a solid 3 years before we have a chance of landing those top 15 type guys.

It sounds like he’s a good young man, so I wish him all the best.

Did he, however, actually announce at the game? Like, from the Comcast Center? If so, I find that a bit odd. I have seen some athletes do this in the past and I don’t really understand the thought process. Yes, it’s on National television, but if you announce for another school, you are basically stealing the thunder of the other institution. I don’t condone the reaction of the crowd, but I imagine that it was expected. It would be like an athlete going to the headquarters of Nike to announce that he is signing with Adidas. Really?

don’t know if turgeon & co. pull it off getting the twins, but we want them out there on the grind making CP look grand. i’m not mad at britt. but his timing for the announcement was extremely distasteful. almost intentionally insulting. on top of it he made his decision far too early.

turgeon has the team looking better every game. we’re going to lose a lot of guys until MD seems like a powerhouse again. barely beating iona, scholly-stricken or not is NOT a good look. britt signed to UNc for love & for the idea that big roy is going to keep rolling talent in. -and being the school that michael jordan went to helps. the eventual thing that vaults MD to the top ranks is to have another joe smith/steve francis-type successful NBA draft pick. there’s been a void of ANY MD NBA picks. stoglin and len seem to be the next closest hopes of that.

For the students to chant Nate Britt sucks. He’s a HIGH SCHOOL JUNIOR! Kid is what? 15 or 16 years old? Just because he doesn’t want to come to your school, he sucks? That really helps parents out in deciding where they don’t want to send their kids. Kids don’t understand that parents of recruits watch ESPN too. Who wants to send their kids to a place with a bad reputation? What if you’re Nate Britt and you’re sitting at home getting texts from people saying the Maryland fans are chanting you suck on national tv? Surely that makes him feel he made the right decision to not pick Maryland. I can’t understand the Nate Britt bashing on here all of a sudden either. All of a sudden he’s not good enough for play for Maryland? Nate Britt is not Maryland’s silver medal. He was hand picked by UNC as the guy to run the show after Marcus Paige. Harrison is ranked ahead of him because of his size. Nate Britt could start at the point for Maryland today. If he walked into Comcast today, Mark Turgeon would hand him the ball to run the offense. To be honest, the Nate Britt thing was a long shot. Everybody knew UNC was his favorite. I think I read somewhere there was is clip of him when he was 9 years old saying he wanted to go to UNC and play for Roy Williams. No surprise they’re the pick. But, let’s take it easy on kids for making decisions they feel are best for them. I bet every one of you saying you never wanted Nate Britt would have been elated if he had picked Maryland and would have been talking about how he is better for the offense than the Harrison twins.

The Harrison Twins aren’t coming here. I wish we could get the recruits we go after, but the state of Maryland basketball has been lacking and will take some time. We can’t offer these kids anything but playing time over the top programs we’re fighting. Maybe if we werent losing by 20 to Iona more recruits would come here, but honestly, the players Gary left us with aren’t doing any favors with recruiting. How can we convince people to come here when we look so bad on national tv

I revert back to the episode of The Office where Michael is being deposed for Jan’s lawsuit.

Jan’s lawyer: Did Ms. Levinson ever say why she thought she was being fired?
Michael Scott: She thought it had to do with the twins. That’s what, I call them.
Jan’s lawyer: Can you be more specific. Who are the twins?
Michael Scott: Um, to be delicate, they hang off milady’s chest. They make milk.
Jan’s lawyer: You don’t have to go any further.

it gave me an idea. Someone needs to get in Turge’s ear and tell him to try to get the twins to visit during the Dook game since we all know its gonna be rockin and it will be nationall televised. If he can get them here we should all start chanting their names. Just imagine it from their perspective. An 18,000 seat sold-out crowd chanting “Andrew, Aaron, Harrison”.

I see that as a win/win situation. It strokes their ego a little bit which is what you have to do sometimes with the blue chippers, and with it being a nationally televised game, other recruits see it and think “that could be me”.