Chris Ledlum - Harvard Transfer to Tennessee -- Wait, Make That St. John's

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3 hours ago, Hoosierfanyuh said:

St. John’s facilities are not good either lol

Ledlum likely knows St John’s facilities since he’s from Brooklyn.  If he goes there it would likely just be because it’s home.  But I don’t think a Harvard player is going to think being coached by Pitino is a selling point.

However, playing in front of hometown fans and in MSG(Pitino is trying to get about half the games there next year) could be.  With that said, the current roster is basically Soriano and no one else.

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4 minutes ago, Ngw7183 said:

He is coming here. Way too much points that way until it doesn’t and a couple quick visits in the same weekend doesn’t 

I sure hope so.... I just saw on HSN that Knecht is visiting along with Ledlum this weekend in Tennessee. Yuk!!

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/sports/college/university-of-tennessee/mens-basketball/2023/04/13/tennessee-basketball-chris-ledlum-dalton-knecht-transfer-portal-roster/69497886007/

 

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27 minutes ago, Ngw7183 said:

See my other post. Think it only helps us.

Is this the other post?

39 minutes ago, Ngw7183 said:

He is coming here. Way too much points that way until it doesn’t and a couple quick visits in the same weekend doesn’t 

Or is there another one that suggests that Knecht visiting TN with CL helps us.  Curious why you think that

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I can’t imagine any scenario under which recruits visiting other viable options is more of a good thing that a bad thing.

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4 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

I can’t imagine any scenario under which recruits visiting other viable options is more of a good thing that a bad thing.

If they are hyper sensitive to smell I would imagine a visit to Purdue could help us 

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7 minutes ago, Ngw7183 said:

 

I made longer post explaining it. In target thread 
 

if he is making the visit regardless, it can only help that Ledlum is there. They can’t take both easily, IU can and I am very confident that Ledlum likes IU which if Knecht was on the fence about visiting next weekend at all, he would be even more inclined to come.

I have even been on a visit where this exact thing happened. Both end up at the “other school” and not where they were visiting 

Tennessee has a strange scholarship situation. My general understanding is that they have multiple seniors who could take an additional year but have not decided yet, plus they have Phillips who is exploring the draft but may return.

I'm not sure how likely any of them is to actually return - I imagine Barnes will assure Ledlum and Knecht that there will definitely be room for them, but without the issue settled that's not optimum for UT.

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13 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Tennessee has a strange scholarship situation. My general understanding is that they have multiple seniors who could take an additional year but have not decided yet, plus they have Phillips who is exploring the draft but may return.

I'm not sure how likely any of them is to actually return - I imagine Barnes will assure Ledlum and Knecht that there will definitely be room for them, but without the issue settled that's not optimum for UT.

Barnes has really done well there and was a dark horse favorite of mine for the IU job a few years back.  I wonder how the players there feel about Barnes and if the involvment of TJD and Jalen in the visit here will help convince them this is the better place.  If they have 4 who could come back but are not sure it would seem that having guys like TJD and Race come back last year when most thought they were gone would be a nice boost for us

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1 hour ago, Stuhoo said:

Tennessee has a strange scholarship situation. My general understanding is that they have multiple seniors who could take an additional year but have not decided yet, plus they have Phillips who is exploring the draft but may return.

I'm not sure how likely any of them is to actually return - I imagine Barnes will assure Ledlum and Knecht that there will definitely be room for them, but without the issue settled that's not optimum for UT.

Even if only a couple of the four return, that is leaving less and less PT for incoming options.

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Any word out of Knoxville?

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36 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

Any word out of Knoxville?

Tennessee message board just said all they knew was that after he completed the visit he politely declined to be interviewed when someone reached out to him.  That said, I don’t think he did any interviews after visiting IU either.

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Didn't commit on the spot so that's a thing.

[IUFAN1976 4,320]

My gut tells me he wants to be the primary focus of the offense, just like he was at Harvard but both IU and Tennessee didn’t tell him that!

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1 hour ago, IUFAN1976 said:

My gut tells me he wants to be the primary focus of the offense, just like he was at Harvard but both IU and Tennessee didn’t tell him that!

Not sure he’s going to hear that anywhere he’s been seen to be looking at 

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He’s going to be a Hoosier. Maybe by Wednesday. 

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I checked out a few Twitter feeds and didn't see anything on his visit.  Turning down an interview after the visit may just mean he's trying to keep things close to the vest.

Hopefully we land him.  He wouldn't be expected to be the primary scoring option here, so maybe his shooting numbers could improve with more spot up chances instead of off the bounce as much as he had to do at Harvard.

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14 hours ago, jbeaman9 said:

He’s going to be a Hoosier. Maybe by Wednesday. 

I envision this becoming a Prediction Thread.  Next commit - date and time.

Steve Alford Jr.  Thursday    6 PM

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For all you social media follower believers, here is the run down this morning after Ledlum's other visits. This is just based on some brief searching of Instagram and I probably missed a couple.

He follows one St. Johns player

4 people from UT (2 staffers, 1 player)

From IU he follows Clif, Nick Virden (ops analyst), Hulls, Banks, Hogan (walk on), Isaac Green (GA), Cupps, Kel'el, Malik, Trey, X, Leal, and Adam Howard

Do what you want with this info. Ledlum will be a Hoosier, in my opinion.

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Best not break my heart @jbeaman9  The Mod Hammer isn't a pretty sight.  

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3 hours ago, jbeaman9 said:

For all you social media follower believers, here is the run down this morning after Ledlum's other visits. This is just based on some brief searching of Instagram and I probably missed a couple.

He follows one St. Johns player

4 people from UT (2 staffers, 1 player)

From IU he follows Clif, Nick Virden (ops analyst), Hulls, Banks, Hogan (walk on), Isaac Green (GA), Cupps, Kel'el, Malik, Trey, X, Leal, and Adam Howard

Do what you want with this info. Ledlum will be a Hoosier, in my opinion.

Sure is taking is damn time.  

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1 hour ago, Golfman25 said:

Sure is taking is damn time.  

39 of the top 100 of 247 in the portal haven’t committed yet.