Oregon Ducks basketball offers J.T. Tuimoloau, the nation's No. 1 football prospect

DerekJohnson

https://sports.yahoo.com/oregon-ducks-basketball-offers-j-013955357.html

RatherBeBrewing

That’s the kiss of death for his Oregon recruitment.

Desperation move. Maybe he stopped returning their calls so they forced one of the basketball assistant coaches to awkwardly call him.

I bet if JTT asks Nick Saban if he can play basketball he’d tell him the same thing he said to Antonio Gates when Gates was at Michigan State.

Neighbor2972

Hopkins has this in the bag

https://twitter.com/NWBallers1/status/1263788047159578630?s=20

thechatch

RatherBeBrewing said:

That’s the kiss of death for his Oregon recruitment.

Desperation move. Maybe he stopped returning their calls so they forced one of the basketball assistant coaches to awkwardly call him.

I bet if JTT asks Nick Saban if he can play basketball he’d tell him the same thing he said to Antonio Gates when Gates was at Michigan State.

We offered Arik Armstead a basketball scholarship as well. That turned out ok.

RatherBeBrewing

thechatch said:

RatherBeBrewing said:

That’s the kiss of death for his Oregon recruitment.

Desperation move. Maybe he stopped returning their calls so they forced one of the basketball assistant coaches to awkwardly call him.

I bet if JTT asks Nick Saban if he can play basketball he’d tell him the same thing he said to Antonio Gates when Gates was at Michigan State.

We offered Arik Armstead a basketball scholarship as well. That turned out ok.

That kind of reeked of desperation back then as well. But it’s recruiting, so you gotta do whatever it takes. If need be Cristo can bully Altman into starting him over one of his five star seven footers.

All it took to land Armstead was coming off three straight conference titles, a natty appearance, two Rose Bowls, the best record in college football over the previous three seasons, Tosh Lupoi leaving Cal for a less relevant program, and the Armstead family accusing USC of almost killing his older brother.

Sources

Really glad we have a separate posting for this article. Now when he goes to OSU we can talk about it in 2 threads.

animate

It's a good thing that uw hoops sucks at this time.

Gives us a .01% chance instead of an absolute zero.

Jtt can probably get significant pt at washington as isaiah stewart lite. Shorter but heavier.

CallMeBigErn

animate said:

It's a good thing that uw hoops sucks at this time.

Gives us a .01% chance instead of an absolute zero.

Jtt can probably get significant pt at washington as isaiah stewart lite. Shorter but heavier.

JTT can bang! He could legitimately play at UW right now. Make it happen.

WoolleyDoog

Agree this seems like a desperate move to stay in the game the way it did for Washington when they did it. Kind of surprised Altman went with it and always assumed he wouldn't since he runs a pretty legit ship down there as far actually knowing how to coach and run a college basketball program.

CallMeBigErn

WoolleyDoog said:

Agree this seems like a desperate move to stay in the game the way it did for Washington when they did it. Kind of surprised Altman went with it and always assumed he wouldn't since he runs a pretty legit ship down there as far actually knowing how to coach and run a college basketball program.

Legit coach, but I question his legit recruiting.

Bread

If he really wants a natty we should offer him a rowing scholarship

Quietcowskee

Bread said:

If he really wants a natty we should offer him a rowing scholarship

I think we need to redraw the “Most Popular Poster” bracket. Bread’s taking P.E.D’s or something.

1to392831weretaken

WoolleyDoog said:

Agree this seems like a desperate move to stay in the game the way it did for Washington when they did it. Kind of surprised Altman went with it and always assumed he wouldn't since he runs a pretty legit ship down there as far actually knowing how to coach and run a college basketball program.

There's zero downside to this from a basketball perspective. A football player can only take a football scholarship. What's JTT's basketball recruiting ranking? Is he a 4-star? Let's say he's "just" a 3-star. That's still somebody with D1 potential. And the basketball coach would get him for free. Even if he's not good enough to play in games that aren't well decided, what coach doesn't want a guy that physical under the rim in practice to teach his bigs not to be pussies?