22 year old Academic All American not capable of making his own decisions about his future. Got it.
AJ Green Leaves the Portal - Staying in Draft
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Mish mash work of players to 22 wins and a Sweet Sixteen. Looking forward to TJ doing some outstanding coaching again. Amazing how he finds a way to win with a mish mash work of players.
Maybe you don’t have a great relationship with them. He’s got as good a path to the pros at Iowa State as he does at Duke. That’s not even arguable.
Ok try to look at it objectively. Tyrese played very well at the end of the year, but let’s not pretend he was great the whole season. He was serviceable for 2/3 of the year with a few flashes and the last 1/3 he was good. He was great for one game. Not having Brockington is a much bigger deal than losing Tyrese.
Nevermind. You’re helpless.
I hope you don't have kids.
Several. And they would have been in Ames last year in this situation. And I wouldn’t even had to ask. The kid gave up high major offers to play for him at a mid major.
No, I’m just right.
Boy this is an all-time bad take on here.
As a parent I cannot imagine wanting to strong-arm your kid into playing for you. If his dream is to play at Duke, I wouldn't want to feel like I was the one who kept him from that. Once basketball is done you're left with being his parent-- why would you want that resentment?
I'd be all for him coming to play for me, but only if it was his decision and his decision alone.
Strong arm? Why wouldn’t he want to? He could have probably played for Duke or a similar blue blood out of high school but chose UNI. There’s only one thing more important than family and it ain’t basketball.
Blink once if your name is Fran.
Blink twice if your name is Margaret.
I'm pretty sure CyLite is trolling on this, but there is an old-school mindset from when you only had kids so they could help you on the farm. You give them all they need to live in their developmental years and in exchange they give up any personal dreams they have to work for you and eventually take over. Of course, history is littered with examples of how this just bred resentment and ruined lives.
I agree with but not on your premise. From a basketball standpoint AJ is going to be able to slot right in to his dad’s system and is also already familiar with our returning players. he’s also guaranteed to start and get huge minutes.
Wait timeout you think AJ Green could have gone to Duke out of high school?
Hmm, playing 12-15 mins a game at Duke or 35 mins a game at ISU in the best basketball conference in the country to finish out your career with your dad when the whole point of him coming back is to prove he’s one of the best