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Topic: Caris Levert

Topic: Caris Levert

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Voice of Reason
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Caris Levert

Posted: 2/9/2013 12:25:20 PM

He is getting more and more playing time as the season goes. I think he is going to be a hell of a player with the length and athleticism he has. He is one of those guys that just looks smooth when he plays. Every time I watch him playing for Michigan, I can't help but picture him in a Ohio jersey lighting up the scoreboard in the MAC and getting national pub like DJ now. Really wish we had been able to keep him. It is hard for me to watch Michigan play because it hurts just a little to see him playing there.

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RE: Caris Levert

Posted: 2/9/2013 1:18:25 PM

Agreed. He is gonna be a good player. Part of me thinks that even if Groce had stayed, we would have lost him anyway. He grew so much after he signed with us that once the major offers started rolling in, he would have taken one regardless.

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RE: Caris Levert

Posted: 2/9/2013 2:19:48 PM

Doubt Groce would've let him out of the NLI.

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RE: Caris Levert

Posted: 2/9/2013 5:00:28 PM

Ozcat wrote:

Listed at 6'4 when we signed him. Listed at 6'5 now, is that really "so much"?

Also, LOI is binding without a coaching change or some other hardship. I don't see anyway he could have gotten out of it had Groce stayed.

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RE: Caris Levert

Posted: 2/9/2013 5:02:27 PM

I went to high school with him, and he was good his junior year. Many schools didn't recognize or see his potential until we won the State Championship.

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RE: Caris Levert

Posted: 2/9/2013 5:11:20 PM

will you sign autographs ?

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RE: Caris Levert

Posted: 2/9/2013 11:20:45 PM

I like you Oz...But this is the kind of rhetoric that drives me crazy.

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RE: Caris Levert

Posted: 2/9/2013 11:34:41 PM

Andrew Ruck wrote:

...But this is the kind of rhetoric that drives me crazy.

+1

It's rhetoric like this that makes me savor even more the times when it gets shoved back down someone's throat. Going into ancient history: When Mike Haley tells a stunned Jimmy Crum on live statewide TV that he's not interesting in Ohio State but that he's going to Ohio. Or, when Todd Snyder told Woody Hayes he wasn't interested in O$U because he was planning to stay in Athens for his college education. Or, more recently when Ohio beats Penn State and shuts up some of the talking heads who said Ohio didn't stand a chance against an emotionally charged vastly superior team. Or, last basketball season when Ohio gets dissed all over the place about being out of its league against Michigan that we promptly turned into MichiGONE. I'm really tired of being the Rodney Dangerfield of college athletics. In my book, respect begins at home. How will others respect us if we don't respect ourselves? GO OHIO!

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RE: Caris Levert

Posted: 2/10/2013 12:11:15 AM

frankly I hate the fact how people say none can beat Syracuse, UNC, Duke, Louisville, or Kansas. I love the underdog and I love it when a TCU beats Kansas, Butler beats UNC, Miami beats UNC and Duke, Villanova beats Syracuse and Louisville. Think about it, we lost to Oklahoma who beat Kansas.

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RE: Caris Levert

Posted: 2/10/2013 12:51:15 AM

Watching Sportscenter, Wisconsin's half court heave to send the game into overtime was over Levert. Beilein wanted his guys to foul Wisconsin before the shot. Levert dropped the ball there.

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RE: Caris Levert

Posted: 2/10/2013 1:37:39 PM

shabamon wrote:

Watching Sportscenter, Wisconsin's half court heave to send the game into overtime was over Levert. Beilein wanted his guys to foul Wisconsin before the shot. Levert dropped the ball there.

The go ahead 3 that Brust hit with under a minute to play in OT was also drilled right in Levert's eye.

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RE: Caris Levert

Posted: 2/10/2013 3:08:17 PM

Honestly I wouldn't have put LeVert in the game at that situation. He's a cool level kid who doesn't foul. I don't even remember him getting more than one or two fouls in a year.

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RE: Caris Levert

Posted: 2/10/2013 10:09:40 PM

Andrew Ruck wrote:

I like you Oz...But this is the kind of rhetoric that drives me crazy.

What rhetoric? Maybe he would have stayed. Maybe he wouldn't have. I'm just saying that sometimes this happens. The kid had a hell of a senior year, and started getting noticed by some "bigger" schools.

We saw this happen with Trey Burke. He originally was scheduled to play for Penn State, and then when UM came calling, he flipped. I believe this also happened with one of OUr QB committs who left and is now heading to Boston College. Unfortunate, but such is life sometimes.

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RE: Caris Levert

Posted: 2/10/2013 10:35:38 PM

Ozcat wrote:

Football maybe, basktball not so much. Until recently very few guys re opened their recruiting. Most coaches are prettygood about getting off a kid once he has committed. About the only time ....up till very recently....that a committed and signed HS kid changes schools is because his coach is gone. Unlike football, hoops is still a gentleman's game when it comes to recruits and respect as they do not want to get poached either.

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RE: Caris Levert

Posted: 2/11/2013 8:56:54 AM

Ozcat wrote:

Andrew Ruck wrote:

I like you Oz...But this is the kind of rhetoric that drives me crazy.

Trey Burke and our QB commit are very different situations. They both had verbally committed and had not signed an LOI. That kind of flipping is common in both sports. However, Caris had already signed his LOI and there is no way that Ohio would have let him out of it had it not been for Groce leaving. The similar comparison for Burke and our QB is Evan Bradds who was a class of 2013, unsigned player, that decommited.

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RE: Caris Levert

Posted: 2/11/2013 10:05:04 AM

Ozcat wrote:

Andrew Ruck wrote:

I like you Oz...But this is the kind of rhetoric that drives me crazy.

The underlying tone to your posts that everyone sees except yourself. I'm not trying to get in the same argument again though.

Andrew Ruck
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