Marcus Paige

MisterHappy said:
With all due respect you were telling people that Iowa had Armstead locked up last spring when in reality he had no idea what conference Iowa was in and never visited.

I have heard directly from Marcus and his father that Marcus does not want to play in Coach Lickliter's system.
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I heard the same exact thing, and I don't think its a coincidence.
 
iowahawkeyes89 said:
I heard the same exact thing, and I don't think its a coincidence.
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I hope that Marcus and his dad keep an open mind. Either lickball succeeds next year and CHA is rocking again,or he will be gone and the next guy might play a system that Marcus will thrive in...once a hawk..stay a hawk,marcus.
 
Iowa doesn't stink. They did stink earlier in the year when 60 percent of the team was playing college basketball for the first time in their careers.

Now that the team is playing well and being in games, I think recruits are going to see the tide turning.

I hate how nobody takes into account the age of this team. Are they great yet? No. But can they develop into a great team? With patience, yes.
 
Here's an article from the CR Gazette's Scott Dochterman today about Iowa offering scholarships to 3 current sophomores (including Marcus Paige).

Iowa has competition for Marcus Paige in 2012|GazetteOnline.com

The article mentions other offers that Marcus has received as well. I don't know anything about the other players who were offered.

Also, the Linn Mar boys BB team completed their conference season undefeated (first time ever for Linn Mar) with an OT victory over #10 ranked Cedar Falls. Marcus Paige did not play tonight for LM because he has mono (according to the radio broadcast). He also took a hard fall at the end of the CR Kennedy game on Tuesday. Coach Chris Robertson is hopeful that Marcus will be able to play next Friday in their substate game.
 
woodyk1 said:
Here's an article from the CR Gazette's Scott Dochterman today about Iowa offering scholarships to 3 current sophomores (including Marcus Paige).

Iowa has competition for Marcus Paige in 2012|GazetteOnline.com

The article mentions other offers that Marcus has received as well. I don't know anything about the other players who were offered.

Also, the Linn Mar boys BB team completed their conference season undefeated (first time ever for Linn Mar) with an OT victory over #10 ranked Cedar Falls. Marcus Paige did not play tonight for LM because he has mono (according to the radio broadcast). He also took a hard fall at the end of the CR Kennedy game on Tuesday. Coach Chris Robertson is hopeful that Marcus will be able to play next Friday in their substate game.
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All three of those sophs have played on the same AAU (Martin Bros) team for a few years now. Try beating them when you have a true "school" team.
 
This IS IOWA basketball as long as Lickliter is coach,...wondering IF Iowa kids may want to come to Iowa, as opposed to the past (yes, EVEN under SA) when they all came to IOWA. Lickliter has pretty trashed the one mine always open to IOWA, and that is Iowa itself. For this to change, he needs to be replaced.
 
We probably have as much chance with Marcus as we did with Seantrel in football.

Do we have a chance technically? Sure, as he has us listed and is in contact.

But anyone who has been around Marcus or his family know that the reality is he won't be attending Iowa with this system in place. And I don't blame him. It wouldn't be a good fit for him. It would be like Seth Gorney signing with the Tark and the ol' Running Rebels.
 
JHHawk said:
Marcus is a 2012 recruit. He will not be signing a LOI until November of 2011. A lot can happen by then. If Iowa has a big turnaround next year and makes the NCAA ,that could affect his decision. If Iowa craps out and hires a new coach after next year, that would still be in time for Marcus to assess the new coach.
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That would not be a big turnaround that would qualify more like the 9th wonder of the world. No one in their right mind can say this team with 4 incoming freshman. Who will be nice role players in the best conference in the country will take us from laughing stock to the tourny. So the likely scenario is Barta is spineless and keeps Lick and Marcus is GONE.
 
hawkifan44 said:
Iowa doesn't stink. They did stink earlier in the year when 60 percent of the team was playing college basketball for the first time in their careers.

Now that the team is playing well and being in games, I think recruits are going to see the tide turning.

I hate how nobody takes into account the age of this team. Are they great yet? No. But can they develop into a great team? With patience, yes.
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Here is my trouble with taking into account the youth of this team. We are in year 3 and don't feed with the cards were stacked against him...BS. This team as former players, announcers, talking heads all have said we have a lot of really nice role players. In a conference that is young from top to bottom, with 4 teams pulling in top 20 classes every year, our 7th best class in the conference and only one ride the following year. Our youth is not going to crack the upper half of this conference anytime soon. Being young doesn't mean you are going to crack the top half and go to a tourny, it isn't a given. Have they improved yes...but they are losing. Moral victories are not what recruits want to see...they want to see a fun style of ball with the team winning and the coach being dynamic. I see a team losing...I see a coach who has his head in his hands more then he does watching the game....MY OPINION.;)
 
Hooper said:
Marcus likes Iowa. We have a shot.
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Paige's mom is the very successful, very astute coach at Marion HS where Mitch's sister Morgan is a bigtime talent...on her way to play at Wisconsin.

The key factor in the decision, however, is that she didn't get the offer from Bluder that she & mom wanted very much. The problem was/is simply one of numbers: with Alexander only a junior, Draxten a sophomore (as was Jones at the time of LOI offers), and Printy, Taylor & Nesbitt true freshmen there was/is exceptional depth of exceptional talent in the Hawkeye backcourt. Bluder could not hold out the prospect that Morgan would get playing time very soon. On the other hand, the situation at Madison provides her a great opportunity to step in right away and start for four years.

There is absolutely no ill feeling about the lack of an offer from Iowa. Bluder herself is from Marion, she & Gaffney-Paige are good friends, and the family are ardent Hawkeye fans. Mom not only is a very perceptive basketball mind, but she guides her kids carefully--a reason why Mitch plays for LinnMar instead of Marion.

The big question that probably most affects whether Mitch Paige becomes a Hawkeye is what Lickliter does with respect to recruiting another point guard now or next year. My guess is that if Iowa uses the schollie opened by Tucker's departure for a juco like Willliams or Alexander that would leave a good situation for Paige to be a Hawkeye in 2011--but if Lickliter brings in the HS kid from southern Mizzou this Spring or recruits a HS PG next year, Paige will look elsewhere...like Northwestern (or another program similarly blessed with an outstanding coach at a top academic school).

What won't be a negative (quite the contrary) is if the Hawkeyes are able to win the battle for Moline's 2G Chaisson Randle (and given the turmoil and downwared spiral of the Iowa State program--and the prospect that McDermott's tenure could be in jeopardy, the Hawkeye chances are better IF there is an open schollie IAT the one that will be targeted to a big man as first priority). Being part of a backcourt with Randle has to be very appealing to Paige--but that is mere speculation on my part.
 
loesshillshawk said:
Here is my trouble with taking into account the youth of this team. We are in year 3 and don't feed with the cards were stacked against him...BS. This team as former players, announcers, talking heads all have said we have a lot of really nice role players. In a conference that is young from top to bottom, with 4 teams pulling in top 20 classes every year, our 7th best class in the conference and only one ride the following year. Our youth is not going to crack the upper half of this conference anytime soon. Being young doesn't mean you are going to crack the top half and go to a tourny, it isn't a given. Have they improved yes...but they are losing. Moral victories are not what recruits want to see...they want to see a fun style of ball with the team winning and the coach being dynamic. I see a team losing...I see a coach who has his head in his hands more then he does watching the game....MY OPINION.;)
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For most recruits, yes, that would be true. Paige is very good, but he's not the #1 player in the country like Barnes is this year. And both Paige and his family are made out to be pretty ardent Hawk fans. I know that the team is struggling at this point, but if I were in Paige's shoes, I'd like that even more. I'm going to say that I'm at least as big a Hawk fan as he his. Now if I could play the way he can, I would love the opportunity to become a Hawkeye legend, to be one of the ones people connect with the program's rebirth. THAT would be cool.
 
tiggerhawk said:
Paige's mom is the very successful, very astute coach at Marion HS where Mitch's sister Morgan is a bigtime talent...on her way to play at Wisconsin.

The key factor in the decision, however, is that she didn't get the offer from Bluder that she & mom wanted very much. The problem was/is simply one of numbers: with Alexander only a junior, Draxten a sophomore (as was Jones at the time of LOI offers), and Printy, Taylor & Nesbitt true freshmen there was/is exceptional depth of exceptional talent in the Hawkeye backcourt. Bluder could not hold out the prospect that Morgan would get playing time very soon. On the other hand, the situation at Madison provides her a great opportunity to step in right away and start for four years.

There is absolutely no ill feeling about the lack of an offer from Iowa. Bluder herself is from Marion, she & Gaffney-Paige are good friends, and the family are ardent Hawkeye fans. Mom not only is a very perceptive basketball mind, but she guides her kids carefully--a reason why Mitch plays for LinnMar instead of Marion.

The big question that probably most affects whether Mitch Paige becomes a Hawkeye is what Lickliter does with respect to recruiting another point guard now or next year. My guess is that if Iowa uses the schollie opened by Tucker's departure for a juco like Willliams or Alexander that would leave a good situation for Paige to be a Hawkeye in 2011--but if Lickliter brings in the HS kid from southern Mizzou this Spring or recruits a HS PG next year, Paige will look elsewhere...like Northwestern (or another program similarly blessed with an outstanding coach at a top academic school).

What won't be a negative (quite the contrary) is if the Hawkeyes are able to win the battle for Moline's 2G Chaisson Randle (and given the turmoil and downwared spiral of the Iowa State program--and the prospect that McDermott's tenure could be in jeopardy, the Hawkeye chances are better IF there is an open schollie IAT the one that will be targeted to a big man as first priority). Being part of a backcourt with Randle has to be very appealing to Paige--but that is mere speculation on my part.
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Man, if we can get Mitch and Marcus that would be sweet...
 
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