Welcome To The Nest, TJ Taylor
by Brewtown Andy on May 2, 2011 10:00 PM CDT
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The University of Oklahoma's loss continues to be Marquette University's gain, as MU head coach Buzz Williams secured a 2012 verbal commitment from 6'4" 220 lb. combo guard TJ Taylor. Taylor began the 2010-11 season at OU, but suffered an early concussion and never played in a game before transfering to Paris (TX) Junior College during semester break. Professional Journalist Todd Rosiak reports that Taylor will stay at Paris for the 2011-12 school year and join Marquette with three years of eligibility in the fall of 2012.
Coming into the 2010-11 season, Taylor was a three-time all state player at Denison (TX) High School and was ranked 78th in the country by ESPN and 104th by Rivals and had been considering playing in Milwaukee before commiting to Jeff Caple and Oklahoma -- and the scuttlebutt is that TJ's mama wasn't happy with that decision.
Taylor will join SF Jamal Ferguson to close out the class of 2012, putting Buzz in the odd position of having filled all his scholarships for 2012 before filling all the scholarships for 2011. Of course, he could always just bank the 13th scholarship for this year and add someone with Taylor and Ferguson.
[Rubie sez: One final note: we've gone to the tapes to determine who ran this scoop first, as Professional Journalist Todd Rosiak and Amateur House Organ Jim "IWB" Ganzer appeared to tweet the news at roughly the same time. In the event of a tie, Rosiak gets the credit because of IWB's extremely douchey "I know something you don't know!" tweet two hours before the news broke.)
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Andy, you forgot another note:
PIPELINE RE-OPENED.
We pull our pants up and do our jobs here.
by Rubie Q on May 2, 2011 10:33 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
Ferguson & Taylor's commitments are as solid as the paper they're written on
So for now, the answer is yes.
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by Brewtown Andy on May 2, 2011 11:38 PM CDT up reply actions
Isnt Taylor's a verbal commitment?
We pull our pants up and do our jobs here.
by Rubie Q on May 3, 2011 6:01 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Just like Ferguson's.
That was was the inherent joke.
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by Brewtown Andy on May 3, 2011 7:27 AM CDT up reply actions
I like jokes.
We pull our pants up and do our jobs here.
by Rubie Q on May 3, 2011 7:42 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
It occurs to me
that I don’t think that Buzz is going to fill the open scholarship for this fall.
Taylor comes in as a sophomore in ’12, which would make Ferguson the only freshman in that class.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to go with 12 guys this year and bring in someone Ferguson’s age with him and add Taylor to Anderson/Mayo/Wilson’s class?
Restoring carousel. Come help.
If that's the case
Expect another JUCO or 2 in the future to even out the classes because having only 1 person in a class isn’t the best situation.
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by Brewtown Andy on May 3, 2011 11:08 AM CDT up reply actions
#pipelined
From the Rosiak article http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/121133129.html
Taylor, like Jimmy Butler, Jae Crowder and Darius Johnson-Odom before him, has yet to make a visit to the MU campus. Yet Chuck Taylor said the reputation Williams has within the basketball community in Texas more than helps bridge that gap.
“Let me tell you something: You’ve got one hell of a basketball coach there in regards to making people really comfortable with him,” he said. “He’s genuine, he’s sincere, and his track record of players he’s brought in from this area speaks volumes. That’s the biggest part of why student-athletes from this area are able to make those kinds of commitments, because of those things.”
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