re: SG Antonio Blakeney decommits from Louisville; schedules visit to LSU

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All he says is that Nike wouldn't invite him to their big showcase games later in the year.... Says they may alienate him or treat him differently because he never even visited a Nike school before committing.

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1. That's not all he says.

"I think the No. 1 thing is that the people around him, the support system, they want him to visit other schools, and that doesn't seem like an outlandish request.
You need to visit these other schools just to help you make sure you're making the right decision and just out of courtesy for the process and just sort of how it works."

2. Even if that was "all he said" how is that being heavily involved in the recruiting process? Telling a kid how and where to use his official visits?

And before we go further, can we also talk about the absurdity of meyer's quote above? No, you don't need to visit other schools if you don't want to. Courtesy for the process? In what way does a recruit owe anything to the recruiting process? Just sort of how it works? bullshite. How it works is you get up to 5 official visits and unlimited unofficial visits to the institutions of your choosing. You can use 1, you can use all 5, you can use 0. There is no rule setting a minimum number of visits.

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He specifically said that no one from Nike told him to decommit...

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Was that in another article? Because in this one he just says the CEO didn't tell him decommit. Which isn't surprising because I doubt Phil knight even knows who Antonio Blakney is. But one of the hundreds of world wide Wes types that nike has out there? Seems entirely possible to me.


He specifically said that no one from Nike told him to decommit...[/quote]