D3 coach watches AAU practice. Sees a kid with really high potential. Tells his old friend who is assistant at D1 school. They look into the kid and become his first offer. College is now free.
Coaches are always talking! Everyone is a chance for a good (or bad) impression.
I know of a school on the north side that could really really really use this kind of thing. Like man our kids donβt even have proper buses to games. Our softball team takes metro transit.
Northern Stateβs
@Parkerfox24
has heard from
Creighton
South Carolina
Xavier
Butler
Vanderbilt
Boston College
Colorado State
Dayton
Ole Miss
FAU
Montana
Bradley
Bryant
Montana State
Tampa
Tulsa
ETSU
Seton Hall
Since entering the transfer portal today.
I'm excited to share that I'll be getting back into the education world this fall as a digital photo and design teacher at Patrick Henry H.S. Really excited to be in the classroom and hallways again for MPS. Let's go!
People are getting worked up about the masks for MN HS bball. I am just thankful our kids get a season, they needed it SO badly. I'll take a season with masks if they can compete and be around each other safely. Besides, masks work, and we are still far from COVID victory.
Multiple people are reporting Dion Ford from the St. Paul Central class of 2019 was killed in a shooting last night. Such a sad and tragic loss of a young life.
The fun part of having taken photos of MN hoops for more than five years is being able to look back at the beginning and now the end of their H.S. journey.
I'm going to do a thread, starting with the first member of 2020 I ever saw play varsity:
@JalenSuggs2020
2015 β‘οΈ 2020
Told my class why I was struggling this morning, and I received this note after class. I almost cried reading it. Just when you think students might not care, they surprise you with such kindness. Iβm keeping this note for a long time.
Might apply for the SMU head coach job. Fav this tweet if you would commit to our program right now, this way I can show the athletic director and make it part of my pitch.
Frustrating to see the cycle of media ripping/reposting. My video changes hands 2-3 times, now we have two accounts essentially taking credit for my work and zero mention of Iggy's name. Hopefully any college coaches who notice this know it's Iggy Ejiofor from Irondale.
In his dad's name,
@Jacobphipps42
scored 26 pts and grabbed 14 rebounds against Andover last week. Read Jake's tribute to his late father Dan β and his account of December 21 β in this week's Northstar Weekly Honors:
What a year for Delano's
@CalvinWishart
.
The stat-stuffing machine (on the football field as well as the hardwood) ends his high school basketball career with a state title.
#MNStateBB2018
Truly crushed to learn about my friend
@coachmmac
passing. I want everyone to know how generous he was, how good of a friend he was. Today is such a sad morning as I go through texts and photos. Miss you already.
28 PPG (1st in conf., highest since Devean George in '99)
9.4 RPG (1st)
89.7 FT% (1st)
D3 National Player Of The Year β
1st time a MIAC player has ever been selected.
@BookerCoplin
Yet another year where MSHSL denies Prep Hoops state tournament media credentials. I see it as industry gatekeeping and refusal to acknowledge new media. Yes, I heard last year's podcast addressing it, and there's lots of holes in the logic. Keeping RJ and Czar out is crazy.
Still thinking about this moment from yesterday. A senior lineman from our football team was told about his first college interest, a D3 that wanted him to visit.
Kid has been through a lot. He went into the hallway and fist-pumped, whispering βthatβs what Iβm talking aboutβ β€οΈ
My dad graduated from Oshkosh West in the mid-1970s and sometimes talks of a hooper named Mickey Crowe, a Wisconsin hoops legend who many Minnesotans do not know about.
This guy scored 2700+ points without the 3-pt line. Then he basically disappeared.
Calls today from college basketball programs for Northern State portal transfer
@Parkerfox24
:
Minnesota (Ben Johnson)
Pittsburgh
San Diego State
St. Johnβs
Texas Tech
You wonder why some of these young people grow up traumatized, it's things like having your classmate/teammate killed by gun violence. Or being on a bus where your driver is shot in the head. Both things happened to North MPLS youth yesterday, and it makes me cry
Black-owned Twin Cities restaurants mentioned on tonightβs broadcast by
@JimPeteHoops
and
@Grady
.
I can personally vouch for Afro Deli (Augsburg students know), Pimento, Stepchld and Iβd like to also shout out Handsome Hog in St Paul
Ken Novak, Sr.:
- St. Cloud State HC, 22 years old
- Army veteran
- Longtime Hopkins/Lindbergh HC
- Eight-time state champ on staff with son, Ken Novak, Jr.
- Hopkins icon
Very impressed that Matt held off likely countless offers to transfer to prep schools and stayed at his communityβs public high school. Still got where he wanted, too.
My grandma died this morning
She was an extremely strong woman who was very involved in League of Women Voters and helping the Hmong refugee population gain citizenship
I vote in part to protect those who are less represented and encourage you to do the same
β€οΈβπ»β οΈ
Came across some vile racism towards Sudanese b-ball athletes from section play. Posting that is a horrible look for the community you represent. Besides your bad/cruel attempts at jokes, it's the internet era... you will get exposed.