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Who is the biggest basketball recruit we have landed
Apr 1, 2022, 7:47 AM
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Tree Rollins?
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Rock Defender [53]
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Re: Who is the biggest basketball recruit we have landed
Apr 1, 2022, 7:51 AM
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Milton Jennings was the highest rated by the services.
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Re: Who is the biggest basketball recruit we have landed
Apr 1, 2022, 9:23 AM
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Jennings was highly rated. Never did pan out.
The one from down in I believe Taccoa that recruiting guru, ensminger said would never be an impact player in the ACC,Dale Davis turned out fairly good.
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Re: Who is the biggest basketball recruit we have landed
Apr 1, 2022, 4:32 PM
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Jennings wasn't bad .He played in a bad system.AT 6'9"he is more of a post player, yet Purnell, and Brownell were both featuring the run and gun offense while Milton was there.
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Re: Who is the biggest basketball recruit we have landed
Apr 1, 2022, 4:50 PM
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Jennings was horrible. He would have never made it at a basketball school. What did he do after school? Most 5 stars don’t stay in school very long and I think he stayed 4 years and went undrafted. Not sure he even avg 15 a game. It does not matter what system you are in I expect a 5 star player to be a difference maker and he never was. Huge disappointment imo.
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110%er [5379]
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More like a Burger King or Hardee's A-A
Apr 1, 2022, 4:55 PM
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He may be excellent at flipping burgers or the fry basket, but at basketball, he was terrible.
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Re: Who is the biggest basketball recruit we have landed
Apr 1, 2022, 8:17 AM
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Milton Jennings.
Boy did that kid know how to have fun.
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Re: Who is the biggest basketball recruit we have landed
Apr 1, 2022, 8:18 AM
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Milton Jennings.
Boy did that kid know how to have fun.
Do you have personal experience, or are you just saying that because he got caught with weed.
Seems like you know how to have fun too considering your panic avatar.
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Re: Who is the biggest basketball recruit we have landed
Apr 1, 2022, 8:50 AM
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Yeah, we weren't friends but I found myself at good amount of parties with him while I was in school.
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Legend [19567]
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They didn't really have recruiting rankings when Tree was
Apr 1, 2022, 8:29 AM
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in high school, so it's hard to say. Milt in the last 20 years. Sharone Wright was extremely highly recruited but even he was before the type rankings we have today
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Re: Who is the biggest basketball recruit we have landed
Apr 1, 2022, 8:34 AM
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Either Skip Wise, Horace Grant or Larry Nance. These are 3 of the best to ever play at Clemson.
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Re: Who is the biggest basketball recruit we have landed
Apr 1, 2022, 9:06 AM
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Horace (and twin brother harvey) was the very definition of 'sleeper". they were not heavily recruited at all. remember someone asking coach foster at an IPTAY function and the best thing he could say about them was "they've got real big feet and we think they'll grow."
in today's rankings, wise would prob be the highest rated. but Tree, Elden, stan rome were all highly rated. then you have highly rated guys who never quite panned out like rickey jones, clarke bynum, jumping joe ward and milton jennings. not knocking them... jones, bynum and Jennings all "contributed. ward transferred out. They just didn't play as well as their high school rankings would have indicated.
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Re: Who is the biggest basketball recruit we have landed
Apr 1, 2022, 8:35 AM
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Skip Wise in talent not in size as your question suggests. The correct answer in size is probably Tree.
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i get it. Tree was a pretty big dude***
Apr 1, 2022, 8:46 AM
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Re: i get it. Tree was a pretty big dude***
Apr 1, 2022, 9:28 AM
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Skip Wise was no slouch. He came to Clemson with another guy who was a pretty good basketballer too. Stan Rome was an a first team all American in both sports. Actually played basketball at Clemson for a season. Tates Locke had a mind of his own and fortunately, Clemson survived him!
The Tree would be high on this list. Among my favorites would be “Boogie” McEntire. I really like that kid.
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Skip was like 180lb .. Tree was like 280***
Apr 1, 2022, 10:28 AM
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Re: i get it. Tree was a pretty big dude***
Apr 1, 2022, 11:54 AM
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rome played 4 years of basketball at CU. he played one year of football at CU, then lasted a few years in the NFL
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Lol. Tree was tall, especially with about 4 more inches
Apr 1, 2022, 9:27 AM
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added to his height to include his "fro". Butt, BIG, he was not. He was about as beanpole as a 7'2" guy could be, at the start of his college career. He added a lot of weight later on, pretty much had to, to survive in the NBA of the time. He was never a huge offensive weapon, but he was a GREAT shot blocker from Day one on defense.
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Re: Who is the biggest basketball recruit we have landed
Apr 1, 2022, 10:34 AM
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Tree was the belt recruit and we won a lot of games when he was here
Skip Wise was probably the highest rated and unfortunately has a horrible story
I play Tree in a pick up game at Fike when I attended Clemson - great time
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Re: Who is the biggest basketball recruit we have landed
Apr 1, 2022, 11:07 AM
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Clark Bynum.
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Re: Who is the biggest basketball recruit we have landed
Apr 1, 2022, 12:07 PM
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I’m going with Horace Grant or Dale Davis. Not sure what they were rated but they were difference makers.
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Re: With or without cheating?
Apr 1, 2022, 4:38 PM
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Tree Rollins and Skip Wise would have been the equivalent of top 10 players for their classes in the McDonald All-American list now, so I would say those two.
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CU Medallion [53716]
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Skip!***
Apr 2, 2022, 12:28 AM
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