Cady Lalanne commits to UGA

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Lalanne committed to Georgia late last night. The recruiting services should have something up today.

This should open up things for us with Donte Williams a bit more. He's friends with Issiah Grayson so he has a connection to the program and I imagine UGA is no longer actively recruiting him. Tennesee has offered though and may be a major player as well. Payne and Williams are both looking at Auburn and us and one commiting to Auburn might push the other in our direction as well. Basabe is not being recruited by this group of schools and is likely to decide this week.The first domino has fallen...it's just a matter of time now.
 
UGASports.com is now reporting the Lalanne commitment as well. The article requires a scout subscription.

Georgia coach Mark Fox and his staff have been working nonstop to get a commitment from a post player in this signing class. Rivals150 PF Cady Lalanne of Orlando (Fl.) Oak Ridge narrowed it down to three schools, including the University of Georgia, and has now made his decision.
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Wow, he chose one of the worst programs in the SEC over one of the best in the CAA ... guess Cady doesn't care much if he ever gets a sniff of the NCAA tournament. :? :o

If you'd told me a week ago that this one was gonna come down to us and Georgia, I would've bought a celebratory round for everyone on the board. While it was completely understandable when Bradley chose UConn over us, it really doesn't say much good about our program to lose 3-star players to a program that's all but irrelevant even on its own campus.
 
AG_fan said:
Wow, he chose one of the worst programs in the SEC over one of the best in the CAA ... guess Cady doesn't care much if he ever gets a sniff of the NCAA tournament. :? :o

If you'd told me a week ago that this one was gonna come down to us and Georgia, I would've bought a celebratory round for everyone on the board. While it was completely understandable when Bradley chose UConn over us, it really doesn't say much good about our program to lose 3-star players to a program that's all but irrelevant even on its own campus.
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I'd be surprised of UGA stayed irrelevant much longer with Mark Fox at the helm.
 
AG_fan said:
Wow, he chose one of the worst programs in the SEC over one of the best in the CAA ... guess Cady doesn't care much if he ever gets a sniff of the NCAA tournament. :? :o

If you'd told me a week ago that this one was gonna come down to us and Georgia, I would've bought a celebratory round for everyone on the board. While it was completely understandable when Bradley chose UConn over us, it really doesn't say much good about our program to lose 3-star players to a program that's all but irrelevant even on its own campus.
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Like Shaka said, head-to-head VCU can compete with a lot of these bigger schools in terms of our basketball program. Where it gets harder is the conference comparison. Kids want to play in the limelight against the best teams on national television. Lalanne believes that Fox is going to be making a winner at Georgia and wants to be a part of it. Fox has been pitching that to every recruit since he took the job. We already have a winner here at VCU, but their ceiling is potentially much higher in the SEC than we are in the CAA. At the end of the day we are going to lose a lot more against the big schools than we win, but all we need is a few of these guys to keep VCU competing for championships.
 
gives me a better feeling about Donte. Now that it has been mentioned Grayson and Donte are from ATL and probably have played against each other or together before. It can't that current player and a player being recruited are friends. Let's go Donte, commit to us please.
 
Staff can now focus their full attention on these remaining prospects and hopefully seal the deal on a couple of them.
 
although i would rather the two big men I'm expecting some combination of Payne and Basabe/Williams
 
districtballer said:
Like Shaka said, head-to-head VCU can compete with a lot of these bigger schools in terms of our basketball program. Where it gets harder is the conference comparison. Kids want to play in the limelight against the best teams on national television. Lalanne believes that Fox is going to be making a winner at Georgia and wants to be a part of it. Fox has been pitching that to every recruit since he took the job. We already have a winner here at VCU, but their ceiling is potentially much higher in the SEC than we are in the CAA. At the end of the day we are going to lose a lot more against the big schools than we win, but all we need is a few of these guys to keep VCU competing for championships.
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DB, we can try to spin things any way we like, but the simple fact is that Georgia's basketball program is barely even relevant to its own fans except to kill time during the couple months between the end of football and the beginning of spring football. Georgia basketball doesn't get on national TV more than VCU, and when it does get on TV, it's almost always getting waxed by either Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee or even lesser lights like Vanderbilt.

It was one thing when Eblen chose a SEC football school over us because he had a relationship with Grant. This is something else entirely. This is a kid picking a perennial cellar-dweller SEC program over a highly successful mid-major that was offering both immediate playing time and a recent history that suggests we know how to develop players for the next level.

As much as we all like to comfort ourselves by saying "We'll get the next one," the painful truth is this was one kid that shouldn't have gotten away. And until we finally find a coach (*hopefully we have*) who will show recruits he's committed to VCU as more than a stepping stone to the BCS, big-time kids with other even semi-attractive recruiting options will continue to wind up elsewhere.
 
AG_fan said:
districtballer said:
Like Shaka said, head-to-head VCU can compete with a lot of these bigger schools in terms of our basketball program. Where it gets harder is the conference comparison. Kids want to play in the limelight against the best teams on national television. Lalanne believes that Fox is going to be making a winner at Georgia and wants to be a part of it. Fox has been pitching that to every recruit since he took the job. We already have a winner here at VCU, but their ceiling is potentially much higher in the SEC than we are in the CAA. At the end of the day we are going to lose a lot more against the big schools than we win, but all we need is a few of these guys to keep VCU competing for championships.
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DB, we can try to spin things any way we like, but the simple fact is that Georgia's basketball program is barely even relevant to its own fans except to kill time during the couple months between the end of football and the beginning of spring football. Georgia basketball doesn't get on national TV more than VCU, and when it does get on TV, it's almost always getting waxed by either Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee or even lesser lights like Vanderbilt.

It was one thing when Eblen chose a SEC football school over us because he had a relationship with Grant. This is something else entirely. This is a kid picking a perennial cellar-dweller SEC program over a highly successful mid-major that was offering both immediate playing time and a recent history that suggests we know how to develop players for the next level.

As much as we all like to comfort ourselves by saying "We'll get the next one," the painful truth is this was one kid that shouldn't have gotten away. And until we finally find a coach (*hopefully we have*) who will show recruits he's committed to VCU as more than a stepping stone to the BCS, big-time kids with other even semi-attractive recruiting options will continue to wind up elsewhere.
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compeletely understand your opinion....but I think DB is right. If a kid believes a new coach has won before and will build a program to win again, coupled with the resources Georgia has, it has to be a hard comparison sell. Now if this was Grant vs. Fox you might be right.
 
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