Official: Chris Wright to Georgetown & No Hoops for Brackman

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Couple quick afternoon notes.

* Andrew Brackman wasn’t at media day, and his name wasn’t on the roster.

* Chris Wright changed his mind on Monday and picked Georgetown. He has a PC this afternoon and made his pick official.

* Don’t miss some of our related conversation in this entry from earlier today.

A couple of editorial comments:

* We say “No Means Go” and encourage NC State to continue to pursue Chris Wright until he actually signs his letter of intent with Georgetown in the signing period. Any kid that can be so wishy-washy on his decision can’t be totally committed to anywhere. (For the record, after informing NC State of his intentions to run witht he Pack, Wright informed the coaches late last night that he had changed his mind at the last minute).

* We will do our best not to be total assholes to the ignoramouses that talked so much shit about SFN on other message boards since we first told you about Brackman in July (Link) and then updated you twice in September (Link #1; Link #2)

We will have more on both topics later.

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06-07 Basketball Basketball Recruiting General

115 Responses to Official: Chris Wright to Georgetown & No Hoops for Brackman

  1. Dan 10/11/2006 at 6:57 PM #

    Noah, dead on.

  2. Mr O 10/11/2006 at 7:47 PM #

    Shooting guard: Who isn’t behind Lowe? I haven’t seen a single NC State fan not behind Lowe. We haven’t had a united fanbase behind our basketball program since probably the end of Herb’s third year. Our fans will be united behind Lowe for at least that same amount of time.

    Honestly, if someone would have asked me to predict what was going to happen when Herb took the ASU job, then there is no way I would have predicted that it would go this badly.

    We have a deep, deep hole to dig out of and unfortunately I think it is to the point where even if Lowe is the best damn basketball coach and motivator in the entire country, he still might not succeed.

    Completely agree with Noah. Lowe’s success will be determined by the next two recruiting classes. Fortunately, Lowe is quite charismatic and we have some very experienced recruiters on the staff.

  3. redfred2 10/11/2006 at 8:01 PM #

    Hey, watch it up there guys. I’m not anywhere close to that age, chronologically speaking anyway. Mentally though, from one second to the next, a wide pendulum doth swing.

    I’m not crotchety either, just a little low on prune juice lately.

    ^noah

    “We gotta have thoroughbreds.”

    Wrong. We once had to have thoroughbreds and there was absolutely no substituting anything less, not anymore. Until that fortunate signing day arrives we’ll be watching Roy and K’s revolving door to the NBA get spun off it’s base, while a more determined bunch of upperclassmen develop together as a team and put more heart into the game than those $$$ hungry blueclippers ever felt the need to do.

    I was really hoping that we may have seen that not too long ago, and an eventual upward turn for the whole BB program, after all of the major factors on UNC’s nat’l championship left early for the next level, but unfortunately it did not happen. I am pretty certain that when we have that type of talent again, which was not 5 star laden and which is not at all that far fetched to imagine in the near future, you will see us becoming a factor, challenging everyone, and winning some of the big games.

    Don’t forget, we will also have the unfortunate success of losing our best early to the NBA now also. That is one factor that we never had to deal except once, in a whole decade. As unbelievable as that is in a decade of players going through an ACC basketball program, that is one of the prices for success, that I can tolerate paying those dues on occasion.

  4. redfred2 10/11/2006 at 8:34 PM #

    ^O

    “We have a deep, deep hole to dig out of and unfortunately I think it is to the point where even if Lowe is the best damn basketball coach and motivator in the entire country, he still might not succeed.”

    I’m not jumping in your pooh, but this is what I said earlier today and have been saying for the past six years, this place is a mess. I saw it coming years and years ago. Lowe doesn’t have anything to point to. Noah says the dreaded 5 straight should carry some weight with recruits but it absolutely does not. They are smarter than that. They want to see some signs of real success and stabilty and know that they are signing with a university that desires to be among the very best.

    There have been no signals coming out of Raleigh in that regard. Those guys have settled and settled for way too, too long now. And the only working part of a basketball program that is now nationally known for settling for second best is now residing in Tempe.

    You are expecting a quantum of faith from some teenager to latch onto the shambles that are now the Wolfpack basketball program. That is just at the moment, it will be changing.

    Please give it a rest (not you O), this current bull shit, and the bullshit of the coaching search, has nothing to do with the guy who is now struggling to pick up the pieces for all of us.

  5. Woof Wolf 10/12/2006 at 12:07 AM #

    “We gotta have thoroughbreds”

    Year in, year out, I agree.

    BUT:

    Once upon a time there were some guys named Jordan, Perkins, Daugherty, Doherty, and (?) Braddock playing for a guy named Smith. Their team had won the national championship the year before. All they had to do was get by UVA and some big guy named Ralph, and they might be the first team since UCLA to do it back to back.

    But along came some guys that no one had ever heard of named Bailey, Charles, McQueen, Whittenburg, and Lowe with a little help from Gannon.
    They beat Jordan et al 2 out of 3 including the ACC Tournament semi-final. They beat Ralph and his guys in ACC final and went on to win it all

    Can we repeat that miracle again with out some super star talent? Probably not. But we may need to over achieve with what we can get for a year or two before we can expect the “thoroughbreds” to line up to talk to us.

    Then again, maybe JJ will make our day.

  6. class of 74 10/12/2006 at 6:27 AM #

    Not so fast my friends. All is not lost and this is NOT Coach Lowe’s fault either.

    We weren’t likely to compete that well this year with or without the coaching changes. Ced was going pro regardless. Brackman was not going to play due to baseball and fears of injury. Chris Wright may have the same change of heart and decided to stay home afterall. Remember his “commitment” was only verbal!

    We lost Larry Davis and Dan Werner, neither were top 25 talent, or so I hear. And seldom if ever do guys outside the top 25 provide immediate help at the ACC level, usually they are spot or role players at best.

    I submit no matter who coached at NCSU this season and most likely next season it was not going to be pretty. Did the way the change was handled help or hurt our cause? Well, you do not have to be a Nobel Laureate to understand it wasn’t a positive but at least we will not see anymore of that dreadful offense we tried to run. And by year three Coach Lowe and staff
    should have us headed in the right direction.

  7. ShootingGuard 10/12/2006 at 9:44 AM #

    Mr O,

    We were going suck this year and have to rebuild regardless of who the coach was/is, so Lowe’s hole is really not that much deeper than Herb’s would have been on relative terms. Sure, we would have Davis and Werner, but neither is a world beater, and Herb has never shown much desire to play freshmen anyway. Plus, with a bad season, Herb would have been handicapped AGAIN on the recruiting trail due to Herb’s precarious position. Do you remember when Eric Williams, John Gilchrist, etc. all PUBLICLY stated that they did not choose State because Herb was on the hotseat and might be gone??

    Everything so far has gone wrong for Lowe through very little fault of his own, but all is not lost just yet. Sure, if Lowe whiffs in 2008 recruiting and 2009, he is done, but we have a lot of days to go before then. If Hickson were to commit today, that would be a big boost, but, unfortunately, you almost never see a rebuilder come in and sign a Wright and Hickson right off the bat…

    You say you totally agree with Noah. Well, good. Noah said we need thoroughbreds to compete with UNC and Duke. Well, I totally agree as well. And, guess what? After 10 years, it doesn’t matter who is right in the debate about Herb’s recruiting, his records vs Duke and UNC (as well as Little Old Wake Forest which benefitted from Herb’s last lame duck season) speak for themselves—the guy wasn’t getting it done and it was time for a change, a very risky thing to do but nothing in life of much import has ever come from playing it safe…

    So, please, don’t give up yet. It has only been a few months. Put down your teddy bear. Climb out from under your blankie. Get off the couch. Take your pill. Pull back the black curtains. Give life a chance. Go outside. It might rain but it might not. Don’t be afraid to take some risk and live with the consequences. Everything will be ok…Really…

  8. Dan 10/12/2006 at 9:55 AM #

    SG, no one here is even talking about any other coach other than Lowe. That debate is over. It was a draw. We all quit after we threw up from boredom.

    Let it go.

  9. Mr O 10/12/2006 at 10:15 AM #

    Who has given up? Nobody has blamed Lowe.

    I am just dealing with the reality of the situation Coach Lowe faces.

  10. ShootingGuard 10/12/2006 at 10:23 AM #

    Dan,

    Sorry, I was having flashbacks there.

    Note To Self: Take some Pepto & let it go…

  11. Rick 10/12/2006 at 10:25 AM #

    “Who isn’t behind Lowe? I haven’t seen a single NC State fan not behind Lowe.”

    Go to Packpride and look at all the Herbites glee whenever something goes wrong.

  12. Dan 10/12/2006 at 10:39 AM #

    “Go to Packpride and look at all the Herbites glee whenever something goes wrong.”

    I recommend you never go to PackPride forums for anything intelligible. There were people on the other side being gleeful before the switch. That forum has turned into a life long pissing match. I’d hate for that to happen here. Let’s let it go and concentrate on the present.

  13. redfred2 10/12/2006 at 11:04 AM #

    No matter which side of the fence we were on before, if there is anyone left out there who has not yet realized all the ramifications that were steadily evolving over the past so many years, not due impart to any single individual, but to the collective lack of vision from a university and it’s administration as a whole, folks like that aren’t even worth mentioning here on SFN.

  14. packbackr04 10/12/2006 at 11:18 AM #

    how do things look for Hickson today? most of what i have heard is that he is leaning to TN

  15. packbackr04 10/12/2006 at 1:33 PM #

    “Go to Packpride and look at all the Herbites glee whenever something goes wrong.�

    You mean they broke long enough from their pillow biting sessions to make some witty retorts on a subject they know less about than a viatnamese hooker knows about penicillin?

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