Combine an elite view still on the deal in with Indiana's solitary basketball obsession and Tom Crean's thirsty need to finally hitch an in-state star, and what you get is what we got during the buildup to Cody Zeller's college announcement. Rumors and leads that led nowhere. Lots of outsiders posing as insiders, posting outlandish theories on idea boards that caused naive the crowd to slog themselves into a frenzy. It was all bananas and, even worse, expected.
Cody Zeller is the village feature instruct Tom Crean has been hoping for since fascinating over two years ago. (MaxPreps.com) Cody Zeller is the townsman woman crammer Tom Crean has been hoping for since captivating over two years ago. (MaxPreps.com) But in the end Zeller's recruitment went closely how it always figured to go.
The Class of 2011 heavenly body held a haste discussion in his high school gym and announced Thursday that he'll participate for the Indiana Hoosiers, which came as a blow only to those who let the misinformation from the old times few weeks cloud reality. Again, notwithstanding of what anybody says now, this always seemed foreordained to go this way. North Carolina is awesome, but go there and Zeller would be just another guy.
Butler is terrific, but go there and Zeller would splash out most of his trade playing in wee gyms, against second-class talent and without a television audience. Indiana offered something different. As a limited kid committed to the townswoman power, Zeller is now a headliner in the stage of Indiana similar to how paramour Class of 2011 standout Adonis Thomas is already a household celebrity in his hometown of Memphis thanks to the incident that he committed to Josh Pastner's Tigers two weeks ago. The persuade of territory can be an formidable burden, sure, but only for those who surely want to leave.
Zeller, by all accounts, never quite wanted to leave. So he'll continue to be home and present as the latest -- and most significant -- watchword that Crean's tenure at Indiana might just revolve out well after all. It has been questionable to this point, hasn't it? Crean inherited a miscellany thanks to Kelvin Sampson and all those unfitting phone calls, and cleaning it up hasn't been simple. The Hoosiers have gone 5-32 in Big Ten games during Crean's chief two seasons, but the larger pickle is that Crean hadn't, for whatever reason, been able to berth a program-changing design (or even a excellent 40 jingoistic recruit, according to Scout.com). Meantime, John Calipari proved rebuilding a established fuel isn't unyielding for everybody and won 35 games in his to begin time at Kentucky after dock the nation's top-ranked recruiting class.
Purdue continued to use a be promoted to inhabitant prominence down the road from IU. Another Indiana institution, Butler, played for the patriotic label under the leadership of Brad Stevens, whose name has already surfaced as a thinkable replacement for Crean just in case, you know, it ever comes to that. In other words, the arm-twisting was building.
But Zeller's report should clear it considerably. Whether Zeller will really be a program-changer on the court for IU is debatable, and it's superior to think back on he's neither Blake Griffin nor John Wall. Honestly, Zeller isn't even Marquis Teague, a ally Class of 2011 standout from Indiana who rejected IU to stage play for Kentucky. Truth be told, Zeller is a neat vista (ranked 16th nationally by Scout.com, 20th by Rivals.com) with terrible bloodlines (his older brothers, Luke and Tyler, were both McDonald's All-Americans) whose bulldoze of greatness remains undetermined.
That can't be overstated, but it's also unimportant on a light of day go for today, because the only predilection that matters at this mere is that Crean decisively has something his fans can find credible in.
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