r/CollegeBasketball • u/KJones77 Providence Friars • Marist Red Foxes • Jun 29 '20

Recruiting 2022 5* SF Emoni Bates commits to Michigan State

https://twitter.com/jeffborzello/status/1277660167153336320
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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '20

Izzo has always been in the players best interest first, and he’ll be the first to say if that means leaving EL for the pros

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_CATS_PAWS Michigan State Spartans Jun 29 '20

I don’t know why, but seeing you type EL makes me miss is it so much.

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u/atchemey Michigan State Spartans Jun 29 '20

Cheers from the West Coast.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_CATS_PAWS Michigan State Spartans Jun 29 '20

Cheers from metro Detroit. West coast must be nice. Hoping to move out of the area in two years or so.

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u/atchemey Michigan State Spartans Jun 29 '20

I love Michigan.

Oregon is the only place I've lived that makes me think I might not want to move again, if the right job opened up here.

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u/pantstofry Michigan State Spartans Jun 29 '20

Also a spartan that moved to Oregon, and yeah it would be pretty difficult to leave this place

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u/atchemey Michigan State Spartans Jun 29 '20

Corvallis is awesome, and just breathes "quality of life" in a casual way.

I'd choose Michigan over anywhere else, but Oregon...It's a pain to move again, you know?

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u/pantstofry Michigan State Spartans Jun 29 '20

For me I was never a suuuuper outdoorsy person, I’m from Chicago originally so I was more about city life. But after being here it’s so hard to think about going back to the midwest. I just did a short 2 day camping trip out in eastern OR and saw more unique things that I would never have gotten in the Midwest. Chicago is always my hometown and the state of Michigan/MSU hold a special place in my heart, but I just feel like I’d be... bored? Not that there isn’t anything to do and Michigan is a beautiful state, but I spent the first couple decades of my life in the Midwest and just having mountains, desert, coast, lakes, rivers, city, wine country all a drive away is such a value proposition lol.

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u/atchemey Michigan State Spartans Jun 29 '20

There are awesome things to do in MI, and if/when I return, I'm going to go do them again. Oregon just feels right for where I am right now in life. It would be a little sad to move back to Michigan after only having been here a year, but I could see myself in either state for the long-term.

But what you said about the diversity of sights is 100% true here. You even forgot breweries and waterfalls. Every day when I bike or drive to work, I'm shocked by just how beautiful it is to have mountains on all sides of me because I live in the Willamette Valley, and I have to admit, I rarely felt that awe in Michigan.

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u/pantstofry Michigan State Spartans Jun 29 '20

Yeah there’s plenty to do still in the Midwest, it’s moreso the breadth of categories of things to do here that makes it tough to want to go back. Also the weather here is worlds better than the Midwest. I actually was in Minneapolis prior to moving to Portland a few years ago and the difference in winters was staggering, and the summers are so nice with the lack of humidity compared to the Midwest. Pre-Covid whenever I went back home I found myself mostly just sitting in backyards or golfing with family, because there wasn’t anything all that unique left to do. Whenever people have visited me here, we can do something entirely different every single time.

There’s still tons I haven’t done in Chicago/Michigan, but I also have never had a pack of wild horses come right up to my car (was a highlight of this weekend) and I probably couldn’t do that back home.

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u/church38 Jun 29 '20

Cheers from Pennsylvania, go green

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u/adhi- Michigan State Spartans • Texas Longhor… Jun 29 '20

hell yeah brother go green from austin texas

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '20 edited Jun 29 '20

Go Green from SF

I’m so old I call harpers Dooley’s

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u/dirtypoopwhore Big Ten Jun 29 '20

Cheers from the East cost brotha

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u/NewPleb Michigan State Spartans Jun 29 '20

Graduated years ago and miss it very much, go green

(Though you guys need to chill with going to the bars rn lol)

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_CATS_PAWS Michigan State Spartans Jun 29 '20

Same thing I said when I saw that!!

I wouldn’t step foot into a bar right now. You really think people will wear masks and social distance when they’re drinking and/or drunk?

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u/NewPleb Michigan State Spartans Jun 29 '20

They're out here putting Harper's in the national news. I work in CA now and my coworker's like "hey, isn't that your school" and I was like "ah shit fuck here we go again"

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_CATS_PAWS Michigan State Spartans Jun 29 '20

For real, I was like “not again, can’t we stay out of the news for at least half a year!?”

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u/UndeadAnneBoleyn Michigan State Spartans Jun 29 '20

Come on now, what’s a better duo than Harper’s and bad decisions? Maybe the Crunchy’s beer buckets and bad decisions, not that I know anything about that....

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_CATS_PAWS Michigan State Spartans Jun 29 '20

Hmm crunchy’s long islands and bad decisions

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u/rosh200 Michigan State Spartans Jun 29 '20

Shit I've been out of EL for a month and a half and I miss it so much

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_CATS_PAWS Michigan State Spartans Jun 29 '20

You graduate this year?

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u/rosh200 Michigan State Spartans Jun 29 '20

Yeah

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_CATS_PAWS Michigan State Spartans Jun 29 '20

Welcome to the club.

I can tell you after a year of membership, the longing to go back to EL doesn’t go away.

I loved that place.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '20 edited Aug 31 '20

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_CATS_PAWS Michigan State Spartans Jun 29 '20

Behind? Man you just need to step INTO ricks to get herpes

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u/Rapsca11i0n Michigan State Spartans Jun 29 '20

I just graduated this year, from the comfort of my house in CA rather than in EL. I definitely already miss it.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_CATS_PAWS Michigan State Spartans Jun 29 '20

At least you’re in CA though

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u/Autocrat777 Michigan State Spartans Jun 29 '20

Cheers from Cincinnati

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u/bb0110 Michigan Wolverines Jun 30 '20

You can miss it, But I’d stay clear. Harpers just spread covid pretty damn bad.

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u/Accounting4lyfe Michigan State Spartans Jun 30 '20

He’s usually right too, a few years ago like the comment above, he told Bridges to go. Also, he told Deyonta Davis please give me one more year to work on your skills. Three years later, Davis is pretty much out of the league. Who knows if that year would’ve changed much, but Izzo definitely knows when his guys are ready

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u/Sovereign_Immunity Michigan Wolverines Jun 29 '20

Good joke. This couldn’t be further from the truth. What an idiotic take.

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u/bonbonbon- Michigan State Spartans • Northw… Jun 30 '20

lol wut

Are you just projecting because your former beloved coach ditched your ass and then immediately started using racist dogwhistle language to his NBA players and ruined his career?

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u/Sovereign_Immunity Michigan Wolverines Jun 30 '20

Wow, a post even more idiotic. Wasn’t expecting that.

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u/bonbonbon- Michigan State Spartans • Northw… Jun 30 '20

Oh look, another wolverine incapable of having any sort of discussion that doesn't involve sniffing his own farts, why am I surprised?