Question re Trae Young

Seeing as how Oklahoma only had 18 points in the first half, I kinda think Trae's talent is wasted at Oklahoma. Did KU show any interest in him during recruitment?

I believe his final two schools were KU and OU.

He's from the OU area and stayed so his family could watch him play what is surely a one and done season. He will still get drafted top 5 (if not higher) so while his one college season turned out to be a bust, he'll be fine.

At his selection interview he said that his choice was between extending the KU streak or ending it at home. He chose the latter. "He chose...poorly"

I love this Board. Clever.

I wonder if he has any regrets? He sure looked sad/mad tonight. I feel sorry for him. He could have achieved so much with our guys. Perhaps even a national championship in April. I'm sure he lost POY. Everyone who brings it up agrees. That's okay cause I never thought he was better than Devonte, who WILL get it, and deserved. He will be forgotten next year while Devonte will see his number flying in the rafters of AFH!!!!!!0

"He chose poorly".....well played! lol.

As for regret, I doubt it. Had he come here he would have had to compete for time with Devonte and Svi. I'm sure he would have found plenty of minutes, but he would have been part of an ensemble.

At OU, he was the whole show, which helped him get the kind of numbers he got in the 1st half of the season. There was one game where he really got called out for ball hogging, which would not have been tolerated by Self.

So in terms of his own one-and-done ambitions and making a name for himself, he probably benefited from going to OU where he didn't have to share a spotlight.

Here are a couple of articles regarding the recruitment of Trae Young.

At the end of this one is a picture of Lon Kruger and Bill Self in a high school gym watching Trae Young:
www2.kusports.com/weblogs/tale-tait/2017...ys-5-star-2017-pg-i/

This one is a long slog. Toward the end is a quote from Trae's father indicating his preference that Trae choose Kansas:
usatodayhss.com/2017/all-access-all-usa-...ecruiting-roundtable

“Well, in my opinion, Kansas is the school you need to go to,” Ray says. “You’ve got the best of both worlds: Blue blood and close proximity so we can come see you play. You’ll have Billy Preston, Devonte’ Graham, Udoka Azubuike, Malik Newman, Lagerald Vick… You’ll be playing deep in March.”

I recall seeing the quote that Kong mentions as well.

I don't begrudge him for making the comment, but it's not like he was even close to making it happen.

"I want to break Kansas' [Big 12 title] streak," Young said. "It's not going to be easy, by any means, but that's something that I'm going to be hard on all year. If I would have went to Kansas, I would have been a little bit different, but I wanted to break that streak. That's my goal. We're gonna do it. I have all faith in God that that's what his plan is."

www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/sto...ooners-hometown-hero

And it may have only been Sean Miller's 100K phone conversation that got Ayton to AZ instead of Kansas. Many thought the Jayhawks were his first choice until he suddenly flipped to AZ. And we were in the running with Sexton who chose Alabama. We ended being thin this year but we might have been overstocked if all those choices had gone differently. Perhaps next year we are overstocked, but it will be fun to see how HCBS deals with that problem.

Boy, I'd love to have problems like too many great players instead of our short bench today, so it will be an awesome year. The summer can't come and go fast enough lol