Honest, but ignornat question

49er1 · November 19, 2012, 12:40am

I apologize, seriously, and excuse my lack of keeping up with this, but WHY have we not signed anyone yet? Thanks.

Agent49 · November 19, 2012, 12:44am

[quote=“49er1, post:1, topic:27137”]I apologize, seriously, and excuse my lack of keeping up with this, but WHY have we not signed anyone yet? Thanks.[/quote]We missed out on Ringer, he was main target. Missed out on Dauda, Cleveland St stole him late, used our young players (depth) against us stating he wouldn’t get the same minutes he would here as he would at CSU.

Time will tell what we can do. All I know is we’ll never recruit as good as ECU.

49er1 · November 19, 2012, 12:55am

[quote=“2k, post:2, topic:27137”][quote=“49er1, post:1, topic:27137”]I apologize, seriously, and excuse my lack of keeping up with this, but WHY have we not signed anyone yet? Thanks.[/quote]We missed out on Ringer, he was main target. Missed out on Dauda, Cleveland St stole him late, used our young players (depth) against us stating he wouldn’t get the same minutes he would here as he would at CSU.

Time will tell what we can do. All I know is we’ll never recruit as good as ECU.[/quote]

Anyone else care to share some more ideas or info?

earlyniner · November 19, 2012, 1:25am

we have a very firm verbal from a kid named sidney finch from the outback of australia. very few hoops people have any knowledge of him at this point, and major is understandably concerned that if his name gets out, we cold be over-recruited. (basden might have heard something and could fill us in???) anyway: 7’2", 290+#. reputed to have excellent feet and hands. 46" vertical (you do the math). half-marathon champion in his district as well as top times in the 800 m. and low hurdles. never played basketball except playground stuff, but is a striker in soccer and has received attention from some of the ausssie pro scouts. apparently, his parents are very religious and have tried to protect him from many of the world’s snares, but major & co have won their approval. we should be hearing abt this shortly, so keep your ears clean.

Ninerballin · November 19, 2012, 1:28am

earlyniner:

we have a very firm verbal from a kid named sidney finch from the outback of australia. very few hoops people have any knowledge of him at this point, and major is understandably concerned that if his name gets out, we cold be over-recruited. (basden might have heard something and could fill us in???) anyway: 7’2", 290+#. reputed to have excellent feet and hands. 46" vertical (you do the math). half-marathon champion in his district as well as top times in the 800 m. and low hurdles. never played basketball except playground stuff, but is a striker in soccer and has received attention from some of the ausssie pro scouts. apparently, his parents are very religious and have tried to protect him from many of the world’s snares, but major & co have won their approval. we should be hearing abt this shortly, so keep your ears clean.

Is this for real?

ninerfan55 · November 19, 2012, 1:29am

earlyniner:

we have a very firm verbal from a kid named sidney finch from the outback of australia. very few hoops people have any knowledge of him at this point, and major is understandably concerned that if his name gets out, we cold be over-recruited. (basden might have heard something and could fill us in???) anyway: 7’2", 290+#. reputed to have excellent feet and hands. 46" vertical (you do the math). half-marathon champion in his district as well as top times in the 800 m. and low hurdles. never played basketball except playground stuff, but is a striker in soccer and has received attention from some of the ausssie pro scouts. apparently, his parents are very religious and have tried to protect him from many of the world’s snares, but major & co have won their approval. we should be hearing abt this shortly, so keep your ears clean.

are you serious?

LoyalNiner · November 19, 2012, 1:32am

earlyniner:

we have a very firm verbal from a kid named sidney finch from the outback of australia. very few hoops people have any knowledge of him at this point, and major is understandably concerned that if his name gets out, we cold be over-recruited. (basden might have heard something and could fill us in???) anyway: 7’2", 290+#. reputed to have excellent feet and hands. 46" vertical (you do the math). half-marathon champion in his district as well as top times in the 800 m. and low hurdles. never played basketball except playground stuff, but is a striker in soccer and has received attention from some of the ausssie pro scouts. apparently, his parents are very religious and have tried to protect him from many of the world’s snares, but major & co have won their approval. we should be hearing abt this shortly, so keep your ears clean.

I laughed.

Chisox17 · November 19, 2012, 2:09am

earlyniner:

we have a very firm verbal from a kid named sidney finch from the outback of australia. very few hoops people have any knowledge of him at this point, and major is understandably concerned that if his name gets out, we cold be over-recruited. (basden might have heard something and could fill us in???) anyway: 7’2", 290+#. reputed to have excellent feet and hands. 46" vertical (you do the math). half-marathon champion in his district as well as top times in the 800 m. and low hurdles. never played basketball except playground stuff, but is a striker in soccer and has received attention from some of the ausssie pro scouts. apparently, his parents are very religious and have tried to protect him from many of the world’s snares, but major & co have won their approval. we should be hearing abt this shortly, so keep your ears clean.

LOL

cibik02 · November 19, 2012, 2:10am

This is great news!!!

system · November 19, 2012, 2:33am

That was worth a good chuckle.

73niner · November 19, 2012, 4:55am

 Sports  Illustrated did  an April fools day article around 1986 about a secretive monk from the US who could throw a baseball faster than 110 mph and the Mets where trying to keep it a secret working him out in private.  SI purportedly had interviewed a few in the know and had everybody in the sports world talking.  They finally confessed it was fiction but reading the above post brought back all those memories.

HighFlying49er · November 19, 2012, 5:03am

I just had a Martin Iti flash-back! :

hootie · November 19, 2012, 12:55pm

Syd Finch, lol

zerogeneticsdc · November 19, 2012, 1:29pm

YES!

“ITI FOR THE DUNK! And he misses…”

system · November 19, 2012, 1:49pm

earlyniner:

we have a very firm verbal from a kid named sidney finch from the outback of australia. very few hoops people have any knowledge of him at this point, and major is understandably concerned that if his name gets out, we cold be over-recruited. (basden might have heard something and could fill us in???) anyway: 7’2", 290+#. reputed to have excellent feet and hands. 46" vertical (you do the math). half-marathon champion in his district as well as top times in the 800 m. and low hurdles. never played basketball except playground stuff, but is a striker in soccer and has received attention from some of the ausssie pro scouts. apparently, his parents are very religious and have tried to protect him from many of the world’s snares, but major & co have won their approval. we should be hearing abt this shortly, so keep your ears clean.

He’s a playmaker, part yogi and part recluse. Impressively liberated from our opulent life-style, Sidd’s deciding about yoga — and his future in basketball

Chisox17 · November 19, 2012, 6:20pm

They claimed he could throw 170+ mph on his fastball with pinpoint accuracy, but he had to have only one shoe on to do it for perfect balance. And people bought it!

s9er · November 19, 2012, 7:07pm

The best part was the sut title to the story.

“He’s a pitcher, part yogi and part recluse. Impressively liberated from our opulent life-style, Sidd’s deciding about yoga”

Nugget · November 19, 2012, 7:57pm

Here is the SI article. Sure, you know it was a hoax now, but when I read it back then they suckered us big time. It is worth a read.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1119283/index.htm

gamer · November 19, 2012, 11:19pm

Disappointing, but great to hear of someone who wouldn’t have gotten all the playing time they want here.