Okpara Update
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4 conferences, 4 different regions of the country. Please dont tell me Pitt being located in an area without much talent is any hindrance at all. These kids will play at Kabul U if they have a cool coach. Mileage from home is barely a thought for 90% of them
It's not, really.
He is going to school for business and these are some of the top business schools in the entire country. He takes his academics seriously and as I reported earlier, he could easily choose to go to the IVY league and is very strongly considering Harvard which I said previously. The biggest surprise in this, is that he eliminated Yale from his final 6.
A few other things in play here. His goal obviously wants to go to the NBA, that could factor in if it was a Pitt vs a Harvard final decision. Ill be surprised if he goes to Washington or Minnesota.
He is also friends with Mintz and Oweh who is visiting Pitt in September and he is also a teammate of Dominick Barlow on the NY Rens who we are also recruiting very hard. He is also from New York, not Indiana like some people think.
The first priority recruit that makes a decision with regard to Pitt is likely Oweh. Unless something miraculously changes, Billups isn't taking an OV or coming to Pitt.
Yeah, you've got two elite academic schools (Northwestern and Harvard), two very good academic schools that are closer to home (Pitt and Penn State), and two very good academic schools that are further from home but that he has some kind of connection with (Minnesota and Washington). It's a cross-section, certainly, but it seems like he's selected schools that fit into a few pretty clearly defined buckets.
It certainly sounds like he's favoring Northwestern right now, which does make some sense considering the combination of elite academics and still playing in a high-major conference. I suspect that will change a little bit if/when he gets on campus to a few more schools next month.
It certainly sounds like he's favoring Northwestern right now, which does make some sense considering the combination of elite academics and still playing in a high-major conference. I suspect that will change a little bit if/when he gets on campus to a few more schools next month.
Northwestern is for sure a player, but Im not so sure I would go as far as calling them a leader at least yet. Although one of his friends in Rowan Brumbaugh is going to commit to Northwestern most likely.
Pitt obviously needs to address the center position at some point. But if we get Oweh for example with Mintz and Barlow, 1 more for a center is putting us over. I expect us to go over, but Im not sure we are going 2 over because we are on a lot of strong talent in 2023. Okpara is a good player that had his summer short changed because of Covid.
Okpara is taking a 2nd visit at Harvard coming up. He is planning 2 more OV's at most besides that. We "could" get one and have been trying to get him on campus for either an unofficial or an OV for quite some time. If he has something set up to Pitt, Im not aware of it yet.
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He probably should major in something other than business then. Like Econ. Then go to a good MBA program. I was a biz major at Pitt then I went to RMU for my MBA and it was almost an exact repeat of my undergrad classes, just easier.
If he goes to Harvard he'll have to. They don't have undergraduate business.
Or the kid could stay local and go to Penn. Great business and the Palestra is cool.
We get 1 every 8 years that usually coincide with olympiads
Adams 2012
Hugley 2020
Look for a good Center coming in in 2028
Great players can play anywhere and make it to the NBA .
If his game needs to improve he’s better off at a better bb school if his life goal is to play professionally . If not how could you pass up a free ride to Harvard if you’ve got the smarts .
If his game needs to improve he’s better off at a better bb school if his life goal is to play professionally . If not how could you pass up a free ride to Harvard if you’ve got the smarts .
Back in the old days, neither did Pitt. That was why Mark Cuban transferred to Indiana.
Yes. They actually did offer business, then discontinued undergraduate business only to bring it back again. I'd have to look up the years that this happened. The business school regrets this to this day from a donor standpoint. They lost a generation of potential donors.
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