Will be the next great point guard at NCSU. Presser scheduled for next Tuesday at his school.

http://scout.scout.com/a.z?s=178&p=9&c=2&cid=576454&nid=1573138&fhn=1

[Edited on October 6, 2006 at 11:14 AM. Reason : there you go]

10/6/2006 11:14:06 AM

Wow....this could be a great week for NC State sports.

10/6/2006 11:18:58 AM

Now let's get hickson

10/6/2006 11:19:36 AM

I think this might be really good news for us

10/6/2006 11:20:09 AM

^^I talked with a certain 6'6 wingman on the team about this this morning and he said "J.J's next". Take it FWIW.

10/6/2006 11:21:58 AM

can someone post the article?

10/6/2006 11:22:55 AM

Come on down, Chris

[Edited on October 6, 2006 at 11:41 AM. Reason : ]

10/6/2006 11:23:35 AM

I'm tempted to post every premie article they have after they kept deleting ANY comments people made on there about my shirts

10/6/2006 11:24:05 AM

Can anyone post a summary?

Is this official?

10/6/2006 11:28:10 AM

all it says is that sources say that a press conference is scheduled for Wright and he may choose NC State over Pitt and Georgetown. and it's from scout.com, not PackPride

10/6/2006 11:29:01 AM

y'all better not be playing with me. I swear to God my heart can't handle this.

10/6/2006 11:30:36 AM

is scout not pack pride... I thought it was

10/6/2006 11:31:31 AM

Nobody on Packpride is confirming anything....but I know a Wake guy who knew Chris and his family when the Deacs were recruiting him...and he's saying that he's going to choose the Pack. Take that for what it's worth.

10/6/2006 11:32:55 AM

if this isnt true, this is one sick fucking joke

10/6/2006 11:39:03 AM

Ha...I doubt it would be a joke. Even if it's wrong, it's probably one "inside" guy who has just "heard" something wrong.

The consensus is that it's been between us and Georgetown with Georgetown maybe holding a slight edge. So I guess it wouldn't be too surprsing. Lowe has made up a lot of ground on Chris. I'm honestly really surprised.

10/6/2006 11:41:40 AM

I'll wait to hear it from the horses mouth.

Visions of George Bell and Mustafa Shakur still ring in my head

10/6/2006 11:44:01 AM

Quote :

"I'm tempted to post every premie article they have after they kept deleting ANY comments people made on there about my shirts"

please don't do that.

10/6/2006 12:05:00 PM

hahahaha


DO IT!

10/6/2006 12:06:26 PM

haha I'm not

10/6/2006 12:08:17 PM

10/6/2006 12:42:11 PM

well, the presser is before his official visit to georgetown and before their midnight madness he was planning to attend

i'm not sure if that means he doesnt want to go there, or is so sure that he does want to go there that he doesn't need to take the visit...

10/6/2006 12:45:12 PM

yea don't post it


start a pm list though and divulge the info that way


and sign me up for it.

10/6/2006 12:45:50 PM

post it and say fuck those nazis at prick pride
add me to the pm list b/c i refuse to give prick pride money

10/6/2006 1:41:21 PM

pm list . . . what a great idea . . . sign me up

10/6/2006 1:43:57 PM

sign me up

10/6/2006 1:47:07 PM

^

10/6/2006 1:47:50 PM

^^

10/6/2006 1:49:45 PM

send to me please

10/6/2006 1:51:06 PM

i hear calipari is on the jet right now

10/6/2006 1:51:28 PM

Barnes is our man.

Presser @ 5:00pm

FTW!

10/6/2006 1:53:08 PM

^ me 3

10/6/2006 1:53:17 PM

haha we're a lock for mike montgomery


but on a serious note, some hoya poster is goin around on their board saying we got wright. no idea if he has any inside info, or if he's just some idiot.

10/6/2006 2:01:12 PM

okay i missed all of this, whats the deal???

10/6/2006 2:01:46 PM

haha damn

a PM list for info

10/6/2006 2:02:03 PM

No Calipari isn't on the jet... he's at the wolves den. I saw him there.

10/6/2006 2:04:15 PM

It tends to be a hard sell when you offer a 5* PG when you have NO available scholarships for 2007.

Also, florida is out for JJ Hickson - he won't be taking an official there per the ticker on PP. So its between us and Tenn for him.

things are currently looking pretty good

but knock on wood.

10/6/2006 2:12:53 PM

honestly i wasn't sure what to think about wright announcing, didn't know if it would be us or not... but hickson cancelling his florida visit really makes me think we might be getting wright and hickson knows something about it...

i could see them wanting to end up at the same place, so wright has someone to feed it to

10/6/2006 2:14:37 PM

not neccesarily credible. But some disussion and predictions on the Georgetown boards on Wright and Hickson:

http://hoyatalk2.proboards48.com/index.cgi?board=general

10/6/2006 2:15:20 PM

Quote :

"It tends to be a hard sell when you offer a 5* PG when you have NO available scholarships for 2007."

Are you talking about us here? or Georgetown?

from their boards:

Quote :

"They also think that NC State is a better place to play than UNC or Duke, that State is one of the most storied programs of all time, etc. They always think they're the best and that they lead etc. They're like the Rutgers of the ACC, only without as much sucking."

[Edited on October 6, 2006 at 2:37 PM. Reason : ]

10/6/2006 2:35:59 PM

Quote :

"You can knock NC State if you want, but they do have two national championships, which, last time I checked, was one more than we have. Comparing NC State to Rutgers is preposterous."

from one of the Hoya posters. another immediately posted after that that he was thinking the exact same thing.

10/6/2006 2:45:32 PM

Quote :

"RDF Golden Hoya member is online Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,398 Re: Hickson down to 3 « Reply #10 on Today at 2:45pm » -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today at 1:46pm, hoyarooter wrote: Today at 12:45pm, RBHoya wrote:They also think that NC State is a better place to play than UNC or Duke, that State is one of the most storied programs of all time, etc. They always think they're the best and that they lead etc. They're like the Rutgers of the ACC, only without as much sucking. That said, it's 100% possible that both of them go to State... it just seems to me like J.J. has really liked Pearl and the Vols. You can knock NC State if you want, but they do have two national championships, which, last time I checked, was one more than we have. Comparing NC State to Rutgers is preposterous. Rooter, I understand what you are saying BUT... and with me you knew this was coming, let's be honest and share the entire argument here. NCSU also won those titles under: 1. Norm Sloan 2. Jim Valvano What do both men have in common? PROBATION and being known as two of the dirtiest coaches in the business. Valvano always gets a pass because he died--I look at his death as payback for his misuse and failure to help kids. He exploited people for a living, but was fun-loving, had a slick personality and knew how to make Vitale and others his whores. What goes around, comes around and it's always funny what happens to "great" people who in all reality were NOT that great. SCUM gets it penalty and Valvano got his. I puke when I see his speech every year--he suffered from a disease that MILLIONS of other, honest, hard working, and high character people do--and he and his whores acted as if he's the only guy to ever have Cancer. Good Riddance to Jimmy V and I will never give a dime to that organization--rather give it to the American Cancer Society any day of the week. As for Sydney Lowe--who did he play for while a member of the Wolfpack? Valvano. Did Lowe graduate while playing at NCSU? For Valvano's sake, at least Lowe could read unlike Chris Washburn who was used and exploited as well. Fast Forward to today--Chris Wright and James Hickson seem heading to Raleigh to play for such a "tradition" rich program that has done nothing since 1983 when they cheated--and remember they cheated under Sloan too--and not in speculation, in FACT. I call it as I see it and Lowe who is a baffoon of a coach and was proven to be in the NBA and certainly will be in his tenure at NCSU (and yes Sydney, that is spelled correctly, it's in reference to your time being employed not TEN YEAR). Lowe is at a place desperate, and that means anything to win, so expect to see more of this and it'll be fun to see when this guy is busted and everyone turns the other cheek as nobody EVER CHEATS at NCSU?? That program is a joke--only fitting for a school that trumpets the life of a scumball like Jim Valvano--I only hope he is in a "warm place" and reflecting on the exploitation and manipulation of kids. CBB is a business but it's also about bringing character and helping shape youngsters into men. Valvano was a character and used people like a pimp and it's seen as a triumph by his whores and cronies. This man got what was coming and I feel no sympathy for someone who used other people and brought nothing but corruptness to the game. It's guys like him--and there are NUMEROUS OTHERS--including a few in the Big East who we all know about-that bring sports down. Nobody is asking for handouts if they aren't given to people. The game has changed for the worse--due to people like Valvano, Tarkanian, Calipari, and until people call it out, it'll continue to be that way. Wright and Hickson are good players and kids from all I know, but I get a little heated when it comes to seeing that program as "tradition rich". I know Rooter and Aggy didn't do this but that place has NEVER WON unless they cheated and Valvano and his "Angelic Figure" in his expiration make me sick. The guy was a scumball in life and treated like some Saint in his death. Call it like I see it--a character that had none."

LOL what a little bitch over there on the Hoya forums
those guys are going to be crying when we pick up JJ and Wright

[Edited on October 6, 2006 at 2:56 PM. Reason : ]

10/6/2006 2:56:09 PM

Quote :

"and yes Sydney, that is spelled correctly"

chuckle.

10/6/2006 3:05:04 PM

Quote :

"LOL what a little bitch over there on the Hoya forums those guys are going to be crying when we pick up JJ and Wright"

DAMMIT, ITS NOT OFFICIAL!

[Edited on October 6, 2006 at 3:06 PM. Reason : .]

10/6/2006 3:06:09 PM

thats bullshit to talk about sloan and valvano cheating though. David Thompson was a lock for NC State from the beginning and we only got in trouble because he was too close to the program in the first place....he got in trouble for staying with a friend over his official visit or something stupid like that, and we got a year probation.


Next, Valvano did NOT cheat to win the National championship. He won the NC, then he had a few down years, and recruited some players that he shouldnt have, but even when he stooped to a lower level, he never really cheated. The NCAA set a precedent with valvano because of the media attention it got from those faggots at OCCC.

fuck those guys

[Edited on October 6, 2006 at 3:16 PM. Reason : sloan may have been in trouble before Thompson, not sure about that. ]

10/6/2006 3:15:15 PM

JOHN CALIPARI IS AT NY PIZZA

10/6/2006 3:17:11 PM

Quote :

"I look at his death as payback for his misuse and failure to help kids"

i'm pretty sure sidney lowe himself would refute the latter point. i remember him talking about how jimmy v was like a father to him.

10/6/2006 3:20:49 PM

i dare you to find a good program that isn't dirty on one way or another.

10/6/2006 3:22:29 PM

man this shit about hickson and wright better be true... please God let it be true.

10/6/2006 3:31:18 PM

just dont get excited. thats a surefire way to screw yourself over. i'm just assuming somebody made something up and its snowballed.

10/6/2006 3:33:25 PM

10/6/2006 3:37:23 PM