Danny Shelton commits to UW

[briarduck]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/h ... uit01.html

Distance was the issue...I guess I'm not surprised, we could have used him damn it!

[maxduck]

"He didn't want to leave his brothers or his sister," she said. "He wanted to be able to go over and visit us or we can visit him every weekend."

How many college students try to see their family every weekend? Will he only play in home games because he doesn't want to travel?

[karlhungis]

It is sad to lose a guy due to distance, especially if it is to the huskies. He said he is still going to take some visits, so I am curious if he is going to try to get his mom down for a visit or if it is completely over for us. I still think we close strong with guys like Heyward and McReynolds, so I am not too worried..... yet.

[Duck07]

He wants to be close to home but he still wants to visit UCLA, or was it Cal? As maxduck pointed out, really, going home every other weekend won't be the draw that it seems to be once you have your new college friends and have a new life per se. To rip on the kid and his statements though is a bit much even though he says things like how UW has depth for him to play early, where the omission hints that at Oregon that's not the case.

As with any recruit that doesn't choose Oregon, all we can really say is Go Ducks!

[hjpop]

Does this mean he'll go back to 4-stars on Scout? Just curious...

[polyduck]

....oh well! it's NOT the DUCKS loss....it's HIS loss! Soooo he better get used to being at the bottom of the North PAC-12 division with their cousins to the East Wazzu....

[maxduck]

He wants to be close to home but he still wants to visit UCLA, or was it Cal? As maxduck pointed out, really, going home every other weekend won't be the draw that it seems to be once you have your new college friends and have a new life per se. To rip on the kid and his statements though is a bit much even though he says things like how UW has depth for him to play early, where the omission hints that at Oregon that's not the case.

As with any recruit that doesn't choose Oregon, all we can really say is Go Ducks!

Didn't mean to sound like I was "ripping" on the kid, just thought that particular statement somewhat funny. Lots of good reasons to choose UW, I'm just not sure a couple hundred miles is one of them. Of course I look back on my life and realize I would have matured a lot faster had I chosen to move away from Oregon for a few years.

[Duck07]

He wants to be close to home but he still wants to visit UCLA, or was it Cal? As maxduck pointed out, really, going home every other weekend won't be the draw that it seems to be once you have your new college friends and have a new life per se. To rip on the kid and his statements though is a bit much even though he says things like how UW has depth for him to play early, where the omission hints that at Oregon that's not the case.

As with any recruit that doesn't choose Oregon, all we can really say is Go Ducks!

Didn't mean to sound like I was "ripping" on the kid, just thought that particular statement somewhat funny. Lots of good reasons to choose UW, I'm just not sure a couple hundred miles is one of them. Of course I look back on my life and realize I would have matured a lot faster had I chosen to move away from Oregon for a few years.

i wasn't calling you out, you could call it a preemptive shot since a LOT of posters immediately come out with the jabs whenever a commit doesn't decide on us, especially when they use comments like the ones we brought up (distance, pt etc).

[Duck24]

Pretty obvious his mom made the decision for him...

[sx1080]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/h ... uit01.html

Distance was the issue...I guess I'm not surprised, we could have used him damn it!

momma boy. Mommy said he can come home every weekend. wow.

where's his Dad in all this?

[MacDuck]

This is going to sound like an over generalization, but I wonder if someone did a study on African American kids who get scholarships to play FB or BB, how many of them end up playing at the school which is fairly close to home? Where I'm going is this group of kids comes from a very high % of families where mom is the single parent, head of household. This isn't ripping on blacks, it's just a fact. Tougher for moms to let go when there isn't a husband, or father in the household. Doesn't hold true in every respect as I think Owa may have been from a single parent (mom) household, but I bet you would find that these type of athletes will end up closer to home re their college choice than those kids who come from a more traditional upbringing.

[Duck07]

This is going to sound like an over generalization, but I wonder if someone did a study on African American kids who get scholarships to play FB or BB, how many of them end up playing at the school which is fairly close to home? Where I'm going is this group of kids comes from a very high % of families where mom is the single parent, head of household. This isn't ripping on blacks, it's just a fact. Tougher for moms to let go when there isn't a husband, or father in the household. Doesn't hold true in every respect as I think Owa may have been from a single parent (mom) household, but I bet you would find that these type of athletes will end up closer to home re their college choice than those kids who come from a more traditional upbringing.

Shelton is Poly...

[MacDuck]

Still haven't heard a mention of a dad in Shelton's case. Theory holds up primarily because black families fit the mold the most, but I maintain it's still applicable when mom is the head of household. Much harder for them to let go.

[Duck07]

Still haven't heard a mention of a dad in Shelton's case. Theory holds up primarily because black families fit the mold the most, but I maintain it's still applicable when mom is the head of household. Much harder for them to let go.

No, your theory doesn't hold because it is all conjecture at this point and you cannot get any of the statistics to prove your point. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

[Boom]

This is going to sound like an over generalization, but I wonder if someone did a study on African American kids who get scholarships to play FB or BB, how many of them end up playing at the school which is fairly close to home? Where I'm going is this group of kids comes from a very high % of families where mom is the single parent, head of household. This isn't ripping on blacks, it's just a fact. Tougher for moms to let go when there isn't a husband, or father in the household. Doesn't hold true in every respect as I think Owa may have been from a single parent (mom) household, but I bet you would find that these type of athletes will end up closer to home re their college choice than those kids who come from a more traditional upbringing.

It's probably marginal

Just about everyone I know has had a traditional upbringing, but they are still heavily influenced by their friends & family.

Location & peer pressure are almost always going to be heavy factors in decision making regardless of what socioeconomic circumstances are in play.