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Originally Posted by jl112481

Wow...Boo hoo people. Quit acting like he deliberately dragged us through the mud. There were 6 teams on that table and only one got picked. The kid is first class and five teams were going to be disappointed today regardless. I am glad to be just in the same conversation as those other 5 schools.

Good Luck Harrison.

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I hear ya, and I know I am more upset than I thought I would be.

However, I think "being in the conversation" with those schools hurts more than anything esle. It seems pretty obvious now that ISU was not in consideration. UNC = he wants to play for a NC, which wont happen at ISU any time soon.
To the national media we look like idiots for having any hope in the first place. That sucks. More so than him choosing another school. I would have been disappointed, but eventually fine with that. He should have said that it was down to UNC and Duke tw months ago.

I really do think this hurts the reputation of ISU. GMac, though no fault of his own, will be considered a complete recruiting failure for not keeping the hometown kid. It sucks a lot.

The only way this could have been worse would be for him to have gone to KU and come back and scored 40 pts on us.

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Originally Posted by Cyclonesrule91

Welcome to marketing Harrison 101 people. The ego show is just starting.

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+ 1,000,000

This myth that HB is this oh so humble 'ah shucks' kid is crazy. HB and his family are masters of self marketing.

I wish him the best. He was free to play basketball wherever he wanted. It is unfair to expect him to not enjoy his day and want to share it with his community just because he happened to grow up in Ames.

I only take issue with his statement to the effect that he will always be a Cyclone.
He will always be an Ames High School Little Cyclone, perhaps.

But he is NOT an ISU Cyclone nor will he ever be. He may have a certain fondness for ISU for various reasons, but he is NOT an ISU cyclone. Fred Hoiberg is an example of an ISU Cyclone.

Sorry didn't think about the 3rd option.. my bad..

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Originally Posted by Knownothing

I repspect him going to UNC. I don't respect this dog and pony show kicking dirt in all of our faces today. He could have narrowed it down to 3 with us not being in the 3 just to let us know.

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Yeah. Rough way to do it.

I enjoy UNC basketball. I enjoy HB. But, I don't tend to remember all of their guys, because I have other things to do. That's basically what will happen here, and not as a spite thing.

I'll see a highlight here and there, and say, "Oh yeah," but that's pretty much it.

Cyhiphop...Thanks for the civil opinion, but I disagree. Sure we weren't picked, but IMO we were in his top three. If he dangled any teams it was Oklahoma and UCLA. It's unfortunate that he didn't pick us, but Duke didn't win either and I don't think anyone will look down on them.

Some people on here are blaming Harrison for allowing the public to be present, but do you really think that he had anything to do with that? The school planned the event not him. Ames High made all the decisions regarding the event not him. The only thing he did was write the speech and pick the team. Nobody gave me a hard time for the school that I picked and I will not do that to him.

I don't think i will be able to cheer for him.
he is a iowan, but the way he announced and all that crap.. i think i will be cheering for EVERYONE else. (KU, DUKE, WHOEVER)