Elijah Long Transferring from Mt. Saint Marys

[allfourcy]

Elijah is not a low-major player which is exactly what the Northeast Conference is. He will likely end up being a solid contributor off the bench for a Power 5 program averaging 6-8 points a game and being a great teammate. Top end is likely a 10-11 point scorer. In my opinion we should absolutely be looking at him and perhaps he is willing to pay his way for a year in order to circumvent the block by Mount St. Mary's. You look at what Elijah has done against high major squads and at least at this point he is more accomplished than an unknown like Jakolby Long. Granted, Jakolby has not had the opportunities to showcase his skills like Elijah.

Elijah played six games against NCAA Tournament teams last year (West Virginia, Iowa State, Minnesota, Michigan, Arkansas & Villanova). During those six games he averaged 15.2 points, 5.5 rbs and 4.0 assists. In those six games he was 26-31 from the FT line, 7-23 from 3 pt range and 29-85 from the field. He is an undersized two that like to attack the basket and consequently has a poor pct from the field. However, he will do the dirty work as apparent by the high rb and asst numbers. I absolutely would want him on the 2018-19 squad.

Sounds reasonable. But I guess CW already posted "its not happening", so supposedly this thread will die out.

 

[Messi]

Maybe we'll be seeing Elijah in Hilton again

 

[Tre4ISU]

Maybe we'll be seeing Elijah in Hilton again

Unless he's playing for us, no thanks. I'm good.

 

[Goclones1727]

Eli just committed to Texas. Still can't believe people think that he's not a high major talent. Wish we could've pursued him!

 

[rholtgraves]

Prohm couldn't even get Naz's brother to visit and now he is going to a Big 12 team. Another miss by Prohm.

 

[Sigmapolis]

Prohm couldn't even get Naz's brother to visit and now he is going to a Big 12 team. Another miss by Prohm.

I have a sinking feeling this comes back to bite us.

Like, Elijah Long drills some game-winning shot against us at some point.

That would be the most ISU thing ever to happen, which means it will.

 

[JM4CY]

Prohm couldn't even get Naz's brother to visit and now he is going to a Big 12 team. Another miss by Prohm.

Or he evaluated and contacted he didn't wanna go to where his brother is extremely loved and didn't want to be asked or compared to him every freaking day and still play for a big time school.

 

[rholtgraves]

Or he evaluated and contacted he didn't wanna go to where his brother is extremely loved and didn't want to be asked or compared to him every freaking day and still play for a big time school.

I was joking.

 

[ComCY]

Eli just committed to Texas. Still can't believe people think that he's not a high major talent. Wish we could've pursued him!

Prohm couldn't even get Naz's brother to visit and now he is going to a Big 12 team. Another miss by Prohm.

Or he evaluated and contacted he didn't wanna go to where his brother is extremely loved and didn't want to be asked or compared to him every freaking day and still play for a big time school.

Or he was blocked from coming to ISU by his school and we couldn't do anything in regards to recruiting him.

 

[crash_zone]

Or he evaluated and contacted he didn't wanna go to where his brother is extremely loved and didn't want to be asked or compared to him every freaking day and still play for a big time school.

Or he was blocked by the school and could go to ISU unless he was going to pay his own way, which I think was the joke in the OP.

 

[MartinCy]

He's an average mid major player not a big 12 caliber player....

Too perfect how this worked out

 

[JM4CY]

I was joking.

 

[Cycsk]

That seems harsh... I have seen where coach's block upcoming opponents and though I don't think that is totally fair I can understand especially in conference.
All opponents in the PAST two seem vindictive. Apparently the Coach/AD were not pleased with Elijah leaving.

The coach may be sending a message to his other players to not view their games as "transfer interviews."

 

[ForbinsAscynt]

We were only taking one sit out guard. Shayok > Long. Happy for him though. Bet he gets a good reception from Hilton like he did with MSM.

 

[Dandy]

Eli just committed to Texas. Still can't believe people think that he's not a high major talent. Wish we could've pursued him!

Were we not allowed to recruit him? Did we even show interest? Should we have shown interest?

 

[srjclone]

We were only taking one sit out guard. Shayok > Long. Happy for him though. Bet he gets a good reception from Hilton like he did with MSM.

Agreed, we only take one sit out guard. But we couldn't recruit him anyway. I think he wanted to have the ability to play in Hilton, and think if we were able to recruit him we would have come here.

 

[CyArob]

Too perfect how this worked out

Desiigner is a dim bulb.

 

[acgclone]

I wish Elijah luck, except 2-3 times each year.

I'm glad for the Long family and Texas is probably a better place for him than ISU so he's not constantly getting compared to big bro.

 

[Desiigner]

Too perfect how this worked out

Damn of course he ended up going to a big 12 school

 

[jcyclonee]

Desiigner is a dim bulb.