Comments on: Big Man on Campus: Michael Gilchrist

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:30:18 +0000

Gilchrist lives in my town and i want him badly to go to Nova i hope he wants to as well

By: Kenny

Kenny — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:58:04 +0000

Strongly agree with Erik, the significance of Gilchrist’s visit is the visit itself rather than where he ends up playing. Simply getting attention from the nation’s No. 1 recruit shows that
1. The program is back to the center stage of college hoops;
2. Beilein, defying people’s conception, is not afraid of going after the top talents across the country against elite programs like Duke, UK and UNC, and eventually will have some to play for him.

By: Erik

Erik — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:42:13 +0000

Blucinci, Manny will already be gone by 2011 so that’s not really a factor for Gilchrist. I highly doubt he comes to play at UofM. But, if he even considers us, I bet he doesn’t make a decision for another year which means the whole Zeigler/Prather situation will have worked itself out as well.

Bottom line is I think we need to focus on Zeigler/Prather.

By: JayRich

JayRich — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:07:18 +0000

Anyone know how the visit went?

By: Blucinic

Blucinic — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:52:34 +0000

Could we really get Prather, Zeigler, & Gilchrist? Can we make room? Who gets squeezed out? Does Manny stay or go? At least, these are all good questions to have . . . better to have options.

By: Wes D.

Wes D. — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:52:27 +0000

Nice job J.B.

By: KainKitizen

KainKitizen — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:26:31 +0000

Stunning!! Absolutely Incredible!! Times have Changed with a Vengeance. Jerod Ward is the last #1 recruit in the country to commit to UofM from the past if i’m not mistaken. Now to at least have a visit from a #1 recruit in the country sure tells a lot about the program.

By: mitchigan

mitchigan — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:19:31 +0000

You’ll have to rewind the video and if you don’t want to watch the whole video, Prather is at the 2.52 mark and Zeigler is at the 1.22 min mark.

By: mitchigan

mitchigan — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:13:59 +0000

We have in my opinion a top 3 teacher/coach at the helm with great recruits – boy has our program turned around. I’m extremely excited about the mix of guys we have. Below is a cool video I found that shows the top players in the class of 2010 (Evan the Matrix Smotrycz is not on it), but Richard Solomon, Trey Zeigler, Ray McCallum, and my boy Casey Prather are all there. Let’s keep up this momentum….Go Blue!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx-F7ZTcLJ0&feature=player_embedded#t=253

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:39:35 +0000

Unbelievable. I saw Gilchrist at the City of Palms Classic last winter and I loved his game (not profound, obviously everyone does). St. Pat’s (his team) was/is loaded with D-1 talent but they ended up losing to Mater Dei in the championship. Mater Dei’s starting five were all high major talent and between the two absolutely loaded teams, Gilchrist was the best kid on the floor…and he doesn’t have to have the ball in his hands all the time to be the best. He is solid in virtually every facet of the game, he plays hard, rebounds, can post, has handles, he D’s it up, and he does all of this with in the flow of the game. He is like the polar opposite of John Wall who was also in the tournament and had ten turnovers in a game and was quoted in the paper afterwards (in a game his team lost and the ten turnovers definitely hurt their chances of winning) saying “(he) like(s) to put on a good show for the crowd”. I go to the tournament every year…and it will be a bit more exciting to say to everybody there this year, that I hail from Michigan the home of the Wolverines. Wow.