Harrison Barnes
Friday, November 13, 2009
Harrison Barnes is a child as a nice, polite, intelligent young man. And today you can make many people happy. Somewhere.
Disappoint many thousands more. More and more people are leaving in its 17 year history.
Some even betrayed. Yes, you can be so serious, it was telling time Ames High School in the world to visit the college.
This is serious business. If only their ordinary miracle decide between engineering departments at Carnegie Mellon and MIT, nobody would say Boo. Nobody doubts his loyalty, health or intelligence.
More than 100 photos of Harrison Barnes. Barnes, however, is 6 feet 7 inches tall and is regarded by many as the hiring of changes basketball No. 1 in the whole country.
Coaches millionaire celebrated in the country were over Barnes in the last year I saw his children. They paid with their campus on weekends for all expenses.
And somehow our feet must remain on the ground and head in the clouds?
However, it does. This state and even national fascination with the decision of the university in a young person is a little strange, a little clumsy, and the Internet has been a fascination to obsession.
But there we are. Do not thank me, I could help.
Today, Harrison Barnes, the television cameras at the Ames High School Look (See the video is here 3). The tension is almost unbearable.
Barnes, then open your mouth and say he has decided his fate with the Duke in the State of Iowa, Kansas, North Carolina, Oklahoma and UCLA shot.
Barnes is looking for cameras, and suddenly, with a baseball cap and gold, the cardinal, the gym will explode. There are thousands of supporters in Iowa to be overwhelming. If fallen a different path, some supporters of the cyclone should I deny it forever. That's how it works. It seems strange. It's not like Barnes will be announced the winners of Powerball tickets. Shows that it is safe to drive and text at the same time. Bad history. Barnes still has his license.
The good news is that it's okay. The guy is smooth as silk to the track because it is connected. And it's not as simple as that, also after the match.
This is where love ends for most participants. Iowans, we are territorial and possessive when it comes to our local prep athletes.
It is normal to leave our country with a population density is low, the harvest of their athletes. But if someone tries to win, watch out.
When I have my friend Dave Loving Hawkeye said: "Yes, but one of them, since everyone will lose less.
Those who despise the local teams are always traitors and again in the state permitted only in special occasions.
I know that Hawkeye fans that have not been affected by three son of Ohio, the action in basketball Kansas - Raef LaFrentz of Monona, Sioux City, Kirk Hinrich and Nick Collison made of Iowa Falls.
LaFrentz is 32 years. It is still in the NBA. He should have more money than you actually need.
His college team ever to the Final Four, as expected, but his choice of schools could not have been much better. And even tougher still believe if he enrolled in Iowa, Tom Davis, the training still there, pushed the Hawkeye at least half of NCAA tournament basketball every year.
The stubborn fact which might be true, does not LaFrentz was the wrong decision. It is obviously the right decision for him.
But I still remember in the car with a friend Hawkeye fan during the NCAA Tournament, Kansas Rainbow hear sooner than expected.
The friend encouraged Hawkeye fan played against the Kansas Jayhawks as Iowa and somehow they were.
Listen carefully to hear and they still support - 15 years after the fact - that Hawkeye would be as good as Kansas, or even better LaFrentz made.
Although it may be correct that this is not the issue. The fact is that after 15 years, it is clear he has not let go of some of us.
Tim Dwight, the All-American football player from Iowa City, and Fred Hoiberg, "Mayor Ames has been and demigods of athletics in this state.
I'm sure it would be fair to do the same when you are not over. Dwight thought seriously worried, according to Stanford University. Hoiberg from Nebraska and Arizona football and basketball at Stanford University.
No seat Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, the show nor the clips of Dwight compete for the belt zone. And the fans continue to eat everything.
Hoiberg has received recruiting letters from thousands of supporters in the schools. The difference was that Iowa State fans, this is the advantage of being at home, and the negative side.
Barnes, what you doing tonight? It is difficult to say. Everything he does is probably the right decision for him to think, no matter what the rest of us.