Offered/Committed Elsewhere Nick Martinelli, 6-7/200, SF, Glenview, IL

[Redbirdfan21]

 

[Adunk33]

Feels like we’ll revisit this in a year or two.

 

[bombay]

Chris is one and done.

 

[cubird]

Who is the last coach to win at NWU? Think the most successful Duke coaching tree has been Quinn Snyder that left MO. to go to the pros. Maybe the kid is really going for academics and a beautiful campus close to home?

 

[TIMMY]

I love my school really I do. But if I had had the brain cells to go to Northwestern I would have. I hate the fact that education is never even a consideration when we look at where an athlete should go to school. Maybe god forbid he wants to be a Supreme Court Justice someday. Anyway, IMHO nice choice kid!

 

[BirdGrad2011]

I love my school really I do. But if I had had the brain cells to go to Northwestern I would have. I hate the fact that education is never even a consideration when we look at where an athlete should go to school. Maybe god forbid he wants to be a Supreme Court Justice someday. Anyway, IMHO nice choice kid!

If it’s an academic choice there are still better schools that take basketball more seriously. It’s pretty elite academically, but the lack of support for basketball has to hurt. Ivy schools have had more success.

 

[Redhawk]

I wouldn't knock a kid on choosing Northwestern. It's a great university in a top conference.
But I can question Coach Collins on fishing for recruits in the same pond with ISU, WIU, MiamiOH and Valpo.

 

[BirdGrad2011]

I wouldn't knock a kid on choosing Northwestern. It's a great university in a top conference.
But I can question Coach Collins on fishing for recruits in the same pond with ISU, WIU, MiamiOH and Valpo.

You have the top of the B1G reeling in 4 and 5* kids. They are also adding big time transfers. Northwestern is recruiting against ISU, Miami (OH) for their prized recruit. Martinelli is a talented kid and will be solid, but he’s not feature B1G recruit and save coaches job day 1 good.

 

[RedbirdSoxFan]

I wouldn't knock a kid on choosing Northwestern. It's a great university in a top conference.
But I can question Coach Collins on fishing for recruits in the same pond with ISU, WIU, MiamiOH and Valpo.

My same thoughts. Although I hope that someday we are competing against higher level schools than WIU and MiamiOH for recruits.

 

[MadBird]

Come on people, NU isn't recruiting Martinelli to be their "prized recruit", they're taking a chance on a rising HS recruit. And almost every Big 10 school brings in some guys who are being recruited by MAC and other "lesser" conferences. They all do it. Not every recruit at every school is a 4 or 5 star. Wisconsin's (co-big 10 champ) only HS commit also had offers from Wake, Belmont, Creighton, Butler, etc. and ISU!!

Ivy League, sure, but some people would rather play close to home, still at a great school, on the lake, multi-million dollar remodeled arena, blah blah blah.

 

[Redhawk]

Come on people, NU isn't recruiting Martinelli to be their "prized recruit", they're taking a chance on a rising HS recruit. And almost every Big 10 school brings in some guys who are being recruited by MAC and other "lesser" conferences. They all do it. Not every recruit at every school is a 4 or 5 star. Wisconsin's (co-big 10 champ) only HS commit also had offers from Wake, Belmont, Creighton, Butler, etc. and ISU!!

Ivy League, sure, but some people would rather play close to home, still at a great school, on the lake, multi-million dollar remodeled arena, blah blah blah.

Wisconsin, Wake, Belmont, Creighton and Butler all have really good basketball programs. They ARE the schools NW should be competing with for recruits.
Not ISU, WIU, Valpo and MiamiOH!

 

[Redbird222]

The Ivy league schools do not offer athletic scholarships. Instead, they offer a financial package that is entirely need based. Depending on his situation, there may be a significant cost difference.

Besides, Northwestern is a great school academically that certainly rivals the Ivy league schools. I know the pretentious alumni out east would dispute that Northwestern, Vanderbilt, and Stanford are worthy of being mentioned in the same breath; however, they're pretty damn good schools!!

I am not sure about playing closer to home since he was previously committed to Elon.

 

[MadBird]

Wisconsin, Wake, Belmont, Creighton and Butler all have really good basketball programs. They ARE the schools NW should be competing with for recruits.
Not ISU, WIU, Valpo and MiamiOH!

Stop the BS, go do a little research and see who NU competed against for 90% of their players.

 

[Yogi]

I wish the kid well I love my school but come on people we are still talking about kids making these decisions they go where they want to go just like we all did

 

[BirdGrad2011]

NU is on the verge of firing Collins for a reason. He is NOT recruiting at a high enough level. I wish Martinelli all the best and hope this was an academic decision not a basketball because if it was basketball he’ll be in the portal next year.

 

[SgtHulka]

NU is on the verge of firing Collins for a reason. He is NOT recruiting at a high enough level. I wish Martinelli all the best and hope this was an academic decision not a basketball because if it was basketball he’ll be in the portal next year.

He shoulda left after making the tournament. His iron was hot since nobody could win there

 

[Bird Friend]

Good luck to Nick. Not sure why we're bashing NU's recruiting. I'm sure plenty of people wondered why Reeves chose ISU . . .

 

[BirdGrad2011]

Good luck to Nick. Not sure why we're bashing NU's recruiting. I'm sure plenty of people wondered why Reeves chose ISU . . .

ISU outrecruited schools like SIU. Some schools sniffed around late but they didn’t offer.

 

[Adunk33]

Northwestern just landed a forward transfer from UTEP with at least 2 years of eligibility. Tydus Verhoeven 6'9, 225 was a 6.6/4.6 guy. Numbers don't jump out at you, but its competition and D1 experience, nonetheless.

 

[Dmills]

This is not extremely surprising but Martinelli has played in 1 game for 4 minutes against Chicago State. Not sure what our situation would look like if we landed Martinelli (would we still have landed Knight?) so just observing.

On another related note, it will be interesting to see which recruiting misses find their way back to Pedon. He does not seem to be one to burn bridges and seems to leave good impressions on recruits.