Odom Decommits from Arizona (edit: apparently to Vandy)

[Chilltown]

http://www.azcentral.com/sports/ua/articles/2009/10/26/20091026spt-uarecruit-CR.html

This can only be a good thing. Maybe we can get back in it?

Edit: According to this: http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=11385390

Odom is going to Vandy.

"Yes," the 6-foot-8 Long Island native wrote Monday in a text message. "It's a better fit for me academically and its closer to home."

Better academics? Closer to home? What did the staff do wrong here?

[BCEagles25]

....Aaaaaaand there goes my respect for Rod Odom. He's just another Joe Boisture.

[Supahfan12]

....Aaaaaaand there goes my respect for Rod Odom. He's just another Joe Boisture.

agreed. if you live in new york and want to be close to home and have good acedemics then BC seems like a pretty good option..
just another case of a kid not really knowing what they want

[totheights]

http://www.azcentral.com/sports/ua/articles/2009/10/26/20091026spt-uarecruit-CR.html

This can only be a good thing. Maybe we can get back in it?

Edit: According to this: http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=11385390

Odom is going to Vandy.

"Yes," the 6-foot-8 Long Island native wrote Monday in a text message. "It's a better fit for me academically and its closer to home."

Better academics? Closer to home? What did the staff do wrong here?

The staff didn't do anything wrong. He bought into the lies Sean Miller was selling him to go to Arizona and committed without really figuring out if it was best for him. Then when he actually had a chance to think about it, without being lied to by people like Miller, and actually figured stuff out he figured out he made the wrong choice.

As for the "Why Vandy over us?" you can be 100% sure that once the kid committed to Arizona, BC was done with him. That is how Al works and that is how things work at BC. Al wants guys who want to be here, and when Rod committed to the U of A, he showed Al that he didn't want to be here and we stopped persuing him and moved on to plan B (Papa).